What can be achieved by using creative writing as a social research method? A blog by Harriet Cooper My project is finding out what a ‘rights-based rehabilitation’ experience looks like, from the point of view of disabled people who have been through this process. So, the issue of how this […]
NEW GUIDANCE: Public Co-Applicants in research
NEW GUIDANCE: Public Co-Applicants in research INVOLVE, in partnership with the Health Research Authority (HRA) and the NHS R&D Forum have launched a new guide: Public Co-Applicants in Research – guidance on roles and responsibilities https://www.invo.org.uk/posttypepublication/public-co-applicants-in-research-guidance-on-roles-and-responsibilities/ This guidance is intended to help: Researchers wanting to include public co-applicants in a […]
Health research project required advice or approval from 89 different people to get the green light, in case study of approvals process
Health research project required advice or approval from 89 different people to get the green light, in case study of approvals process Which health research projects involving humans are ethically justified, safe and legal? Who decides whether they should get the green light to proceed? In one case study, researchers […]
Invitation to Tender: Qualitative review on gender inequalities in clinical academic careers
Invitation to Tender: A qualitative review focusing on gender inequalities in clinical academic careers NIHR Academy in partnership with five other organisations, Academy of Medical Science, Cancer Research UK, Health Education England, Medical Research Council, and Wellcome Trust are inviting research proposals to help understand the factors that influence career […]
Chief Allied Health Professions (AHP) Officer’s Awards 2019 – open for applications
Chief Allied Health Professions Officer’s Awards 2019 – open for applications The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) Awards celebrate the contribution AHPs have made in supporting improvements in health, care and wellbeing and the impacts described in AHPs into Action. The awards are open to all AHPs, student AHPs and […]
First Surgeon awarded prestigious NIHR Career Development Fellowship
First Surgeon awarded NIHR Career Development Fellowship Our congratulations go to Stephen Price, a past CLAHRC EoE Fellow, who has been awarded an NIHR Career Development Fellowship. Stephen, a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is the first surgeon to be awarded this prestigious post-doctoral training Fellowship. His […]
New Report by RAND Europe: ‘Enabling NHS staff to contribute to research’
New Report by RAND Europe: ‘Enabling NHS staff to contribute to research’ Staff across the NHS have important expertise to contribute to healthcare research. However, they also face competing demands on their time, not least delivering patient care. Any efforts to mobilise wide-scale NHS workforce engagement with improvement research need […]
New Year honours for NIHR leaders
NIHR Leaders Represented in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2019 A number of NIHR leaders have been recognised in the Queen’s New Years Honours List 2019. Professor Louise Ann Robinson, NIHR Research Professor, will become a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. For services to Primary […]
Protected: CLAHRC Fellows 2019 – workshop papers and presentations
Episode 4 of Wonder Women film series launched by NHS R&D North West
Episode 4 of Wonder Women film series launched by NHS R&D North West NHS R&D NW has just launched the 4th Episode of their NHS Wonder Women film series featuring Dr Jane Martindale from Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. In this short film Dr Jane Martindale, Clinical Specialist […]