RDS NW e-bulletin – August 2022

Public Health and Social Care resources available on our website

A while back we introduced two new section to our website for our Public Health and Social Care colleagues. These pages have now been updated to provide lots more information relevant to Public Health and Social Care research, including:

• relevant links and resources
• relevant NIHR funding announcements
• relevant events
• quick access to key resources.

Don’t forget we can advise you on your Public Health and Social Care research funding application.  If you have a research idea, come to us and we can help turn this into a funding application.

Request advice on your application.

RDS Impact Guide

This toolkit can be used to help understand impact and consider some of the more practical measures that can be used when undertaking research.

The overall aim is to ensure that impact planning, knowledge mobilisation and implementation issues are considered and embedded into the research design and application development process that then ensures that the planned/intended impacts can be realised both during and at the end of the research project.

It contains a number of questions or prompts, some questions may be more relevant than others depending on the research question, not every prompt has to be used.

Why not ask us for impact advice on your funding application, request advice today.

Request advice on your application.

RDS Blog: From plateaus to launching pads: involving people affected by dementia in research

In the last few years, there has been a concerted effort to improve the inclusion of under-served groups in clinical research.

The barriers to involving people affected by dementia has its own set of challenges.

The RDS guest blog this month highlights the work that has gone into developing key processes to facilitate inclusion and introduces both the 382 Research Network volunteers and the pioneering coproduced Care Home Action Researcher in residence model (CHARM).

Read the blog here.

NIHR Incubator for Clinical Education Research Mastering the Basics events

There is still time to register for the NIHR Incubator for Clinical Education Research hybrid programme of interactive webinars, workshops and a face-to-face event that aim to demystify, explain, explore and inspire those with a passion for clinical education research.

Events still to come include:

• Mastering the Basics – Routes to Impact– 14 September 2022, 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm, online – please note there has been a change in speakers at this event since the last e-bulletin.
• Mastering the Basics – research training event – 21 September 2022, 8.30am to 5.00pm – The Hospitium, Museum Gardens, York – in collaboration with the ASME.

The Mastering the Basics research training event, on 21 September, is a one-day ‘bootcamp’ that builds on the ‘Mastering the Basics’ webinar series and will guide you through the practicalities of developing your project, assembling your team and submitting a funding bid.

NIHR annual statistics highlight sustained public enthusiasm for participating in research

The latest NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) annual statistics show research participation levels remain at remarkably high levels, following an unprecedented period in research history.

Following an incredibly busy year for NIHR research in 2020/21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the public has continued to support vital research in phenomenal numbers between April 2021 and March 2022. Over this period, 1,289,937 participants took part in over 4,600 portfolio studies in England.

Take a look at the full report here.

James Lind Alliance (JLA) pilots the new Race Equality Framework

The JLA has been involved in piloting a new Race Equality Framework, designed by the NIHR Race Equality Public Action Group.

The Framework focuses on improving the experience of Black African-, Asian- and Caribbean-heritage communities of health and social care research.

The JLA want to make improvements in their work in order to help challenge the culture of inequity that exists within health and care research. The Race Equality Framework has begun a process of constant review and meaningful scrutiny within the JLA, asking who is excluded from our work and why, and how can we better support the inclusion of marginalised communities.

NIHR tops chart for clinical trial transparency

Research published in JAMA Network Open shows NIHR topping the chart of European medical research funders in implementing best practices for clinical trial transparency as set out by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The paper presents an analysis of clinical trial transparency processes across 21 of the largest medical research funders in Europe, using best practice benchmarks published in the WHO Joint Statement on public disclosure of results from clinical trials.

Read more on this news here.

Events and webinars

• NIHR Innovation Fund to Reduce Demand for Illicit Substances Information Event
  Online – 6 September 2022.
• Routes to Impact. What do we mean by impact?
  Online – 14 September 2022.
• North West Surgical Trials Collaborative Surgical Studies Sandpit Day
  Face-to-face – 16 September 2022 – Manchester – come and see the RDS NW there.
• RDS Invention for innovation: Public involvement – the researcher experience webinar
  Online – 21 September 2022.
• Mastering the Basics – research training event
  Face-to-face – 21 September 2022 – York.
• RDS Starting research workshop
  Online – 22 September 2022.
• RDS NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Online Information Event
  Online – 27 September 2022.
• NIHR Academy Members’ Conference 2022
  22 November 2022.

NIHR funding opportunities

• Programme Development Grants – Competition 34
  Closing 21 September 2022.
• 22/68 Health inequalities in overprescribing
  Closing 22 September 2022.
• Policy Research Programme – Policy Research Units
  Closing 11 October 2022.
• Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice 2022
  Closing 1 November 2022.
• 22/66 HSDR Health Communication and public health messaging
  Closing 16 November 2022.
• 22/67 HTA Health Communication and public health messaging
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/56 PHR Health communication and public health messaging
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/85 Positive airway pressure therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-obstructive sleep apnoea overlap syndrome (HTA)
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/86 Surgical management of successfully reduced incarcerated inguinal hernia in children (HTA)
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/87 Prophylactic nebulised antibiotics for patients with a permanent tracheostomy or who have undergone a laryngectomy
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/79 Stop-smoking interventions for under-served groups (PHR)
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/80 Interventions to promote mental health and wellbeing among young women (PHR)
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/81 Healthy extended working lives (PHR)
  Closing 29 November 2022.
• 22/82 Improving mental health outcomes for women and partners who have experienced pregnancy not ending in live births (PHR)
  Closing 29 November 2022.

Request advice on your funding application to any of these funding calls.

Always check with the event organisers/funder for latest information.