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These webinars will be useful for anyone working in local authorities, or a voluntary sector organisation, working in public health or social care, who is interested in, or begun to apply for a Predoctoral Award, Doctoral Award or Postdoctoral Award.

Over the last 18 months, we have had over 70 conversations with 61 local authorities about research governance and ethics. In the conversations we discussed existing processes, future plans, challenges, and gaps. This led to a list of potential projects and a projects prioritisation exercise with local authorities.

In May, we asked local authority colleagues to help us prioritise which projects we should focus on to support local authority research governance and ethics. We received 84 responses. 

Thank you to all the local authority colleagues and others who have shared their experience and examples of frameworks, policies, processes and templates with us, as well as everyone who completed the survey to help us prioritise this important work. 

The NIHR Academy, together with the NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public Health and the NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Social Care is hosting a series of bitesize webinars to offer information, advice and support for individuals who are considering applying for a NIHR Personal Award - Predoctoral Award, Doctoral Award or Postdoctoral Award.

It has been an incredibly exciting 2 years since we launched the Specialist Centre for Public Health delivered by Newcastle University and Partners.

Our second birthday is a perfect opportunity to share our impact across our growing remit, along with a reminder that all of our work is underpinned by public and community partnerships and research inclusion. 

We are inviting research active professionals working in community care, public health, social care, care homes, or hospices to join the Research & Development Forum (RDF) Wider Care Settings (WCS) Group. Our aim is to embed research across all care sectors, not just within the NHS.

We are launching a two-year pilot programme, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, to strengthen research delivery support for public health research outside the NHS. 

This pilot addresses a gap in the current research landscape by supporting studies that fall outside the remit of the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN). 

Are you in the early stages of planning public health research and thinking about how to engage and involve local people and communities? 

Book a slot at one of our informal monthly drop-ins with Tracey Johns, Public and Community Partnerships Research Adviser and a member of our Public and Community Partnerships Advisory Board. 

7 Public Health Engagement Leads (PHELs) met with SCPH Research Inclusion (RI) co-leads Kasia Kurowska and Lauren Hall. The session aimed to provide an overview of PCP and RI within the NIHR, public health, and local authority context. 

Over 140 delegates attended the second annual NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) annual event. The one-day event took place on Thursday 26 July in Leeds and was hosted by 4 Yorkshire and Humber based HDRCs; Bradford, Doncaster, North Yorkshire and Wakefield with support from SCPH.  

Thank you to everyone who took part, we're pleased to share the results and next steps. 

This exciting 1-year pilot will see Kasia Kurowska, PCP Manager, sharing responsibility for chairing the PCP Advisory Board with Samina Begum and Rosemary Nicholls. 

The Public Co-Chair role was co-created with our PCP Advisory Board to allow greater central involvement and power sharing with NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public Health public contributors. 

Local authorities told us that they wanted us to prioritise evaluation of public and community involvement. Find out about our activity in May to support developments for evaluating public and community involvement in public health research.  

On Wednesday 4 June, the LARP Network gathered in York for their second national in-person event.   

Stepping away from Microsoft Teams and engaging face-to-face allowed members to enjoy casual, spontaneous conversations, deep dive into discussions, and share meaningful moments.  

The aim of the day was to maximise connections, foster a sense of belonging and to ensure an approachable, stress-free environment - recognising that networking isn’t always easy.   

Meet Sophie Beckett, Public Health Research Officer from Birmingham Museums Trust. Sophie was awarded funding through our Public Health Grassroots Awards pilot earlier this year.   

Sophie is in the early stages of her research journey, and used her pilot funding to successfully complete a Masters of Public Health one-week intense module in Health System Policy, Planning, and Programming at University of Birmingham. This will support her to create a toolkit for museums on how to use Implementation Science in creative health activities.