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Rachel Hindmarsh
South West Peninsula Regional Research Delivery Network (SWP RRDN), National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Funding Opportunity: £1,000 to Help Bring ‘Be Part of Research’ to Your Community
The opportunity:
The South West Peninsula Regional Research Delivery Network is offering £1,000 grants to VCFSE organisations to help more people from communities currently underrepresented in research find out about and sign up to Be Part of Research (BPoR). We are looking for 1 trusted local partner in Somerset to make this happen in ways that feel natural, accessible, and relevant.
How organisations could get involved:
We know that you understand your communities better than we do. You therefore have creative freedom over your activities!
As a general guide, a £1000 project should aim to:
– Meaningfully engage 50–100 people with Be Part of Research;
– Generate 15–20 new BPoR sign-ups;
– Provide genuine interaction – an opportunity for people to ask questions, and to receive practical sign-up help (rather than just handing out flyers);
– Track simple outcomes: what you did, who you reached, sign-ups, and what you learned.
These are not rigid quotas, and we will provide training and support throughout the project. We are interested not only in how many people sign up, but in learning what helps people engage with research, what gets in the way, and what approaches work well in different communities.
If you are interested, please fill out the Expression of Interest form: https://forms.gle/KPGVBCdYTnuZCPgT8. Due to a problem uploading the form to the opportunity dashboard, we are extending the deadline until Friday 13th November at midday.
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Project Lead
Rory Baxter
University of Plymouth
End-of-life care in the rural and coastal communities of the South West Research Project
The opportunity:
Around one in five people in England live in rural areas, where accessing health and care services can involve longer travel times, fewer transport options and greater distances between services.
This research study is exploring how care is provided to people approaching the end of their lives in rural and coastal parts of the South West of England – including Somerset.
How organisations could get involved:
The project aims are to:
Understand the experiences of patients (in last 12 months of life), families, and professionals delivering end of life care in rural and coastal communities.
Explore the barriers and enablers to accessing and providing high-quality, compassionate care.
Generate practical recommendations for how care can be improved locally and nationally.
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Project Lead
Summer Bedford
University of Exeter
Veteran Connection Programme (VCP)
The opportunity:
Veteran Connection Programme (VCP) is a group-based, peer-facilitated programme that supports military veterans and service-leavers to manage the loss of identity and valued social group memberships that often comes with leaving the Armed Forces. This opportunity will allow those who serve veterans and military personnel soon to leave the forces to get involved in the development and testing of our programme to help shape the future of service provision during and after the military to civilian transition.
How organisations could get involved:
We are currently testing both whether VCP’s delivery works for veterans and service leavers and how exactly the envisaged train-the-trainer model should be implemented in the future, so it can be scaled up across the UK. What we learn from the current NIHR funded feasibility trial will help us design both a larger Randomised Controlled Trial testing the effectiveness of the programme in improving veterans’ wellbeing, but also it allows us to make appropriate recommendations for how service providers can use and integrate VCP in their own services.
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