CHSS Newsletter Summer 2022

CHSS’ Summer 2022 Newsletter is now online

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Read our latest updates on new projects, publications and events.

  • Our cover celebrates CHSS’ first REF results.
  • We announce our first CHSS Annual Lecture since 2019, taking place on 18 October 2022
  • CHSS People‘ (p6) features Senior Research Fellow Simon Bailey.
  • We have staff successes to celebrate on our back cover, and welcome new CHSS faces!

You can subscribe to future issues. Our online archive is also available.

We  welcome feedback. Contact Helen McGregor:  h.mcgregor@kent.ac.uk

POSTPONED – CHSS Annual Lecture 2022

We regret this event has been postponed ufn.

CAN THE NEW NHS DELIVER – OR HAVE WE JUST MOVED THE DECKCHAIRS AGAIN?

By Niall Dickson CBE, Chair, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust

5.30 – 7.30 pm: Tuesday 18 October 2022
Darwin Conference Suite 3, University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

All welcome.

Full details available in this Flyer (pdf)
Book via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chss-annual-lecture-tickets-391043470547

HEEKSS/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme 2022-23 – Internships and Bridging Schemes

CHSS will continue as a provider for the Health Education England Kent Surrey Sussex (HEEKSS)/National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Integrated Clinical Academic Programme (ICAP) Internships and Bridging Scheme 2022-2023.

Funding from HEEKSS will enable successful applicants to receive funding for backfill, training and academic supervision and mentorship

Available to Nurses, Midwives, and Non-Medical Allied Health Professionals, Social Workers and other registered health and care professionals, the ICAP Internships and Bridging schemes provide support to clinical academics to build on their previous academic training and develop proposals for Fellowships or pre- and post-doctoral awards, and take the next step on their clinical academic pathway.

Aims of the ICAP Internships and Bridging Scheme:

  • Enable awardees to develop skills in higher-level reflection in relation to research based upon their discipline.
  • Provide academic supervision and facilitate clinical mentorship to awardees to undertake research that builds upon a culture of critical evaluation and enquiry in relation to their services setting.
  • Develop opportunity for self-directed research and reflection.
  • Immerse awardees into a research environment and enable them to develop an independent piece of research in preparation for a PhD application or other research opportunities
  • Consolidate post-doctoral awardees’ academic training and development whilst supporting them in balancing their clinical service needs, and assisting them with developing an application for the Clinical Lectureship or Senior Clinical Lectureship

Closing date for applications:  13 August 2022

Applying:

For the Internships, you will need to apply online and upload all of your supporting documentation including the application form, to KentVision at the University of Kent

For the pre- and post-doc Bridging Schemes, please email the application form and supporting documents to the ICAP Programme Lead – Dr. Julie MacInnes: j.d.macinnes@kent.ac.uk

More information: (documents download in Word)

UoK Application form ICAP intern 2022-23
UoK FAQ ICAP 2022-23
UoK_Application form Bridging Scheme 2022-23

ICAP Flyer 2022-23
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CHSS celebrates results of first REF submission

The Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) has performed strongly in its first submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), with 100% of impact and over 60% of outputs evaluated as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.

The Centre’s scores are based on results in the Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care Unit of Assessment announced today by the REF.  The REF is the UK’s system for assessing the excellence of research in UK higher education providers. This is the first time the Centre has submitted to the REF following substantial growth between 2014 and 2021.

Professor Stephen Peckham, Director of CHSS, said “I’m delighted that CHSS’s commitment to methodologically rigorous, multi-disciplinary and impactful research has been recognised by these results. Our first REF submission is the result of the commitment and achievements of everyone associated with CHSS, including our research and professional services staff, our regional, national and international partners, and members of the public who offer their insight and experience to help us enhance our research. I would like to thank everyone involved.”

CHSS is an applied health services and policy research centre with a well-established regional, national and international profile. Its principal research strengths lie in primary and community care, health and social care systems, and health and wellbeing, particularly for young people. Find out more on the Centre webpages.

CHSS Spring 2022 Newsletter

CHSS’ Spring 2021 Newsletter is now online!

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Read our latest updates on new projects, publications and events.

  • Our cover celebrates CHSS’ involvement in the exciting new £10m ESRC-funded ‘Centre for Care’ collaboration.
  • We feature new CHSS-led projects aimed at reducing criminalisation, violence and re-offending among young people – the Re-frame Randomised Controlled Trial, and an evaluation of Kent and Medway Violence Reduction Unit’s (KM VRU) commissioned programmes.
  • ‘CHSS People’ (p6) introduces Research Assistant and former CHSS PhD Student Dr Emily McKean. She opens up about her Doctoral journey and combining study with working and parenthood. We have plenty to celebrate on our back cover, and welcome new CHSS faces!

You can subscribe to future issues. Our online archive is also available.

We  welcome feedback. Contact Helen McGregor:  h.mcgregor@kent.ac.uk

HEEKSS/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme and Bridging Scheme 2021-22

Health Education England Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEEKSS)/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme and Bridging Scheme 2021-22

CHSS will continue as a provider for the Health Education England Kent Surrey Sussex (HEEKSS)/National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Integrated Clinical Academic Programme (ICAP) and Bridging Scheme 2021-2022.

Funding has been awarded to the Centre to enable  successful pre or post-doctoral awardees to receive a bespoke learning and research development programme. HEEKSS will award funding to support backfill cost, academic supervision, and reasonable expenses.

Available to Nurses, Midwives, and Non-Medical Applied Health Professionals and Social Workers, the ICAP and Bridging schemes are a way of providing support to clinical academics to build on their previous academic training and develop proposals for a pre or post-doctoral award, and take the next step on their clinical academic pathway.

Aims of the ICAP and Bridging Scheme are to:

  • Enable awardees to develop skills in higher-level reflection in relation to research based upon their discipline.
  • Provide academic supervision and facilitate clinical mentorship to awardees to undertake research that builds upon a culture of critical evaluation and enquiry in relation to their services setting.
  • Develop opportunity for self-directed research and reflection.
  • Immerse awardees into a research environment and enable them to develop an independent piece of research in preparation for a PhD application or other research opportunities
  • Consolidate post-doctoral awardees academic training and development whilst supporting them in balancing their clinical service, and assisting them with developing an application for the Clinical Lectureship or Senior Clinical Lectureship

Closing date for applications NOW EXTENDED to 5pm, Monday 13 September:

Email Application forms and supporting documentsto Programme Lead Dr. Julie MacInnes 

More information:
To discuss the programme email Dr. Julie MacInnes: j.d.macinnes@kent.ac.uk

UoK FAQ PRE-DOCTORAL 2021-22
UoK Application form Pre-Doc Bridging Programme 2021
UoK FAQ ICAP 2021-22
UoK Application form ICAP 2021
UoK FAQ POST-DOC 2021-22
UoK_Application form Post-Doc Bridging Programme 2021

ICAP flyer 2021-22

 

 

 

Prof Stephen Peckham joins HoC Health & Social Care Committee Expert Panel

“Being part of the Panel is an opportunity to support independent scrutiny of policy by holding government to account and helping to improve future health and social care policy.”   Professor Stephen Peckham

 

Stephen joins five colleagues across health and social care on the Expert Panel of the cross-party House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee. 

They will join MPs in evaluating government commitments.

Read more about the Panel >

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BMJ blog from Stephen Peckham and NIHR colleagues: we need integrated public health function

Building back better for population health and wellbeing – NIHR Senior Investigators Public Health Interest Group.

Professor Stephen Peckham joins other NIHR Senior Investigators in calling for a truly integrated public health function. The authors reflect on what direction public health should be taking in the UK, and urge current politicians  to learn from the past. How did we get to a position of fragmented and dysfunctional systems for health and social care?

‘We have some differing views on the place of public health, but all agree that “function”—improving population health and wellbeing, reducing inequalities, and integrating community and health and social care services—should drive structure. And we all agree that public health is reaping what was sown in earlier decades’.

Read the entire blog in bmj opinion here >