News & Events

NIHR Scientists recognised in New Year Honours list

Read about the wide range of current and former NIHR researchers and leaders who were recognised in this year’s New Year Honours list here

Voices for Change – NIHR publishes Toxic Corridors video poem

The NIHR has published a new video of a poem that highlights the lived experiences of black men in the healthcare system. Read the full story here.

New campaign to help develop careers in research

The NIHR is calling on people in social care and public health to ‘add research to their career’ as part of its new Your Path in Research campaign.

Research volunteers feel valued by researchers, survey finds

Results from the 2021/22 NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) Participant in Research Experience Survey (PRES) show that 92% of adults and 95% of young people felt their contribution to studies was valued by the researchers and study teams. Those surveyed praised research teams for their kindness, friendliness and knowledge, despite ongoing pressures on the NHS. Read more here.

£50 million awarded to local government to tackle interventions for health inequalities through research

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) today announces a multimillion-pound investment for a series of local government partnerships, boosting local authorities’ capacity and capability to conduct high-quality research to tackle health inequalities. Find out more.

NIHR launches new equality, diversity and inclusion strategy

The NIHR has launched a new strategy to drive its commitment to embed equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across its entire research, systems and culture.

Last year, the NIHR published Best Research for Best Health: The Next Chapter, outlining its mission to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. Essential to its success is ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are embedded in everything the NIHR does. Find out more here.

New funding announced to support next generation of dementia researchers

NIHR has introduced £11.8 million of funding for promising early career researchers to pursue dementia research and to build up their number and skills across the NIHR family. Working in collaboration with Alzheimer’s Society, has announced new funding to strengthen capacity and capability in dementia health and care research across the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs). Read more

NIHR launches new publishing platform to expand its publicly available research information

NIHR has launched a new publishing platform that allows researchers to rapidly publish any research informationthey wish to share, supporting transparency, reproducibility and impact from publicly funded research. Read more

‘Reaching Out’ shortlisted for Newcastle University’s Engagement and Place Awards, celebrating a partnership across the University, NIHR infrastructure and local communities that led to meaningful, sustainable and diverse involvement and engagement across the region

The ‘Reaching Out’ programme of work, which focused on increasing the diversity of voices in health and care research, has been shortlisted in Newcastle University’s Engagement and Place Awards 2022. The programme has been nominated in the Team Award category and was very much a collaborative effort, with all guidance, illustrations, solutions to sustainable engagement being co-developed together with community partners across Newcastle and the wider region. Those involved included Voluntary Organisation Network North East (VONNE) , the Research Design Service NENC, Clinical Research Network (CRN) NENC, Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) NENC, Policy Research Unit (PRU) Newcastle, Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and FUSE, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health. Members of this broad team are delighted to be nominated, and to share their experience as an example of cross organisation collaboration making changes that will lead to sustainable, diverse involvement and engagement across Newcastle and beyond. You can read more and see the full shortlist here: Engagement and Place Awards

NIHR changes name to emphasise long-term commitment to social care research

The National Institute for Health Research has changed its name. To emphasise its enduring commitment to social care research, the NIHR will officially become the ‘National Institute for Health and Care Research’. The acronym ‘NIHR’ will remain unchanged.

“How public involvement stopped me in my tracks”: Dr Grace Lewis on the importance of listening and learning when designing research

In a new blog post, Dr Grace Lewis writes about a discussion with members of the Elders Council of Newcastle that led her to re-think and re-design her research project completely. Having planned to explore “better conversations” with and about people living with frailty in acute healthcare settings, Dr Lewis shares how public involvement challenged her thinking—and how, rather than being disheartened, she listened to feedback from members of the Elders Council, and designed a project which is “completely different and hugely improved, for their input”. Click here to read the full blog post.

RDS Blogs: From the RDS desk

Each month, the Research Design Service, brings you handy tips, insights and experiences of the funding application process. The blogs touch on various themes in the design process and highlight what you need to know before you make a research application.

This month’s RDS blog, Researcher, adviser, committee member – we’re all on the same side discsusses how RDS advisers can support you at every stage of you journey to submitting a successful funding application.

Read previous blogs below:

December 2022: Cultural Conpetence and inclusivity in Research

November 2022:Social care research: What is it? Where to go? What to do?

October 2022: Real world implementation

September 2022: Beyond interviews and focus groups – the value of innovative qualitative designs

August 2022: From plateaus to launching pads: involving people affected by dementia in research