03/05/2023 CLAHRC West Midlands

CLAHRC Doctoral Students

Tom MarshallProfessor of Public Health & Primary CareDeputy Director CLAHRC West Midlands

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Who Are You?

• Majority from three main universities– Warwick– Birmingham– Keele

• Some service-based postgraduate students• Varied research and academic backgrounds

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Research Areas

• Maternity care: length of stay after delivery• Demyelination syndromes in children• Paediatric allergy• Medical devices in low-middle income countries• Early detection of mental health problems in adolescence• Variations in quality of primary care• Managing falls in older people• Telecare for the elderly• Specialist pathways• Inter-organisational learning• Decision making• Spread of innovation in medicine• Physical health of patients with mental health problems

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Academic Backgrounds

• Management• Psychology• Professions allied to medicine• Sociology• Medicine• Natural sciences• Statistics

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• Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands

• Collaboration between service and academia– NHS– Local authorities– Universities

• Aim: health services research to improve care

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The Journey

Taught degree

Professional

experience

Doctoral thesis

Postgraduate research

Service career

Postgraduate funding- Publications- Research

funding

- Skills- Networks

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Where Next?

• NIHR postdoctoral fellowships

• NIHR project grants– Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR)– Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)

• Other funders: check websites• Health Foundation

– Improvement science fellowships• Wellcome

– Research fellowships in humanities & social science

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NIHR Fellowships Programme

NIHR Fellowships are personal research training awards Funding covers:• Salary • Research costs• Full training and development plan

The Fellowship can be based at HEI or NHS Trust

• Annual competition:• Closing date – 20th January 2016

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Potential for Cooperation between Doctoral Students• Systematic reviews:

– second reviewer for identifying papers

• Qualitative analysis: – second reviewer

• Quantitative analysis: – Share statistical expertise

• Read draft chapters / papers

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How Can We Enhance Shared Learning?

• In groups find out about each other:Research area & methodology

• Feedback:1. Shared research challenges (or anticipated)2. A practical way that CLAHRC WM can help3. A CLAHRC WM doctoral student seminar topic

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Further Information

Website: www.clahrc-wm.nihr.ac.uk

Twitter: @CLAHRC_WM

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This work was funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West

Midlands (CLAHRC WM). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, NIHR, or Department of Health.