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From standstill to ‘splatter’ – helping out during the pandemic

Nadia Rostami is a Research Associate at Newcastle University and works on the DMT-funded project A Prebiotic Approach to Control Periodontitis, led by Dr Nick Jakubovics. Here, Nadia shares some of the vital work she has been doing to inform the re-opening of student dental clinics post-lockdown.

RNID co-funded post-doctoral award

RNID and The Dunhill Medical Trust are pleased to announce a second round of two 2-year Post-doctoral Fellowships. Applications are invited in any of the following areas: We’re delighted to be working with RNID again. Hearing loss is such an …

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Funding Social Movements - Key Lessons

Social movements for health report (funder perspective) published

In November 2018, we partnered with Nesta to launch an innovation programme to support social movements seeking to bring about change in health and social care. We are excited to announce that we have now published our reflections on the programme as funders – we hope this will be useful for other funding organisations who are planning to support social movements in the future.

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The impact of COVID-19 on research: an Early Career Researcher perspective

Helen Brown is a post doctoral research fellow at Cardiff University, and part of the team working on the DMT-funded project “Oral progenitor-derived vesicles as a novel treatment for chronic skin wounds in the aged population”. Here, Helen shares her experience of trying to keep this vital work going since ‘lockdown’.

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Stepping up to help during a global pandemic

Tracey Swingler is a Senior Research Associate working on a £1M programme grant we funded in 2016. With her research on hold, hear how Tracey used her skills to help in the COVID-19 testing effort.

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Developing an impact framework – part 1

This blog series explores our recently completed project, in partnership with Moore Kingston Smith (MKS), to develop an impact framework for a cohort of community-based project award-holders. Part 1: The challenge…

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Developing an impact framework – part 2

This blog series explores our recently completed project, in partnership with Moore Kingston Smith (MKS), to develop an impact framework for a cohort of community-based project award-holders. Part 2: Meet the cohort…

Collection of logos: – Independent Arts – Paintings in Hospitals – Helix Arts – Moore Kingston Smith – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust

Developing an impact framework – part 3

This blog series explores our recently completed project, in partnership with Moore Kingston Smith (MKS), to develop an impact framework for a cohort of community-based project award-holders. Part 3: The project process…

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Developing an impact framework – part 4

This blog series explores our recently completed project, in partnership with Moore Kingston Smith (MKS), to develop an impact framework for a cohort of community-based project award-holders. Here we examine the outcomes of this work.

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Older People’s Care Improvement Initiative: Educating the Workforce

The 2018 Picker Report highlighted the lack of research into the education and training landscape for the health and social care workforce. In response to this, Dr Emily Henderson from the University of Bristol has received funding to evaluate the impact of Bristol Medical School’s new undergraduate curriculum.