PRIDE Project Activity
Events and involvement
June 2022: held inaugural launching event to invited stakeholders and the event was, attended by public health leads from Shropshire and Staffordshire as well as a range of academics and practitioners throughout the West Midlands region.
December 2022: held a large joint MPFT PRIDE and CRN WM event 'Let's Talk About Public Health Research in the West Midlands'. This event was well attended by practitioners and academics throughout the West Midlands region (e.g. Staffordshire, Shropshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham, Sandwell, Wolverhampton). The event provided attendees with an overview of PRIDE and NIHR research initiatives and included an “Open Forum” to discuss current public health priorities, research ideas, practitioner involvement and engagement with research, and availability of research training and research skills development.
January 2023: PRIDE was invited and delivered a research workshop “Secrets of the right research question” at the Association Directors of Public Health West Midlands Conference at the Molineux in Wolverhampton. With over 40 people attending the workshop, the team were thrilled to see fantastic engagement and interest in research, and to learn that many of the delegates are already actively involved!
Creating connections
- Established an academic and research support network (CRNWM, ADPH, RDS, PHRESH) and provided links for our involved public health teams.
- Created a communications pathway to inform engaged LA teams of funding opportunities of events, funding opportunities and career progression.
- Created the ‘The Round Up’ document to share public health research opportunities within the West Midlands region. You can request a copy of the ‘The Round Up’ by email prideproject@mpft.nhs.uk
- Activity linking local authority public health practitioners and teams with academic and research support partners to develop research ideas.
- Provided access to high quality research training/learning opportunities via the MPFT STARS programme and MPFT Public Health Pillars sessions (Via Professor Zafar Iqbal).
- Identified our first Research Champion: Kathy Rodenhurst, Public Health Research Practitioner at Shropshire Council.
PRIDE Research development and activity
PRIDE is currently working with Research Champion Kathy Rodenhurst and the Shropshire team in the pilot of a Research Capacity and Culture survey to identify research needs and gaps for practice, we aim to roll out this survey to other teams to offer a regional picture.
PRIDE has worked closely with two public health teams to support NIHR applications and advise on approaches for ongoing “in house” evaluation projects.
PRIDE is currently supporting the development of a large MPFT public health led grant application to design and effective population level intervention for those with frailty.
For more information and to register your interest in PRIDE please get in touch!
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