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Workshop –  How to get into Research

Tuesday, 14 November 2017

What?
Interactive informal workshop to help you find out:
how to turn clinical questions into research questions;
what types of research activity you might get involved in;
how to find support to do research.

When?
Tuesday 14 November 2017, 6 – 8pm (refreshments from 5.30pm in room F521).

Where?
Lecture Theatre F518, Robert Winston Building, Broomhall Road, Collegiate Campus, Sheffield Hallam University.

How?
Please book your ticket through Eventbrite

Further information from Stephanie Portier

Previous Opportunities

 Career Development Opportunity

This secondment opportunity is for an AFC band 6 or 7 (or equivalent) Allied Health Professional to work with NIHR Y&H CLAHRC and CAHPR 1 day per week for 3 months to undertake a project around an AHP Clinician Researcher Career Competency Framework. The secondment will enable the successful candidate to further develop their research and project management skills.

Recent CAHPR events have identified that clinicians who do not currently engage in research are unclear as to where to start, perceive that they do not have adequate skills and find it challenging to find time alongside their busy clinical workload. It is proposed that an AHP Clinician Researcher Career Competency Framework to support AHPs who would like to engage in research would be valuable.

The project will be to scope what career competency frameworks currently exist and to identify what needs to be developed or adapted for use by the regional CAHPR networks.

The project secondment objectives are

• to scope and review from wide-ranging literature what clinical research career frameworks for non-medical staff currently exist and to undertake a critical review of them.
• to conduct workshops to gather opinions regarding the suitability of what is already available and to identify what is needed for further development from a principal investigator skills perspective, an NHS employers and other employers perspectives.
• to produce a scoping document that captures the findings and recommendations.

The secondment will be based at the CLAHRC offices in Sheffield, or as negotiated.

The secondment will be co-supervised by Prof Jo Cooke CLAHRC Y&H and Dr Kate Grafton SY CAHPR Hub co-lead, Sheffield Hallam University, with support from Dr Rebecca Palmer from University of Sheffield.

Applicant Skills

• masters levels or above
• literature review and evaluation skills
• experience of running workshops / focus group
• experience of communicating with different stakeholders
• an ability to work independently.

Funding. Up to £3000 for salary costs and up to £500 for project workshops

Eligibility. You must live or work in the Yorkshire and Humber region and be a member of the Yorkshire or South Yorkshire CAHPR hubs.

Secondment dates. November 2017, the start date can be flexible.

To apply please email your application to Dr Kate Grafton  before 10am on Monday 25 September 2017.
Please include

• Your CV
• A statement (max 1 side A4) of why you would be good and effective at undertaking the project and delivering the project objectives.
• A letter of support from your line manager indicating how they will support you to be available for the project. The project must be undertaken as a secondment from or an extension to an existing contract.

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 4 October 2017 in the afternoon at the CLAHRC Yorkshire & Humber offices at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield S10 2JF.
If you would like to discuss the opportunity further please contact either

• Professor Jo Cooke, Deputy Director and Capacity Lead NIHR CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber
• Dr Kate Grafton, South Yorkshire CAHPR Hub Co-Lead, Sheffield Hallam University.

You can find out more about CAHPR by  visiting their website . To join and be included in CAHPR updates please contact Stephanie Portier . Find out more about CLAHRC’s capacity building work.

Small Research Awards Competition

The North East of England and Yorkshire and Humber CAHPR hubs are jointly running a competition to support AHP research and innovation in the region.

The aim is to support up to 5 AHPs, who are novice researchers, to carry out a small piece of research/innovation, with a view to facilitating developing a research active career in the future.

Up to four studies will be funded to a maximum of £1,000 each. The money can be used to support any aspect of the study including but not limited to; salary costs, equipment, patient public involvement, and transcription costs.

NIHR Devices for Dignity are contributing £500 to the awards and therefore priority will be given to funding 1 research project with a focus on patients with long-term conditions.

Closing date 1 August 2017.

This funding opportunity will be repeated in 2018… details will be posted on this website.

CLAHRC CAHPR Post-Doctoral Fellowship project

Post-doctoral fellowships awarded

The post-doctoral fellowships are an exciting new joint initiative between the NIHR Collaboration and Applied Health Research and Care for Yorkshire and Humber (NIHR CLAHRC YH) and Council for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR). They were developed because we are aware that clinical academic career pathways for AHPs are at an early stage, and practitioners who have this ambition experience ‘pinch points’ in their career. They need some space to plan next steps. These post-doctoral fellowships provide this space through funding protected time, and providing mentorship, for fellows to develop funding applications in order to create opportunities for next steps.
We are delighted to announce that we were able to appoint two post-doctoral research fellows in Yorkshire and Humber. NIkki Barker, a physiotherapist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, and Lizzie Taylor Buck, an art therapist at ScHARR.

Dr Nikki Barker. I am an Advanced Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapist and Clinical Research Fellow based at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, recognised internationally as a research and teaching specialist in paediatric dysfunctional breathing and complex breathlessness. I have conducted, published and presented research since 2009 including my PhD which I completed in 2014.
Being awarded a CLAHRC/CAHPR fellowship provides me with a fantastic opportunity. I have many ideas for research both within and outside of dysfunctional breathing and plan to use the fellowship, amongst other things, to develop a cohesive research strategy, identify and build a comprehensive network to support my research and career goals and use my new skills and experience to help organisations and individuals increase the prevalence, visibility and impact of AHP research.

Having protected time to pursue a well thought through plan, which is aligned to immediate research requirements and longer-term career goals, is exciting, and working with CLAHRC/CAHPR partnership will allow me to access a wider base of learning, sharing, networking, collaboration, advice and support. It provides an essential stepping stone to increased research knowledge and improved patient outcomes and is a great opportunity available to me to enhance my future career development.

Dr Lizzie Taylor-Buck. I am an HCPC registered art therapist with a background in child and adolescent mental health. In 2009 I was awarded an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship which I completed at the University of Sheffield.
My research focused on an approach to art therapy that involves parents and carers directly in the art therapy sessions, and it culminated in the production of an online manual for dyadic art therapy.
Since completing my PhD I have maintained a mix of clinical and academic work. Clinically, I work in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) as a therapist and supervisor and I also deliver specialist training for the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) in dyadic art therapy. As a researcher, I am working as part of a team at the University of Sheffield who have developed a mental health specific patient reported outcome measure that is now being implemented in mental health services across the country.

I hope that the CLAHRC/CAHPR fellowship will support me to develop a post-doctoral fellowship application for further independent research. It will also enable me to strengthen partnerships and collaborations with CLAHRC themes, and build links with other AHPs across the region.

PowerPoint presentations

Clinician who researches  L. Nagy

A Career in Research  2017  Prof A Forster

How to be a clinical AHP who researches

NIHR – funded Masters in Clinical Research – R. Huntriss

What the NIHR Research Design Service can do to support you.

NIHR Post-doctoral Fellowship  –  A. Bruce

AHPs in Research CAHPR  – S. Farooq

Research in partnership working with children and young people – C. Wright