Our Achievements So Far…

To date we have:

  • Established an enthusiastic and proactive working group of people with lived experience of adult social care in Kent to work with us throughout the partnership
  • Consulted citizens and social care colleagues about regional research priorities for adult social care in Kent
  • Set up two thriving communities of practice, bringing together researchers, practitioners, social care stakeholders and people with lived experience
  • Funded four Research and Training Fellowships
  • Set up a cross-partnership learning and impact group with the other five NIHR Social Care Partnerships
  • Raised awareness of research opportunities, benefits and support at numerous social care events in our region and beyond
  • Presented on our research and partnership experience at a range of conferences and events
  • Produced a variety of outputs to disseminate relevant information, guidance, learnings and findings
  • Begun evaluating the three project workstreams and the project as a whole in order to assess their impact on research capacity building in adult social care in Kent

See below for more information!

Read about partnership highlights:

KRP Highlights – Autumn 2023

KRP Highlights – Spring 2023

KRP Highlights – Autumn 2022

KRP Highlights – Summer 2022

View our range of partnership outputs/resources and materials

Planning a research application? We have a series of videos to help you:

  1. Finding your focus: using evidence to inform your application (with Dr Vanessa Abrahamsson)
  2. Designing your study: Qualitative data (with Dr Ferhana Hashem)
  3. Designing your study: Quantitative research (with Dr Steve Allan)
  4. Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (with Dr Amanda Bates and John Potts)
  5. Dissemination and impact (with Nick Smith)
  6. Timelines and costings (with Nick Smith)

Want to learn how we established local research priorities? Watch recordings of our Priority Setting Events:

  1. Thinking Together: Adult Social Care Research and Practice in Kent
  2. Setting Shared Priorities: Adult Social Care Research and Practice in Kent
  3. Launching Communities of Practice for Adult Social Care Research in Kent

Want to learn more about research? Watch our Research Talk videos and other resources:

  1. Research Training: New to social care research – The ‘what, why and how’ introductory taster session
  2. Research Training: Understanding the impact of social care implications for supporting carers
  3. Research Training: Diversity and inclusion in homelessness & Ethnographic methods

For more videos, please visit our YouTube channel!