To date we have:
- Established a 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 communities of practice, bringing together researchers, practitioners, social care stakeholders and people with lived experience
- Funded two Research and Training Fellowships
- Set up a cross-partnership learning and impact group with the other five NIHR Social Care Partnerships.
- Raised awareness partnership at various social care events in our region
- Presented at conferences and events
See below for more information!
Read about partnership highlights:
Planning a research application? Here’s a series of videos to help you:
- Finding your focus: using evidence to inform your application (with Dr Vanessa Abrahamsson)
- Designing your study: Qualitative data (with Dr Ferhana Hashem)
- Designing your study: Quantitative research (with Dr Steve Allan)
- Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (with Dr Amanda Bates and John Potts)
- Dissemination and impact (with Nick Smith)
- Timelines and costings (with Nick Smith)
Want to learn how we established local research priorities? Watch recordings of our Priority Setting Events:
- Thinking Together: Adult Social Care Research and Practice in Kent
- Setting Shared Priorities: Adult Social Care Research and Practice in Kent
- Launching Communities of Practice for Adult Social Care Research in Kent
Want to learn more about research? Watch our Research Talk series:
- Research Training: New to social care research – The ‘what, why and how’ introductory taster session
- Research Training: Understanding the impact of social care implications for supporting carers
- Research Training: Diversity and inclusion in homelessness & Ethnographic methods
For more videos, please visit our YouTube channel!