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- 1. Capacity Building in Coastal Communities Dr Heather Catt Consultant in Public Health Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Dr Buket Kara Senior Research Fellow University of Brighton 13.11.2023 – CSfHE Knowledge Exchange, Blackpool
- 2. CSfHE - Capacity building workshops (CBWs) 2
- 3. CBWs – Range of topics… 3 3 co-producing research with communities policy evaluation literature reviews health economics qualitative methods quantitative methods creative and visual methods equity in health research
- 4. CBWs – Who attended? 4 4
- 5. 5 CBWs – For those could not attend… https://www.boingboing.org.uk/community_research_workshops/
- 8. CBWs - Feedback 8 8 73% 20% 7% Overall rating for workshops Very satisfied Satisfied Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
- 9. CBWs – What were the highlights? 9 9 “Interesting, stimulating discussion - now I want to look into this further.” “It was short and brief, yet covered the main aspects of the subject area. This made the training easy to understand and not confusing for someone, like myself, that isn't very knowledgeable in this topic area.” “Great Teacher, friendly and welcoming atmosphere, informative and easy to understand.”
- 10. CBWs – What could be improved? 10 10 “An information packet with main points/learning outcomes would be useful.” “The session would have been greatly improved by having some active engagement.” “Some practical group lead activities, or individual working, would have been beneficial.”
- 11. Developing research capacity and capability in the VCFSE in Fylde Coast Heather Catt – Consultant in Public Health, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Gillian Southgate – Director of Collaboration and Communication, NHS R&D North West Pauline Wigglesworth – HDRC Programme Director, Blackpool Council 11
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- 15. Residential feedback 15 15 “Enjoyed being able to meet & network with other VCFSE professionals, I found the atmosphere and ice breaker activities fun and Ali was an amazing MC!” “Get the group to prepare things to present. Another residential!” “More activities relating to our projects.”
- 16. Session 1: Literature reviews 16
- 17. Session 1 feedback 17 17 “More time to discuss question and plan search as a group.” “It was a little bit 'dry' with lots of content, especially in the morning session. I found it very hard to engage at first, it was much better when it was more interactive and being shown and doing at the same time.” “The hints and tips were great, stringing search terms together and using synonyms was very useful information and its already had a positive impact on being able to find research for my work.”
- 18. Funding time and providing space 18
- 19. Doing with, not too 19
Editor's Notes
- As part of Community Solutions for Health Equity, we organised monthly research workshops that were open to everyone living on the Fylde Coast. The workshops aimed to improve research capacity and foster research skills in the community, so that they could conduct future research in their local area to address health inequalities.
- Seven workshops were delivered between March and September, covering a range of topics based on the needs of the community and co-researchers. Workshops were at the introductory level, focusing on for instance co-produced research, quantitative or qualitative methods for service and policy evaluations, health economics, creative and visual methods.
- In total, 50 attendees from 33 different public and VCFSE organisations benefitted from the workshops. They were a diverse group, aged from 20 to 71, with different educational background – from secondary school to postgraduate degree. Many of them joined multiple sessions.
- However, we knew that not everyone were able to join the sessions in person. Therefore, we recorded all workshops and published them on the Boingboing website. This way, we shared the learning with all project partners and community members, who could not attend a session for any reason.
- Throughout the project, we worked proactively to increase attendance and inclusivity. Our strategies included: - reaching out to our project partners and other stakeholders to circulate our invitations - arranging the session times out of school drop-off/pick-up times - providing refreshments and lunch - offering childcare support
- Initially, we didn’t have plans to obtain feedback from participants. But… After the second workshop, there was a surprising decrease in attendance, and we weren’t sure exactly why. This highlighted the importance of getting feedback from participants to understand what went well and what was not so good during the sessions.
- After Workshop 4, we started circulating post-session feedback forms. Among 16 participants who completed the forms, 12 were very satisfied with the session, 3 were satisfied, and 1 was neutral. They also provided verbal information about what went well and what could be improved.
- Participants highlighted that the sessions were interesting and informative, and the group discussions and activities were useful, as well as case studies to understand the topic better. They also highlighted the importance of friendly and welcoming atmosphere and interaction of the facilitator.
- However, participants reflected that some of the workshops lacked group activities and engagement, or were too long or demanding. More hands-on experience to practice their learning would be appreciated. Some participants also expressed that the sessions would be much improved by providing more accessible and creative content, delivery style, and session materials. Group discussions could also be dissatisfying, when they were “side tracked by audience into unrelated matters”, or when they lacked “creative participants”. These are the areas that we will address in our future projects. thank you.
- We secured funding form the NW Coast NIHR Clinical Research Network to deliver a VCFSE capacity building programme for 12 participants. We are delivering a blended learning programme with a mix of taught components, projects, and mentoring. Before we started, we knew we had a few criteria we wanted to satisfy:
- We wanted the programme to be participant focused, building on their existing skills and meeting their needs so coproduction has been embedded in the design. We wanted there to be a shared purpose in the programme, so rather than being us as the “experts” and them as the “learners”, we are a collective working towards a shared goal.
- We wanted to ensure they genuinely had the time to commit to the programme, which at 17 days over nine months, is a substantial ask. We wanted to ensure space and time for the initial coproduction of the programme through a residential, something which staff in this sector rarely have the opportunity to experience.
- We held a residential to open the programme and we hired a facilitator who uses comedy to engage participants in subjects, keeping the sessions fun and helping to build a sense of community in the group. We used world cafes to understand what transferable skills, knowledge and experience they already had and to discuss their research interests.
- The feedback was excellent and one clear ask was for a similar towards the end of the programme. We are seeking funding to support this. A further point that emerged was how much they enjoyed the fun and participatory style. From this, we designed the workshops to have a blend of teaching and practical applications to their projects, which are to produce research proposals.
- The first session focused on literature searching, a dull subject but we tried to bring the fun with activities at throughout the day. A specialist took them through building a search strategy, then they began working on their group research questions and building their own strategy. Before the next workshop they will complete their strategy, conduct the searches and summarise the literature.
- Feedback has helped to refine our future delivery. Future sessions will build time at the start to discuss the findings from their task and refine their research question. The remainder of the day will have blocks of teaching, reflection and application to begin planning how they will use what they’ve learnt in their research design.
- We already think there are some key success factors for VCFSE capacity building approaches: Programmes must offer more than simply opportunity to learn. We have funded all 17 days of their participation and front loaded payment at the start of the programme. The residential provided community building and ensured they were not drawn into day to day operational issues.
- Many VCFSE activities are transferable to research so we need to recognise and build on the capacity and capability they already have. We’re not trying to train academic researchers, but simply equip them with the basic skills to engage with research. Therefore we are limiting teaching to topic introductions and providing links for self-guided learning.
- We have an outline of what we are trying to achieve and the outcomes we want, we redesign our approach as we go based upon feedback after each event. Whilst we cant have our excellent facilitator from the residential, we are using her activities to keep it fun and enjoyable.