Presentation to Programme Steering Committee on 14th January 2016 on the CLAHARC WM Capacity Development Strategy. Given by Nathalie Maillard and Tom Marshall.

1. 22/01/2016 CLAHRC West Midlands
Capacity Development:
Progress with delivering vision
Tom Marshall
Deputy Director CLAHRC West Midlands
Nathalie Maillard
Head of Programme Delivery (Operations)

2. CLAHRC West Midlands
Intro to capacity development
• Aim: Develop capacity for service delivery
research in academia, the health service and
among patients and the public
• Here we aim to provide update on capacity for
service delivery research in academia

3. CLAHRC West Midlands
What we promised to deliver
• PhD prorgamme
– Graduate tutorials
– Peer support / networking opportunities
– PPI internships
– PhD exchange programme (international)
– Funding
• MSc in Service Delivery and Implementation Research
• Support and development of NIHR CLAHRC faculty staff

4. CLAHRC West Midlands
PhD: Programme
• Majority from three main universities
– Warwick (WMS 18; WBS 31)
– Birmingham (22)
– Keele (8)
• Some service-based postgraduate students
• Varied research and academic backgrounds

5. CLAHRC West Midlands
PhD: Research areas
• Maternity care: length of stay after delivery
• Demyelination syndromes in children
• Paediatric allergy
• Medical devices in low-middle income countries
• Early detection of mental health problems in adolescence
• Variations in quality of primary care
• Managing falls in older people
• Telecare for the elderly
• Specialist pathways
• Inter-organisational learning
• Decision making
• Spread of innovation in medicine
• Physical health of patients with mental health problems

6. CLAHRC West Midlands
PhD: Academic backgrounds
• Management
• Psychology
• Professions allied to medicine
• Sociology
• Medicine
• Natural sciences
• Statistics

7. CLAHRC West Midlands
PhD: The journey
Taught
degree
Profession
al
experience
Doctoral
thesis
Postgraduat
e research
Service
career
Postgraduate
funding
- Publications
- Research
funding
- Skills
- Networks

8. CLAHRC West Midlands
What we have delivered
PhD: Graduate tutorials & networking
• Introductory and welcome events organised
• Training plan for 2016
– Ethics – HPA & plan to use PPI Advisors to simulate mock-ethics
committee
– PPI – Plan to collaborate with other NIHR programmes
– Engagement/Collaboration – more thinking required to deliver this
• Peer support – encourage to collaborate as a network, for example
- second reviewer for identifying papers in systematic reviews
- second reviewer for qualitative analysis
- share statistical expertise for quantitative analysis
- Read draft chapters and papers

9. CLAHRC West Midlands
Consultation with PPI Supervisory Committee
A 3-pronged approach agreed:
1) Organise 1-2 days during any given month where PhD student with
shadow someone in health and social care organisations who has
a role in PPI
2) Link to a PPI Advisor as ‘buddy’ – PPI Advisor to provide their own
insight on their role and challenges they face as PPI Advisor
- Feedback from Theme 3, this model is working well.
3) PPI advice on PhD work can be brought to the PPI Supervisory
Committee as required – PhD student would receive feedback from
PPI Advisors on a specific part of their project
What we have delivered
PhD: PPI internships

10. CLAHRC West Midlands
What we have delivered
Formal training and funding
• MSc Health Research Methods established (UoB)
• MSc Healthcare Innovation & Leadership (WBS)
• Funded a number (6) of Leadership/Diffusion Fellows to undertake
p/t master’s (most opted for MPH) at UoB
• Link with UHBFT Annex U graduate programme (all will be
registered to undertake the MSc Leadership at Warwick)

11. CLAHRC West Midlands
What we have delivered
Developing CLAHRC faculty staff
• Training and development through individual themes/teams
– Variation? Local challenges?
• Supporting NIHR-funded - doctoral students (1), fellowships holders
(4) and professorships (1)
– Other fellowship applications and senior investigators (N=?)
• Embedded positions maximise this opportunity)
• Feedback from Theme leads about how well this is going?

12. CLAHRC West Midlands
What we have yet to deliver
• International exchange programme for PhD student
– RJL EU grant for PhD programme in low-middle income
countries
– Contingency plan?
– Amy Grove successful on NIHR ‘national’ exchange scheme
• Networking is not working as well as pilot CLAHRC
• Other constraints around resources
- No consumable budgets for individual students
- No single identifiable budget for overarching capacity development
activity
• Expectations of other parts of infrastructure that CLAHRC solely
responsible for all capacity development activities across WM (!)

13. CLAHRC West Midlands
Further Information
Website: www.clahrc-wm.nihr.ac.uk
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This work was funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR)
Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West
Midlands (CLAHRC WM). The views expressed are those of the author(s)
and not necessarily those of the NHS, NIHR, or Department of Health.