Prof Tom Marshall - Introduction to the opportunties and support available to CLAHRC Doctoral Students

1. 02/12/2015 CLAHRC West Midlands
CLAHRC Doctoral Students
Tom Marshall
Professor of Public Health & Primary Care
Deputy Director CLAHRC West Midlands

2. CLAHRC West Midlands
Who Are You?
• Majority from three main universities
– Warwick
– Birmingham
– Keele
• Some service-based postgraduate students
• Varied research and academic backgrounds

3. CLAHRC West Midlands
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

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Academic Backgrounds
• Management
• Psychology
• Professions allied to medicine
• Sociology
• Medicine
• Natural sciences
• Statistics

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CLAHRC West Midlands
• Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care
West Midlands
• Collaboration between service and academia
– NHS
– Local authorities
– Universities
• Aim: health services research to improve care

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

7. CLAHRC West Midlands
Where Next?
• NIHR postdoctoral fellowships
• NIHR project grants
– Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR)
– Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)
• Other funders: check websites
• Health Foundation
– Improvement science fellowships
• Wellcome
– Research fellowships in humanities & social science

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NIHR Fellowships Programme
NIHR Fellowships are personal research training
awards
Funding covers:
• Salary
• Research costs
• Full training and development plan
The Fellowship can be based at HEI or NHS Trust
• Annual competition:
• Closing date – 20th January 2016

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Potential for Cooperation between
Doctoral Students
• Systematic reviews:
– second reviewer for identifying papers
• Qualitative analysis:
– second reviewer
• Quantitative analysis:
– Share statistical expertise
• Read draft chapters / papers

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How Can We Enhance Shared Learning?
• In groups find out about each other:
Research area & methodology
• Feedback:
1. Shared research challenges (or anticipated)
2. A practical way that CLAHRC WM can help
3. A CLAHRC WM doctoral student seminar topic

13. CLAHRC West Midlands
Further Information
Website: www.clahrc-wm.nihr.ac.uk
Twitter: @CLAHRC_WM
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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.