MensCraft are proud to be one of UEA’s Health and Social Care Partners. For more information, please see statement below from UEA about the Partnership’s aims and activities.
On behalf of the UEA Health and Social Care Partners
We are delighted to be strengthening our connection with MensCraft by having them become a UEA Health and Social Care Partners Associate Partner. We have strong collaborative networks with a wide range of research funding bodies and organisations, and to have MensCraft become part of this network shows the commitment we both share to working together across our region to improve health and care services.
Colin Howey at our Conference
In 2023, we were privileged to welcome MensCraft’s Colin Howey to our Collaborate to Innovate Conference at the Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, where alongside other colleagues, he discussed the keynote address which was delivered by Sir Michael Marmot on tackling health inequalities in both science and community engagement.
Colin also provided further context into how he found the conference by sitting down and discussing with us the importance of breaking out of silos and shifting from crisis to prevention management.
About UEA Health and Social Care Partners
Our Partnership is expanding the region’s capacity for high quality collaborative research and innovation to address the most pressing challenges affecting our population health and wellbeing.
We have a wealth of expertise at our fingertips to enable organisations to gain access to support from leading academics, researchers and practitioners, as well as sharing and cascading best practice, new evidence and innovations.
Our research groups provide a space (both online or in-person) where interested people come together to tackle pressing issues within the community, or their organisations and offer a unique opportunity to network within and across disciplines.
Research Sandpits
Our twice-yearly Research Sandpits help turn your great ideas into fundable projects.
Our research sandpits provide networking opportunities and extended discussion time between researchers and partners to turn good ideas into proposals that can catalyse opportunities for funding practice-led research.
We provide tailored support to interested individuals and teams from our partner organisations to refine their ideas into workable research proposals that can then either receive seed funding from future partnership funding calls or bigger grants.
We link researchers together with experienced research facilitators who help to shape proposals with input from citizens and service users drawn from the UEA Citizens Academy. Our expert facilitators are either subject experts in the field or experienced in research design or leading large scale complex programmes of research.
Where applicable, we also provide support for working out the costings of projects.
Objectives of the Research Sandpit
Enable practitioners to connect with researchers to develop interdisciplinary, creative, and innovative solutions to a problem.
Develop a proposal for applying for Partnership seed corn funding or an alternative funding stream.
Propose topics, deliver plans and/or a final product, and plan for future direction.
Provide developmental opportunities for postdoctoral researchers whilst addressing ‘real-world’ problems and leading to ‘real-world’ outcomes.
Benefit from peer-review to develop the quality of the projects.
Develop participants’ research skills, in particular project development, collaboration and applying for funding.
An example of a previous research sandpit can be found on our website.
Partnership Funding Call
Our Partnership funds citizen led early-stage research and innovation projects that transform the quality of our services, our workforce, and the lives of communities we serve; and develop networks and ensure meaningful, sustainable patient and public engagement, focusing on key themes:
- Population Health Management, reducing inequalities and supporting prevention
- Improving Mental Health
- Management of long-term conditions and multimorbidity
- Improving integrated urgent and emergency care
- Healthy Ageing
- Learning disability and autism
- Workforce development and sustainability
- Advances in technology and medical science to improve care delivery
- Children, Young People and Family Health and Wellbeing
- Palliative and End of Life Care
- Cross cutting themes include economic evaluation, organisational and system transformation and co-production methodologies
We work with practitioners, clinicians, and academic researchers working in Health and Social Care to help maximise research impact.
Research Scholarships
Our Scholarship awards enable practitioners from our partner organisations to apply for funding to support specific research activities, including undertaking literature reviews, mentoring to support research design and development, and impact dissemination activities.
The Scholarships provide a maximum of £2,500 per applicant to support the following research activities:
- Undertake a literature review to identify gaps in the evidence base to provide background for a future research proposal and application to the partnership or alternative funding stream
- Completion of a project for write up as a publication in a peer-reviewed journal
- Publication of a poster or conference paper for dissemination of results from a practice-based project
- Some mentoring to help support development of ideas into a scoped proposal for a future partnership research funding application
- Dissemination activities such as workshops/events to get research results shared widely with stakeholders
- Writing up an impact case study to show what difference a completed piece of research has made to the quality of services and care for local populations. This might include a digital app or other digital innovation
For more information on UEA Health and Social Care Partners, visit our website, email us at ueahscp@uea.ac.uk, or by subscribing to our monthly newsletter
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