Welcoming public contributors and students to Warwick Medical School this morning to co-create #PublicInvolvement training for our Masters students. What competencies do students need to develop? Discussing skills, values and knowledge! Sophie Staniszewska Warwick Institute of Engagement Warwick Med School

Great to be back in Sheffield for #vsvr23 after a hiatus! Kicking off!

Our events highlighted why it’s important to engage with the voluntary and community sector in our research, and how we can improve how we do it. Fantastic learning and recommendations to take forward! @NIHR_RDS BVSC Research Sophie Wilson Steven Blackburn

NIHR Research Design Service and BVSC held three listening events with the VCFSE sector and social care researchers to understand the barriers and facilitators to engagement.

Read Jenny Harlock and Sophie Wilson blog and full reports below:

bvsc.org/news/improving…

Wild sunset in Brighton this evening at the #SAPC2023 Annual Scientific Meeting! SAPC

Here at #SAPCASM 2023 in Brighton! First time attending, great community so far! I’ll be presenting on our ReSPECT study Warwick Med School - how ReSPECT is used in primary care and patients and relatives experiences!

Love a quiz! Go team! @NIHR_RDS Social Care Grant Writing Retreat

A great day yesterday sharing the achievements and learning from PROSPER with colleagues and the wider sector C Bradbury-Jones Louise Isham Julie Taylor

A lovely gift from my excellent phd student Chinwe Onuegbu, who is now a Research Fellow Warwick Med School, I am very fond of the Welsh mountains! Very touched ☺️

I’ve written about how research can help improve social care practice and what the research community can learn from social care practitioners @NIHR_RDS @NIHR_RDSWM … And why we all need a mentor!

Excited for my first time attending MethodsCon this week NCRM, my first face to face conference since Covid and first time to Manchester! ..A lot of firsts!

Brilliant to hear from colleagues this morning about successful collaborations between academics and voluntary orgs leading to great research outcomes, some useful examples of good practice and suggestions to take forward #VCFSEengage #socialcare #research @NIHR_RDS BVSC Research

Keele PPIE Keele University Impact Accelerator Unit @NIHR_RDSWM

Looking forward to hearing from colleagues in the Midlands about the SCREEN: Social Care Research EngagemENt project Midlands Partnership University NHS FT this morning! @NIHR_RDSWM

Looking forward to this event and hearing from my colleagues Warwick Med School ! #ChooseToChallenge #InternationalWomensDay

First short report available from the first national study of voluntary sector support to survivors of sexual violence, well done team!

Great to see paper out with Iestyn Williams Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), we take a critical look at the how and why of decommissioning and the experiences of those involved

Great work emerging from the Covid19 Social Study UCL Nuffield Trust on #loneliness - those who were most at risk before lock-down continue to be at the same, if not heightened risk during lock-down, swift, important research The National Academy for Social Prescribing medrxiv.org/content/10.110…