CLAHARC WM Capacity Development Strategy - Nathalie Maillard and Tom Marshall

02/05/2023 CLAHRC West Midlands

Capacity Development: Progress with delivering vision

Tom MarshallDeputy Director CLAHRC West Midlands

Nathalie MaillardHead of Programme Delivery (Operations)

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


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


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


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


PhD: Academic backgrounds

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


PhD: The journey

Taught degree

Professional

experience

Doctoral thesis

Postgraduate research

Service career

Postgraduate funding- Publications- Research

funding

- Skills- Networks


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


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


What we have deliveredFormal 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)


What we have deliveredDeveloping 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?


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 (!)


Further Information

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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.

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