#CapitalGains: How R&D from London benefits the UK
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The Abundance Project
Kingston University London
Academics from Kingston University and Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts have joined forces to work with communities across South West London to boost access to culture and green spaces for people from minority ethnic backgrounds. The institutions are part of the Abundance Project, an arts and health sector collaboration that will see them work alongside community organisations to improve opportunities for inclusivity and address inequalities in mental health. The project has been awarded £1.25 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), as part of a pool of funding to address health disparities.
Locations
South West London
Partners
University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of Arts and Wimbledon College of Arts.
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Saving Costs and Boosting Employee Wellbeing for NHS Wales
Birkbeck, University of London
Research undertaken by Dr Kevin Teoh reveals that changes in HR practices, specifically avoiding disciplinary investigations as a first response and instead utilising informal resolution methods through training, coaching, and mentoring, can significantly improve employee wellbeing and reduce sickness absence. The research advocates for a proactive HR approach to foster a cultural shift towards minimising employee harm by improving policy application and processes. By implementing these changes to HR practices, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, an NHS Wales organisation which employs over 16,000 staff, saw a 17% reduction in employee investigations, over 3,000 fewer days of sickness absence annually, and savings estimated at £738,133 per year.
Locations
Gwent
Partners
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Cardiff University, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, Swansea University, University for Continuing Education Krems, University of Plymouth
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Category: Social sciences
Ceramics in the Expanded Field: Ceramics Research Centre UK
University of Westminster
The Ceramics Research Centre UK (CRC-UK) at the University of Westminster investigates the expanded field of ceramics as contemporary art. It explores the role of ceramics in cultural discourse and its impact on public spaces, exhibitions, and industry. A key element of this work involved direct engagement with underserved community groups at the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) workshops in Stoke-on-Trent. These workshops included mental health service users, refugees/asylum seekers, and an LGBT+ social group. Through collaboration with artists, curators, and researchers, CRC-UK has shaped ceramics’ status within the arts. The research has had a national impact through major exhibitions, public programs, and educational initiatives, influencing the creative industries and cultural institutions.
Locations
Stoke-on-Trent
Partners
Crafts Council and the Victoria & Albert Museum
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Category: Arts and humanities
Delivering High-specification Toxicology Testing Facilities
Kingston University London
Kingston University has joined forces with specialist laboratory service AttoLife (formerly Anglia DNA Services) to establish a high-specification toxicology testing facility in Norfolk to support the work of coroners and pathologists across England and Wales. It will help address a national shortage of high-quality laboratory facilities that can deliver toxicology and digital forensic services for the justice system. It will have the ability to carry out advanced analysis of a range of post-mortem samples to better detect factors such as levels of alcohol, drug and medication use. Its sophisticated testing technology will also enable improved examination of illegal substances, such as cocaine, in the bloodstream.
Locations
Norfolk
Partners
AttoLife (formerly Anglia DNA Services)
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Saving Costs and Boosting Employee Wellbeing for NHS Wales
Birkbeck, University of London
Research undertaken by Dr Kevin Teoh reveals that changes in HR practices, specifically avoiding disciplinary investigations as a first response and instead utilising informal resolution methods through training, coaching, and mentoring, can significantly improve employee wellbeing and reduce sickness absence. The research advocates for a proactive HR approach to foster a cultural shift towards minimising employee harm by improving policy application and processes. By implementing these changes to HR practices, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, an NHS Wales organisation which employs over 16,000 staff, saw a 17% reduction in employee investigations, over 3,000 fewer days of sickness absence annually, and savings estimated at £738,133 per year.
Locations
Gwent
Partners
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Cardiff University, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, Swansea University, University for Continuing Education Krems, University of Plymouth
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Category: Social sciences
Social Health and Research Empowerment Programme
Kingston University London
The Social Health and Research Empowerment programme (SHARE) project is helping to build social care research capacity in South London. Led by Kingston University, the project will be run by The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London, a research organisation bringing together researchers, health and social care practitioners and local people to improve health and social care in south London. It aims to create a highly personalised, flexible, research capacity building programme for social care practitioners to develop their research skills. The project will have a particular focus on supporting applicants from ethnic minorities and marginalised groups who may have less access to continuing professional development, as well as those working in areas of social deprivation and with underserved communities.
Locations
South London
Partners
King's College London
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Creating Historical and Cultural Recognition of the British Mosque
University of Westminster
Research undertaken by Shahed Saleem on British mosques provided a groundbreaking examination of an underrepresented architectural type, culminating in the monograph ‘The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History’. His work led to the listing and upgrading of several mosques, enhancing cultural preservation and integrating British Muslims’ contributions into the national narrative. This research motiavted the Muslim Council of Britain to engage in cultural preservation efforts and fostered collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. This culminated in significant public installations, thereby broadening the understanding of British architectural heritage and identity.
Locations
Surrey / Liverpool/ Greater London / Bradford
Partners
Muslim Council of Britain, Historic England and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Category: Social sciences
Developing Algorithms to Identify High Risk/High Harm Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
Middlesex University London
Middlesex University’s Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies provides research, consultancy and practice training in a broad range of abuse and trauma-related topics. These cover children, adolescents, adults and in older age. The Centre combines psychology and criminology with a focus on real life and online experience, to better understand abuse and its impact on victims. Their recent work involves a collaboration with Devon and Cornwall Police to develop an algorithm to identify high risk/high harm perpetrators of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.
Locations
Devon and Cornwall
Partners
Devon and Cornwall Police
Category: Social sciences
Development of a new Stalking Screening Tool
Middlesex University London
Middlesex University has collaborated with De Montford University to develop a new questionnaire-based tool, that will enable police forces to address cyber-stalking. The project, funded by the College of Policing, seeks to better understand and evaluate a very damaging but often under-reported crime. Potential victims are asked a series of questions, to determine whether they have been subject to stalking or another offence. The tool is currently in use by the Sussex and Surrey Police Forces.
Locations
Sussex and Surrey
Partners
De Montfort University
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Category: Social sciences
Evaluating the Techno-economics of Ash-derived Adsorbents in Post-combustion Carbon Capture
Brunel University London
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage is a key enabler in the roadmap to meet the climate change target. Brunel University London have developed an efficient and cost-effective waste-derived adsorbents for post-combustion carbon capture storage (CCS). These have been developed from two types of Drax Selby power plant biomass residues, fly ash and bottom ash, with no practical applications other then landfill due to its impurities. The waste-derived absorbents, produced in collaboration with Rotawave Limited, have successfully been utilised in a carbon capture demonstrator rig. There are currently 65 CCS plants in development globally.
Locations
Selby
Partners
Rotawave Limited
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Everyday Creativity: Re-shaping the Language and Purpose of Arts Policy in England
King's College London
Research from King’s College London has directly improved English arts policy’s strategic approaches. Focusing on ‘everyday creativity’ has provided new opportunities for artistic expression through creating major change in Arts Council England’s new 10-year strategy, Let’s Create. The previous strategy had been widely criticized for being paternalistic and following a deficit model with regard to public arts engagement. King’s worked with non-profit organisations including 64 Million Artists, Get Creative, A New Direction, and Creative People and Places to understand how members of the public engage with the arts. The research that emerged from this will continue to enable Arts Council England to enable ‘Excellence and Access’ to suit the needs of the English public and its ‘Everyday Creativity’. Partnership working with artistic non-profits has enabled these organisations and others around the country to reap the benefit of the academic research and better engage with the public long term. The Box, Plymouth, is just one of these.
Locations
The Box, Plymouth
Partners
64 Million Artists, Get Creative, A New Direction, Creative People and Places
Category: Arts and humanities
Excavating Youth Culture in Norwich: co-creating a history of Punk from within
University of Reading
The University of Reading’s research into the history of punk in the UK was inspired by a series of London events celebrating the 40th anniversary of British punk which were not felt to accurately or appropriately represent the subculture. In response, Professor Matthew Worley’s research has worked to help the public reimagine and understand punk in the UK, and through this, understand British youth culture more deeply. The research project looked at youth culture, politics and social change, and had created impact across multiple sectors including: cultural industries, archiving, commerce, and stimulated tourism and exhibition activity in Norwich by inspiring local events. This included a programme of events and exhibitions at the Norwich Arts Centre and Bridewell Museum examining Norwich’s relationship with punk in the 1970s and 80s through the voices of punks from the local area.
Locations
Norwich Arts Centre
Category: Arts and humanities
History of magic in museums
UCL
The exhibition Spellboud: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft (31 August 2018-6 January 2019) drew on Professor Sophie Page’s research into the history of medieval magic and witchcraft. It attracted more than forty five thousand visitors to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. In particular, the exhibition helped to attract new audiences of 25-34-year-olds to the Ashmolean. As part of the exhibition, a wall hanging was created by prisoners through the organization Fine Cell Work, creating positive wellbeing impact for the prisoners who took part in its creation.
Locations
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Partners
Fine Cell Work
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Category: Arts and humanities
Guidance on Enabling Community Maintenance for Local Flood Risk Management
Middlesex University London
Middlesex University’s Flood Hazard Research Centre has partnered with the Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) to produce detailed flood guidance for local communities. The project will empower local community groups, including East Hanney in Oxfordshire, to undertake safe, appropriate and routine maintenance of local flood risk management infrastructure. It will also outline how communities can work with Risk Management Authorities to better reduce local flood risk.
Locations
East Hanney, Oxfordshire
Partners
Construction Industry Research and Information Association
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Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Improving the use of Empirical Evidence to Increase Returns on Pubic Expenditure and Investments
London School of Economics and Political Science
Research conducted at London School of Economics and Political Science has affected how local and national economic growth policies are developed. Researchers worked with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to develop and implement improved governmental appraisal and impact evaluation methods. This work was especially influential in the areas of business support, transport investment, and the development of local economic and industrial strategies. The direct influence on policy design and decision-making has delivered an important impact on the value for money of public expenditure. The methods developed as part of this research are being shared by the Government to other combined authorities as best practice.
Locations
Liverpool
Partners
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Category: Social sciences
Social Prescribing for Children and Young People
University of East London
University of East London’s Institute for Connected Communities evaluated the Social Prescribing for Young People Pilot in Sheffield, Luton and Brighton & Hove. The poject was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and managed by StreetGames, a national charity supporting disadvantaged young people. This was the first social prescribing for young people evaluation internationally. This research helped create the Social Prescribing Youth Network, dedicated to: attracting interest around social prescribing for children and young people; and improving the evidence base.
Locations
Sheffield, Luton and Brighton & Hove
Partners
Sheffield Futures, Active Luton and YMCA Brighton
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
ReBorn Homewares
Brunel University London
Brunel University London, Biffa and Henley Marketing were awarded £1.5m by UK Research and Innovation to collaborate on a solution for sustainable homeware manufacture. Brunel University London supported Brian Walmsley, of Henley Marketing, to develop the ReBorn Homewares brand by utilising their knowledge and technical understanding of plastics. The aim of this project was achieved by using twin-screw extrusion processing and injection moulding facilities to prepare laboratory test specimens. Subsequently, mechanical and spectroscopic measurements were used to support the development of products made from 100% recycled polypropylene.
Locations
Buckinghamshire
Partners
Henley Marketing and Biffa Waste Services Ltd
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Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Newid Byd | Something New Mission Project
University of East London
The University of East London has collaborated with Welsh disability group Innovate Trust, and followed purpleSTARS sensory framework, to co-produce a sensory role play quest game, ‘Operation Dragon’. Innovate Trust and purpleSTARS members said they felt heard and that their opinions and ideas were valued during the project. The inclusive process and outcomes of the research project were shared at the annual Museum of Wales research seminar. Further training session were conducted to enable regular volunteers the ability to deliver an exploration of the collection with the Sensory Treasure Belts for museum vistors.
Locations
Cardiff
Partners
Innovate Trust, purpleSTARS and Museum Wales
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Category: Arts and humanities
Strength and Conditioning in Elite Female Golf
Middlesex University London
Middlesex University’s London Sport Institute has conducted pioneering research into strength and condition for female golfers. This research will help enhance the education of elite amateur and professional players, centring on the importance of being fitter, stronger and more powerful for golf. Additionally, for practitioners working in the sport, it will provide the beginnings of a robust framework from which to base our routine monitoring processes, ensuring that our methods of assessing physical attributes are accurate, repeatable and relevant – something which doesn’t currently exist for female golf.
Locations
St. Andrews, Scotland
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Suicide Prevention in the Context of Probation and Transport Settings
University of Westminster
Research undertaked by Dr. Mackenzie and Dr. Borrill employed a collaborative contextual approach to suicide prevention, working with mental health professionals and charities like Samaritans. Their findings have informed national strategies for the National Probation Service, leading to a significant reduction in suicides among probation service users. In transport settings, their research shaped the Samaritans’ campaign “Small Talk Saves Lives,” which successfully reduced suicides on the London Underground by increasing public intervention and improving staff training.
Locations
North West London
Partners
National Probation Service, Samaritans, Middlesex University and Public Health England.
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy outcomes
University of Roehampton
Research from Professor Mick Cooper at the University of Roehampton has improved the reach and effectiveness of humanistic therapies and their ability to tackle mental health problems including depression and anxiety. It has had implications across both policy and practice. It has done this by shaping the rollout of counselling interventions in schools and the voluntary sector and creating validated tools to support practitioner training. Up to 2021, more than 800,000 individuals received school-based counselling and roughly 360,000 demonstrated clinical improvement. The research has directly impacted counselling support for young people through the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS team and Off the Record, a Bristol-based charity providing counselling to young people.
Locations
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS team and Off the Record
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Helping Met Office urban weather forecasting and planning for heatwaves
University of Reading
Researchers from Reading have produced new models that help forecast temperatures in urban areas. This has traditionally been challenging, due to the many types of surface in urban areas affecting the temperature. The new methods developed by Reading and the UK Met Office help forecasters understand how buildings and the atmosphere exchange heat. Using this tool can help British cities with preparing for heatwaves and developing climate resilience.
This research has been used by Bristol City Council to inform their tiered urban heat service, playing a role in keeping Bristol residents informed and safe about higher heat levels in the future.
Locations
Bristol
Partners
UK Met Office
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Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Improving hydration for older people in healthcare settings
University of West London
The University of West London launched the I-Hydrate project with the aim of improving fluid intake among older people. If elderly people, particularly those who are frail or have other health issues, become dehydrated they can be at risk of infection in healthcare settings. They researched factors associated with fluid intake with older patients, covering how hydration was organized, delivered, monitored and associated with patients’ preferences for their care. Following this, the research team was able to suggest solutions to issues with getting patients sufficiently hydrated and create coherent strategies that could be used by care providers.
The team’s research led to the creation of resource packs which have been used by public health teams, NHS trusts and providers of social care to improve hydration among their patients. The resources is also being used commercially in an app for social care staff and will go on to have further impacts as the app is used. The resource pack has been downloaded almost 600 times and generated more than 11,000 page views. Two of the many healthcare providers using the resources are West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Infection Prevention and Control Team for Kirklees and Wakefield Councils.
Locations
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Infection Prevention and Control Team for Kirklees and Wakefield Councils
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Improving social equality in the British performing arts industries
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Researchers from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama have identified and examined employment inequalities in UK theatre and performing arts employers, particularly with relation to gender and sexuality. The impact on this has included theatrical work that aimed to both represent queer and trans identities positively onstage, and to create pathways into theatrical careers for queer and trans professionals.
Building out from this work, new recruitment initiatives were launched across the country including at Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Locations
Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Category: Arts and humanities
Mentalisation-based Therapy for children, families and adolescents
UCL
UCL’s research has created the Mentalisation-Based Therapy approach based on research into the relationship between attachment and mentalisation. This new framework has supported the development, evaluation and professional application of effective mental health therapy for children, adolescents and families. 14,931 practitioners across 22 countries have completed training to use these therapies.
Tools and programmes developed out of this research are being used through the NHS in Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire, alongside many international locations.
Locations
Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Measuring and improving aviation safety
London School of Economics and Political Science
Research from LSE’s researchers has created a methodology that makes it easier to systematically measure safety culture in the European Air Traffic Management industry. By applying this methodology, the European aviation sector has been able to improve its safety monitoring and management. Better safety culture in aviation has benefited more than 50,000 staff and the passengers on 30,000 daily flights.
UK airports including Luton have used the methodology developed by LSE’s researchers as a jumping off point for institutional change and improved safety. The ‘Luton Safety Stack’ brings staff from multiple areas of the airport’s business together to better manage safety in every area of the airport’s work. The workshops and surveys that support this work were developed at LSE.
Locations
Luton airport
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Category: Social sciences
Migrant Margins
London School of Economics and Political Science
‘Migrant Margins’ is a project from LSE that takes a unique look at street economies in urban periphery areas of the UK. In particular, it examines cities with historically high flows of migration. This work has had several impacts for people and communities around the country: it provides evidence of high streets’ value, supports grassroots organisations in lobbying against redevelopment challenges, and supports the creation of public learning resources on migration in our communities.
The project ‘Super-diverse Streets’ looks more closely at the economics of independent shops in de-industrial peripheries in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester. The outcome of this work was improved public understanding of how migration shapes the economies of UK streets.
Locations
Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester
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Category: Social sciences
Modelling the healthcare workforce to inform safety policy
London South Bank University
Many areas of national policy regarding safety and care standards have been improved by work on effective healthcare workforce planning from London South Bank University. The research involved building models to understand the impact of staffing levels on patient outcomes, workload activity in community nursing, and topics affecting several specialist roles’ contributions. More than £18million has been invested to train 500 district nurses building on this research. London South Bank University’s research has also influenced standards of care in the UK and Europe for Irritable Bowel Disease (IBS), improving diagnosis and care for the 300,000 British people who suffer from IBS.
The Apollo Nursing Resource and the Cassandra workload tool, created as part of this strand of research, have been used around the UK including in the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust and Canterbury Christ Church University and Health Education Kent Surrey and Sussex. NHS staff in Birmingham have commented that Apollo supports their service provision and development through meaningful dialogue. In Kent, Surrey and Sussex, staff have commented that Cassandra helps them understand their complex workload data.
Locations
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust and Canterbury Christ Church University and Health Education Kent Surrey and Sussex
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
New approaches to healthcare collaboration through networks
London South Bank University
Research from London South Bank University has improved the effectiveness of networks in healthcare systems. The aim of the various strands of healthcare network research has been to help leaders of integrated and primary care networks across multiple countries to support people’s health more efficiently. Outcomes of the research have included improvements to education and training materials and network diagnostics. The resources have been used by more than 500 health service managers and clinicians, and there are more than 27,000 registered users across 134 countries using its online resources. Improving the efficacy of healthcare networks has led to improved staff satisfaction, financial and administrative efficiency, and patient care.
In Leeds, a new collaborative healthcare network has been established with leadership focusing on using data-enabled learning and system-wide training and development.
Locations
Leeds hospitals
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Monitoring of Elite Weightlifting Performance
Middlesex University London
Performance scientists at Middlesex University have developed and applied a comprehensive set of performance tests to help identify areas of improvement in both technique and physicality in elite weightlifting. The project has had great success both academically and in practice, with multiple publications and medals from Commonwealth games to the Olympics. The tests have supported Olympians, such as Middlesex graduate Cyrille Tchatchet. The project has also led to student opportunities, collecting key performance data at international competitions.
Locations
Nottingham
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Transformation of the Financing and Support for Early Stage SME Innovation
Middlesex University London
Middlesex University’s research into the creation and development of finance schemes for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), has supported the delivery of regional development initiatives in Cornwall. Collaborating with financial advisors at Oxford Innovation (OI), Middlesex’s research has led to an improved understanding of the market segmentation of SME finance and growth within OI’s support programmes. The research directly informed the design of OI’s ‘Access to Finance’ programme for Cornwall, enabling improved business and finance support for innovative regional enterprises.
Locations
Cornwall
Partners
Oxford Innovation
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Category: Arts and humanities
The Place Based Climate Action Network (PCAN)
London School of Economics and Political Science
The Place Based Climate Action Network (PCAN) was a network that brought the research community together with local decision makers in the public, private and third sectors. The objective was to help individual cities play their part in operationalising the 2016 Paris agreement and help the UK meet its emissions targets. Climate commissions were organised for Leeds, Edinburgh and Belfast along with two commissions on adoption and finance. Along with connecting local authorities with local universities, PCAN supported the allocation of millions of pounds of investment and also distributed hundreds of thousands of pounds through its own grant network.
Locations
Leeds / Belfast / Edinburgh
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Category: Social sciences
Using empirical evidence to increase returns on public expenditure at the local level
London School of Economics and Political Science
Research from LSE has improved local and national economic growth policies. Economics research across several areas has enabled better understanding of inequality in local areas, understanding the distribution of more and less socioeconomically advantaged groups across an area. This research was used in analysis of transport improvements following the Eddington Review, enabling planners to quantify the benefit of improvements to transport connections. Guidance created by the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth has developed ways of appraising the economic impact of investments and using counterfactual methods in impact evaluation.
One example of the impact this had at a local level is work with the Liverpool Combined Authority, who were able to save money on a complex meta-evaluation of their devolution deal following using economics tools developed from LSE’s research.
Locations
Liverpool Combined Authority
Category: Social sciences
Wellbeing support through community art
UCL
Research from Professor Helen Chatterjee has investigated the link between community wellbeing and arts, cultural and other community assets. This work on the evidence behind this link has impacted how arts and heritage organisations are able to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of those who engage with their services, benefiting groups ranging from refugees to individuals with dementia and mental health issues. ‘Museums on Prescription’ was the first British project of its kind to investigate how social prescribing can work in the context of older people accessing museums.
This was followed by the ‘Not So Grim Up North’ project which worked with partners in Greater Manchester and Tyne and Wear to examine the benefits of engaging with museums for people who had dementia, had survived strokes or regularly used mental health services. The result of this was improved outreach practice in cultural institutions including Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
Locations
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Partners
Birkbeck College, University of London, University College London and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Visualising geodemographic data to inform policy, practice and planning
UCL
The UCL Geospatial Analytics and Computing group has used ‘Big Data’ to help the public, private, education and research sectors understand and visualize social inequality. There have been many impacts of this data visualization and classification work, ranging from ethnic-variant impacts of Covid-19 for health agencies to improvements in urban transport planning to widening participation in sport scheme investments.
Data products building on this research have benefited organizations including Birmingham County Football Association, where using data analysis to understand Birmingham’s demographic layout informed effective regeneration and engagement activities at local football clubs.
Locations
Birmingham County Football Association
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Category: Social sciences
Addressing the gap in the assessment and support of learners with English as an Additional Language
King's College London
Research by Professor Constant Leung has addressed the language needs for pupils in English schools who come from diverse linguistic backgrounds (approximately 20% of children). The creation of a free validated framework for recording language progression for English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners has received a British Council Innovation Award for English language education. It ensures that EAL learners’ progression is more accurately recorded and their learning is better supported. It has informed national guidance and local practice, including Hampshire County Council, Education Scotland and the Welsh Government.
Locations
Hampshire / Scotland / Wales
Partners
University of Cambridge
Category: Social sciences
Analysing, monitoring and learning from healthcare complaints
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE researchers have developed a tool for theorising, analysing, and generating insights from healthcare complaints submitted by patients and families to hospitals. The Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool (HCAT) is the world’s first empirically tested coding system for systematically analysing and aggregating written data provided by patients through complaints on poor quality and unsafe healthcare experiences. The work has generated global impacts through the use of HCAT by policymakers and healthcare organisations to analyse, monitor, and learn from complaints. HCAT has been adopted, as a matter of policy, at a state level in several devolved nations, and internationally (Ireland, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia) for analysing and learning from complaints and patient feedback in healthcare. It has also begun to be adapted for analysing complaints in non-healthcare government departments (e.g. Ministry of Justice).
Locations
Portadown, County Armagh (NI) / Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland)
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Category: Social sciences
ArtScapers: children, art and creative placemaking
Goldsmiths, University of London
The North West edge of Cambridge is changing. A new district called Eddington, with homes and spaces for over 8,500 people to live, work and learn together, is becoming established. To support this development and help create a new community, a public art programme in Cambridgeshire invited artists to investigate and respond to this evolving environment. ArtScapers, a complementary education programme designed by Dr Esther Sayers, put children at the heart of this creative placemaking process. Set up in 2016, Artscapers explores how art, making and the work of artists can help children relate to their ‘place-world’ as it grows, how children can teach others to think about change and how arts education can have a transformative effect on children, teachers and school curriculum models, as recognised by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Art, Craft and Design in Education in 2019.
Locations
Cambridgeshire
Partners
University of Cambridge, Contemporary Art Society, Cambridge Curiosity and Education
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Category: Arts and humanities
Bringing feminist art to new audiences
Royal College of Art
A series of stand-alone yet interconnected performances, installations and films of monologue texts by Tai Shani from the Royal College of Art has encouraged reappraisal of feminist interventions in contemporary art practice among curators, artists and the general public. A series of immersive events and exhibitions incorporating performance, installations, films and sculpture was held across the UK (including Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham) and internationally, generating emotional responses to Shani’s work as well as acting as a call to activism for audiences. Inspired by Shani’s methodology and themes, artists have adopted new ways of working, and galleries have benefitted from new audiences, new approaches to curation and enhanced reputations. Shani’s work has also been acquired by galleries and collectors. Shani’s research achieved impact both directly among the thousands attending her installations and exhibitions, and among millions through news and social media. The work achieved global attention and fulfilled its own call to action when Shani shared the Turner Prize in 2019, in a symbolic act of cohesion and solidarity.
Locations
Glasgow / Leeds / Nottingham / Margate / Bexhill-on-Sea / Bristol
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Category: Arts and humanities
Bringing Shakespeare’s Stratford to the rest of the UK
University of Westminster
Professor John Wyver’s ‘RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon’ has enabled the Stratford-upon-Avon based Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) to bring Shakespeare to wider audiences than ever before. A single ‘RSC Live…’ broadcast can reach roughly the same sized audience as a whole year’s worth of traditional RSC Stratford productions of Shakespeare.
Between November 2013 and early 2020, each of the broadcasts, produced by Wyver using an innovative workflow developed on the basis of his research into previous moving image adaptations of RSC works, was shown in up to 700 cinemas worldwide, with a total of more than 18,000 screenings. Around 376,000 UK school pupils have viewed ‘RSC Live…’ performances through the RSC’s free Schools’ Broadcasts’ programme, which occur at set dates and times, with accessible versions for children with hearing difficulties. Teachers have reported the powerful impact broadcasts can have on lower achieving children – particularly in areas such as extending vocabulary. Gregory Doran, the RSC’s Artistic Director states: “With John as producer, these recordings have opened up vital new ways of the RSC reaching wide audiences both within the United Kingdom and internationally.”
Locations
Stratford-upon-Avon
Partners
BBC, Illuminations (UK)
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Category: Arts and humanities
Carbonation as a Circular Economic Solution: Innovating the waste management and the construction sectors through commercialisation of carbon-negative building aggregate
University of Greenwich
Professor C.D. Hills’ novel technology enables the diversion of industrial solid waste from landfill sites to combine with CO2 gas to make construction materials. This led to the creation of Carbon8 Systems (headquartered in Kent), a spin-out that has reduced carbon emissions, saved landfill taxes, and improved waste management. Its operating arm has plants in Suffolk,Norfolk, Bristol and Leeds.
Locations
Kent / Suffolk / Norfolk / Bristol / Leeds /
Partners
University of Picardie Jules Verne Carbon8 Systems Ltd.
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Connecting deprived regions through innovative tram projects
UCL
UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning has undertaken research on trams that has influenced public transport investment across North West Europe (€22.3M). Through its EU-funded Sintropher project, tram-based projects were funded in belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
In the UK, the Blackpool Tramway was extended along the Fylde Coast, and Sintropher has been key to developing public transport investment proposals in Northern England. This includes a Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield-Hull train (HS3), and a Sheffield-Rotheram tram-train pilot.
Locations
Sheffield / Rotheram / Blackpool / Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / Hull / Oxford
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Category: Social sciences
Countering violence against women in Black and minority ethnic communities
University of Roehampton
Professor Gill’s research into domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, forced marriage, ‘honour’-based violence, and female genital mutilation in Black and minority ethnic communities has informed police, government and judicial policy, both nationally and internationally, including across Europe, the Indian sub-continent and Australia. She has raised global awareness of these crimes, and their root causes, among the public and relevant policymakers, which has led to better outcomes regarding support and justice for survivors. By drawing on her research into the social, cultural, and legal difficulties victims in BME communities face, Gill has actively improved victim-support policies, while her contribution as an expert witness has helped to achieve justice for a number of survivors, most notably in the UK’s first successful forced marriage prosecution (Regina v RB).
Locations
West Midlands / Hertfordshire; nationwide
Partners
University of Lincoln, University of Hull, University of Essex, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, University of Bristol, Hertfordshire Policy and Crime Commissioner
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Category: Social sciences
Developing DIALOG+, a Therapeutically Effective Intervention for Mental Health Care
Queen Mary University of London
DIALOG+ is a Queen Mary developed psychological intervention that turns routine patient-clinician meetings in mental health care into therapeutically effective interventions. Supported through the use of an app, DIALOG+ is routinely used across all secondary care patients in East London, Luton and Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk (currently >8,000 patients from 2015) and nationally across all health boards in Wales, along with 7,700 patients in East London alone. The DIALOG scale (a component of the DIALOG+ intervention) is now part of the NHS Outcomes Programme as of 2016, and is recommended for use by all early intervention teams in England (>18,600 patients) and is recommended for patients receiving mental health services in London (>100,000 patients). When DIALOG+ is repeatedly used over six months, it has been shown to improve patients’ quality of life and reduce treatment costs. The app has been translated into 17 languages.
Locations
Luton and Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
Partners
Funded by the European Commission Research Directorate, NIHR and Barts Charity
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Developing a co-creation model for innovation in the UK and EU
Birkbeck, University of London
Working with major policy institutions such as the Big Innovation Centre, Innovate UK, the UK Intellectual Property Office, and the European Commission, Andersen, Rossi and De Silva have reshaped national and international approaches to the ways in which businesses and universities can best work together. Their research on knowledge co-creation has been a catalyst for major policy reform in the UK and EU, shaping the delivery framework for the EU’s €80 billion Horizon 2020 programme, supporting changes to the Lambert Toolkit and reform to the UK impact landscape, and underpinning the development of the UK’s Catapult Centres (and the distribution of over £1 billion in government funding). Figures on the Catapult website for the period 2013-2020 identify 14,750 industry collaborations, 5,108 academic collaborations, 8,332 SMEs supported, over £1.3 billion of research and demonstration facilities under management, and a total of 4,713 people employed at Catapult Centres across the country
Locations
Catapult Centres across the UK (https://catapult.org.uk/about-us/why-the-catapult-network/).
Partners
Dr J Stephan, Halle Inst for Economic Research, Germany + 8 partners Uni Tech Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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Category: Social sciences
Diversity in political representation and participation in Wales
London Metropolitan University
This body of research has resulted in impacts on policy, law and services. It investigated the role of institutions in shaping diversity in political representation in Wales. Prof. Stirbu identified Welsh specific constitutional and institutional determinants of electoral opportunity for underrepresented groups, and structural, political and individual factors shaping individuals’ journey into politics. These insights have:
improved the evidence base and supported the Remuneration Board of the Senedd Cymru to shape the focus of inquiries in relation to its remuneration package;
supported parliamentarians scrutinise Welsh legislation in relation to electoral reform;
stimulated and informed debates by raising issues in relation to political diversity and broader constitutional change in Wales.
Locations
Across Wales
Partners
Wales Governance Centre
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Category: Social sciences
Driving improvements in the organisation, delivery, and outcomes of acute stroke care in the UK
UCL
Research led by UCL has shown that reorganising UK hospital stroke services, so that all patients can be treated in large specialist stroke units, results in better care and outcomes. This evidence was pivotal in hospitals across Greater Manchester reorganising their stroke services in 2015, leading to significant improvements in care for approximately 20,000 stroke patients and 340 additional lives saved in the five years since the changes took place, (approximately 4,000 patients treated and 68 additional lives saved per year).
The research has been central to sustaining London hospitals’ centralised stroke system, allowing them to maintain better stroke care and patient outcomes in this region. It has also shaped national policy in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and influenced regional plans for improving stroke care. It has also led to the centralisation of stroke services in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and North Cumbria. UCL findings were further cited in Kent and Medway in a submission to a judicial review of stroke service centralisation.
Locations
Greater Manchester / South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw / West Yorkshire and Harrogate / North Cumbria / Kent and Medway / Scotland / Northern Ireland
Partners
NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, King’s College London, the University of Manchester
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Empowering presence of marginalised people through participation in political art
University of East London
Stockwell’s method of developing and enacting inclusionary projects serves the dual purpose of engaging and empowering vulnerable groups in traditional museum spaces while serving to extend the reach of the institutions and assisting them as they integrate marginalised narratives. Through her projects, Stockwell and the co-creators confront ideas of cultural institutions’ hegemony in the socio-cultural narrative to provide novel and diverse perspectives. Stockwell developed artistic expression for individuals, diversity in museum collections and international dialogue about the themes in her projects.
For the duration of the ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ installation, Stockwell used co-production events to juxtapose the consumerism of her piece with remedial work in the community (2017-2019). During her time in Portsmouth, Stockwell expanded, developed and adapted her collaborative methodology to engage with different groups such as homeless people, families, visually impaired people, drug addicts and the general public.
Locations
Portsmouth / Stratford-upon-Avon
Partners
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Category: Arts and humanities
Engaging communities and influencing policy through the impact of arts, culture and nature on health and wellbeing
UCL
Professor Helen Chatterjee’s research investigates links between arts, cultural and other community assets and the wellbeing of the communities who visit and use them. It has directly improved the emotional and mental wellbeing of those participating in the project – ranging from refugees to those with dementia and mental health issues. Through improving the evidence base, the research has informed the outreach and practice of cultural institutions (such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums).
Furthermore Professor Chatterjee’s research has helped policymakers to become better informed as to the connections between culture and wellbeing through the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and has shaped wider heritage policy, for example through citation in reports by UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the World Health Organisation.
The UCL-designed intervention ‘Not So Grim Up North’ (between 2015 and 2018, funded by Arts Council England) was set up with museum partners in Greater Manchester and Tyne and Wear to understand the impacts of cultural and creative programmes for people who had dementia, had survived strokes or who regularly used mental health services.
Locations
Greater Manchester / Tyne and Wear / Kent /
Partners
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Museum. Birkbeck, University of London, Institute of Zoology, University College London, AHRC, Arts Council England, Helen Bamber Foundation, Talbiyeh Refugee Camp (Jordan), partner museums across Kent, The Whitworth, Manchester Museum and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Building Bridges, Deepening Understanding: The Community Impact of Belfast’s First World War Military History
Goldsmiths, University of London
Prof. Richard Grayson’s new ‘military history from the street’ methodology challenged received narratives of World War One in Northern Ireland (NI) which have been central to sectarian identities. In particular, he demonstrated that WW1 in Belfast was less sectarian than previously thought. His methodology and findings have been used by NI community groups committed to an on-going process of peace and reconciliation, by contributing to the development of a new shared history in areas that were formerly bitterly divided. Furthermore, Grayson’s research and his methodology contributed significantly to UK-wide, WW1 commemorative projects in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, National Archives, BBC and the Department for Education. The mural Belfast Boys changed local understanding of Belfast’s war, inspiring five new murals and five community projects in Belfast.
Locations
Belfast
Partners
AHRC Living Legacies Centre, Shankill Area Social History, East Belfast and the Great War, Greater Village Regeneration Trust, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Imperial War Museum, The National Archives
Category: Social sciences
Improving Eye Care Delivery through community optometric practice
City, University of London
Demographic trends in the UK population have placed an increasing burden on Hospital Eye Services (HES). Research conducted at City, University of London has demonstrated that community optometrists are able to provide specialist services that match care in hospital eye departments and that these services are clinically effective, cost-effective and associated with high levels of patient satisfaction. Findings have influenced national ophthalmic service redesign through the commissioning of optometrist-delivered specialist services. In parallel, City has developed clinical management guidelines (CMGs) for common eye conditions that have been adopted in national eye care pathways and have been incorporated into clinical guidelines and decision support tools internationally.
Locations
Nationwide, including through the Northern Ireland Primary Eyecare Assessment and Referral Scheme (PEARS)
Partners
College of Optometrists, University of Manchester
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Restoring farmland ponds: delivering pond restoration, engaging the public and conservation sector with science-informed pond conservation, and changing English pond conservation policy
UCL
In 2014, as a response to research undertaken by UCL’s Pond Restoration Research Group (PRRG) identifying the actions necessary to restore pond biodiversity in UK lowland farmland, Sayer initiated the multi-partner Norfolk Ponds Project (NPP). Underpinned by PRRG science, the NPP has delivered over 200 successful pond restorations, as well as enabling tens of farmers to restore their own ponds, and educating conservation practitioners on pond restoration delivery. It directly inspired and supported the formation of similar projects in Suffolk and Gloucestershire and changed the strategic priorities of the National Trust’s ‘Riverlands’ project. The NPP has raised public awareness of the importance of farmland pond restoration through considerable positive media attention reaching an audience of over 2 million. It has also influenced the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (DEFRA) national environmental policy and Natural England’s new English District Level Licensing (DLL) approach for Great Crested Newt (GCN) mitigation.
Locations
Norfolk, Suffolk, Gloucestershire
Partners
Norfolk County Council Natural England Anglian Water Norfolk Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group
Category: Social sciences
Shaping new public understandings of women and the 1984-85 miners’ strike: co-production, oral histories and museum exhibition
UCL
This oral history project collects interviews from more than a hundred women from British coalfield communities remembering the miners’ strike. A new platform created as part of UCL’s research records, celebrates and preserves these working class voices as part of the collection of the National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield. A film, 16 public events and an exhibition, engaging wider audiences with the significance and legacies of working class women’s experiences during the miners’ strike. The media engagement that arose from this work fostered new knowledge of an underappreciated aspect of British history among the public.
One event arising from this research was at the Cynon Valley Museum in South Wales, which was full to capacity and heightened public interest in the museum’s exhibits on local and community history.
Locations
Wakefield / Aberdere
Category: Arts and humanities
Supporting policy and practice change for better mental health
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE’s Care Policy and Evaluation Centre has focused on economic aspects of, and responses to, mental illness. The findings from this research have informed national and international policy work and provided evidence and toolkits for health and care bodies. This has had longer term impacts on people living with mental illness whose care is improved by the health and social care, school, workplace, community and voluntary sector.
Some of these impacts included feeding into Warwickshire’s public mental health and wellbeing strategy and the creation of the Preventonomics tool, which is being used in Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, and Southend.
Locations
Warwickshire, Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, Southend
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Category: Social sciences
Summit Therapeutics: Clinical development of a novel antibiotic for Clostridiodes difficile infections
UCL
Based on initial work by Neidle, Taylor and co-workers , Summit Therapeutics (UK) have developed ridinilazole, a novel precision antibiotic for the treatment of Clostridiodes difficile gut infections. Ridinilazole is currently in Phase 3 clinical trials and its development has attracted significant investment from external agencies, raising over $150,000,000. Summit Therapeutics has gone from a small biotech company based in Oxford to a Nasdaq-listed international business with additional presences in Miami and Calinfornia. The development of this first-in-class antibiotic has considerable strategic significance to the sector and to the discovery of novel and selective antibiotics.
Locations
Oxford
Partners
Summit Therapeutics, Wellcome Trust
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Take-home Naloxone
King's College London
The Take-home Naloxone project created resources that saved lives by reversing the effects of opioid overdose. Because overdoses of heroin and opioids are most life-threatening in community settings where medical staff are absent, researchers from King’s College London pioneered the concept of providing naloxone to laypeople so that lives could be saved in the community. The life-saving naloxone was adapted into the form of a nasal spray that could be administered more safely than an injection by non-medical-specialists.
Based on this research, police officers have been trained to administer naloxone in North Wales, Durham and the West Midlands.
Locations
North Wales, Durham and the West Midlands
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
The HeadStart Learning Programme: changing policy and practice for young people’s mental health and wellbeing
UCL
The HeadStart Learning Programme was created by UCL’s Evidence Based Practice Unit to use resilience-based approaches to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people in England. Resources were created from this that went on to inform policy documents from Public Health England and the Departments for Education and Health & Social Care. Based on this research, six local authorities and 300 schools (educating 75,000 pupils) across England have changed the way they identify and support young people experiencing mental health difficulties. It has also increased awareness and understanding of these issues among young people, their parents and carers, educational professionals and the general public. This work took place in Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent, Newham and Wolverhampton.
Locations
Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent and Wolverhampton
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Theological Action Research: facilitating change in theological understanding and practice in faith-based organisations
University of Roehampton
Theological Action Research (TAR) is a participative research process which enhances academic theology by integrating faith, practice and academic forms of knowledge. In addition, it has positive impacts on faith practices in society and church life outside academia, such as expanding and enriching the provision of the Catholic Education Service and Marriage Care. In the dioceses of Westminster, Southwark, Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster and Hexham and Newcastle, over 70 individual interviews and focus groups contributed to educational and marriage care reform.
TAR’s approaches have also informed the practice of Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, one of England’s oldest theological colleges preparing candidates for ordained ministry in the Church of England. This has supported more than 200 students completing their ministerial training.
Locations
Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster, Hexham and Newcastle
Category: Social sciences
The Sounds of Intent Project: Employing a New Model of Children’s Musical Development to Inform Curriculum Design, Teaching Strategies and Assessment
University of Roehampton
Pioneering research by Professor Adam Ockelford into the musical development of children across the spectrum of neurodiversity has enriched the educational experiences and progress of children with special educational needs around the world. Ockelford’s research led to the development of the Sounds of Intent framework (SoI), which has been used to create, disseminate and embed new music curricula, resources, teaching strategies, qualifications and assessment protocols in a wide range of educational contexts. Sounds of Intent has transformed the lives of children through the power of research-informed music education.The charity Soundabout has used the SoI framework in its support for people who have complex needs to interact through music and sound, working with Music Education Hubs and special schools across the UK. Through their network of music specialists, Soundabout has provided training in the use of SoI to over 120 special schools; Martlets Music, a charity based in East Sussex that aims to help young people to develop their musical skills, created the ‘Ready 4 School’ programme in 2017.
Locations
Redditch / East Sussex
Category: Social sciences
Transforming design and production in the high value electronics industry – creating jobs across the UK.
University of Greenwich
The Computational Mechanics and Reliability Group (CMRG) at University of Greenwich develops state-of-the-art numerical models to estimate when and how innovative, high-reliability, and high-value electronics systems will fail. The work’s impacts relate to economic impacts (£30,000,000) for electronics companies in the aerospace sector, such as Leonardo and Micross, through better-printed circuit board assembly designs that meet these high value-added electronic systems’ reliability requirements.
Implementation of University of Greenwich research at Leonardo has led to financial impacts. Leonardo Spa, based in Edinburgh, employs 2,000 people and specialises in the provision of multi surveillance radars and countermeasures systems. It produces world-leading technology, including Captor Radar for the Typhoon aircraft. The ability to develop and manufacture this equipment on-shore is of strategic importance to UK defence.
Locations
Edinburgh
Partners
BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Celestica Ltd, Multicore solders, MBDA, Alpha Metals, DEK, Leonardo (ex BAE Systems Avionics), Rolls Royce, Micross Semiconductors, Cassidian (Germany), and General Dynamics (USA)
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Transforming Foreign Language Teaching: Motivation and Language Comprehension
University of Reading
Suzanne Graham’s research has impacted the teaching and assessment of foreign languages from primary through to tertiary education, having an impact on over 1,500,000 learners and their teachers in over 140 countries. This research has improved teachers’ subject knowledge and classroom practice for developing learners’ comprehension skills , as well as developing motivation and confidence for language study. This has made a wide-ranging and significant contribution to addressing the challenges that affect foreign language learning.
Work developed out of this research has affected pedagogy used in ITE MFL courses across areas including Portsmouth and Sussex.
Locations
Portsmouth and Sussex
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Category: Arts and humanities
Turning Landscape: recognising industrial and cultural heritage by transforming mine water ochre into paint across the UK
UCL
McCausland’s research has identified and pioneered a new use for the iron solids left behind at UK Coal Authority mine water treatment sites as a sustainable pigment for use in paint. Through the manufacture of oil, watercolour, and emulsion paints, the designation of five mine water treatments plants as artworks (Six Bells, Abertillery, Wales; Cuthill, West Lothian, Scotland; Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire, England; Saltburn, East Yorkshire, England and Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales), and engagement with the community surrounding the Six Bells mine (including the establishment of a Community Interest Company and a programme of educational and creative events), McCausland has transformed perceptions of the cultural and economic value of these industrial sites for the Coal Authority, paint manufacturers, and local publics.
Locations
Six Bells, Abertillery, South Wales / Cuthill, West Lothian / Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire / Saltburn, East Yorkshire / Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales
Partners
The Coal Authority, Leverhulm Trust, UCL Slade School of Fine Art
Category: Arts and humanities
Transforming knowledge sharing, improving design and production efficiency, and saving costs in large global manufacturing companies
University of Greenwich
This research from the University of Greenwich has produced resources that help with product lifecycle knowledge management framework, methods for managing structured knowledge and methods for managing unstructured tacit knowledge. Collaborating with companies during and after the research and innovation projects has produced outputs supporting efficiency and product development in global defence, aerospace and security at BAES Rochester. BAES Rochester reported increased employee acceptance of new work-sharing platforms as standard ways of working, design and production efficiency, and significant improvement in knowledge management culture.
Locations
Rochester
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Women, Words, and Power: Making the Past Personal at the National Trust
University of Roehampton
Professor Suzannah Libscomb’s research into the history of women’s voice, language and agency has helped shape public understanding of the past through multiple media outputs as well as the high-profile exhibition, We Are Bess. This exhibition has supported historical debate and also created tangible benefits for the National Trust using research to make the past personal, accessible and meaningful to people who visit their heritage sites.
This has had particular impact at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, where the We Are Bess exhibition had tangible impacts on the visitors to this National Trust property and helped them ‘see Bess as a real woman and not just a figure from history’ (quote from a visitor to the exhibition). 89.5% of 2,500 surveyed visitors had their knowledge of and connection with the part improved by the work.
Locations
Derbyshire
Partners
National Trust
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Category: Arts and humanities
Pioneering a shift in the understanding and management of eye muscle problems
University of Reading
University of Reading researchers have changed international clinical guidelines in the management of childhood strabismus (squint) and provided the first laboratory evidence that individuals respond differently to similar treatments. Their findings have influenced the practice of opthamologists, and are now being taught to undergraduate optometrists. Horwood and Riddell’s research has led to curriculum change at the three UK universities offering orthoptics (a field covering conditions including ambylyopia/lazy eye, double vision and blurred vision). Approximately 20% of the UK orthoptist workforce has also benefitted from training run by the researchers, which has also impacted training and teaching in Canada, Australia and the Netherlands.
Locations
Liverpool / Sheffield / Glasgow
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
purpleSTARS: Changing the lives of adults with learning disabilities using sensory art and technology in museums and at heritage sites
University of Reading
Researchers from the University of Reading have tackled the issue of museums and heritage sites primarily directing their services at children with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LDD) rather than adults with LDD. The work conducted by Reading and purpleSTARS has discovered insights which give the museum and heritage sector tools and impetus to engage with these adults differently. The project engaged with adults with LDD as co-researchers, experts and consultants to create sensory objects and inclusive design adjustments. These principles were put into practice at the Glenside Hospital Museum in Bristol to make their collections more accessible and inclusive for adults with LDD.
Locations
Bristol
Partners
purpleSTARS
Category: Arts and humanities
New methods to review deaths and improve quality of care in the NHS
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Research by LSHTM experts prompted major changes in the way preventable deaths are measured and assessed in the NHS, leading to better and safer patient care. Their seminal Preventable Incidents, Survival and Mortality (PRISM) studies identified the true scale of avoidable deaths in hospitals and highlighted problems with existing measurement. The research shaped more effective and targeted policies. This included adding ‘deaths attributable to problems in care’ as an indicator of progress and shifting from hospital-wide measures of death rates for performance management to a more meaningful assessment of care. The impact of the research was evident in 2016, when a national programme of mortality reviews was introduced in English NHS hospitals – the first systematic programme of its kind in the world and a pillar of the Learning from Deaths policy. The National Mortality Case Record Review was implemented in 120 of England’s 217 NHS Trusts, and also in a number of Scottish hospitals. Notable examples of success is Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, West of England Academic Health Science Network and The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Locations
120 of England’s 217 NHS Trusts, and also in a number of Scottish hospitals. Buckinghamshire, Bristol and the West of England, Yorkshire.
Partners
Imperial College London
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Influencing cycling policy and infrastructure across the UK
University of Westminster
Professor Rachel Aldred’s research into active travel has resulted in several impacts across the country. The West Midland’s Police force introduced the first Close-Pass Operation programme in the country on the basis of Aldred’s research into near-misses – the experiences of cyclists who may not be injured but are deterred from cycling due to the close passing of cars. Based on the success of this operation, in June 2018 the DfT introduced “a new UK-wide initiative to help the police crackdown on close passing and provision of materials for police forces”. Aldred was also the Policy and Practice Lead for the Propensity for Cycling Tool (PCT) project team. This tool enables planners from across the country to devise the best cycling routes when investing in active travel infrastructure. As of July 2020, 81 public or voluntary sector organisations (mostly local/transport authorities) across England have since made reference to its use. These include major regional bodies, such as West Midlands Combined Authority, and Local Authorities (district, borough, and county councils), such as Derbyshire and Essex. The PCT team produced a case study for Transport for Greater Manchester which resulted in the Bee Network – a 10-year £1.5 billion project created a network of new walking and cycling routes.
Locations
Greater Manchester / West Midlands / Derbyshire / Essex
Partners
University of Cambridge University of Lancaster University of Leeds, funded by the Department for Transport, Transport for London and AHRC
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Category: Social sciences
Galliprost imaging for prostate cancer patients
King's College London
The School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King’s College London created lower cost kits that have helped more than 1,500 patients access PET scans and better manage their prostate cancer. The new formulation in the kit can be produced on site by frontline healthcare staff. This innovation means the setup process is simpler and there are fewer costs for healthcare providers. The innovation is now being used in more than ten hospitals across the world, including Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and several outside the UK.
For patients accessing Galliprost, they are able to access screening for prostate cancer faster. This reduces the lead time for service implementation (from 6 months to 3 days) and enables their teams to make better treatment decisions. 34% of treatments who have had Galliprost used in their care have had changes made to their cancer management or treatment following the scan.
Locations
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Enhancing Clergy Wellbeing and Effectiveness in the Church of England
King's College London
The Church of England commissioned Dr Clinton at King’s Business School to analyse clergy calling, wellbeing and effectiveness. The research evidenced ways in which clergy can be more effective in their roles and, through a seven-year programme of extensive research and engagement, devised a new approach to enhancing clergy wellbeing – a topic that has long been a challenge for the Church of England.
In contributing to a shift to more evidence-based policymaking, the findings influenced key Church of England decisions around how to support clergy wellbeing and effectiveness, including the recruitment of nine clergy support roles in the Diocese of Sheffield, benefitting the local community of parishioners in some of the most deprived neighbourhoods of Sheffield.
Research undertaken by Professor Conway at Royal Holloway addressed the increased administrative burdens faced by Church of England clergy. His research addressed these challenges in the most deprived areas of Sheffield. As a result of Conway’s recommendations, the Sheffield Diocese introduced new administrative support roles, backed by £1.4M of Church funds, creating jobs for nine ‘Mission Partnerships Development Workers’ to support 30 clergy across 33 parishes.
Locations
Sheffield / South Yorkshire
Partners
Church of England, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Category: Social sciences
Raising Voices: Visualising untold stories
University of the Arts London
Researchers from the University of the Arts, London have produced research which links the practice of photography, filmmaking and curation to ethical questions about diverse communities. The work, which challenges curatorial conventions and subverts standard tropes around minoritized communities, supports the presentation of all communities as legitimate subjects for study and artistic display. By prioritizing inclusivity and diversity, UAL’s research work gives improved meaning, visibility and value to dispossessed, excluded, forgotten and obscured groups.
One of the outcomes of this research was the exhibition Seaside: Photographed, which took place at the Turner Contemporary in Margate. The way in which work was gathered for the exhibition was planned to gather and discover bodies of photographic work which may otherwise have been forgotten, giving voice to a diverse range of photographers.
Locations
Margate
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Category: Arts and humanities
Creating Historical and Cultural Recognition of the British Mosque
University of Westminster
Research undertaken by Shahed Saleem on British mosques provided a groundbreaking examination of an underrepresented architectural type, culminating in the monograph ‘The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History’. His work led to the listing and upgrading of several mosques, enhancing cultural preservation and integrating British Muslims’ contributions into the national narrative. This research motiavted the Muslim Council of Britain to engage in cultural preservation efforts and fostered collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. This culminated in significant public installations, thereby broadening the understanding of British architectural heritage and identity.
Locations
Surrey / Liverpool/ Greater London / Bradford
Partners
Muslim Council of Britain, Historic England and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Category: Social sciences
Addressing the gap in the assessment and support of learners with English as an Additional Language
King's College London
Research by Professor Constant Leung has addressed the language needs for pupils in English schools who come from diverse linguistic backgrounds (approximately 20% of children). The creation of a free validated framework for recording language progression for English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners has received a British Council Innovation Award for English language education. It ensures that EAL learners’ progression is more accurately recorded and their learning is better supported. It has informed national guidance and local practice, including Hampshire County Council, Education Scotland and the Welsh Government.
Locations
Hampshire / Scotland / Wales
Partners
University of Cambridge
Category: Social sciences
Analysing, monitoring and learning from healthcare complaints
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE researchers have developed a tool for theorising, analysing, and generating insights from healthcare complaints submitted by patients and families to hospitals. The Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool (HCAT) is the world’s first empirically tested coding system for systematically analysing and aggregating written data provided by patients through complaints on poor quality and unsafe healthcare experiences. The work has generated global impacts through the use of HCAT by policymakers and healthcare organisations to analyse, monitor, and learn from complaints. HCAT has been adopted, as a matter of policy, at a state level in several devolved nations, and internationally (Ireland, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia) for analysing and learning from complaints and patient feedback in healthcare. It has also begun to be adapted for analysing complaints in non-healthcare government departments (e.g. Ministry of Justice).
Locations
Portadown, County Armagh (NI) / Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland)
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Category: Social sciences
Bringing feminist art to new audiences
Royal College of Art
A series of stand-alone yet interconnected performances, installations and films of monologue texts by Tai Shani from the Royal College of Art has encouraged reappraisal of feminist interventions in contemporary art practice among curators, artists and the general public. A series of immersive events and exhibitions incorporating performance, installations, films and sculpture was held across the UK (including Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham) and internationally, generating emotional responses to Shani’s work as well as acting as a call to activism for audiences. Inspired by Shani’s methodology and themes, artists have adopted new ways of working, and galleries have benefitted from new audiences, new approaches to curation and enhanced reputations. Shani’s work has also been acquired by galleries and collectors. Shani’s research achieved impact both directly among the thousands attending her installations and exhibitions, and among millions through news and social media. The work achieved global attention and fulfilled its own call to action when Shani shared the Turner Prize in 2019, in a symbolic act of cohesion and solidarity.
Locations
Glasgow / Leeds / Nottingham / Margate / Bexhill-on-Sea / Bristol
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Category: Arts and humanities
Bringing feminist art to new audiences
Royal College of Art
A series of stand-alone yet interconnected performances, installations and films of monologue texts by Tai Shani from the Royal College of Art has encouraged reappraisal of feminist interventions in contemporary art practice among curators, artists and the general public. A series of immersive events and exhibitions incorporating performance, installations, films and sculpture was held across the UK (including Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham) and internationally, generating emotional responses to Shani’s work as well as acting as a call to activism for audiences. Inspired by Shani’s methodology and themes, artists have adopted new ways of working, and galleries have benefitted from new audiences, new approaches to curation and enhanced reputations. Shani’s work has also been acquired by galleries and collectors. Shani’s research achieved impact both directly among the thousands attending her installations and exhibitions, and among millions through news and social media. The work achieved global attention and fulfilled its own call to action when Shani shared the Turner Prize in 2019, in a symbolic act of cohesion and solidarity.
Locations
Glasgow / Leeds / Nottingham / Margate / Bexhill-on-Sea / Bristol
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Category: Arts and humanities
Bringing feminist art to new audiences
Royal College of Art
A series of stand-alone yet interconnected performances, installations and films of monologue texts by Tai Shani from the Royal College of Art has encouraged reappraisal of feminist interventions in contemporary art practice among curators, artists and the general public. A series of immersive events and exhibitions incorporating performance, installations, films and sculpture was held across the UK (including Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham) and internationally, generating emotional responses to Shani’s work as well as acting as a call to activism for audiences. Inspired by Shani’s methodology and themes, artists have adopted new ways of working, and galleries have benefitted from new audiences, new approaches to curation and enhanced reputations. Shani’s work has also been acquired by galleries and collectors. Shani’s research achieved impact both directly among the thousands attending her installations and exhibitions, and among millions through news and social media. The work achieved global attention and fulfilled its own call to action when Shani shared the Turner Prize in 2019, in a symbolic act of cohesion and solidarity.
Locations
Glasgow / Leeds / Nottingham / Margate / Bexhill-on-Sea / Bristol
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Category: Arts and humanities
Bringing feminist art to new audiences
Royal College of Art
A series of stand-alone yet interconnected performances, installations and films of monologue texts by Tai Shani from the Royal College of Art has encouraged reappraisal of feminist interventions in contemporary art practice among curators, artists and the general public. A series of immersive events and exhibitions incorporating performance, installations, films and sculpture was held across the UK (including Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham) and internationally, generating emotional responses to Shani’s work as well as acting as a call to activism for audiences. Inspired by Shani’s methodology and themes, artists have adopted new ways of working, and galleries have benefitted from new audiences, new approaches to curation and enhanced reputations. Shani’s work has also been acquired by galleries and collectors. Shani’s research achieved impact both directly among the thousands attending her installations and exhibitions, and among millions through news and social media. The work achieved global attention and fulfilled its own call to action when Shani shared the Turner Prize in 2019, in a symbolic act of cohesion and solidarity.
Locations
Glasgow / Leeds / Nottingham / Margate / Bexhill-on-Sea / Bristol
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Category: Arts and humanities
Bringing feminist art to new audiences
Royal College of Art
A series of stand-alone yet interconnected performances, installations and films of monologue texts by Tai Shani from the Royal College of Art has encouraged reappraisal of feminist interventions in contemporary art practice among curators, artists and the general public. A series of immersive events and exhibitions incorporating performance, installations, films and sculpture was held across the UK (including Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham) and internationally, generating emotional responses to Shani’s work as well as acting as a call to activism for audiences. Inspired by Shani’s methodology and themes, artists have adopted new ways of working, and galleries have benefitted from new audiences, new approaches to curation and enhanced reputations. Shani’s work has also been acquired by galleries and collectors. Shani’s research achieved impact both directly among the thousands attending her installations and exhibitions, and among millions through news and social media. The work achieved global attention and fulfilled its own call to action when Shani shared the Turner Prize in 2019, in a symbolic act of cohesion and solidarity.
Locations
Glasgow / Leeds / Nottingham / Margate / Bexhill-on-Sea / Bristol
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Category: Arts and humanities
Carbonation as a Circular Economic Solution: Innovating the waste management and the construction sectors through commercialisation of carbon-negative building aggregate
University of Greenwich
Professor C.D. Hills’ novel technology enables the diversion of industrial solid waste from landfill sites to combine with CO2 gas to make construction materials. This led to the creation of Carbon8 Systems (headquartered in Kent), a spin-out that has reduced carbon emissions, saved landfill taxes, and improved waste management. Its operating arm has plants in Suffolk,Norfolk, Bristol and Leeds.
Locations
Kent / Suffolk / Norfolk / Bristol / Leeds /
Partners
University of Picardie Jules Verne Carbon8 Systems Ltd.
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Carbonation as a Circular Economic Solution: Innovating the waste management and the construction sectors through commercialisation of carbon-negative building aggregate
University of Greenwich
Professor C.D. Hills’ novel technology enables the diversion of industrial solid waste from landfill sites to combine with CO2 gas to make construction materials. This led to the creation of Carbon8 Systems (headquartered in Kent), a spin-out that has reduced carbon emissions, saved landfill taxes, and improved waste management. Its operating arm has plants in Suffolk,Norfolk, Bristol and Leeds.
Locations
Kent / Suffolk / Norfolk / Bristol / Leeds /
Partners
University of Picardie Jules Verne Carbon8 Systems Ltd.
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Carbonation as a Circular Economic Solution: Innovating the waste management and the construction sectors through commercialisation of carbon-negative building aggregate
University of Greenwich
Professor C.D. Hills’ novel technology enables the diversion of industrial solid waste from landfill sites to combine with CO2 gas to make construction materials. This led to the creation of Carbon8 Systems (headquartered in Kent), a spin-out that has reduced carbon emissions, saved landfill taxes, and improved waste management. Its operating arm has plants in Suffolk,Norfolk, Bristol and Leeds.
Locations
Kent / Suffolk / Norfolk / Bristol / Leeds /
Partners
University of Picardie Jules Verne Carbon8 Systems Ltd.
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Carbonation as a Circular Economic Solution: Innovating the waste management and the construction sectors through commercialisation of carbon-negative building aggregate
University of Greenwich
Professor C.D. Hills’ novel technology enables the diversion of industrial solid waste from landfill sites to combine with CO2 gas to make construction materials. This led to the creation of Carbon8 Systems (headquartered in Kent), a spin-out that has reduced carbon emissions, saved landfill taxes, and improved waste management. Its operating arm has plants in Suffolk,Norfolk, Bristol and Leeds.
Locations
Kent / Suffolk / Norfolk / Bristol / Leeds /
Partners
University of Picardie Jules Verne Carbon8 Systems Ltd.
Category: Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics
Connecting deprived regions through innovative tram projects
UCL
UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning has undertaken research on trams that has influenced public transport investment across North West Europe (€22.3M). Through its EU-funded Sintropher project, tram-based projects were funded in belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
In the UK, the Blackpool Tramway was extended along the Fylde Coast, and Sintropher has been key to developing public transport investment proposals in Northern England. This includes a Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield-Hull train (HS3), and a Sheffield-Rotheram tram-train pilot.
Locations
Sheffield / Rotheram / Blackpool / Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / Hull / Oxford
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Category: Social sciences
Connecting deprived regions through innovative tram projects
UCL
UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning has undertaken research on trams that has influenced public transport investment across North West Europe (€22.3M). Through its EU-funded Sintropher project, tram-based projects were funded in belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
In the UK, the Blackpool Tramway was extended along the Fylde Coast, and Sintropher has been key to developing public transport investment proposals in Northern England. This includes a Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield-Hull train (HS3), and a Sheffield-Rotheram tram-train pilot.
Locations
Sheffield / Rotheram / Blackpool / Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / Hull / Oxford
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Category: Social sciences
Connecting deprived regions through innovative tram projects
UCL
UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning has undertaken research on trams that has influenced public transport investment across North West Europe (€22.3M). Through its EU-funded Sintropher project, tram-based projects were funded in belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
In the UK, the Blackpool Tramway was extended along the Fylde Coast, and Sintropher has been key to developing public transport investment proposals in Northern England. This includes a Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield-Hull train (HS3), and a Sheffield-Rotheram tram-train pilot.
Locations
Sheffield / Rotheram / Blackpool / Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / Hull / Oxford
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Category: Social sciences
Countering violence against women in Black and minority ethnic communities
University of Roehampton
Professor Gill’s research into domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, forced marriage, ‘honour’-based violence, and female genital mutilation in Black and minority ethnic communities has informed police, government and judicial policy, both nationally and internationally, including across Europe, the Indian sub-continent and Australia. She has raised global awareness of these crimes, and their root causes, among the public and relevant policymakers, which has led to better outcomes regarding support and justice for survivors. By drawing on her research into the social, cultural, and legal difficulties victims in BME communities face, Gill has actively improved victim-support policies, while her contribution as an expert witness has helped to achieve justice for a number of survivors, most notably in the UK’s first successful forced marriage prosecution (Regina v RB).
Locations
West Midlands / Hertfordshire; nationwide
Partners
University of Lincoln, University of Hull, University of Essex, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, University of Bristol, Hertfordshire Policy and Crime Commissioner
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Category: Social sciences
Countering violence against women in Black and minority ethnic communities
University of Roehampton
Professor Gill’s research into domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, forced marriage, ‘honour’-based violence, and female genital mutilation in Black and minority ethnic communities has informed police, government and judicial policy, both nationally and internationally, including across Europe, the Indian sub-continent and Australia. She has raised global awareness of these crimes, and their root causes, among the public and relevant policymakers, which has led to better outcomes regarding support and justice for survivors. By drawing on her research into the social, cultural, and legal difficulties victims in BME communities face, Gill has actively improved victim-support policies, while her contribution as an expert witness has helped to achieve justice for a number of survivors, most notably in the UK’s first successful forced marriage prosecution (Regina v RB).
Locations
West Midlands / Hertfordshire; nationwide
Partners
University of Lincoln, University of Hull, University of Essex, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, University of Bristol, Hertfordshire Policy and Crime Commissioner
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Category: Social sciences
Connecting deprived regions through innovative tram projects
UCL
UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning has undertaken research on trams that has influenced public transport investment across North West Europe (€22.3M). Through its EU-funded Sintropher project, tram-based projects were funded in belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
In the UK, the Blackpool Tramway was extended along the Fylde Coast, and Sintropher has been key to developing public transport investment proposals in Northern England. This includes a Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield-Hull train (HS3), and a Sheffield-Rotheram tram-train pilot.
Locations
Sheffield / Rotheram / Blackpool / Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / Hull / Oxford
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Category: Social sciences
Connecting deprived regions through innovative tram projects
UCL
UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning has undertaken research on trams that has influenced public transport investment across North West Europe (€22.3M). Through its EU-funded Sintropher project, tram-based projects were funded in belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
In the UK, the Blackpool Tramway was extended along the Fylde Coast, and Sintropher has been key to developing public transport investment proposals in Northern England. This includes a Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield-Hull train (HS3), and a Sheffield-Rotheram tram-train pilot.
Locations
Sheffield / Rotheram / Blackpool / Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / Hull / Oxford
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Category: Social sciences
Countering violence against women in Black and minority ethnic communities
University of Roehampton
Professor Gill’s research into domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, forced marriage, ‘honour’-based violence, and female genital mutilation in Black and minority ethnic communities has informed police, government and judicial policy, both nationally and internationally, including across Europe, the Indian sub-continent and Australia. She has raised global awareness of these crimes, and their root causes, among the public and relevant policymakers, which has led to better outcomes regarding support and justice for survivors. By drawing on her research into the social, cultural, and legal difficulties victims in BME communities face, Gill has actively improved victim-support policies, while her contribution as an expert witness has helped to achieve justice for a number of survivors, most notably in the UK’s first successful forced marriage prosecution (Regina v RB).
Locations
West Midlands / Hertfordshire; nationwide
Partners
University of Lincoln, University of Hull, University of Essex, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, University of Bristol, Hertfordshire Policy and Crime Commissioner
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Category: Social sciences
Countering violence against women in Black and minority ethnic communities
University of Roehampton
Professor Gill’s research into domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, forced marriage, ‘honour’-based violence, and female genital mutilation in Black and minority ethnic communities has informed police, government and judicial policy, both nationally and internationally, including across Europe, the Indian sub-continent and Australia. She has raised global awareness of these crimes, and their root causes, among the public and relevant policymakers, which has led to better outcomes regarding support and justice for survivors. By drawing on her research into the social, cultural, and legal difficulties victims in BME communities face, Gill has actively improved victim-support policies, while her contribution as an expert witness has helped to achieve justice for a number of survivors, most notably in the UK’s first successful forced marriage prosecution (Regina v RB).
Locations
West Midlands / Hertfordshire; nationwide
Partners
University of Lincoln, University of Hull, University of Essex, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, University of Bristol, Hertfordshire Policy and Crime Commissioner
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Category: Social sciences
Countering violence against women in Black and minority ethnic communities
University of Roehampton
Professor Gill’s research into domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, forced marriage, ‘honour’-based violence, and female genital mutilation in Black and minority ethnic communities has informed police, government and judicial policy, both nationally and internationally, including across Europe, the Indian sub-continent and Australia. She has raised global awareness of these crimes, and their root causes, among the public and relevant policymakers, which has led to better outcomes regarding support and justice for survivors. By drawing on her research into the social, cultural, and legal difficulties victims in BME communities face, Gill has actively improved victim-support policies, while her contribution as an expert witness has helped to achieve justice for a number of survivors, most notably in the UK’s first successful forced marriage prosecution (Regina v RB).
Locations
West Midlands / Hertfordshire; nationwide
Partners
University of Lincoln, University of Hull, University of Essex, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, University of Bristol, Hertfordshire Policy and Crime Commissioner
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Category: Social sciences
Creating Historical and Cultural Recognition of the British Mosque
University of Westminster
Research undertaken by Shahed Saleem on British mosques provided a groundbreaking examination of an underrepresented architectural type, culminating in the monograph ‘The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History’. His work led to the listing and upgrading of several mosques, enhancing cultural preservation and integrating British Muslims’ contributions into the national narrative. This research motiavted the Muslim Council of Britain to engage in cultural preservation efforts and fostered collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. This culminated in significant public installations, thereby broadening the understanding of British architectural heritage and identity.
Locations
Surrey / Liverpool/ Greater London / Bradford
Partners
Muslim Council of Britain, Historic England and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Category: Social sciences
Creating Historical and Cultural Recognition of the British Mosque
University of Westminster
Research undertaken by Shahed Saleem on British mosques provided a groundbreaking examination of an underrepresented architectural type, culminating in the monograph ‘The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History’. His work led to the listing and upgrading of several mosques, enhancing cultural preservation and integrating British Muslims’ contributions into the national narrative. This research motiavted the Muslim Council of Britain to engage in cultural preservation efforts and fostered collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. This culminated in significant public installations, thereby broadening the understanding of British architectural heritage and identity.
Locations
Surrey / Liverpool/ Greater London / Bradford
Partners
Muslim Council of Britain, Historic England and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Category: Social sciences
Developing DIALOG+, a Therapeutically Effective Intervention for Mental Health Care
Queen Mary University of London
DIALOG+ is a Queen Mary developed psychological intervention that turns routine patient-clinician meetings in mental health care into therapeutically effective interventions. Supported through the use of an app, DIALOG+ is routinely used across all secondary care patients in East London, Luton and Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk (currently >8,000 patients from 2015) and nationally across all health boards in Wales, along with 7,700 patients in East London alone. The DIALOG scale (a component of the DIALOG+ intervention) is now part of the NHS Outcomes Programme as of 2016, and is recommended for use by all early intervention teams in England (>18,600 patients) and is recommended for patients receiving mental health services in London (>100,000 patients). When DIALOG+ is repeatedly used over six months, it has been shown to improve patients’ quality of life and reduce treatment costs. The app has been translated into 17 languages.
Locations
Luton and Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
Partners
Funded by the European Commission Research Directorate, NIHR and Barts Charity
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Developing DIALOG+, a Therapeutically Effective Intervention for Mental Health Care
Queen Mary University of London
DIALOG+ is a Queen Mary developed psychological intervention that turns routine patient-clinician meetings in mental health care into therapeutically effective interventions. Supported through the use of an app, DIALOG+ is routinely used across all secondary care patients in East London, Luton and Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk (currently >8,000 patients from 2015) and nationally across all health boards in Wales, along with 7,700 patients in East London alone. The DIALOG scale (a component of the DIALOG+ intervention) is now part of the NHS Outcomes Programme as of 2016, and is recommended for use by all early intervention teams in England (>18,600 patients) and is recommended for patients receiving mental health services in London (>100,000 patients). When DIALOG+ is repeatedly used over six months, it has been shown to improve patients’ quality of life and reduce treatment costs. The app has been translated into 17 languages.
Locations
Luton and Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
Partners
Funded by the European Commission Research Directorate, NIHR and Barts Charity
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Development of a new Stalking Screening Tool
Middlesex University London
Middlesex University has collaborated with De Montford University to develop a new questionnaire-based tool, that will enable police forces to address cyber-stalking. The project, funded by the College of Policing, seeks to better understand and evaluate a very damaging but often under-reported crime. Potential victims are asked a series of questions, to determine whether they have been subject to stalking or another offence. The tool is currently in use by the Sussex and Surrey Police Forces.
Locations
Sussex and Surrey
Partners
De Montfort University
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Category: Social sciences
Driving improvements in the organisation, delivery, and outcomes of acute stroke care in the UK
UCL
Research led by UCL has shown that reorganising UK hospital stroke services, so that all patients can be treated in large specialist stroke units, results in better care and outcomes. This evidence was pivotal in hospitals across Greater Manchester reorganising their stroke services in 2015, leading to significant improvements in care for approximately 20,000 stroke patients and 340 additional lives saved in the five years since the changes took place, (approximately 4,000 patients treated and 68 additional lives saved per year).
The research has been central to sustaining London hospitals’ centralised stroke system, allowing them to maintain better stroke care and patient outcomes in this region. It has also shaped national policy in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and influenced regional plans for improving stroke care. It has also led to the centralisation of stroke services in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and North Cumbria. UCL findings were further cited in Kent and Medway in a submission to a judicial review of stroke service centralisation.
Locations
Greater Manchester / South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw / West Yorkshire and Harrogate / North Cumbria / Kent and Medway / Scotland / Northern Ireland
Partners
NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, King’s College London, the University of Manchester
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Driving improvements in the organisation, delivery, and outcomes of acute stroke care in the UK
UCL
Research led by UCL has shown that reorganising UK hospital stroke services, so that all patients can be treated in large specialist stroke units, results in better care and outcomes. This evidence was pivotal in hospitals across Greater Manchester reorganising their stroke services in 2015, leading to significant improvements in care for approximately 20,000 stroke patients and 340 additional lives saved in the five years since the changes took place, (approximately 4,000 patients treated and 68 additional lives saved per year).
The research has been central to sustaining London hospitals’ centralised stroke system, allowing them to maintain better stroke care and patient outcomes in this region. It has also shaped national policy in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and influenced regional plans for improving stroke care. It has also led to the centralisation of stroke services in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and North Cumbria. UCL findings were further cited in Kent and Medway in a submission to a judicial review of stroke service centralisation.
Locations
Greater Manchester / South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw / West Yorkshire and Harrogate / North Cumbria / Kent and Medway / Scotland / Northern Ireland
Partners
NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, King’s College London, the University of Manchester
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Driving improvements in the organisation, delivery, and outcomes of acute stroke care in the UK
UCL
Research led by UCL has shown that reorganising UK hospital stroke services, so that all patients can be treated in large specialist stroke units, results in better care and outcomes. This evidence was pivotal in hospitals across Greater Manchester reorganising their stroke services in 2015, leading to significant improvements in care for approximately 20,000 stroke patients and 340 additional lives saved in the five years since the changes took place, (approximately 4,000 patients treated and 68 additional lives saved per year).
The research has been central to sustaining London hospitals’ centralised stroke system, allowing them to maintain better stroke care and patient outcomes in this region. It has also shaped national policy in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and influenced regional plans for improving stroke care. It has also led to the centralisation of stroke services in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and North Cumbria. UCL findings were further cited in Kent and Medway in a submission to a judicial review of stroke service centralisation.
Locations
Greater Manchester / South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw / West Yorkshire and Harrogate / North Cumbria / Kent and Medway / Scotland / Northern Ireland
Partners
NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, King’s College London, the University of Manchester
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Driving improvements in the organisation, delivery, and outcomes of acute stroke care in the UK
UCL
Research led by UCL has shown that reorganising UK hospital stroke services, so that all patients can be treated in large specialist stroke units, results in better care and outcomes. This evidence was pivotal in hospitals across Greater Manchester reorganising their stroke services in 2015, leading to significant improvements in care for approximately 20,000 stroke patients and 340 additional lives saved in the five years since the changes took place, (approximately 4,000 patients treated and 68 additional lives saved per year).
The research has been central to sustaining London hospitals’ centralised stroke system, allowing them to maintain better stroke care and patient outcomes in this region. It has also shaped national policy in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and influenced regional plans for improving stroke care. It has also led to the centralisation of stroke services in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and North Cumbria. UCL findings were further cited in Kent and Medway in a submission to a judicial review of stroke service centralisation.
Locations
Greater Manchester / South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw / West Yorkshire and Harrogate / North Cumbria / Kent and Medway / Scotland / Northern Ireland
Partners
NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, King’s College London, the University of Manchester
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Empowering presence of marginalised people through participation in political art
University of East London
Stockwell’s method of developing and enacting inclusionary projects serves the dual purpose of engaging and empowering vulnerable groups in traditional museum spaces while serving to extend the reach of the institutions and assisting them as they integrate marginalised narratives. Through her projects, Stockwell and the co-creators confront ideas of cultural institutions’ hegemony in the socio-cultural narrative to provide novel and diverse perspectives. Stockwell developed artistic expression for individuals, diversity in museum collections and international dialogue about the themes in her projects.
For the duration of the ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ installation, Stockwell used co-production events to juxtapose the consumerism of her piece with remedial work in the community (2017-2019). During her time in Portsmouth, Stockwell expanded, developed and adapted her collaborative methodology to engage with different groups such as homeless people, families, visually impaired people, drug addicts and the general public.
Locations
Portsmouth / Stratford-upon-Avon
Partners
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Category: Arts and humanities
Engaging communities and influencing policy through the impact of arts, culture and nature on health and wellbeing
UCL
Professor Helen Chatterjee’s research investigates links between arts, cultural and other community assets and the wellbeing of the communities who visit and use them. It has directly improved the emotional and mental wellbeing of those participating in the project – ranging from refugees to those with dementia and mental health issues. Through improving the evidence base, the research has informed the outreach and practice of cultural institutions (such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums).
Furthermore Professor Chatterjee’s research has helped policymakers to become better informed as to the connections between culture and wellbeing through the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and has shaped wider heritage policy, for example through citation in reports by UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the World Health Organisation.
The UCL-designed intervention ‘Not So Grim Up North’ (between 2015 and 2018, funded by Arts Council England) was set up with museum partners in Greater Manchester and Tyne and Wear to understand the impacts of cultural and creative programmes for people who had dementia, had survived strokes or who regularly used mental health services.
Locations
Greater Manchester / Tyne and Wear / Kent /
Partners
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Museum. Birkbeck, University of London, Institute of Zoology, University College London, AHRC, Arts Council England, Helen Bamber Foundation, Talbiyeh Refugee Camp (Jordan), partner museums across Kent, The Whitworth, Manchester Museum and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Engaging communities and influencing policy through the impact of arts, culture and nature on health and wellbeing
UCL
Professor Helen Chatterjee’s research investigates links between arts, cultural and other community assets and the wellbeing of the communities who visit and use them. It has directly improved the emotional and mental wellbeing of those participating in the project – ranging from refugees to those with dementia and mental health issues. Through improving the evidence base, the research has informed the outreach and practice of cultural institutions (such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums).
Furthermore Professor Chatterjee’s research has helped policymakers to become better informed as to the connections between culture and wellbeing through the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and has shaped wider heritage policy, for example through citation in reports by UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the World Health Organisation.
The UCL-designed intervention ‘Not So Grim Up North’ (between 2015 and 2018, funded by Arts Council England) was set up with museum partners in Greater Manchester and Tyne and Wear to understand the impacts of cultural and creative programmes for people who had dementia, had survived strokes or who regularly used mental health services.
Locations
Greater Manchester / Tyne and Wear / Kent /
Partners
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Museum. Birkbeck, University of London, Institute of Zoology, University College London, AHRC, Arts Council England, Helen Bamber Foundation, Talbiyeh Refugee Camp (Jordan), partner museums across Kent, The Whitworth, Manchester Museum and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Engaging communities and influencing policy through the impact of arts, culture and nature on health and wellbeing
UCL
Professor Helen Chatterjee’s research investigates links between arts, cultural and other community assets and the wellbeing of the communities who visit and use them. It has directly improved the emotional and mental wellbeing of those participating in the project – ranging from refugees to those with dementia and mental health issues. Through improving the evidence base, the research has informed the outreach and practice of cultural institutions (such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums).
Furthermore Professor Chatterjee’s research has helped policymakers to become better informed as to the connections between culture and wellbeing through the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and has shaped wider heritage policy, for example through citation in reports by UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the World Health Organisation.
The UCL-designed intervention ‘Not So Grim Up North’ (between 2015 and 2018, funded by Arts Council England) was set up with museum partners in Greater Manchester and Tyne and Wear to understand the impacts of cultural and creative programmes for people who had dementia, had survived strokes or who regularly used mental health services.
Locations
Greater Manchester / Tyne and Wear / Kent /
Partners
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Museum. Birkbeck, University of London, Institute of Zoology, University College London, AHRC, Arts Council England, Helen Bamber Foundation, Talbiyeh Refugee Camp (Jordan), partner museums across Kent, The Whitworth, Manchester Museum and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Improving hydration for older people in healthcare settings
University of West London
The University of West London launched the I-Hydrate project with the aim of improving fluid intake among older people. If elderly people, particularly those who are frail or have other health issues, become dehydrated they can be at risk of infection in healthcare settings. They researched factors associated with fluid intake with older patients, covering how hydration was organized, delivered, monitored and associated with patients’ preferences for their care. Following this, the research team was able to suggest solutions to issues with getting patients sufficiently hydrated and create coherent strategies that could be used by care providers.
The team’s research led to the creation of resource packs which have been used by public health teams, NHS trusts and providers of social care to improve hydration among their patients. The resources is also being used commercially in an app for social care staff and will go on to have further impacts as the app is used. The resource pack has been downloaded almost 600 times and generated more than 11,000 page views. Two of the many healthcare providers using the resources are West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Infection Prevention and Control Team for Kirklees and Wakefield Councils.
Locations
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Infection Prevention and Control Team for Kirklees and Wakefield Councils
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Improving social equality in the British performing arts industries
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Researchers from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama have identified and examined employment inequalities in UK theatre and performing arts employers, particularly with relation to gender and sexuality. The impact on this has included theatrical work that aimed to both represent queer and trans identities positively onstage, and to create pathways into theatrical careers for queer and trans professionals.
Building out from this work, new recruitment initiatives were launched across the country including at Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Locations
Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Category: Arts and humanities
Improving social equality in the British performing arts industries
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Researchers from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama have identified and examined employment inequalities in UK theatre and performing arts employers, particularly with relation to gender and sexuality. The impact on this has included theatrical work that aimed to both represent queer and trans identities positively onstage, and to create pathways into theatrical careers for queer and trans professionals.
Building out from this work, new recruitment initiatives were launched across the country including at Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Locations
Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Category: Arts and humanities
Improving social equality in the British performing arts industries
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Researchers from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama have identified and examined employment inequalities in UK theatre and performing arts employers, particularly with relation to gender and sexuality. The impact on this has included theatrical work that aimed to both represent queer and trans identities positively onstage, and to create pathways into theatrical careers for queer and trans professionals.
Building out from this work, new recruitment initiatives were launched across the country including at Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Locations
Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Category: Arts and humanities
Improving social equality in the British performing arts industries
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Researchers from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama have identified and examined employment inequalities in UK theatre and performing arts employers, particularly with relation to gender and sexuality. The impact on this has included theatrical work that aimed to both represent queer and trans identities positively onstage, and to create pathways into theatrical careers for queer and trans professionals.
Building out from this work, new recruitment initiatives were launched across the country including at Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Locations
Northern Stage, the Northern Ballet, the National Theatre of Scotland, National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Influencing cycling policy and infrastructure across the UK
University of Westminster
Professor Rachel Aldred’s research into active travel has resulted in several impacts across the country. The West Midland’s Police force introduced the first Close-Pass Operation programme in the country on the basis of Aldred’s research into near-misses – the experiences of cyclists who may not be injured but are deterred from cycling due to the close passing of cars. Based on the success of this operation, in June 2018 the DfT introduced “a new UK-wide initiative to help the police crackdown on close passing and provision of materials for police forces”. Aldred was also the Policy and Practice Lead for the Propensity for Cycling Tool (PCT) project team. This tool enables planners from across the country to devise the best cycling routes when investing in active travel infrastructure. As of July 2020, 81 public or voluntary sector organisations (mostly local/transport authorities) across England have since made reference to its use. These include major regional bodies, such as West Midlands Combined Authority, and Local Authorities (district, borough, and county councils), such as Derbyshire and Essex. The PCT team produced a case study for Transport for Greater Manchester which resulted in the Bee Network – a 10-year £1.5 billion project created a network of new walking and cycling routes.
Locations
Greater Manchester / West Midlands / Derbyshire / Essex
Partners
University of Cambridge University of Lancaster University of Leeds, funded by the Department for Transport, Transport for London and AHRC
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Category: Social sciences
Influencing cycling policy and infrastructure across the UK
University of Westminster
Professor Rachel Aldred’s research into active travel has resulted in several impacts across the country. The West Midland’s Police force introduced the first Close-Pass Operation programme in the country on the basis of Aldred’s research into near-misses – the experiences of cyclists who may not be injured but are deterred from cycling due to the close passing of cars. Based on the success of this operation, in June 2018 the DfT introduced “a new UK-wide initiative to help the police crackdown on close passing and provision of materials for police forces”. Aldred was also the Policy and Practice Lead for the Propensity for Cycling Tool (PCT) project team. This tool enables planners from across the country to devise the best cycling routes when investing in active travel infrastructure. As of July 2020, 81 public or voluntary sector organisations (mostly local/transport authorities) across England have since made reference to its use. These include major regional bodies, such as West Midlands Combined Authority, and Local Authorities (district, borough, and county councils), such as Derbyshire and Essex. The PCT team produced a case study for Transport for Greater Manchester which resulted in the Bee Network – a 10-year £1.5 billion project created a network of new walking and cycling routes.
Locations
Greater Manchester / West Midlands / Derbyshire / Essex
Partners
University of Cambridge University of Lancaster University of Leeds, funded by the Department for Transport, Transport for London and AHRC
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Category: Social sciences
Mentalisation-based Therapy for children, families and adolescents
UCL
UCL’s research has created the Mentalisation-Based Therapy approach based on research into the relationship between attachment and mentalisation. This new framework has supported the development, evaluation and professional application of effective mental health therapy for children, adolescents and families. 14,931 practitioners across 22 countries have completed training to use these therapies.
Tools and programmes developed out of this research are being used through the NHS in Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire, alongside many international locations.
Locations
Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire
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Mentalisation-based Therapy for children, families and adolescents
UCL
UCL’s research has created the Mentalisation-Based Therapy approach based on research into the relationship between attachment and mentalisation. This new framework has supported the development, evaluation and professional application of effective mental health therapy for children, adolescents and families. 14,931 practitioners across 22 countries have completed training to use these therapies.
Tools and programmes developed out of this research are being used through the NHS in Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire, alongside many international locations.
Locations
Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire
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Mentalisation-based Therapy for children, families and adolescents
UCL
UCL’s research has created the Mentalisation-Based Therapy approach based on research into the relationship between attachment and mentalisation. This new framework has supported the development, evaluation and professional application of effective mental health therapy for children, adolescents and families. 14,931 practitioners across 22 countries have completed training to use these therapies.
Tools and programmes developed out of this research are being used through the NHS in Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire, alongside many international locations.
Locations
Oxford, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset and Buckinghamshire
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Migrant Margins
London School of Economics and Political Science
‘Migrant Margins’ is a project from LSE that takes a unique look at street economies in urban periphery areas of the UK. In particular, it examines cities with historically high flows of migration. This work has had several impacts for people and communities around the country: it provides evidence of high streets’ value, supports grassroots organisations in lobbying against redevelopment challenges, and supports the creation of public learning resources on migration in our communities.
The project ‘Super-diverse Streets’ looks more closely at the economics of independent shops in de-industrial peripheries in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester. The outcome of this work was improved public understanding of how migration shapes the economies of UK streets.
Locations
Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester
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Category: Social sciences
Migrant Margins
London School of Economics and Political Science
‘Migrant Margins’ is a project from LSE that takes a unique look at street economies in urban periphery areas of the UK. In particular, it examines cities with historically high flows of migration. This work has had several impacts for people and communities around the country: it provides evidence of high streets’ value, supports grassroots organisations in lobbying against redevelopment challenges, and supports the creation of public learning resources on migration in our communities.
The project ‘Super-diverse Streets’ looks more closely at the economics of independent shops in de-industrial peripheries in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester. The outcome of this work was improved public understanding of how migration shapes the economies of UK streets.
Locations
Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester
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Category: Social sciences
Migrant Margins
London School of Economics and Political Science
‘Migrant Margins’ is a project from LSE that takes a unique look at street economies in urban periphery areas of the UK. In particular, it examines cities with historically high flows of migration. This work has had several impacts for people and communities around the country: it provides evidence of high streets’ value, supports grassroots organisations in lobbying against redevelopment challenges, and supports the creation of public learning resources on migration in our communities.
The project ‘Super-diverse Streets’ looks more closely at the economics of independent shops in de-industrial peripheries in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester. The outcome of this work was improved public understanding of how migration shapes the economies of UK streets.
Locations
Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester
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Category: Social sciences
New methods to review deaths and improve quality of care in the NHS
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Research by LSHTM experts prompted major changes in the way preventable deaths are measured and assessed in the NHS, leading to better and safer patient care. Their seminal Preventable Incidents, Survival and Mortality (PRISM) studies identified the true scale of avoidable deaths in hospitals and highlighted problems with existing measurement. The research shaped more effective and targeted policies. This included adding ‘deaths attributable to problems in care’ as an indicator of progress and shifting from hospital-wide measures of death rates for performance management to a more meaningful assessment of care. The impact of the research was evident in 2016, when a national programme of mortality reviews was introduced in English NHS hospitals – the first systematic programme of its kind in the world and a pillar of the Learning from Deaths policy. The National Mortality Case Record Review was implemented in 120 of England’s 217 NHS Trusts, and also in a number of Scottish hospitals. Notable examples of success is Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, West of England Academic Health Science Network and The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Locations
120 of England’s 217 NHS Trusts, and also in a number of Scottish hospitals. Buckinghamshire, Bristol and the West of England, Yorkshire.
Partners
Imperial College London
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New methods to review deaths and improve quality of care in the NHS
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Research by LSHTM experts prompted major changes in the way preventable deaths are measured and assessed in the NHS, leading to better and safer patient care. Their seminal Preventable Incidents, Survival and Mortality (PRISM) studies identified the true scale of avoidable deaths in hospitals and highlighted problems with existing measurement. The research shaped more effective and targeted policies. This included adding ‘deaths attributable to problems in care’ as an indicator of progress and shifting from hospital-wide measures of death rates for performance management to a more meaningful assessment of care. The impact of the research was evident in 2016, when a national programme of mortality reviews was introduced in English NHS hospitals – the first systematic programme of its kind in the world and a pillar of the Learning from Deaths policy. The National Mortality Case Record Review was implemented in 120 of England’s 217 NHS Trusts, and also in a number of Scottish hospitals. Notable examples of success is Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, West of England Academic Health Science Network and The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Locations
120 of England’s 217 NHS Trusts, and also in a number of Scottish hospitals. Buckinghamshire, Bristol and the West of England, Yorkshire.
Partners
Imperial College London
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Pioneering a shift in the understanding and management of eye muscle problems
University of Reading
University of Reading researchers have changed international clinical guidelines in the management of childhood strabismus (squint) and provided the first laboratory evidence that individuals respond differently to similar treatments. Their findings have influenced the practice of opthamologists, and are now being taught to undergraduate optometrists. Horwood and Riddell’s research has led to curriculum change at the three UK universities offering orthoptics (a field covering conditions including ambylyopia/lazy eye, double vision and blurred vision). Approximately 20% of the UK orthoptist workforce has also benefitted from training run by the researchers, which has also impacted training and teaching in Canada, Australia and the Netherlands.
Locations
Liverpool / Sheffield / Glasgow
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Pioneering a shift in the understanding and management of eye muscle problems
University of Reading
University of Reading researchers have changed international clinical guidelines in the management of childhood strabismus (squint) and provided the first laboratory evidence that individuals respond differently to similar treatments. Their findings have influenced the practice of opthamologists, and are now being taught to undergraduate optometrists. Horwood and Riddell’s research has led to curriculum change at the three UK universities offering orthoptics (a field covering conditions including ambylyopia/lazy eye, double vision and blurred vision). Approximately 20% of the UK orthoptist workforce has also benefitted from training run by the researchers, which has also impacted training and teaching in Canada, Australia and the Netherlands.
Locations
Liverpool / Sheffield / Glasgow
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Restoring farmland ponds: delivering pond restoration, engaging the public and conservation sector with science-informed pond conservation, and changing English pond conservation policy
UCL
In 2014, as a response to research undertaken by UCL’s Pond Restoration Research Group (PRRG) identifying the actions necessary to restore pond biodiversity in UK lowland farmland, Sayer initiated the multi-partner Norfolk Ponds Project (NPP). Underpinned by PRRG science, the NPP has delivered over 200 successful pond restorations, as well as enabling tens of farmers to restore their own ponds, and educating conservation practitioners on pond restoration delivery. It directly inspired and supported the formation of similar projects in Suffolk and Gloucestershire and changed the strategic priorities of the National Trust’s ‘Riverlands’ project. The NPP has raised public awareness of the importance of farmland pond restoration through considerable positive media attention reaching an audience of over 2 million. It has also influenced the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (DEFRA) national environmental policy and Natural England’s new English District Level Licensing (DLL) approach for Great Crested Newt (GCN) mitigation.
Locations
Norfolk, Suffolk, Gloucestershire
Partners
Norfolk County Council Natural England Anglian Water Norfolk Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group
Category: Social sciences
Restoring farmland ponds: delivering pond restoration, engaging the public and conservation sector with science-informed pond conservation, and changing English pond conservation policy
UCL
In 2014, as a response to research undertaken by UCL’s Pond Restoration Research Group (PRRG) identifying the actions necessary to restore pond biodiversity in UK lowland farmland, Sayer initiated the multi-partner Norfolk Ponds Project (NPP). Underpinned by PRRG science, the NPP has delivered over 200 successful pond restorations, as well as enabling tens of farmers to restore their own ponds, and educating conservation practitioners on pond restoration delivery. It directly inspired and supported the formation of similar projects in Suffolk and Gloucestershire and changed the strategic priorities of the National Trust’s ‘Riverlands’ project. The NPP has raised public awareness of the importance of farmland pond restoration through considerable positive media attention reaching an audience of over 2 million. It has also influenced the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (DEFRA) national environmental policy and Natural England’s new English District Level Licensing (DLL) approach for Great Crested Newt (GCN) mitigation.
Locations
Norfolk, Suffolk, Gloucestershire
Partners
Norfolk County Council Natural England Anglian Water Norfolk Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group
Category: Social sciences
Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Safewards: Increasing safety on psychiatric inpatient wards
King's College London
Aggression, restraint and seclusion are serious issues in the UK’s psychiatric hospitals, the reduction of which is essential to create safe environments for work and recovery. Researchers from King’s College London has developed models of factors that affect safety levels for patients and workers in psychiatric hospitals. The Safewards approach was developed from this modelling and has been demonstrated to be effective in making wards safer. Safewards proposes that there are six key areas which can give rise to aggression, restraint and conclusion. The researchers identified ten interventions which can be implemented to make these six areas safer for everyone in the wards. A randomized controlled trial conducted across thirty one wards at fifteen hospitals showed a 15% decrease in the rate of conflict and a 26% decrease in the rate of containment using Safewards.
Safewards has been implemented widely across England and the UK. Just a few of the trusts and teams known to be using it are Greater Manchester Mental Health, Sussex Partnership, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
Locations
Greater Manchester, Sussex, Lincolnshire Partnership, Derby, Leicester, Merseycare, Fife, and Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
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Shaping new public understandings of women and the 1984-85 miners’ strike: co-production, oral histories and museum exhibition
UCL
This oral history project collects interviews from more than a hundred women from British coalfield communities remembering the miners’ strike. A new platform created as part of UCL’s research records, celebrates and preserves these working class voices as part of the collection of the National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield. A film, 16 public events and an exhibition, engaging wider audiences with the significance and legacies of working class women’s experiences during the miners’ strike. The media engagement that arose from this work fostered new knowledge of an underappreciated aspect of British history among the public.
One event arising from this research was at the Cynon Valley Museum in South Wales, which was full to capacity and heightened public interest in the museum’s exhibits on local and community history.
Locations
Wakefield / Aberdere
Category: Arts and humanities
Social change, performance touring, audience development and creative partnerships
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama has worked with a cross-disciplinary arts company, Fevered Sleep, to understand how several aspects of live performances impact social change. These aspects include creative practice, participation, public engagement and live touring. The research involved developing models for touring performances for young audiences, from which further practice research grew. This has included work that interrogates several social issues in collaboration with local young people.
Iterations of this work have been delivered in theatres in many UK areas including Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester and Nottingham. Evaluation showed that the practice research project This Grief Thing had positive impacts on diverse groups examining cultural and personal relationships with grief. It has also demonstrated new pathways and models for participatory research in theatre and live performance.
Locations
Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester, Nottingham
Partners
Fevered Sleep
Category: Arts and humanities
Social change, performance touring, audience development and creative partnerships
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama has worked with a cross-disciplinary arts company, Fevered Sleep, to understand how several aspects of live performances impact social change. These aspects include creative practice, participation, public engagement and live touring. The research involved developing models for touring performances for young audiences, from which further practice research grew. This has included work that interrogates several social issues in collaboration with local young people.
Iterations of this work have been delivered in theatres in many UK areas including Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester and Nottingham. Evaluation showed that the practice research project This Grief Thing had positive impacts on diverse groups examining cultural and personal relationships with grief. It has also demonstrated new pathways and models for participatory research in theatre and live performance.
Locations
Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester, Nottingham
Partners
Fevered Sleep
Category: Arts and humanities
Social change, performance touring, audience development and creative partnerships
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama has worked with a cross-disciplinary arts company, Fevered Sleep, to understand how several aspects of live performances impact social change. These aspects include creative practice, participation, public engagement and live touring. The research involved developing models for touring performances for young audiences, from which further practice research grew. This has included work that interrogates several social issues in collaboration with local young people.
Iterations of this work have been delivered in theatres in many UK areas including Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester and Nottingham. Evaluation showed that the practice research project This Grief Thing had positive impacts on diverse groups examining cultural and personal relationships with grief. It has also demonstrated new pathways and models for participatory research in theatre and live performance.
Locations
Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester, Nottingham
Partners
Fevered Sleep
Category: Arts and humanities
Social change, performance touring, audience development and creative partnerships
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama has worked with a cross-disciplinary arts company, Fevered Sleep, to understand how several aspects of live performances impact social change. These aspects include creative practice, participation, public engagement and live touring. The research involved developing models for touring performances for young audiences, from which further practice research grew. This has included work that interrogates several social issues in collaboration with local young people.
Iterations of this work have been delivered in theatres in many UK areas including Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester and Nottingham. Evaluation showed that the practice research project This Grief Thing had positive impacts on diverse groups examining cultural and personal relationships with grief. It has also demonstrated new pathways and models for participatory research in theatre and live performance.
Locations
Preston, Middlesborough, Manchester, Nottingham
Partners
Fevered Sleep
Category: Arts and humanities
Social Prescribing for Children and Young People
University of East London
University of East London’s Institute for Connected Communities evaluated the Social Prescribing for Young People Pilot in Sheffield, Luton and Brighton & Hove. The poject was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and managed by StreetGames, a national charity supporting disadvantaged young people. This was the first social prescribing for young people evaluation internationally. This research helped create the Social Prescribing Youth Network, dedicated to: attracting interest around social prescribing for children and young people; and improving the evidence base.
Locations
Sheffield, Luton and Brighton & Hove
Partners
Sheffield Futures, Active Luton and YMCA Brighton
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Social Prescribing for Children and Young People
University of East London
University of East London’s Institute for Connected Communities evaluated the Social Prescribing for Young People Pilot in Sheffield, Luton and Brighton & Hove. The poject was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and managed by StreetGames, a national charity supporting disadvantaged young people. This was the first social prescribing for young people evaluation internationally. This research helped create the Social Prescribing Youth Network, dedicated to: attracting interest around social prescribing for children and young people; and improving the evidence base.
Locations
Sheffield, Luton and Brighton & Hove
Partners
Sheffield Futures, Active Luton and YMCA Brighton
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Supporting policy and practice change for better mental health
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE’s Care Policy and Evaluation Centre has focused on economic aspects of, and responses to, mental illness. The findings from this research have informed national and international policy work and provided evidence and toolkits for health and care bodies. This has had longer term impacts on people living with mental illness whose care is improved by the health and social care, school, workplace, community and voluntary sector.
Some of these impacts included feeding into Warwickshire’s public mental health and wellbeing strategy and the creation of the Preventonomics tool, which is being used in Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, and Southend.
Locations
Warwickshire, Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, Southend
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Category: Social sciences
Supporting policy and practice change for better mental health
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE’s Care Policy and Evaluation Centre has focused on economic aspects of, and responses to, mental illness. The findings from this research have informed national and international policy work and provided evidence and toolkits for health and care bodies. This has had longer term impacts on people living with mental illness whose care is improved by the health and social care, school, workplace, community and voluntary sector.
Some of these impacts included feeding into Warwickshire’s public mental health and wellbeing strategy and the creation of the Preventonomics tool, which is being used in Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, and Southend.
Locations
Warwickshire, Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, Southend
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Category: Social sciences
Supporting policy and practice change for better mental health
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE’s Care Policy and Evaluation Centre has focused on economic aspects of, and responses to, mental illness. The findings from this research have informed national and international policy work and provided evidence and toolkits for health and care bodies. This has had longer term impacts on people living with mental illness whose care is improved by the health and social care, school, workplace, community and voluntary sector.
Some of these impacts included feeding into Warwickshire’s public mental health and wellbeing strategy and the creation of the Preventonomics tool, which is being used in Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, and Southend.
Locations
Warwickshire, Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, Southend
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Category: Social sciences
Take-home Naloxone
King's College London
The Take-home Naloxone project created resources that saved lives by reversing the effects of opioid overdose. Because overdoses of heroin and opioids are most life-threatening in community settings where medical staff are absent, researchers from King’s College London pioneered the concept of providing naloxone to laypeople so that lives could be saved in the community. The life-saving naloxone was adapted into the form of a nasal spray that could be administered more safely than an injection by non-medical-specialists.
Based on this research, police officers have been trained to administer naloxone in North Wales, Durham and the West Midlands.
Locations
North Wales, Durham and the West Midlands
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Take-home Naloxone
King's College London
The Take-home Naloxone project created resources that saved lives by reversing the effects of opioid overdose. Because overdoses of heroin and opioids are most life-threatening in community settings where medical staff are absent, researchers from King’s College London pioneered the concept of providing naloxone to laypeople so that lives could be saved in the community. The life-saving naloxone was adapted into the form of a nasal spray that could be administered more safely than an injection by non-medical-specialists.
Based on this research, police officers have been trained to administer naloxone in North Wales, Durham and the West Midlands.
Locations
North Wales, Durham and the West Midlands
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
The HeadStart Learning Programme: changing policy and practice for young people’s mental health and wellbeing
UCL
The HeadStart Learning Programme was created by UCL’s Evidence Based Practice Unit to use resilience-based approaches to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people in England. Resources were created from this that went on to inform policy documents from Public Health England and the Departments for Education and Health & Social Care. Based on this research, six local authorities and 300 schools (educating 75,000 pupils) across England have changed the way they identify and support young people experiencing mental health difficulties. It has also increased awareness and understanding of these issues among young people, their parents and carers, educational professionals and the general public. This work took place in Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent, Newham and Wolverhampton.
Locations
Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent and Wolverhampton
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
The Place Based Climate Action Network (PCAN)
London School of Economics and Political Science
The Place Based Climate Action Network (PCAN) was a network that brought the research community together with local decision makers in the public, private and third sectors. The objective was to help individual cities play their part in operationalising the 2016 Paris agreement and help the UK meet its emissions targets. Climate commissions were organised for Leeds, Edinburgh and Belfast along with two commissions on adoption and finance. Along with connecting local authorities with local universities, PCAN supported the allocation of millions of pounds of investment and also distributed hundreds of thousands of pounds through its own grant network.
Locations
Leeds / Belfast / Edinburgh
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Category: Social sciences
The Place Based Climate Action Network (PCAN)
London School of Economics and Political Science
The Place Based Climate Action Network (PCAN) was a network that brought the research community together with local decision makers in the public, private and third sectors. The objective was to help individual cities play their part in operationalising the 2016 Paris agreement and help the UK meet its emissions targets. Climate commissions were organised for Leeds, Edinburgh and Belfast along with two commissions on adoption and finance. Along with connecting local authorities with local universities, PCAN supported the allocation of millions of pounds of investment and also distributed hundreds of thousands of pounds through its own grant network.
Locations
Leeds / Belfast / Edinburgh
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Category: Social sciences
The Sounds of Intent Project: Employing a New Model of Children’s Musical Development to Inform Curriculum Design, Teaching Strategies and Assessment
University of Roehampton
Pioneering research by Professor Adam Ockelford into the musical development of children across the spectrum of neurodiversity has enriched the educational experiences and progress of children with special educational needs around the world. Ockelford’s research led to the development of the Sounds of Intent framework (SoI), which has been used to create, disseminate and embed new music curricula, resources, teaching strategies, qualifications and assessment protocols in a wide range of educational contexts. Sounds of Intent has transformed the lives of children through the power of research-informed music education.The charity Soundabout has used the SoI framework in its support for people who have complex needs to interact through music and sound, working with Music Education Hubs and special schools across the UK. Through their network of music specialists, Soundabout has provided training in the use of SoI to over 120 special schools; Martlets Music, a charity based in East Sussex that aims to help young people to develop their musical skills, created the ‘Ready 4 School’ programme in 2017.
Locations
Redditch / East Sussex
Category: Social sciences
Theological Action Research: facilitating change in theological understanding and practice in faith-based organisations
University of Roehampton
Theological Action Research (TAR) is a participative research process which enhances academic theology by integrating faith, practice and academic forms of knowledge. In addition, it has positive impacts on faith practices in society and church life outside academia, such as expanding and enriching the provision of the Catholic Education Service and Marriage Care. In the dioceses of Westminster, Southwark, Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster and Hexham and Newcastle, over 70 individual interviews and focus groups contributed to educational and marriage care reform.
TAR’s approaches have also informed the practice of Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, one of England’s oldest theological colleges preparing candidates for ordained ministry in the Church of England. This has supported more than 200 students completing their ministerial training.
Locations
Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster, Hexham and Newcastle
Category: Social sciences
Theological Action Research: facilitating change in theological understanding and practice in faith-based organisations
University of Roehampton
Theological Action Research (TAR) is a participative research process which enhances academic theology by integrating faith, practice and academic forms of knowledge. In addition, it has positive impacts on faith practices in society and church life outside academia, such as expanding and enriching the provision of the Catholic Education Service and Marriage Care. In the dioceses of Westminster, Southwark, Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster and Hexham and Newcastle, over 70 individual interviews and focus groups contributed to educational and marriage care reform.
TAR’s approaches have also informed the practice of Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, one of England’s oldest theological colleges preparing candidates for ordained ministry in the Church of England. This has supported more than 200 students completing their ministerial training.
Locations
Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster, Hexham and Newcastle
Category: Social sciences
Theological Action Research: facilitating change in theological understanding and practice in faith-based organisations
University of Roehampton
Theological Action Research (TAR) is a participative research process which enhances academic theology by integrating faith, practice and academic forms of knowledge. In addition, it has positive impacts on faith practices in society and church life outside academia, such as expanding and enriching the provision of the Catholic Education Service and Marriage Care. In the dioceses of Westminster, Southwark, Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster and Hexham and Newcastle, over 70 individual interviews and focus groups contributed to educational and marriage care reform.
TAR’s approaches have also informed the practice of Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, one of England’s oldest theological colleges preparing candidates for ordained ministry in the Church of England. This has supported more than 200 students completing their ministerial training.
Locations
Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster, Hexham and Newcastle
Category: Social sciences
Theological Action Research: facilitating change in theological understanding and practice in faith-based organisations
University of Roehampton
Theological Action Research (TAR) is a participative research process which enhances academic theology by integrating faith, practice and academic forms of knowledge. In addition, it has positive impacts on faith practices in society and church life outside academia, such as expanding and enriching the provision of the Catholic Education Service and Marriage Care. In the dioceses of Westminster, Southwark, Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster and Hexham and Newcastle, over 70 individual interviews and focus groups contributed to educational and marriage care reform.
TAR’s approaches have also informed the practice of Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, one of England’s oldest theological colleges preparing candidates for ordained ministry in the Church of England. This has supported more than 200 students completing their ministerial training.
Locations
Plymouth, Menevia, Birmingham, Lancaster, Hexham and Newcastle
Category: Social sciences
Turning Landscape: recognising industrial and cultural heritage by transforming mine water ochre into paint across the UK
UCL
McCausland’s research has identified and pioneered a new use for the iron solids left behind at UK Coal Authority mine water treatment sites as a sustainable pigment for use in paint. Through the manufacture of oil, watercolour, and emulsion paints, the designation of five mine water treatments plants as artworks (Six Bells, Abertillery, Wales; Cuthill, West Lothian, Scotland; Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire, England; Saltburn, East Yorkshire, England and Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales), and engagement with the community surrounding the Six Bells mine (including the establishment of a Community Interest Company and a programme of educational and creative events), McCausland has transformed perceptions of the cultural and economic value of these industrial sites for the Coal Authority, paint manufacturers, and local publics.
Locations
Six Bells, Abertillery, South Wales / Cuthill, West Lothian / Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire / Saltburn, East Yorkshire / Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales
Partners
The Coal Authority, Leverhulm Trust, UCL Slade School of Fine Art
Category: Arts and humanities
Turning Landscape: recognising industrial and cultural heritage by transforming mine water ochre into paint across the UK
UCL
McCausland’s research has identified and pioneered a new use for the iron solids left behind at UK Coal Authority mine water treatment sites as a sustainable pigment for use in paint. Through the manufacture of oil, watercolour, and emulsion paints, the designation of five mine water treatments plants as artworks (Six Bells, Abertillery, Wales; Cuthill, West Lothian, Scotland; Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire, England; Saltburn, East Yorkshire, England and Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales), and engagement with the community surrounding the Six Bells mine (including the establishment of a Community Interest Company and a programme of educational and creative events), McCausland has transformed perceptions of the cultural and economic value of these industrial sites for the Coal Authority, paint manufacturers, and local publics.
Locations
Six Bells, Abertillery, South Wales / Cuthill, West Lothian / Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire / Saltburn, East Yorkshire / Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales
Partners
The Coal Authority, Leverhulm Trust, UCL Slade School of Fine Art
Category: Arts and humanities
Turning Landscape: recognising industrial and cultural heritage by transforming mine water ochre into paint across the UK
UCL
McCausland’s research has identified and pioneered a new use for the iron solids left behind at UK Coal Authority mine water treatment sites as a sustainable pigment for use in paint. Through the manufacture of oil, watercolour, and emulsion paints, the designation of five mine water treatments plants as artworks (Six Bells, Abertillery, Wales; Cuthill, West Lothian, Scotland; Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire, England; Saltburn, East Yorkshire, England and Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales), and engagement with the community surrounding the Six Bells mine (including the establishment of a Community Interest Company and a programme of educational and creative events), McCausland has transformed perceptions of the cultural and economic value of these industrial sites for the Coal Authority, paint manufacturers, and local publics.
Locations
Six Bells, Abertillery, South Wales / Cuthill, West Lothian / Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire / Saltburn, East Yorkshire / Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales
Partners
The Coal Authority, Leverhulm Trust, UCL Slade School of Fine Art
Category: Arts and humanities
Turning Landscape: recognising industrial and cultural heritage by transforming mine water ochre into paint across the UK
UCL
McCausland’s research has identified and pioneered a new use for the iron solids left behind at UK Coal Authority mine water treatment sites as a sustainable pigment for use in paint. Through the manufacture of oil, watercolour, and emulsion paints, the designation of five mine water treatments plants as artworks (Six Bells, Abertillery, Wales; Cuthill, West Lothian, Scotland; Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire, England; Saltburn, East Yorkshire, England and Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales), and engagement with the community surrounding the Six Bells mine (including the establishment of a Community Interest Company and a programme of educational and creative events), McCausland has transformed perceptions of the cultural and economic value of these industrial sites for the Coal Authority, paint manufacturers, and local publics.
Locations
Six Bells, Abertillery, South Wales / Cuthill, West Lothian / Deerplay, Bacup, Lancashire / Saltburn, East Yorkshire / Tan-y-Garn, Ammanford, Wales
Partners
The Coal Authority, Leverhulm Trust, UCL Slade School of Fine Art
Category: Arts and humanities
Connecting deprived regions through innovative tram projects
UCL
UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning has undertaken research on trams that has influenced public transport investment across North West Europe (€22.3M). Through its EU-funded Sintropher project, tram-based projects were funded in belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
In the UK, the Blackpool Tramway was extended along the Fylde Coast, and Sintropher has been key to developing public transport investment proposals in Northern England. This includes a Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Sheffield-Hull train (HS3), and a Sheffield-Rotheram tram-train pilot.
Locations
Sheffield / Rotheram / Blackpool / Liverpool / Manchester / Leeds / Hull / Oxford
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Category: Social sciences
Driving improvements in the organisation, delivery, and outcomes of acute stroke care in the UK
UCL
Research led by UCL has shown that reorganising UK hospital stroke services, so that all patients can be treated in large specialist stroke units, results in better care and outcomes. This evidence was pivotal in hospitals across Greater Manchester reorganising their stroke services in 2015, leading to significant improvements in care for approximately 20,000 stroke patients and 340 additional lives saved in the five years since the changes took place, (approximately 4,000 patients treated and 68 additional lives saved per year).
The research has been central to sustaining London hospitals’ centralised stroke system, allowing them to maintain better stroke care and patient outcomes in this region. It has also shaped national policy in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and influenced regional plans for improving stroke care. It has also led to the centralisation of stroke services in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and North Cumbria. UCL findings were further cited in Kent and Medway in a submission to a judicial review of stroke service centralisation.
Locations
Greater Manchester / South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw / West Yorkshire and Harrogate / North Cumbria / Kent and Medway / Scotland / Northern Ireland
Partners
NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, King’s College London, the University of Manchester
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy outcomes
University of Roehampton
Research from Professor Mick Cooper at the University of Roehampton has improved the reach and effectiveness of humanistic therapies and their ability to tackle mental health problems including depression and anxiety. It has had implications across both policy and practice. It has done this by shaping the rollout of counselling interventions in schools and the voluntary sector and creating validated tools to support practitioner training. Up to 2021, more than 800,000 individuals received school-based counselling and roughly 360,000 demonstrated clinical improvement. The research has directly impacted counselling support for young people through the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS team and Off the Record, a Bristol-based charity providing counselling to young people.
Locations
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS team and Off the Record
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Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
Influencing cycling policy and infrastructure across the UK
University of Westminster
Professor Rachel Aldred’s research into active travel has resulted in several impacts across the country. The West Midland’s Police force introduced the first Close-Pass Operation programme in the country on the basis of Aldred’s research into near-misses – the experiences of cyclists who may not be injured but are deterred from cycling due to the close passing of cars. Based on the success of this operation, in June 2018 the DfT introduced “a new UK-wide initiative to help the police crackdown on close passing and provision of materials for police forces”. Aldred was also the Policy and Practice Lead for the Propensity for Cycling Tool (PCT) project team. This tool enables planners from across the country to devise the best cycling routes when investing in active travel infrastructure. As of July 2020, 81 public or voluntary sector organisations (mostly local/transport authorities) across England have since made reference to its use. These include major regional bodies, such as West Midlands Combined Authority, and Local Authorities (district, borough, and county councils), such as Derbyshire and Essex. The PCT team produced a case study for Transport for Greater Manchester which resulted in the Bee Network – a 10-year £1.5 billion project created a network of new walking and cycling routes.
Locations
Greater Manchester / West Midlands / Derbyshire / Essex
Partners
University of Cambridge University of Lancaster University of Leeds, funded by the Department for Transport, Transport for London and AHRC
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Category: Social sciences
Supporting policy and practice change for better mental health
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE’s Care Policy and Evaluation Centre has focused on economic aspects of, and responses to, mental illness. The findings from this research have informed national and international policy work and provided evidence and toolkits for health and care bodies. This has had longer term impacts on people living with mental illness whose care is improved by the health and social care, school, workplace, community and voluntary sector.
Some of these impacts included feeding into Warwickshire’s public mental health and wellbeing strategy and the creation of the Preventonomics tool, which is being used in Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, and Southend.
Locations
Warwickshire, Blackpool, Bradford, Lambeth, Nottingham, Southend
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Category: Social sciences
The HeadStart Learning Programme: changing policy and practice for young people’s mental health and wellbeing
UCL
The HeadStart Learning Programme was created by UCL’s Evidence Based Practice Unit to use resilience-based approaches to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people in England. Resources were created from this that went on to inform policy documents from Public Health England and the Departments for Education and Health & Social Care. Based on this research, six local authorities and 300 schools (educating 75,000 pupils) across England have changed the way they identify and support young people experiencing mental health difficulties. It has also increased awareness and understanding of these issues among young people, their parents and carers, educational professionals and the general public. This work took place in Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent, Newham and Wolverhampton.
Locations
Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent and Wolverhampton
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
The HeadStart Learning Programme: changing policy and practice for young people’s mental health and wellbeing
UCL
The HeadStart Learning Programme was created by UCL’s Evidence Based Practice Unit to use resilience-based approaches to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people in England. Resources were created from this that went on to inform policy documents from Public Health England and the Departments for Education and Health & Social Care. Based on this research, six local authorities and 300 schools (educating 75,000 pupils) across England have changed the way they identify and support young people experiencing mental health difficulties. It has also increased awareness and understanding of these issues among young people, their parents and carers, educational professionals and the general public. This work took place in Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent, Newham and Wolverhampton.
Locations
Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent and Wolverhampton
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
The HeadStart Learning Programme: changing policy and practice for young people’s mental health and wellbeing
UCL
The HeadStart Learning Programme was created by UCL’s Evidence Based Practice Unit to use resilience-based approaches to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people in England. Resources were created from this that went on to inform policy documents from Public Health England and the Departments for Education and Health & Social Care. Based on this research, six local authorities and 300 schools (educating 75,000 pupils) across England have changed the way they identify and support young people experiencing mental health difficulties. It has also increased awareness and understanding of these issues among young people, their parents and carers, educational professionals and the general public. This work took place in Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent, Newham and Wolverhampton.
Locations
Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent and Wolverhampton
Category: Medicine, health and life sciences
