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Folk.us-PenCLAHRC Awards - Round 2, Extended Closing Date Friday 23rd December 2011
We are extending the deadline for the closing date to 23rd December, because, service users, patients and carers have asked us to.
Folk.us, in partnership with PenCLAHRC, are delighted to announce the launch of the Folk.us-PenCLAHRC Research Awards. The awards are for small research projects that cost £3500.00 or less. The project must be for a service user, patient and/or carer led research project based in the South West Peninsula. This means the idea needs to have come from service users, patients and/or carers directly and that service users, patients and/or carers have been fully involved with designing the project and will continue to be fully involved in undertaking the project.
Folk.us PenCLAHRC Awards Application
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New article available from Rachel Purtell & Andy Gibson 'How to Make Health and Social Care Research Radical and Really, Really Useful' in a new book Long-Term Conditions: Challenges in Health & Social Care, Editors: Cathy E Lloyd & Tom Heller, Published by SAGE. Access Link
New article available by Rachel Purtell and Katrina Wyatt: Measuring something real and useful in consumer involvement in health and social care research in the International Journal of Consumer Studies Volume 35, Issue 6, pages 605-608, November 2011. This Article is only available through the Journal published by Wiley. But please do contact Folk.us for more information.
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Folk.us will work to support and develop patient, service user and carer involvement in health and social care research activities to ensure that those who use services and those who care for those who use services inform and guide research at all stages.
The Folk.us aim remains the same and we retain our status as a 'unique programme', ie there is no other programme that undertakes the work we do. Folk.us supports grassroots involvement in research, the development of policies and strategies for research organisations about involvement and supports services users, patients and carers to be involved with existing research structures; Folk.us explicitly seeks to give agency for service users, patients and carers to collaboratively develop their own research which is rigorous and credible as peer reviewed research.
Folk.us has two roles:
- To continue working on our own research projects working with local patients, service users and carers, so that we have firsthand experience and knowledge about the issues of involving people in research. Please see 'Our Work' to find out more about these projects.
- Providing advice and support regarding service user, patient and carer involvement in research, to the Research Design Services across England. This new role is at a very early stage and Folk.us will initially be working with 3 RDS to develop best practice. Our role will be to give hands on advice and help to the RDSs to support their Patient Public Involvement activities and strategies. There is more information on RDSs on the NIHR website.
Our role complements the work of INVOLVE, who lead on national policy advice and guidance regarding involvement across all research structures.
