NIHR ARC East Midlands

Build your research skills with our #ARCLunchandLearn series.

Over 20 short practical videos:
🔬 Methodological skills
✍️ Academic skills
🚀 Implementation and impact
📢 Dissemination sciences

Watch here:
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Stay tuned every Thursday for a new video!

YouTube video by NIHR ARC East Midlands Statistical Methodologists and Public Voices Working Together in Research Webinar | 06 November 2025

📺 New webinar recording: Statistical methodologists and public voices working together!

"80% of statisticians never involved patients or public in their methods research"

Professor Laura Gray navigated challenges with the PPI-SMART group.

Watch full webinar:
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The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) February 2026 newsletter The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: The first major trial to reduce social media use among healthy adolescents, Continuous care from community-based midwives reduce...

🗞️ Read the February national roundup of top stories from all ARCs across the country:

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Including news, resources, blogs, events, opportunities & much more

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Require further support with your Equality Impact Assessment? Join us for a series of engaging and interactive workshops designed to provide valuable support for individuals in carrying out an Equality Impact

Need practical advice on your Equality Impact Assessment?

Our next workshop for @nihrarcs.bsky.social researchers and study teams is taking place on:
🗓 Wed 11 February | 🕐 1 – 3pm

Don’t miss out – register today! @ethnichealthres.bsky.social

Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice: Guidance for Mental Health Professionals and Multi-Disciplinary Teams Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice brings together current literature and the contributing authors’ professional and lived experiences to provide practical recommendations for supporting t...

ACP-UK is delighted to announce the publication of Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice, edited By Helena Crockford, Melanie Goodwin and Paul Langthorne and published by Routledge in collaboration with ACP-UK.

Get 20% off your copy using the code 26ESE1
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Out today: Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice

National guidance for mental health professionals & teams from @acp-uk.bsky.social.

Dr Paul Langthorne, Clinical Psychologist & @arc-em.bsky.social Pre-App Support Fellow, co-edited alongside experts by experience.

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Congratulations to Dr Kajal Panchal on successfully completing her PhD at the University of Leicester, funded by ARC East Midlands.

Her research examined heart failure risk in diabetes patients using England-wide data.

Find out more:
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Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) Toolkit

📢 Updated: Our EqIA Toolkit now reflects the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling on sex and the Equality Act 2010, gender reassignment protections and socio-economic duty.

Download now 👇
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Our new video made in collab with South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust shows how tranexamic acid (TXA) is having a major impact in trauma care.

Watch here 👉 bit.ly/3LpHpyj

#PreHospitalCare #Paramedics #TXA

When you hear 'data' you might think numbers – but in care homes, it's just everyday information like what residents eat and what calms them.

New blog by Rachael Carroll shows how care teams can turn simple notes into better personalised care.

Read here 👉 tinyurl.com/mvx4wu5e

New toolkit to support the transformation of diabetes services.

Built from over a decade of partnership work, this toolkit helps GPs, community teams, and hospitals deliver structured, evidence-based care closer to home.

An ARC East Midlands collaboration supporting the NHS 10-year plan.

📣 New dates for 2026! Join our monthly workshops for support with your Equality Impact Assessment.

✅ Get practical advice and guidance
✅ Participate in interactive discussions
✅ Learn from real experiences

Find out more and register:
🔗 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/events/requi... @ethnichealthres.bsky.social

YouTube video by NIHR ARC East Midlands ARC Lunch and Learn: Implementation science and knowledge mobilisation

4/4 The bottom line:
✅Know your problem and your goal
✅Understand your stakeholders
✅Communicate at the right time
✅Keep learning from what doesn't work

Huge thanks to Emma Rowley for delivering this #ImplementationScience training and breaking it down.

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YouTube video by NIHR ARC East Midlands ARC Lunch and Learn: Implementation science and knowledge mobilisation

3/4 It's messy. It's nonlinear.

🔄 Think of it as a maze, not a straight road.

The real work happens when you balance what must stay the same for effectiveness with what can adapt to your context. That’s implementation science in action.

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YouTube video by NIHR ARC East Midlands ARC Lunch and Learn: Implementation science and knowledge mobilisation

2/4 Implementation ≠ Dissemination

💡 Knowledge mobilisation is active, collaborative, & transformational – not just publishing a paper.

We need to translate AND move research evidence into practice through co-production with stakeholders.

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YouTube video by NIHR ARC East Midlands ARC Lunch and Learn: Implementation science and knowledge mobilisation

TRAINING VIDEO: #ImplementationScience and #KnowledgeMobilisation

🧵1/4: Only 14% of research makes a difference to patients' lives. It can take 17 years to reach practice.

There’s a gap. With 170+ frameworks in implementation science, where do you start?

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🎓 Huge congratulations to Dr James Ball on passing his PhD viva at @uniofleicester.

His research on cerebral haemodynamics and brain blood flow in #stroke patients will help improve stroke care and monitoring.

Find out more:
🔗 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/james-b...

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. Applied Research Collaborations. Top 25 stories of 2025.

Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country!
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Here are our 25 most popular newsletter stories from 2025:
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What a variety!
Scroll to the end to see the top-most clicked-on stories
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ARC East Midlands Theme Lead contributes to parliamentary roundtable on NHS staff retention A researcher from the NIHR ARC East Midlands recently took part in a parliamentary roundtable at Westminster focused on strategies to improve NHS s

Our Theme Lead, Professor Manish Pareek, has contributed to a parliamentary roundtable on NHS staff retention, sharing evidence from the I-CARE study on supporting a diverse NHS workforce.

@ucl.ac.uk @uniofleicester.bsky.social

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What can researchers learn from Bettina's work with African Caribbean communities on dementia?

Plain language. Early involvement. Give something back. Work with trusted community figures. Listen to what communities are asking for.

Read 8 key principles: tinyurl.com/yc3npfnx

Our December newsletter is out now 🎄

Catch up on the latest work tackling health inequalities, supporting research careers, and sharing resources for more inclusive research across the region.

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Great to be featured in the #ARCadvent on preventing falls in older adults.

Sharing evidence-based policy guidance to drive real change and reduce the significant burden on patients and the NHS.

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🎁 That's a wrap on #ARCEMRewind2025!

Thank you to our brilliant colleagues, researchers, partners, patients and the public for their dedication and continuous support.

We look forward to more research that changes lives in 2026!

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📊 Day 12 of #ARCEMRewind2025

⏪ December highlight: Age at prediabetes diagnosis a key factor for risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/bmctvyfa
@ldc-news.bsky.social @leicestersresearch.bsky.social

🏛️ Day 11 of #ARCEMRewind2025

⏪ Rewinding to November: Nottingham professor discussed benefits of exercise for older people in House of Commons.

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FaME toolkit: tinyurl.com/mv7fjnhd

@nihrarcs.bsky.social @penarc.bsky.social @arc-gm.bsky.social @arcwessex.bsky.social

Bettina Wallace is changing how dementia is talked about in African Caribbean communities.

As an @arc-em.bsky.social co-researcher, she builds trust through community-led conversations and helps create dementia resources that reflect people's lives.

Read her story: tinyurl.com/yc3npfnx

🌟 Day 10 of #ARCEMRewind2025

⏪ Rewinding to October: Community project raised autoimmune awareness in Black women.

🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/67jnauz3 @ethnichealthres.bsky.social

🧠 Day 9 of #ARCEMRewind2025

⏪ Rewinding to September: New resources to improve mental health admissions for young people.

🔗 Download here: tinyurl.com/h6pb7z6n

@kapilsayal.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @arc-wm.bsky.social @arc-gm.bsky.social @arc-oxtv.bsky.social @arceastofengland.bsky.social

📑 Day 8 of #ARCEMRewind2025

⏪ Rewinding to August: Falls prevention research shaped national policy documents.

🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/8xxm9wnv
@nihrarcs.bsky.social @arc-gm.bsky.social @arcwessex.bsky.social

⚖️ Day 7 of #ARCEMRewind2025

⏪ Rewinding to July: ARC East Midlands Director played a key role in the Midlands Health & Care Inequalities Policy Commission, working to transform regional health and care by tackling inequalities.

🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/2u3hxc24 @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social