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Research Sandpits
April 2023 Research Sandpit
Please note, our April 2023 Research Sandpit has now taken place, but we will be holding more Research Sandpits shortly - please join our mailing list to be notified of the next event.
You can read a run down on the April Research Sandpit here.
Are you from one of our partner organisations?
Do you have a fantastic idea for a health and social care research project?
Our twice-yearly Research Sandpits help turn your great ideas into fundable projects.
- Our research sandpits provide networking opportunities and extended discussion time between researchers and partners to turn good ideas into proposals that can catalyse opportunities for funding practice-led research.
- We provide tailored support to interested individuals and teams from our partner organisations to refine their ideas into workable research proposals that can then either receive seed funding from future partnership funding calls or bigger grants.
- We link researchers together with experienced research facilitators who help to shape proposals with input from citizens and service users drawn from the UEA Citizens Academy. Our expert facilitators are either subject experts in the field or experienced in research design or leading large scale complex programmes of research.
- Where applicable, we also provide support for working out the costings of projects.
Our research themes for both our Research Sandpit and our next funding call are:
- Population Health Management, reducing inequalities and supporting prevention
- Improving Mental Health
- Management of long-term conditions and multimorbidity
- Improving integrated urgent and emergency care
- Learning disability and autism
- Workforce development and sustainability
- Digital technology to improve care delivery
Friday 28 April, 12 - 4.30pm, with a networking lunch from 12pm.
The Research Sandpit is taking place in person at Thomas Paine Study Centre. Chancellors Drive, Norwich NR4 7TJ, University of East Anglia.
- A cross sector community, bringing practitioners, and active researchers across disciplines together with potential users of research outcomes
- Workshop provides a safe space to think, play, plan, model, prototype and test ideas
- A way to drive lateral thinking and radical approaches to address research challenges
- Helps to foster innovation and creativity in research design
- Means of developing novel interdisciplinary research
- This event is open to staff from across our partner organisations
- 20-30 participants drawn from a diverse practice, academic, third sector, and policy background with the ability to think beyond traditional disciplines.
- The group has an external facilitator to focus discussions; and
- Methods/funding mentors from research and innovation at the University.
- Enable practitioners to connect with researchers to develop interdisciplinary, creative and innovative solutions to a problem.
- Develop a proposal for applying for Partnership seedcorn funding or an alternative funding stream.
- Propose topics, deliver plans and/or a final product, and plan for future direction.
- Provide developmental opportunities for postdoctoral researchers whilst addressing ‘real-world’ problems and leading to ‘real-world’ outcomes.
- Benefit from peer-review to develop the quality of the projects.
- Develop participants’ research skills, in particular project development, collaboration and applying for funding.
- Let us know what your idea/challenge/question is by Wednesday 5 April 2023 using this submission form.
- After we have received and reviewed your submission, we will send you a link to register to attend the event.
- Bring your research idea/challenge/question to the Sandpit on Friday 28 April.
- We will either match you to an experienced facilitator to give you detailed feedback on your research proposal OR help you to rotate around working tables to get advice about honing your idea and getting good design advice from a range of experts.
- You will be provided with some dedicated time to discuss your ideas with the aim of developing a short proof of concept project proposal for the next UEAHSCP Partnership funding call in the spring of 2023.
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