Helpline, Family Support, Advocacy, Training, Employment. In 2024, our services to support people who stammer will cost £400,000 to run. Today, we’re launching our national fundraising campaign, The Silent Night Appeal. Can you help #SupportOurServices? stamma.org/news/silent-ni…

Massive thank you to the PPI contributors who attended our @ARC_west "Live online" course this morning. Great to hear your ideas and thoughts in relation to public speaking, made the hour and a half fly by 😊 #publicspeaking #ARCWest Zoe Trinder-Widdess 🌱💚

Our next writing session is tomorrow ✍️ 📅Friday 1st December 2023 ⏲️12.00-13.30 💻 MS Teams Join us and focus on writing your abstracts, essays, publications, applications or anything else! Meeting link on our website 👇 cahpr.csp.org.uk/content/south-…

Really looking forward to discussing our paper (now has over 93K reads) on student fears of public speaking which is very relevant for students who stammer and those who do not. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Taylor & Francis Research Insights Research from UWE Bristol NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West

Really enjoyed facilitating the Authentic public speaking workshop for PPI contributors at NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West today. Great interaction and feedback from the participants. Our training and capacity building team are looking forward to running more research related workshops in 2024.

Thoroughly enjoyed facilitating these workshops for #PPI public contributors NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West. Please see our website training pages for future online and face to face authentic public speaking workshops in 2024. #PublicSpeaking

In Nov/Dec 2023 we ran "Authentic Public Speaking" online workshops NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West for public contributors in research. After positive feedback, we will continue online workshops, plus face to face public speaking practice opportunities. See our recent blog: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/news/public-sp…

Such a powerful video for the start of another year from Samaritans in these tough times for many people. Key message is to look out for each other, signs of mental health issues are not always obvious. #lookoutforeachother

Overwhelmed that our paper has hit 100K reads/downloads. Is the most read paper in the Journal of Further and Higher Education Taylor & Francis Research Insights This study is a reminder of the challenge of oral presentations for some students in HE and that assessors should take this into account.

This new introductory course developed by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West health economics team is designed for people working in the health and care system, delivering or commissioning services, improving use of available resources or strengthening knowledge of economic evaluation.

This 2 day introductory course may be of interest to CSP South West @UWE_AHP UWE Health Research CAHPR South West colleagues. For more information and to book: tinyurl.com/3bcfkmd6 Carlos Hugh McLeod Gareth Manal Etemadi Yuri Hamashima Katie Breheny

📢The UWE Bristol professional research training awards for nurses, midwives & allied health professionals are now open! 🔖They cover fees for a Masters level research methods module or dissertation module ⏰Deadline: 5pm Weds 1 May Contact Dr Alison Diaper for more info #NMAHP

🚨 The UWE Personal Research Training Awards for Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health & Social Care Professionals are OPEN for applications! ⚡️ Closing 1st May 2024 Complete a Masters module in research training or dissertation. Info foots this page: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/training-and-c… Pls RT!

This 2 hour course has had great feedback from previous participants. Linked to previous research tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…… and based on book by facilatator amazon.co.uk/Stand-Up-Be-He… Prof Deborah Johnston STAMMA Iain Wilkie 🇺🇦

Massive congrats to the Hardest Geezer, smashed it!! Well done to the support team, they made it possible!! 😊Inspiration to me and many other runners!!

Authentic Public Speaking in an Academic Environment. Next online course via NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West -30th July 10.30 am -12.00. If you find public speaking challenging, click on the link for further info and to book a place. Previous feedback has been very positive! arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/training-and-c…

This is a great research learning opportunity for a newly qualified or early career health and care professional. Deadline 5pm Wed 10th July. See details in post below.

We continue to be pleasantly surprised at the increasing number of downloads/reads of our paper on student fears of oral presentations. Is the most read paper of all time in Journal of Further and Higher Education Taylor & Francis Research Insights

Art and Health. Preparing a painting and two linocut prints as part of the Bath Society of Artists exhibition for Art at the Heart Art at the Heart display at the RUH RUH Bath 🏥 hospital. Great to create and provide access to art for patients, visitors and staff in our hospitals/NHS.

Really enjoyed giving my workshop and sharing ideas on Authentic Public Speaking at the recent STAMMA STAMMAfest at Nottingham Trent University in August. Positive interaction and response from the participants. Photo: Richard Seals