Are you employed by a Mental Health Trust in the Midlands? Are you a Principal Investigator or interested in undertaking this role? Then this opportunity is for you! You can join the Midlands PI Development Network here: forms.office.com/e/hhkLncF04v

Tell me what you want, what you really really want: lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures nationalelfservice.net/?p=212822 "Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"

Don’t miss the upcoming NIHR seminar on living well with severe mental ill-health: learning from implementing physical health support in different regional contexts. Hear from speakers from the WHOLE-SMI project, where McPin is the PPI partner Weds Feb 12 spcr.nihr.ac.uk/events/living-…

Lived experience of autistic adults in employment: synthesis by David Thorpe uses social relational model of disability & reports voices of #autistic workers should be prioritised in designing work environments READ AGAIN, FREE to 14 Feb: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

🚨 British household wealth increased to £13.6 trillion on the eve of the cost of living crisis. Get our response here ⤵️ buff.ly/4h7WoYf

🏆 Our #Resarchoftheweek goes to Centre for Cities for their #Citiesoutlook2025. Their annual health check of UK cities economic performance finds that wages vary across the country, but have flatlined everywhere since 2008. Read it here 👇 (1/6) buff.ly/4ay2WN5

The social housing stock has been depleted by Right to Buy sales. We’ve not been replacing the homes that we’re selling. Over the same period that we’ve sold 2.2 million homes, we’ve only built 1.3 million new ones to replace them

Britain has uniquely expensive housing, which poorer households' need to spend a disproportionate share of their budgets on. That makes it more expensive to be poor in Britain than in other countries.

Join us for the Intersecting Knowledges Forum on 12th February, 11am-1pm Co-facilitated by National Institute for Health and Care Research & IMPACT, we’ll explore funding opportunities, research in social care, and career development. Open to all interested in social care research & networking. Register now

📢New Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one

If you want a clear illustration of the Government’s disregard for really engaging with Disabled people, they have produced NO accessible versions of their plans today.

"It’s concerning that the government does not appear to understand who will be affected by its planned changes to the PIP eligibility criteria" Our Director of Policy & Campaigns explains how the proposed cuts will target severely disabled people👇 bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Thanks to National Institute for Health and Care Research for funding, and to our Advisory Board (Age UK, ADASS, Care England 💚, Sandra Prew-ENRICH(ENabling Research In CareHomes), Care Quality Commission, SCIE, Agewell etc) for helping to shape and share these materials

This is wild. Announcing changes to the PIP assessment with little rationale beyond saving £5bn, which is downgraded to £3.4bn by the OBR, then scrambling around to make further cuts to help meet fiscal rules based targets. None of this is being led by evidence or people's needs

Why involve members of the public in research? Find out more about why you should involve patients, carers and the public and how to plan, support and resource public involvement in your research in our briefing notes for researchers: nihr.ac.uk/documents/brie…

Great opportunity for a Research Associate/Community Mental Health Worker to assist in the development of a new 24/7 Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre pilot in East Birmingham. Closing Date: 6 April 2025. Find out more at jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

'Developing theoretically grounded strategies for patient & public involvement in implementation research'. New commentary in BMC Research Involvement & Engagement researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… open access!!

"Young people’s despair is primarily due to the shattering of the intergenerational contract" Read more here: if.org.uk/2025/04/01/you… #youngpeople #despair #mentalhealth #housing #studentdebt #jobs #CostOfLivingCrisis

As another part of my PhD research, I'm also looking to have conversations with Black, autistic students about your university experiences in a really flexible interview format eeeee!!! If you're interested, please email me or follow the link ☺️☺️☺️☺️ docs.google.com/document/d/1Va…

Have you read these NIHR case studies, all about projects which aim to develop better innovative, inclusive and diverse public partnerships? There are 11 in total - take a look! ⬇️ nihr.ac.uk/developing-inn…