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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to ARC North West Coast CHI theme lead, Professor Sarah Rodgers, on her inaugural lecture Transforming Our Cities From the Ground Up! 🌍🏙️

Excited to see how her work connects communities, systems, and data to improve health.

#PublicHealth #InauguralLecture
@nihrarcs.bsky.social

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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex @arckss.bsky.social · 15d

📢Health & social care managers: empower your team's research.

📅 Join @ARC_KSS on 2 Oct, 2-3pm to learn about NIHR Health & Care Professionals Internship Programme.
Mentoring tips, networking, and practical strategies await.
🔗Sign up: tinyurl.com/y3ab75fa
ℹ️ More: tinyurl.com/urwhj253

#NIHRresearch

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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · 16d

The latest RaCEEs cohort led by Dr Valerio Benedetto, has completed all 6 sessions, gaining practical skills in health economics.

🗞️Read more: tinyurl.com/4wrf6vv9
🎥 Hear from attendees: tinyurl.com/5yvxfs3v
✍️ Sign up: tinyurl.com/35vnttmt

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Jul 9

Next presentation at today's national #ARCseminar:

Singing & dancing interventions for #dementia

by researcher Dr Megan Polden of @arcnwc.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social

📄🔊 Read or listen to Megan's @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social blog here:
arc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/uncategorize...

Guest blog Dr Megan Polden Postdoctoral Research Associate The University of Liverpool
Evaluation of Singing & Dancing Interventions for Dementia
Dementia Researcher

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Aug 12

Catch up on the final national #ARCseminar of 2025!

Creative arts for #dementia care:
arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/event-detail...

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@stephenlim.bsky.social @arcwessex.bsky.social @arceastofengland.bsky.social @arcnwc.bsky.social @penarc.bsky.social @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social

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Danielle Christian @dlchristian.bsky.social · 27d

NEW
@arcnwc.bsky.social
#CommunityOfPractice event: #SocialCare in #Dementia

Including:
- Lived experience
- A Dementia care navigator perspective @merseycarenhs.bsky.social
- Latest social care and dementia research

📅 Tuesday 16th October 2-3.30pm (Online)
Register here: tinyurl.com/t4cedtc4

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Mar 12

The 2025 national #ARCseminar series on:
The healing power of creative arts

💃🏾🎷🎵
7 May: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts

🎭🎤🖌️
11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts

🎵🕺🎭
9 July: Creative arts for #dementia

eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs...

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research
#ARCseminar
(background picture: silhouette of an adult and a child singing and dancing)

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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London @arc-southlondon.bsky.social · Mar 6

@nihrarcs.bsky.social @arceastofengland.bsky.social @arcnwc.bsky.social @norfolkrs.bsky.social @kmberzins.bsky.social

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Mar 4

🌷Read the March roundup from across all 15 NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs):
mailchi.mp/nihr/march-2...

Including the latest research, resources, blogs, awards, events, training & more from ARCs across the country

Join the ARCs newsletter here: tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter

A person standing outdoors amidst crocuses

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Danielle Christian @dlchristian.bsky.social · Mar 3

Have you tried any parent-led #CBT courses to help your #child with #anxiety in the past 3years?

Happy to take part in a 1 hour interview about your experiences of how others (e.g. #family) supported any changes?

To take part, please fill out this consent to contact
forms.office.com/e/hfN0JKP4sd

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Danielle Christian @dlchristian.bsky.social · Mar 6

Want to find out more about our @arcnwc.bsky.social Social Care Research Capacity Building Programme?

Recent blog from Dr James Watson and I can be read here: shorturl.at/jz2Y1

#SocialCare #CapacityBuilding

More updates from all 15 @nihrarcs.bsky.social found below

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NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London @arc-southlondon.bsky.social · Mar 6

Join this Mental Health Implementation (MHIN)-led webinar to hear about how Parent-Led #CBT, an effective treatment for childhood anxiety, can be implemented in school settings.

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

Text on a blue background reads: 'Webinar: Implementing Parent-Led Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (PL-CBT) in a school setting

This webinar will draw on the experiences of a pilot programme in the East of England that trained school staff to deliver PL-CBT, an effective treatment for childhood anxiety. The 'Working on Worries' programme has had positive outcomes for parents
and children, as well as providing practical guidance about how to implement PL-CBT in schools. Weds 26 March, 12-1pm'
There is a photos of a child and parent working together.

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Selina Wallis @selinawallis.bsky.social · Feb 20

Still time to sign up for out next seldom heard forum, next week on #Chinese #health and wellbeing #community #research #NorthWest @arc_nwc

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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · Feb 14

📢 Join us for #ARCFEST25 on Tues 11th March at The Liner Hotel, Liverpool!

🧠The in-person event explores Brain Health through the Life Course, covering dementia, stroke & more.
🗞️Plus, an update on our ARC 2 proposal.
🎟️ Book now:https://tinyurl.com/44fyec45

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Feb 4

Read the February roundup from all 15
@nihr.bsky.social ARCs:

mailchi.mp/nihr/februar...

With the latest research, resources, blogs, awards, events, training & more from ARCs across the country

💌 Join here to receive this monthly roundup directly in your inbox: tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter

The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) February 2025 newsletter

The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: Helping parents in psychiatric hospital stay connected with their children, a new play shining a light on the real-life experien...

mailchi.mp

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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · Jan 28

Join us for the ARC NWC Seldom Heard Forum: Chinese community, health & well-being in North West Coast!

🗓️ Online, Wed 26th Feb 2025, 11am-1pm.

Hear from practitioners, community members, & public advisers. Q&A and discussion to follow! More details: arc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/get-involved...

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Jan 7

Read our January 2025 New Year special newsletter, showcasing the top 24 stories of 2024: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar...

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✉️ To receive the ARCs national newsletter straight to your inbox, sign up here: tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research
Applied Research Collaborations
Top 24 stories of 2024

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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · Jan 10

Dr Clarissa Giebel is calling for the development of a new National Dementia Strategy.

A co-produced plan can improve care, research, and workforce support. Join the petition to prioritise this public health challenge.

Learn more and sign here ➡️🖋️
tinyurl.com/2956996j

Petition: Develop, publish, and implement a new National Dementia Strategy

Since the national dementia strategy published under the 2010-2015 Government, we have no dementia strategy in this country.

tinyurl.com

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Prof Charlotte Hardman @charlottehardman.bsky.social · Jan 7

We're conducting a study @liverpooluni.bsky.social about putting an obesity intervention into practice. If you provide weight management & wellbeing support to people living with obesity and would be interested in participating, please contact us (details attached) @arcnwc.bsky.social

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Prof Enitan Carrol @carrolenitan.bsky.social · Jan 6

First PhD paper from Courtney Franklin. Led by @profberniecarter.bsky.social together with Prof David Taylor-Robinson funded by @arcnwc.bsky.social
bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/8/1/...

Coming in hot: a qualitative investigation into perceptions of parents and doctors of reasons for the presentation of children with fever to the emergency department in England

Introduction Paediatric emergency department (ED) attendances and admissions in England are increasing. Fever is a common presenting problem for these attendances. Anxiety and misperceptions surroundi...

bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Dec 8

#ARCadvent day 8️⃣:
Our national #ARCseminar series this year centred on health inequalities. Speakers from across the ARCs explored how health inequity cuts across life stages and places. Across the three live events, over 1,200 attendances were recorded.
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/news/nationa...

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research
#ARCadvent
Top ARC stories of the year
Day 8
National seminar series on health inequalities attracts record numbers
Main image: Reflection in water of a person walking along a coastline

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Dec 13

#ARCadvent day 1️⃣3️⃣:
The ‘Living Lab’ approach to #dementia & ageing care, which has benefited thousands of people in the Netherlands for the past 25 years, is being brought to the North West arc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/news/22085/
➡️ @arcnwc.bsky.social Living Lab in Dementia arc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/north-west-c...

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research
#ARCadvent Top ARC stories of the year
Day 13 'Living lab': A new approach to dementia care in the North West
Main image: Dr Clarissa Giebel (left) and Professor Hilde Verbeek (right of image), Vice-chair of the Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care."

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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · Dec 11

🏆 The North West Coast Research & Innovation Awards 2025, hosted by ARC NWC and Health Innovation North West Coast, are now open for nominations 📢

💡 Help recognise outstanding contributions to health and care.

👉 Nominate completing the online form: nwcawards.co.uk

#NWCAwards

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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · Dec 6

#ARCadvent day 6️⃣:
Coastal, rural & areas in the North of England are less able to withstand/recover from adverse events, according to research led by academics @healthequitynorth.bsky.social, The University of Manchester, @hope-uom.bsky.social & @arc-gm.bsky.social
arc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/news/news/NE...

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research
#ARCadvent
Top ARC stories of the year
Day 6
Regional inequalities in community resilience exposed

Main image: Map showing regional inequalities in community resilience in England

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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · Dec 5

ARC NWC Public Advisor Jamie Hunter is driving change with public and patient involvement modules at
@liverpooluni.bsky.social ! His lived experiences and commitment to inclusivity make research more accessible, impactful, and equitable.
🌟 Learn more here ➡️🗞️ tinyurl.com/5ayxe7fz

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