Dr Kristin Liabo shares a video invite to the PPIE Summer School 2026, an in-person course exploring meaningful patient & public involvement in research. 📅 1–3 July 2026 📍 Exeter A chance to reflect, connect & rethink. shorturl.at/rpX9C More here👉 shorturl.at/qXJq8M

We recently celebrated 5 years of PPIE at PenARC – and looked ahead to what’s next for ARC South West. Lots of thoughtful conversations about inclusion, impact, & how we make sure research reflects what matters most to people. Read more here 👇 bit.ly/4dgyxGN #PPIE #CoProduction #HealthResearch

"We have to build trust differently. We have to understand fear not as a barrier to participation, but as data in its own right." New reflections blog from Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow John Stammers challenges how we think about engagement with hard to reach groups👇 tinyurl.com/mpmfaprt

Got a research idea about ageing, but not sure where to start? Our free, online Ageing Research Café is a relaxed, supportive space to talk it through with public partners and get fresh perspectives, no slides, no pressure. 📅17th April 🕑12-12.45 & 12.45-13.30 tinyurl.com/4hvbzep6

📢New open training resource! We’ve launched a resource to support reproducible healthcare simulation modelling, helping make models more transparent, shareable & reusable. Great for analysts, researchers & anyone working in health data science👇 tinyurl.com/mpenn59v #OpenScience #HealthData #NIHR

Really inspiring to be part of an Ageing Well community event in Paignton this month. From practical strength and balance exercises to honest conversations about ageing, it showed how valuable it is to bring research and communities together. Read more here: tinyurl.com/ytpcb24b

📢@NIHRresearch ARC South West launches in April 2026, bringing together the expertise of PenARC & ARC West. The expanded collaboration will unite partners across the South West to improve health services & outcomes. 🔗https://bit.ly/4bv2HmR

Join us for the Three NIHR Research Schools’ Mental Health Programme seminar: Systemic influences on parent carer mental health and co-creation of resources to inform service improvement. 📅 31 March | 12:30–13:30 🔗 tinyurl.com/u4cmv5fp

Registration is now open for the PPIE Summer School! Exeter | 1–3 July 2026 A 3-day, in-person event bringing together researchers & public contributors to explore meaningful involvement in health & care research. Find out more: tinyurl.com/37x32cy4 #PPIE #HealthResearch

Following the @nihr.bsky.social ARC Children’s Health and Maternity Programme summer showcase event in London, we’ve published a new briefing which highlights impactful child and maternal health research from across the ARC network 👇

We spent the morning at PenARC’s PPIE Celebration event. From highlights & shared successes to interactive sessions, there’s huge pride in what’s been achieved & real ambition for the future. Five years of impact, collaboration and learning to build on💬✨ Stay tuned for more reflections! #PPIE

Tomorrow is Rare Disease Day 🦓 3.5 million people live with a rare condition in the UK. The Exeter PRP Evidence Review Facility, led by PenARC’s Prof Jo Thompson Coon, developed a toolkit highlighting inequalities in care 🔗 bit.ly/4shkmFI 🧦We’re in zebra socks to support! #RareDiseaseDay

This #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we’re supporting Place2Be 💛 PenARC is improving mental health care for children through projects like MyVoice and ADaPT. More here: bit.ly/3NWDBFE & bit.ly/46qSg20 More to come this week👇 #ThisIsMyPlace #CMHW2026

Waiting for a hip replacement in the UK? Researchers want to know what matters most to you about surgery and recovery. Eligible if you: Live in the UK Had/are planning hip replacement Surgery is due to long-term pain (not an accident/fracture) bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The TASC collaboration, supported by PenARC, has been recognised with a national Patient Safety Award for AI use to personalise clot-busting treatment & reduce delays🏆 Stroke affects 100,000+ people in the UK each year. More here: tinyurl.com/4pdwfbb5 #HealthResearch #Stroke #PatientCentredCare

🗞️ Read the February national roundup of top stories from all ARCs across the country: mailchi.mp/nihr/februar... Including news, resources, blogs, events, opportunities & much more 📨 Join the newsletter tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter

🎉 Big news for mental health research in the South West! PenARC & @plymuni.bsky.social researchers are leading a new £11m @nihr.bsky.social programme exploring how mental health care can better meet people’s needs across the peninsula. 🔗More here: bit.ly/4q7jemp #MentalHealthResearch

We're extremely pleased to share that a publication from our living alone project has been selected as the INTERDEM article of the month! INTERDEM interdem.org is a pan-European network for research in early, timely and quality psychosocial interventions in dementia🌏 Article🔗 shorturl.at/pAJev

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

New on the PenARC blog! 🌱 Reflections from a recent webinar on public involvement in maternal mental health research - exploring co-production, lived experience expertise, and what happens when research is shaped with the public. Read here: bit.ly/3Zr7Wyg

📢 New funded PhD opportunities. Up to 8 PhD studentships starting Sept 2026. We’re inviting outline proposals from supervisory teams aligned with PenARC research themes. Deadline: 2nd Feb, 5pm 🔗 Details & timelines: tinyurl.com/2nktbtc7

🚨The Health Data Research UK & Wellcome Biomedical Vacation Scholarship offers paid summer projects, expert mentorship & real-world health data research experience. All students welcome, especially from lower socioeconomic backgrounds & non-Russell Group Unis 🔗More info here: bit.ly/3YxNoEb

Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country! 🎉 Here are our 25 most popular newsletter stories from 2025: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar... 🌟 What a variety! Scroll to the end to see the top-most clicked-on stories 🖱️

Two additional NIHR internships are now open for applications Mar–Sept 2026 Theme Two: Growing Into Research For registered health & care professionals (excl. doctors & dentists) £10,000 funding per intern Protected time to develop research skills Apply by 31/01/26 tinyurl.com/bddje47n

Preventative pelvic floor education transforms women’s lives 💙 With PenARC support, APPEAL is helping reduce long-term pelvic floor problems for women in Devon & beyond. Find out how midwives are changing antenatal care: bit.ly/49707T1 W. Health Innovation South West & @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

#ARCadvent day 🔟: A review co-funded by @arc-gm.bsky.social reveals important insights into physical activity interventions for older adults from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, highlighting key factors that could make these interventions more appealing. arc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/news/news/NE...

Join us for the Public Involvement in Maternal Mental Health Research seminar! 💻 • 20 Jan 2026 • 10:30 AM • Online • Free A great opportunity to hear how researchers and public partners are shaping maternal mental health research together. tinyurl.com/y56c9m24 #PublicInvolvement #CoProduction

Great news! PenARC’s Tom Monks is a recipient of the Goodeve Medal 2025 from the Operational Research Society for a paper on tackling NHS hospital overcrowding. Huge congratulations to Tom and his co-authors on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉 🔗https://bit.ly/4aafr3z

New £1 M fund from to help organisations in SW region make health & care data “research-ready”. Eligible bodies can get £25K-£125K to prepare datasets (records, imaging, genomics, social care, etc.) for secure research. Find more info: tinyurl.com/y9ttunwa #NIHR

❄️🗓️🎀 Count down to the holidays with our popular #ARCadvent calendar from all ARCs across the country! ☃️🎁👉 Follow #ARCadvent from 1-25 December for daily posts unboxing the most clicked-on ARC stories of the year 📧 Join our national newsletter tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter

As the #16DaysOfActivism begins, we’re sharing reflections from our event Co-Creating Change, focused on designing domestic abuse services with people with lived experience. tinyurl.com/2s4y85z9 @arcnenc.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #DomesticAbuse #CoProduction #TraumaInformed

The UK Trauma Council has launched Shaping Futures Together e-learning to support better, evidence-based mental health decision-making for children in care. Developed with commissioners and care-experienced young people as part of PenARC's ADaPT project. ▶️More here: bit.ly/48cI0uq

🚨New research from PenARC + Exeter NIHR PRP is helping NHSE understand health inequities in #RareDisease care. The new framework was presented at the launch of the HSS Health Inequalities Toolkit. 📖Read a pre–peer review here: bit.ly/4825jqL #HealthInequalities #NIHR

PenARC has played a key role in developing a new FaME Toolkit to help prevent falls in people aged 65+. The toolkit provides practical guidance for delivering effective community exercise programmes. Learn more: arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/news/penarc-... #FallsPrevention #AgeingWell

🏠 New NIHR funding for PenARC’s HOPE Project: Optimising health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. The 18-month study brings together researchers, clinicians & people with lived experience to improve access to emergency care. 🔗 bit.ly/3WSbyIz #NIHR

PenARC is proud to be part of #RPySoc2025! 🎉 🗓️ Thu 13 Nov: Dr Dan Chalk – “Total Eclipse of the Excel Chart” 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov: Sammi Rosser – “Reusable by Default” ⚡️Plus lightning talks from our brilliant #HSMA programme graduates! 🔗 bit.ly/43ZGpXq #DataScience

Got a spark of an idea about ageing research?🔥 The Ageing Research Café is a space to talk it through with public contributors who bring fresh and lived perspectives. No presentations, just conversation. 🗓 12 Dec 2025 💻 Online Register → tinyurl.com/3cd6sju3

📢 Join the UK Trauma Council next Thurs 13 Nov (5pm) for the launch of Shaping Futures Together - a free ARC-funded e-learning for commissioners + leaders to improve evidence-based mental health support for children in care. Register 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4qKixAT #ADaPTproject

We’re hosting a Pop-Up Research Café in Plymouth on 7 Nov 11am-2pm! A relaxed space for researchers + community members to talk ideas, share projects, and build partnerships. 📍Methodist Central Hall, PL1 1BA Questions? As Susanne at [email protected]

What a day at the Making Sense of Health Research Workshop💡 A big thanks to everyone who joined us at Buckfast Abbey to learn, share, and make sense of the evidence behind good health and social care decisions. #HealthResearch #EvidenceInPractice #NIHR

Exciting news!🎓 The University of Exeter’s CPD course on Systematic Reviews of Mixed Methods Evidence is back 28–29 Jan 2026. Join experts to explore tools & methods for mixed methods reviews. Early Bird rate until 30 Nov 2025. tinyurl.com/ydb9x7aa #EvidenceSynthesis #ResearchTraining #CPD

🎉Still buzzing about this fab news! Leon Farmer, a PenPEG member, told us: “I have direct experience of how effective, important and valuable (PenARC's) research is to so many patients... & (being involved) is one of the best things I've done in my life.” Thank you Leon! 🩷

📰Exciting news! PenARC has secured £15.5 million from @NIHRresearch to continue vital health research across the SW, improving care for patients and communities. This funding will help us deliver innovations that matter - locally & nationally. 🔗 Link: bit.ly/4nQrcQn

Had a great time at the NIHR Exeter CRF Open Evening! We really enjoyed chatting with the public and sharing our work in clinical research. Big thanks to the Exeter CRF team for organising. Events like this really show the value of community engagement. #ExeterCRF #ClinicalResearch #PenARC #NIHR

📢 We’re live at today’s PenARC, @arcnenc.bsky.social & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop on putting lived experience at the heart of domestic abuse service design. A day of 🛠️ tools, 🎓 training & powerful 💬 voices. #LivedExperienceInAction #DomesticAbuse

📣Webinar Alert! 🗓15 Oct 2025 | 12:00–13:30 l Online 🧩What does impact in PPIE mean? Join us as they explore how impact in Patient & Public Involvement is defined, measured, and experienced. 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/2tcxfjbx #PPIE #NIHR #InclusiveResearch

📢 Free workshop: Making Sense of Evidence 📅 Wed 22nd Oct | 📍 Buckfast Abbey Conf Centre Learn to: ✨ Ask focused questions ✨ Find & appraise health evidence ✨ Apply it in practice 🍴 Lunch & refreshments included Book now: bit.ly/3VJqS9P

🎨Excited to share our reflections from the 2025 Qualitative Research Symposium, held in partnership with Exeter’s QRRG. We explore how creativity, through storytelling, arts, & more, not only enriches qualitative inquiry, but also amplifies real-world impact. Dive in here → bit.ly/4nwCrxs

We've published our blog: 'Inclusive Involvement in Dementia Research Celebrating Collaboration and Launching New Resources', on PenARC’s site. “We were there to learn as well as participate.” Read more and explore: tinyurl.com/5cn28trs #InclusiveInvolvement #DementiaResearch #PatientVoice #PPIE