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This event will provide attendees with an opportunity to gain insight into the importance and benefits of patient and public involvement (PPI) as well as practical information to help them facilitate PPI within their own research.

Location: Bath Hilton

Date: 25^th May 2012

Time: 09.30- 14.00 with lunch and poster viewing

Agenda

09.30- 09.45 Introduction and Welcome Prof. Chris Eccleston (Centre for Pain Research)

09.45- 10.00 The People & Research SW initiative Catrin Richards (People and Research SW)

10.00- 10.45 What support and guidance is available for researchers? Julie Hapeshi (NIHR Research Design Service)

10.45- 11.30 How best to engage with patients and public and communities when designing a research project Involve Person

11.30 – 11.45 Tea and Coffee break

11.45- 12.30 A discussion of the benefits and challenges of designing a project with members suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and their carers.  Dr. Nigel Harris (Bath Institute of Medical Engineering)

12.30- 13.15 A former patient’s perspective Ms. Victoria Wells

13. 15 – 14.00 Lunch and Poster Viewing

Free PPI Research starter packs will be given to all attendees.

Email S.V. Rook@bath.ac.uk for more details or to book a place.

There are a few remaining tickets for a new, free and stimulating KT-EQUAL event, also supported by BIME & Bath Research and Development.

Date: 2 March, 2012

Innovation Centre Bath  9.30-4pm

We have an ageing population, but a reducing health and social care budget. Increasingly individuals will be expected to self-purchase products and services that will allow them to live independently. This will provide a large ‘silver’ consumer market for products that are designed and priced appropriately. Although there is some awareness amongst industry of this market opportunity, there is significant scope for more inclusive design of mainstream products that enhance independent livening or support specific living tasks and activities.

In collaboration with KT EQUAL, a consortium of UK researchers dedicated to extending the quality life for older and disabled people, ALAN (Assisted Living Action Network) will jointly host this event to raise awareness of the scale of the market opportunity; explore the needs of this population; how they are translated into design requirements to drive product innovation; and what kinds of design tools and approaches can support design for an aging population. The event will bring together commercial partners, users and academics.

In addition to the conference, there will be an evening three course dinner and networking reception on Thursday 1st March. Both events will be held at the Innovation Centre in Bath.

To register for the conference and / or dinner, please visit http://assistedlivingaction.net/index.php/events/designing-ahead-mainstream-design-for-an-ageing-population/.

£80 conference and dinner
£50 conference only

There are limited spaces for the networking dinner, so please register quickly.

RICE  (The Research Institute for the Care of Older People) are seeking a research nurse to cover maternity leave.

POST: Research Nurse

SALARY RANGE: £21,929 – £28,918

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday 9.00am-5.00pm – some flexibility is required.  Job share will be considered.

QUALIFICATIONS: A current registered adult nurse on the Register of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)

ACCOUNTABLE TO: 1.  The Clinical Manager 2.  The Director of RICE

JOB SUMMARY: To assist in the Memory Clinics and with the Clinical Research Programme carried out at RICE.

To assist in the organisation and running of Carers’ Courses.

JOB TYPE: Maternity cover

For more details and a full job description contact:

Sue Phillips (PA/Administrative Manager RICE)

Tel: 01225 476437 (Direct Line)

Email: S.Phillips@bath.ac.uk

We are pleased to announce the latest KT EQUAL event entitled ‘Design ahead: design for an ageing population’ to be held on Friday 2nd March 2012 at the Innovation Centre, Bath.

We have an ageing population, but a reducing health and social care budget. Increasingly individuals will be expected to self-purchase products and services that will allow them to live independently. This will provide a large ‘silver’ consumer market for products that are designed and priced appropriately. Although there is some awareness amongst industry of this market opportunity, there is significant scope for more inclusive design of mainstream products that enhance independent livening or support specific living tasks and activities.

In collaboration with KT EQUAL, a consortium of UK researchers dedicated to extending the quality life for older and disabled people, ALAN (Assisted Living Action Network) will jointly host this event to raise awareness of the scale of the market opportunity; explore the needs of this population; how they are translated into design requirements to drive product innovation; and what kinds of design tools and approaches can support design for an aging population. The event will bring together commercial partners, users and academics.

In addition to the conference, there will be an evening three course dinner and networking reception on Thursday 1st March. Both events will be held at the Innovation Centre in Bath.

To register for the conference and / or dinner, please visit http://assistedlivingaction.net/index.php/events/designing-ahead-mainstream-design-for-an-ageing-population/ A provisional programme can also be found here.
£80 conference and dinner
£50 conference only

There are limited spaces for the networking dinner, so please register quickly.

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research
Awards up to £2 million

Competition 12 opened on 5 December 2011 APPLY NOW

Competition 13 will open on 11 June 2012

Please see here for full dates for Competition 12 and 13 http://www.ccf.nihr.ac.uk/PGfAR/apply/Pages/calls.aspx