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  1. About Us
    1. About Us
    2. The Team
    3. Member Organisations
    4. Governance
  2. Research, Implementation and Impact
    1. Research, Implementation and Impact
    2. Impact
    3. Social Care and Social Work
      1. Social Care and Social Work
      2. Social Care - Kent, Surrey & Sussex Region
        1. Social Care - Kent, Surrey & Sussex Region
        2. Meet the team
    4. Starting Well: Children's Mental Health
      1. Starting Well: Children's Mental Health
      2. Meet the team
    5. Primary and Community Health Services
      1. Primary and Community Health Services
      2. Meet the team
    6. Living Well with Dementia
      1. Living Well with Dementia
      2. Meet the team
    7. Co-production
      1. Co-production
      2. Meet the team
    8. Public Health
      1. Public Health
      2. Meet the team
    9. Digital Innovation
      1. Digital Innovation
      2. Meet the team
    10. Economics of Health and Social Care
      1. Economics of Health and Social Care
      2. Meet the team
    11. Covid-19
    12. Implementation
      1. Implementation
      2. Meet the team
    13. Rapid Evidence Synthesis
      1. Rapid Evidence Synthesis
      2. Meet the team
  3. Public and Community Involvement
    1. Public and Community Involvement
    2. What is PCIE?
    3. Getting Involved
    4. Support for researchers
    5. Resources
    6. PCIE Guide
      1. PCIE Guide
      2. Contents
      3. Introduction
        1. Introduction
        2. An overview of ARC KSS
        3. Who can help you with PCIE?
        4. Terminology and PCIE
      4. Why and When to do PCIE
        1. Why and When to do PCIE
        2. Why involve members of the public in research?
        3. Why do members of the public want to get involved in research?
        4. When to get members of the public involved?
      5. How to do PCIE
        1. How to do PCIE
        2. Communication and Accessibility
        3. Budgeting
        4. Planning for involvement and engagement
        5. How to recruit members of the public
        6. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
        7. Approaches – different options for undertaking PCIE
        8. Facilitating meetings and Group dynamics
        9. Ethics
        10. Feedback
        11. Impact and Evaluation
      6. Examples/Case Studies
      7. Appendix/Useful tools
  4. Learning and Development
    1. Learning and Development
    2. ARC KSS AcademyARC KSS Academy
    3. Learning and DevelopmentLearning and Development
      1. Learning and Development
      2. Learning and Development Finder
      3. Researchers Journeys
    4. MentorshipMentorship
    5. Research communities of practiceResearch communities of practice
    6. Research Week Research Week
      1. Research Week
      2. Poster Competition 2024
      3. Previous Research Weeks
    7. Your Health and Social Care Research Quick GuideYour Health and Social Care Research Quick Guide
  5. Resource Library
  6. Events
  7. News
  8. Contact Us

A member organisation is one that forms the NIHR ARC KSS as part of the collaboration with the host organisation and, as such, has made co-funding commitments.

Examples of member organisations include local providers of NHS services, NHS commissioners, local authorities, local providers of care services, Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), third sector, industry or commercial, and Academic Health Science Network. The NIHR ARC host organisation may also be a member organisation. The NIHR ARC KSS welcomes new member organisations which were not part of the original application.

Other parts of the NIHR, such as NIHR Infrastructure (e.g. NIHR BRC, NIHR MIC) and the NIHR Research Design Service (RDS), cannot be member organisations of an NIHR ARC but they can of course work in partnership and collaborate.

The member organisation agreement (MoA), into which member organisations enter with the host organisation, ensures compliance with the relevant provisions of the NIHR ARC head contract. This includes submission of an annual statement of co-funding expenditure against activity and proposed co-funding for the subsequent year.

The NIHR will review its level of funding, if an NIHR ARC does not secure the required level of co-funding for the contracted period.
ARC KSS is working collaboratively with member organisations to deliver applied health and social care research and implement or improve service delivery in line with a population's needs. If you are interested in becoming an ARC KSS member organisations and finding out how you can get involved please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Co-funding guidance

Our current membership includes:

  • Brighton and Hove City Council

  • Bristol University

  • British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

  • Choices Support

  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

  • East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

  • East Sussex County Council

  • East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Faversham Counselling

  • Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

  • Hospice in the Weald

  • Integrated Care 24 Ltd

  • Involve Kent

  • Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

  • Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

  • Kent County Council

  • Kings College London

  • London School of Economics

  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

  • Make Good Trouble

  • Medway Community Healthcare

  • Medway Council

  • National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi)

  • Newcastle University

  • NHS Kent and Medway ICB

  • NHS Surrey Heartlands

  • NHS Sussex

  • Oxford University

  • Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  • Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

  • St. Barnabas Hospice

  • Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  • Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Surrey County Council

  • Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

  • Sussex Partnerhsip NHS Foundation Trust

  • University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

  • University of Birmingham

  • University of Brighton

  • University of Central Lancashire

  • University of Greenwich

  • University of Hertfordshire

  • University of Kent

  • University of Liverpool

  • University of Surrey

  • West Sussex County Council

  • YMCA Downslink

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