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    1. About Us
    2. The Team
    3. Member Organisations
    4. Governance
  2. Research & Knowledge Mobilisation
    1. Research & Knowledge Mobilisation
    2. Impact
    3. Social Care and Social Work
      1. Social Care and Social Work
      2. Social Care - Kent, Surrey & Sussex Region
    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. Implementation
      1. Implementation
      2. Meet the team
    12. Rapid Evidence Synthesis
      1. Rapid Evidence Synthesis
      2. Meet the team
    13. Knowledge Mobilisation
      1. Knowledge Mobilisation
      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. Inclusive Research
        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. Research Week 2025: Poster Competition
      3. Previous Research Weeks
    7. NIHR Health and Care Professional Internship Programme South EastNIHR Health and Care Professional Internship Programme South East
    8. Building social care research capacity
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Ahead of Researcher’s Week next week (12-16 July), the Academy team is today (9 July) announcing the winners of the researcher poster competition held to recognise and celebrate the contributions made by applied health and social care researchers during 2020/2021.

Researchers throughout the region, including academics, healthcare and social care professionals, were invited to take part and submit a poster that reflected a research project.  All entries were then evaluated by a panel of judges made up from members from the Organisation and Research Capacity Group (ORCA), Early Career Researcher Consultation Group (ECR Group) as well as ARC KSS public advisors.

Following 18 submissions, the judges awarded the winning prize to Dr Rasa Mikelyte (Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent) for the poster on: Optimising the Depression Pathway Enabled by Novel Digital Assessment Technology.

The runner-up prize was given to Dr Hasan Naveed (Ophthalmology Department, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust) for a poster on Improving Patient Safety: A Novel Drive-Through Glaucoma Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

Judges also awarded three highly commended to posters submitted by:

  • Pete Eaton-Williams from South East Coast Ambulance Service for Paramedic identification of patients with end of life care needs;
  • Dr Harriet Sharp from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for Wonders of the Woodland: A mixed methods evaluation of Green Care in First Episode Psychosis; and
  • Brontë MacDonald from University of Sussex and ARC KSS for School Attendance Problems During Covid-19 - In West Sussex, East Sussex, and Brighton and Hove.


Professor Sally Kendall, ARC KSS Building Capacity Lead said:

“We would like to congratulate all the researchers who entered our first research poster competition. The judges panel agreed that all entries were of very high standard and reflected the quality of research taking place across Kent, Surrey and Sussex and its potential for making a real difference to patients, families and the wider community.

“We’d like to thank everyone that took part and invite you to take a look at all the entries on our website.

“As part of the programme of events next week, we’ve also invited Rasa and Hasan to present their research posters during the Research Themes Symposium on Friday 16 July between 10am and 12noon.”

Book your place at the Research Themes Symposium.

All the poster entries can be viewed on our Researcher’s Week 2021 Poster competition page.

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