Training Courses and Capacity Development Opportunities

PenCLAHRC is pleased to be able to offer a range of training opportunities for healthcare professionals across the South West.

Our Making Sense of Evidence workshops will teach you how to find and use research evidence to help inform clinical decision-making. We offer both full-day courses or bespoke courses that can be tailored to suit your needs and availability.

PenCHORD, our operational research team, provide a range of training modules to help you understand modelling techniques and concepts, as well as providing hands-on, practical skills in the basics of Excel-based models.

PenCHORD are also running our Health Service Modelling Associates programme. This scheme, working directly with staff from NHS organisations across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, aims to support the increased use of operational research in health service development and decision making.

Our Evidence Synthesis Team run a series of ongoing systematic review clinics. These one-to-one clinics are for academics or NHS professionals who needs to know where to start on the systematic review process or how to go about designing a search strategy.

Some of the other training we offer includes:

• Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Advice Clinics;
• Qualitative Research Skills Clinics;
• Health Statistic Clinics (for University staff).

For a full list of all events and seminars going on at PenCLAHRC, please see our Events page.

Current Opportunities

We have made the difficult decision to postpone applications to the South West NIHR/HEE Integrated Clinical Academic Fellowships 2020 in order to support and prioritise Covid-19 frontline care and studies.

Revised application details will be announced at a later date.

POSTPONED: We are pleased to announce the launch of the South West NIHR/HEE Integrated Clinical Academic Fellowship awards for 2020/21.

There are three levels of awards available to nurses, midwives, AHPs and other non-medical healthcare professionals. There is funding available for Internships, Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral bridging awards.

Closing date is Thursday 16 April 2020. Further details can be found in these guidance documents. 

Please direct enquiries to Professor Vicki Goodwin and Professor Jonathan Marsden.