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PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)
@penarc.bsky.social
One of 15 Applied Research Collaborations (@nihrarcs.bsky.social) funded by (@nihr.bsky.social).

We support applied health & care research across Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and beyond.

More from us: linktr.ee/nihrpenarc
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
PenARC supported midwife training programme reducing women’s pelvic floor problems - PenARC
A Devon midwife is witnessing first-hand the impact of teaching preventative pelvic floor education in antenatal care, where previously it wasn’t routinely provided – or understood.  Lizzie Phillips, ...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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#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.

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December 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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.

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#PublicInvolvement #CoProduction
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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:

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#NIHR
New £1m fund to accelerate research access to data - southwestsde-nhs-uk
The South West Secure Data Environment (SDE) is encouraging organisations that hold health and social care data in the South West to share more of their data, to drive ground-breaking research and inn...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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❄️🗓️🎀 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

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November 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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.

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@arcnenc.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

#DomesticAbuse #CoProduction #TraumaInformed
Reflections from Co-Creating Change: Designing Domestic Abuse Services Together - PenARC
On 3rd October 2025, PenARC co-hosted a powerful and thought-provoking online event, Co-Creating Change: Designing Domestic Abuse Services Together, in collaboration with ARC North East and North Cumb...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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
Shaping Futures Together: New ARC-Funded Resource Launched to Strengthen Evidence-Based Mental Health Support for Children in Care - PenARC
A new national resource designed to help commissioners and service leaders improve mental health support for children and young people in care has been launched at a well-received webinar hosted by th...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨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
From scoping review to practice: a framework for mapping health inequities in rare disease diagnosis and service access onto the health and social care pathway
Commententary on the development of a framework for mapping health inequities in rare disease diagnosis and service access onto the health and social care pathway.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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:
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#FallsPrevention #AgeingWell
PenARC plays key role in new toolkit to prevent falls in over 65s - PenARC
A new digital toolkit designed to help reduce falls in older adults has been launched with the help of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration South W...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🏠 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
New Funding Awarded for Homelessness and Health Research Project  - PenARC
PenARC researchers have just signed contracts for new NIHR funding to support a major research project tackling health inequalities for people experiencing homelessness.  The project, Optimising healt...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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
RPySOC 2025: NHS-R/NHS.pycom Open Source Conference
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November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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
Ageing Research Café
Got an idea about research on ageing? Join us to share a pitch & have an informal chat with public partners.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📢 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
Better Decisions, Better Futures: Improving Mental Health Provision for Children in Care
Explore evidence-based approaches to improve mental health support for children in care in this expert-led, free professional webinar.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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 s.hughes@exeter.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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❓ What has ARC West achieved since it formed 6 years ago?
👉 Follow #6YearsOfARCWest to find out…

In the last 6 years, we have:
👨‍⚕️ Carried out 202 projects
📓 Published 596 papers

👉 Read more: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/six-years-of...
#ARCimpacts
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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.

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#EvidenceSynthesis #ResearchTraining #CPD
Systematic Reviews of Mixed Methods Evidence CPD Course 2026 | Exeter University
If you wish to pay by invoice, please contact the CPD Team at FHLS_CPD@exeter.ac.uk. Dates of Course:  Wednesday & Thursday, 28th and 29th January
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October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🎉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
£15.5 million to continue South West health research partnership - PenARC
A partnership that carries out vital health research across the South West Peninsula to directly benefit patients and NHS services has been awarded £15.5 million by the National Institute for Health a...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📰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
£15.5 million to continue South West health research partnership - PenARC
A partnership that carries out vital health research across the South West Peninsula to directly benefit patients and NHS services has been awarded £15.5 million by the National Institute for Health a...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📢 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
October 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
📣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
What does impact in Patient & Public Involvement mean?
Join us for the third webinar in a series of ARC National events on PPIE research
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October 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📢 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
22 October 2025 - PenARC One Day Making Sense of Health Research Workshop
PenARC Making Sense of Health Research workshop: discover how to find and use evidence to make effective health & social care decisions.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🎨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
Reflections on the Qualitative Research Symposium 2025: Innovation and Creativity for Impact - PenARC
On 25th September 2025, the University of Exeter’s Qualitative Research Reference Group (QRRG) hosted its third annual Qualitative Research Symposium, supported by PenARC. This year’s theme, Innovatio...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM