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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
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
We've published our blog: 'Inclusive Involvement in Dementia Research Celebrating Collaboration and Launching New Resources', on PenARC’s site.

“We were there to learn as well as participate.”

Read more and explore:

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#InclusiveInvolvement #DementiaResearch #PatientVoice #PPIE
Inclusive Involvement in Dementia Research: Celebrating Collaboration and Launching New Resources - PenARC
Earlier this month, we gathered in London to celebrate the completion of our research project, which explored inclusive public involvement in dementia research. The event marked both the end of this e...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚨 Exciting news!

PenARC Evidence Synthesis experts are part of #METIUS, a £11.5m @UKRI_News funded project harnessing AI to transform how evidence reaches global policymakers. 🌍📊

Read more 👉 bit.ly/46FMrgs
PenARC Experts Join £11.5 million METIUS Project to Transform How Evidence Reaches Global Policy Makers - PenARC
We are delighted to announce that PenARC Evidence Synthesis specialists Professor Jo Thompson-Coon, Professor Ruth Garside, Morwenna Rogers, and Alison Bethel are among the University of Exeter team c...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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ARC South London's Leadership Academy is gearing up for 2026!

We will open for applications on 6 Oct. You can also attend an online briefing event to find out more about the academy on 8 Oct. 👇

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

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September 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Register now to join our Introduction to Implementation Science Online Module this October

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/imp-sci-module

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September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Powerful conversations today at the Inclusive Involvement in Dementia Research Collaboration Event in London, celebrating how #PPIE strengthens inclusivity and impact in dementia research.

@nihr.bsky.social

#PPIEInAction #InclusiveDementiaResearch
September 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We’re in London today for PenARC’s Inclusive Involvement in Dementia Research Celebration event!

A day to celebrate #PPIE, share experiences, and explore how involvement strengthens dementia research.

@nihr.bsky.social

#PPIEInAction #InclusiveDementiaResearch #NIHR
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🚀 Today’s the day! The #WorldAlzheimerReport2025 is live, spotlighting dementia rehabilitation worldwide.

Proud to see PenARC’s Prof Linda Clare as co-author of this landmark report.

🔗 www.alzint.org/resource/wor...

#DementiaRehabilitation
ADI - World Alzheimer Report 2025
The 2025 World Alzheimer Report explores the important topic of dementia rehabilitation, combining expert essays and real-world case studies from multiple countries globally to examine how the concept...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🎥 Behind the scenes!

We’ve been filming today with Bull & Wolf & @swasft.bsky.social about the impact of PenARC's TXA in Trauma project.

Stay tuned for the full video 👀

🔗 arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/research/pro...
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📕Great to see PenARC's NOAH project featured in the Infant Journal for neonatal and paediatric healthcare professionals!

Read more here: tinyurl.com/mvcwvbk6
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September 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🎨Join our webinar 'Building ideas: Using creative and inclusive techniques in research' on 6 Nov

🖍️Discover how creative methods, from LEGO to drawing, can transform research.

🤓Researchers will share practical examples, insights and ethical reflections

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Building ideas: Using creative and inclusive techniques in research
Join us for a webinar exploring how creative methods can be used in research, with practical examples and reflections from researchers.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🫶PenARC are so proud to have supported the amazing NOAH project & to see it win the Best Local Project award at the @bapmofficial.bsky.social Gopi Menon Awards!

Well done team! 👶

Read more about the impact of this incredible trial here: bit.ly/41M6zfo
September 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM