PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)
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
- Waiting for a hip replacement in the UK? Researchers want to know what matters most to you about surgery and recovery. Eligible if you: Live in the UK Had/are planning hip replacement Surgery is due to long-term pain (not an accident/fracture) bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- The TASC collaboration, supported by PenARC, has been recognised with a national Patient Safety Award for AI use to personalise clot-busting treatment & reduce delays🏆 Stroke affects 100,000+ people in the UK each year. More here: tinyurl.com/4pdwfbb5 #HealthResearch #Stroke #PatientCentredCare
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)🗞️ Read the February national roundup of top stories from all ARCs across the country: mailchi.mp/nihr/februar... Including news, resources, blogs, events, opportunities & much more 📨 Join the newsletter tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter
- 🎉 Big news for mental health research in the South West! PenARC & @plymuni.bsky.social researchers are leading a new £11m @nihr.bsky.social programme exploring how mental health care can better meet people’s needs across the peninsula. 🔗More here: bit.ly/4q7jemp #MentalHealthResearch
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- Our new video made in collab with South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust shows how tranexamic acid (TXA) is having a major impact in trauma care. Watch here 👉 bit.ly/3LpHpyj #PreHospitalCare #Paramedics #TXA
- New on the PenARC blog! 🌱 Reflections from a recent webinar on public involvement in maternal mental health research - exploring co-production, lived experience expertise, and what happens when research is shaped with the public. Read here: bit.ly/3Zr7Wyg
- 📢 New funded PhD opportunities. Up to 8 PhD studentships starting Sept 2026. We’re inviting outline proposals from supervisory teams aligned with PenARC research themes. Deadline: 2nd Feb, 5pm 🔗 Details & timelines: tinyurl.com/2nktbtc7
- 🚨The Health Data Research UK & Wellcome Biomedical Vacation Scholarship offers paid summer projects, expert mentorship & real-world health data research experience. All students welcome, especially from lower socioeconomic backgrounds & non-Russell Group Unis 🔗More info here: bit.ly/3YxNoEb
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country! 🎉 Here are our 25 most popular newsletter stories from 2025: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar... 🌟 What a variety! Scroll to the end to see the top-most clicked-on stories 🖱️
- Two additional NIHR internships are now open for applications Mar–Sept 2026 Theme Two: Growing Into Research For registered health & care professionals (excl. doctors & dentists) £10,000 funding per intern Protected time to develop research skills Apply by 31/01/26 tinyurl.com/bddje47n
- 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
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)#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. arc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/news/news/NE...
- 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. tinyurl.com/y56c9m24 #PublicInvolvement #CoProduction
- 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
- 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: tinyurl.com/y9ttunwa #NIHR
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)❄️🗓️🎀 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 📧 Join our national newsletter tinyurl.com/ARCsnewsletter
- 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. tinyurl.com/2s4y85z9 @arcnenc.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #DomesticAbuse #CoProduction #TraumaInformed
- 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
- 🚨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
- 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: arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/news/penarc-... #FallsPrevention #AgeingWell
- 🏠 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
- 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
- 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
- 📢 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
- 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
- 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
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)❓ 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
- 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. tinyurl.com/ydb9x7aa #EvidenceSynthesis #ResearchTraining #CPD
- 🎉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
- 📰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
- 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
- 📢 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
- 📣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
- 📢 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
- 🎨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
- 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: tinyurl.com/5cn28trs #InclusiveInvolvement #DementiaResearch #PatientVoice #PPIE
- 🚨 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
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)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... @cillaharries.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)Register now to join our Introduction to Implementation Science Online Module this October arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/imp-sci-module @nihrarcs.bsky.social
- 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
- 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
- 🚀 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
- 🎥 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...
- 📕Great to see PenARC's NOAH project featured in the Infant Journal for neonatal and paediatric healthcare professionals! Read more here: tinyurl.com/mvcwvbk6
- Reposted by PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula)🎨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 www.eventbrite.com/e/1691048394...
- 🫶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
