Awards to support innovative approaches to service user involvement in healthcare education and research
Thank you to everyone who submitted their applications to this award scheme. I am very happy to announce that the following six innovative projects to support service user involvement in healthcare education and research in SHS will be funded in partnership with Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD).
The winning proposals are:
- Melissa Chamney (Adult Years): Service users’ and carers’ collaboration within adult student nurse learning.
- Shashivadan Hirani (Health Services Research and Management): Utilising service user expectations and experiences of mobile assistive technologies to improve service provision training of health and social care professionals.
- Byki Huntjens (Optometry and Visual Science): ‘My Experiences in the Big Chair’: Service user experiences of common eye diseases.
- Anne Laybourne and Julienne Meyer (Adult Years): My Home Life (MHL) Users and Carers project: Developing user and carer ambassadors for promoting quality of life in care homes for older people.
- Abigail Levin, Celia Harding and Ros Herman (Language and Communication Science): The evaluation of a coordinated approach to service user involvement across LCS teaching.
- Ahalya Subramanian (Optometry and Visual Science): Increasing patient involvement in Optometry.
Outlines of the six projects can be found by clicking on the link below.
Awards to Support Innovative Approach to Servicer User Involvement_Final List
We will keep you updated on the progress of the projects over the next year and staff will also be presenting their work supported by the funds at one of the Community Engagement Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Alan Simpson
Chair, SHS Community Engagement (Service User Involvement) Strategy Committee