Group leads:Tracy FinchandTim Rapley
The Implementation and Innovation Research (IIR) group is a cross departmental group between Nursing, Midwifery and Health and Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing.
Part of the Care Innovation and Organisation group, IIR is a multi-disciplinary research group focused on undertaking and developing approaches to implementation and improvement research, and knowledge mobilisation.
The group’s work ranges from initiation, scoping and development of novel ideas for service, therapeutic and care innovations, to feasibility studies, pilot and full trials with embedded process evaluations, as well as the scaling up and scaling out of evidence-based interventions. Some of our work focuses on the sharing of knowledge between different communities to support change and create impact (knowledge mobilsation). We develop theories, tools and methodologies as well as interventions to support implementation and knowledge mobilisation in practice.
We work with key health and social care stakeholders to develop innovative, individualised, community-based and organisational solutions.
Research here includes:
• Studies that apply concepts, theories, frameworks, and assessment tools from the fields of implementation science and knowledge mobilisation to understand and enhance the embedding of innovations in practice.
• Studies to support theoretical development and translation of theory into tools for academic and non-academic – lay and practitioner - users of research knowledge for implementation work
We bring together different disciplines, including Health Psychology, Medical Sociology, Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.
Staff
Mandy Cheetham
Tracy Finch
Sebastian Potthoff
Tim Rapley
Tom Sanders
Jason Scott
Michael Sykes
Peter van der Graaf
Research and Innovation highlights
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East and North Cumbria (ARC NENC) - theme
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EQUIPD: . NIHR Health & Social Care Delivery Research
. NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health Research
. NIHR Public Health Research
Co-designing tailored strategies for scaling-up Unisus’ wellbeing services using implementation science approaches. Research England.
Process and impact evaluation of ; collaborative research project with NIHR ARC NENC (SKIM) to mobilise knowledge across health system on impacts and responses to COVID-19. NIHR ARC NENC.
Implementation of self-management in stroke in Sweden - the project. Forte Sweden.
Economic & Social Research Council.
Postgraduate Research Students
Enhancing knowledge mobilisation skills and training for health librarians: comparative case study analysis in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC)
. Co-develop and evaluate implementation tools for knowledge mobilisers in the integrated health and social care system across the North East and North Cumbria.
Prospective postgraduate research students are encouraged to enquire with the relevant member of staff. Find out more aboutpostgraduate studies at ϲ.
