Academic Career Development

The future of research depends on people choosing research as a career.

We aim to increase the number of individuals undertaking applied research as part of our capacity building and academic career development theme through formal training, or by providing experiential learning. We do this by using the ARC co- funding model, secondment opportunities, and identifying funding for internships, placements, PhDs, fellowships, and joint posts.

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Sam Debbage

Capacity Building Lead

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Research Capacity Development (RCD) aims to enhance skills and confidence in people, and processes in and across organisations, to conduct impactful research that is useful.

We have recently coined the phrase RCD for impact (RCDi) to highlight the importance of doing research that makes a difference.

RCDi advocates active and continuous experiential learning within research partnerships. We adopt a number of principles, or ways of working in our RCDi strategy (See Cooke 2020).We work at a number of levels to do RCDi. We work with individuals, ARC themes, organisations, and networks to develop and undertake research that is useful to health services, academia and the wider economy.

Who we work with

Individuals

We aim to increase the number of individuals undertaking applied research, either through formal training, or by providing experiential learning. We do this by using the ARC co- funding model, secondment opportunities, and identifying funding for internships, placements, fellowships, and joint posts. Support to our doctoral students include development of networks across the region. Examples include; PhDs, TriARC, CArDiNAL and Secondments leading to Fellowship.

All our NIHR funded and co-funded students are members of the NIHR Academy. This means they have access to a host of collaborative opportunities. Examples include; SPARC award, Bootcamp and Post doctoral linkages and continued collaboration. We promote and support the opportunities available via the NIHR Academy.

Organisations

We work with a number of organisational networks to enhance RCDi in the YHARC. Much of this organisational work is supported by the Clinical Research Network (CRN), the Y&H Research Support Service and ACORN. We collaborate with the NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) across the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Local Authorities

For more information on Local Authority Research Links, click here.

ACORN

This is a group of NHS organisations and one Local Authority that collaborates and acts as a Community of Practice (CoP). The members meet and liaise regularly working on projects to expand and extend knowledge together about RCDi. Read more on the ACORN webpage.