Lunch & Learn: Embedding Cultural Competence in Research: a practical framework for use by researchers, policy makers, community leads and others when working with people from diverse groups.
How can we make research more culturally competent and equitable with actionable guidance across the research lifecycle? Join us to explore a new culturally competent research framework, co-designed with researchers, policymakers, community leaders, and translators. Grounded in Meleis’ cultural competence criteria (1996), the framework offers 25 actionable and measurable recommendations and measures covering research focus, recruitment, analysis, and dissemination. This session will highlight practical strategies to embed cultural humility, address power dynamics, ensure language accessibility, and build reciprocal partnerships. Come along to learn how to move from intention to practice and strengthen the impact of your research.
Speakers and Bio:
Professor Hamde Nazar– a Professor of Pharmacy Education and Primary Care Research and has topic expertise with regards to considerable research in the area of hospital to home discharge care. Some of her earlier research has informed the commissioning of a national discharge service through community pharmacy. She is the co-theme lead for the Newcastle NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaboration that focuses on ‘Safer, integrated care environments’. This means she has infrastructure support to undertake work in this topic area and the PSRC provides a research active environment to undertake and embed this work. Hamde also was PI on this research.
Dr Matt Cooper-a postdoctoral researcher in the NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC), the Deputy Director for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the School and PSRC, and an Honorary Research Associate with Newcastle Hospital Trusts. Matt has a clinical background in health psychology and holds status with the British Psychological Society as a trainee Health Psychologist. Matt has expertise in health psychology; behaviour change and intervention design. Matt has both Principal Investigator and Co-investigator experience with NIHR and UK Research Innovation funded research.
Dr Anna Robinson-Barella-a pharmacist, lecturer, researcher and the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the School of Pharmacy and PSRC. She has 10-years of qualified experience as a pharmacist, witnessing first-hand the importance of cultural competence within clinical practice. As a lecturer and researcher, her expertise is in Medicines Inequalities and much of her published work focuses on cultural competence within the profession of Pharmacy, as well as tackling medicines- and healthcare- inequalities for people from minoritised groups.
Dr Evgenia Stepanova-a Research Associate in the School of Pharmacy with a professional background in social work. Her research focuses on advancing equitable, population-level health and wellbeing, with particular emphasis on mental health care and the wider determinants of health. Prior to specialising in public health research, she spent nine years as a researcher in Social Work and Social Policy at Durham University. She has extensive experience spanning the development of public policy for marginalised populations to the evaluation and establishment of social work practice research.