Research Capacity 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.
For more information on our community of practice to support the development of innovative research capacity within the NHS and across the wider care provider organisations please visit the ACORN page
Meet our team
Sarah Blower
Healthy Families Deputy Co-Lead; YH ARC RCD Co-Lead & Associate Professor
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.