Resources: Seminars and Lunch and Learns

A Journey Made Possible: Developing a Clinical Academic Career within the NHS

In this Lunch and Learn, an early-career researcher, Hannah Lane will share her personal journey in building a clinical academic career—from a newly qualified Speech and Language Therapist to a Research Leader, University Teacher, and NIHR Doctoral Fellow.

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Hospital at Home & Virtual Wards Conference 2025

Our agenda is now live! We're excited to welcome you to this groundbreaking two-day conference bringing together leading researchers, clinicians, and practitioners in Hospital at Home & Virtual Wards. Jointly hosted by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester, and the Hospital at Home Society, this unique event will explore research evidence and implementation best practices that drive effective hospital-at-home service delivery.

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Healthy Families

HABIT (Health visitors delivering Advice in Britain on Infant Toothbrushing)

This Lunch & Learn covers the oral health picture for Under 5s in Bradford, the development of the HABIT (Health visitors delivering Advice in Britain on Infant Toothbrushing) programme: method, results and evaluation and how this was applied to the MECSH (Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting) programme.

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Using Routine Data for decision making

In this Lunch & Learn, Hollie will discuss the potential of using linked routine data, from the BaBi studies, as a local health intelligence tool for child and maternal health. She will discuss the findings from her PhD research, which explored the opportunities and challenges of using locally-linked routinely collected data to support local decision-making.

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Health Economics

Quantitative evidence synthesis–why we do it, what methods are available & what do the results mean?

In this Lunch & Learn, Professor Laura Bojke from the University of York share an insightful Lunch & Learn session about Quantitative Evidence Synthesis.

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The role of coproduction in research

In this Lunch & Learn, our guest speaker Shahid Islam; PPIE Theme Lead & Director for the Centre for Co-production and Peer Research, show how we used the appreciative inquiry method to create a co-production strategy and why it is important to not conflate terms like co-production and patient and public involvement.

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Talking about Shaping Family Well-being: A Hull and East Riding Community Research Group

In this Lunch & Learn, Kate Morton (YH ARC researcher) and Katy Barnes (Parent co-chair, Shaping Family Wellbeing group) talked about their experiences of setting up this successful community research group. It's achievements and challenges so far, and what comes next- a must listen for all those involved in co-production and PPIE.

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Health Economics

What is Health Economics – Asthma Model Case Study

Cost-effectiveness analysis has become an increasingly important part of how we conduct research in healthcare, and is routinely included in clinical trials and deliberations by NICE. However, it has a reputation for being a ‘black box science’ with valuable decisions made about different healthcare interventions often lacking clarity regarding how conclusions were reached. In this session we will first go back to basics, exploring some of the fundamental ideas of cost-effectiveness analysis - how it is implemented, and how to understand what the results do and don’t tell you. In the second part we will explore some of these ideas through an applied case study. Using a mathematical model we recently developed at ARC Y&H on the impact of medication adherence in people with difficult to control asthma, we will demonstrate how we can assist in ensuring we achieve optimal health for the limited NHS budget.

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Creative dissemination of research: Animations about living well with mental illness

Join psychologist Dr Louisa Peters and creative producer and artist Doll for a screening of animations made by individuals living with mental health conditions that explore their experiences. Developed as part of the R3connect project, these animations were made in response to research findings about how community arts can help people reconnect to their identity as part of the recovery process. Louisa and Doll will talk through the research findings using the animations as an accessible communication tool

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What is an ICS?

In this Lunch & Learn, Guest Speaker Esther Ashman - Associate Director of Strategy at the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board will take us through what an Integrated Care System is and does, what an Integrated Care Board is and does and how research forms part of its strategy and plans. Esther will explain how ICS’s work collaboratively with partners and stakeholders across the region to improve health and wellbeing, and opportunities to connect and get in touch.

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Healthy Families

Using & implementing the BRUSH supervised toothbrushing toolkit to tackle tooth decay in children

esearchers from the University of Sheffield, University of Leeds and the Bradford Improvement Academy have developed free online resources for NHS organisations, local government, schools, nurseries and parents, as part of the BRUSH project to better support existing and new toothbrushing programmes. Join this Lunch & Learn to find out more about how this new toolkit was produced, and how it will make it easier for new toothbrushing programmes to be set up, meaning more children will be able to benefit from the programmes so less children suffer from tooth decay and its consequences. It will be a chance for the team to answer any questions you have – an essential Lunch & Learn for anyone working in this area looking to improve dental health in children.

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GRADE in relation to systematic reviews

GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations) is a framework used in Cochrane reviews and more widely for summarising evidence from effectiveness studies. It allows us to get away from just saying there is no evidence of effect, or the intervention was effective, and instead describe how certain (or uncertain) the result is, as well as the size of an effect, in plain language. Understanding the approach should make it easier to interpret and critique systematic reviews, whether or not they have used GRADE.

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