The CLAHRC fellowship is aimed at clinicians, health and social care practitioners, and managers who would like to develop an understanding of the research environment and skills in research methodology, service redesign and change management.The focus within the Fellowship programme is on local applied research and evaluation projects, building local capacity for evidence-informed practice, and facilitating networking across health and social care.Thirteen fellowships were awarded for 2011. The fellows come from a wide range of backgrounds — Consultant Psychiatrists, an NHS manager, Clinical Psychologists, a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, a General Practitioner, Registered Nurses, and a staff grade psychiatrist, and from across the East of England (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Great Yarmouth).
The fellows carry out a research project during their fellowship year. This can be a specific project chosen by the fellow, with supervision from within the CLAHRC, or they can contribute to one of the CLAHRC themes’ projects. In addition, there is a monthly programme of half day teaching workshops and half day action learning sets. These sessions are agreed with the employing organisation to be protected CLAHRC time for educational commitments. The key aim of the Fellowship is to make the programme valuable to the individual fellow and their employing organisation.
CLAHRC CP welcomed its first cohort of fellows on January 5th 2011.
From left to right:
David Dodwell, Alistair Gaskell, Uju Okereke, Katy Harrison, Mai Wong, Miranda Fyfe, Fergus Gracey, Furhan Iqbal, Chris O’Loughlin, Peter Hadfield, Anna Green, Kim Masson, James Plaistow, Jon Wilson.
We have just appointed another 12 fellows for 2011/12.
