The East Midlands Research into Ageing Network

John GladmanEMRAN Lead

CLAHRC EM Caring for Older People and Stroke Survivors COPSS) Theme LeadProfessor of Medicine of Older People, UoN

Consultant Geriatrician, NUH

Content

• Outline of EMRAN project plan

• Other talks will elaborate

• Workshops will seek your engagement

What’s the issue?

• The best research into the care of older people • High quality yet complex: different perspectives &

skills• Findings into practice at scale and pace• Involvement of commissioners, providers,

practitioners, patients and the public• Islands of expertise across the universities and R&D

departments• Networks help conduct research and implement the

findings

The vision

• An East Midlands wide network of people with an interest in research into the care of older people: researchers; commissioners; providers and practitioners from all sectors; patients and the public

• Facilitating high quality applied health research in the care of older people in the East Midlands: getting it funded; conducting it; and putting the findings into practice

• Through collaboration

• Sustained

What will we do to achieve the vision?

• An inclusive management structure• A database of members: research partners and their

interests• Active partner engagement• Events to bring research partners together on topics

of common interest• Newsletter• An on-line EMRAN Discussion Paper journal• An on-line summary of EMRAN research, its outputs

and impacts: “institutional cv”• Work with other East Midlands groups with common

interests: CRN, AHSN, CLAHRC • Future funding – currently CLAHRC EM

What is success for EMRAN?

• Outcome indicators: number, size and quality of collaborative research funding and outputs

• Process indicators: - network size- network reach - geographical, stakeholder groups- network engagement in events- number of Discussion Papers- richness of “institutional cv”- grant applications- evidence of collaboration- securing longer term funding & support

What are the challenges for EMRAN?

• Everyone is busy: making it worthwhile for potential partners to engage

• Geographical spread: making it easy for potential partners to engage

• Creating a sense of identity around the East Midlands

• Sustainability: activity; management; funding

Today

• Links to AHSN & its partners – shorten the gap between what research tells us and what we do

• Links to other research networks

• Workshops: your ideas and participation

• Brief video from two important partners: Kamlesh Khunti who is Director of CLAHRC East Midlands and Martin Orrell who is the newly appointed Director of the Nottingham Healthcare’s Institute of Mental Health