Research institute for Life Course Studies

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Research institute for Life Course Studies
Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Faculty of Health General Meeting
• Wednesday January 18th 2006
• 3.30pm
• Marianne Knight, RI Manager

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Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Statement of Intent
• The Institute aims to support and stimulate high
  quality research and enterprise by bringing
  together a multidisciplinary group of researchers
  working on a range of health and social concerns
  across the life course, from childhood through to
  old age.
• It draws on existing strengths at Keele in the
  fields of ageing (with one of the largest groups
  of researchers working in the field of
  gerontology in the UK), children and families,
  and psychology.
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Research institute for Life Course Studies
Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Who are we?
• One of 7 Research Institutes across the
  University.
• 49 academic members
• 45 PGR students.
• Drawn from 9 Schools and all 3 Faculties.

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Research Institute for Life Course Studies How
are we organised?
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Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Advisory Board
• Mim Bernard RI Director (0.5) and Chair
• Marianne Knight RI Manager (f.t.)
• Alex Lamont PG Director (0.2)
• Jane Boylan Soc/SWk research interests
• Rebecca Leach Soc/SWk research interests
• Anand Pandyan Ageing research interests
• Tom Scharf Ageing research interests
• Sue Sherman Psychology research interests
• John Wearden Psychology research interests
• Peter Crome NHS link
• Claire Martlew HR link
• Diane Roberts PGR link
• RI Administrator (0.5) to be appointed

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Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Postgraduate Committee
• Alex Lamont Director of Postgraduate Research
  Chair
• Mim Bernard RI Director
• Marianne Knight RI Manager
• PG Link Tutors
• Maggie Bailey Health Rehabilitation
• Mim Bernard Sociology Social Work
• Sian Maslin-Prothero Nursing Midwifery
• Ken Rotenberg Psychology
• Student Representatives
• Adam Bourne Psychology
• Mike Gibbs Nursing Midwifery Diane Roberts
  Sociology Social Work
• Jackie Winter Health Rehabilitation
• PGR Administrator (0.5) to be appointed

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Research institute for Life Course Studies
Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Progress to Date
• The RI Board has been formed and has met on 3
  occasions.
• The PG Committee has been formed and has met
  twice.
• The Members Forum had its first meeting on 11th
  January 2006.
• Roger Beech (CHPM) has been selected as Chair of
  the Faculty Research
• Ethics Committee.
• Our two representatives on the Faculty Research
  Ethics Committee are
• Bernadette Bartlam (PG Medicine)
• Nicky Edelstyn (Psychology)
• RAE planning is underway. Further work is
  planned from February
• 2006 when the final Criteria and Working
  Methods documentation is
• available.

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Research institute for Life Course Studies
Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Progress to Date (contd)
• Grant proposals
• Since July, members have made over 20 grant
  applications bidding for over 2.5m in
• funding. 8 have been successful and have
  brought in circa 300k 10 applications
• are still pending a decision.
• Seminars/Workshops
• Regular lunchtime/afternoon series (eg.
  Psychology CSG).
• October 21st day seminar (organiserRebecca
  Leach)
• 'Doing Family display, consumption and
  material culture.
• November 3rd day seminar (organiser David
  Pandyan)
• Applications of Exercise in Rehabilitation.
  
• November 23rd ESRC workshop.
• Newsletter 3 issues to date.
• Web pages to be updated/expanded.

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Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Research in Progress
• Reducing the unscheduled use of acute hospital
  beds by older people
  Roger Beech et al.,
  funded by Cheshire County Council.
• Stroke related research projects
  
  
  Peter Crome, Sue Hunter, David
  Pandyan, Christine Roffe, et al., funded from
  various sources e.g. Stroke Association, British
  Geriatrics Society,
• Interpersonal attachment and social
  identification
  
  Claire Farrow et al., funded by the
  ESRC.
• Boomers and Beyond, Intergenerational Consumption
  and the Mature Imagination.
• Rebecca Leach et al., funded by ESRC/AHRC
  Cultures of Consumption
• Developing Interprofessional Working Amongst
  Health and Social Care Staff
  Sian
  Maslin-Prothero et al., funded by the Burdett
  Trust for Nursing.
• Developing Measures of Pensioner Poverty in the
  UK.
• Tom Scharf et al., for Help the Aged.

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Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Research Enterprise opportunities
• AHRC A potential Stages of Life programme (5
  yrs).
• Aims to explore the way in which the
  different stages of life are experienced,
  conceptualised and represented, from conception
  to death. Indicative themes include
  intergenerationality age-related norms
  expectations age, creativity, material culture
  the changing significance of the
  family/household care responsibility
  representation and self-representation. Clearly
  possibilities for collaboration with Humanities
  RI.
• ESRC The New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) programme
  - future phases.
• Major new multidisciplinary research programme
  jointly funded by the ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC and MRC.
  Aims to explore the changing meanings and
  experiences of ageing and the key factors shaping
  them, and develop practical policy guidance and
  novel solutions to science and technology
  challenges.

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Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Research Enterprise opportunities (contd)
• Department of Health eg. The Policy Research
  Programme.
• This research portfolio covers healthy living
  and social well being, disease prevention, the
  role of the environment in health, social care
  for adults and children, the organisation of the
  NHS, and strategies for treating particular
  diseases or conditions. Commissioning is done via
  open competitive tender.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation Parenting Research
  Programme
• In 2006, 165,000 has been allocated for
  either a single research project or two or
  three smaller proposals on Understanding
  fathering masculinity, diversity and change.
  Closing date 2 pm on 6 March 2006.
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) in which
  RI staff may apply their expertise to a project
  that is central to the development of their
  Company Partner. Existing partnerships exist
  between Universities and Primary Care Trusts
  voluntary organisations hospitals etc.

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Research Institute for Life Course Studies

• Next steps
• Increase membership.
• Increase research grant applications / success
  rates / grant income.
• Develop enterprise initiatives.
• Increase PGR numbers.
• Develop externally-funded studentships.
• Develop initiatives between research groups.
• Develop cross-RI initiatives.

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• Any questions or comments?
• m.knight_at_keele.ac.uk