Health Determinants Research Collaboration Coventry Webinars
The HDRC team coordinates a monthly series of webinars on a range of research topics, including the building blocks of a healthy Coventry, the different types of research methods, how to involve the public in research, and real-life examples of research that has been applied and has had an impact.
Previous webinar recordings are available on our YouTube Channel. To register for an upcoming webinar, please complete the registration form or click on any of the links below.
Structural Racism, Ethnicity and Health Inequalities in London
Speaker: Dr Jessica Allen (Institute of Health Equity)
Wednesday 22nd January, 12:00 – 13:00 | Online via Microsoft Teams
This webinar will cover the key findings and recommendations from the newly published IHE review on structural racism, ethnicity, and health inequalities in London. It will also discuss how its findings and approaches are relevant to other places in the UK, including Coventry. Our focus is on the effects of racism on health and its contribution to avoidable inequalities in health between ethnic groups. Society must tackle racism's damage to health and well-being.
Register for this webinar by completing this form.
Building Health Equity: The Role of The Property Sector in Improving Health
Speaker: Dr Michael Alexander
Wednesday 19th February, 12:00 – 13:00 | Online via Microsoft Teams
A safe and secure home is essential for good health. Our homes, neighbourhoods and communities shape our health in many ways, for good and, increasingly, for ill. Without these, we will see a worsening of physical and mental health, higher mortality rates and greater strain on the NHS. This webinar will cover the findings from the latest review from the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), which explains how the twin health and housing crises can be tackled together by promoting health equity.
Register for this webinar by completing this form.
Give every child the best start in life: Children and Young People's Health Equity Collaborative
Speaker: Dr Jessica Allen (Institute of Health Equity)
Wednesday 19 February, 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Microsoft Teams
Giving every child the best start in life is crucial to reducing health inequalities across the life course. The foundations for every aspect of human development; physical, intellectual and emotional, are laid in early childhood. In this webinar, Dr Jessica Allen will focus on the first Marmot principle, giving every child the best start in life, particularly IHE's recent work with Barnardo’s on our Children and Young People's Health Equity Collaborative. It will provide evidence on how collaboration and partnership work can foster a deeper understanding of the social determinants of health and empower communities.
Register for this webinar by completing this form.
How do we allocate resources under conditions of scarcity?
Speaker: Hesam Ghiasvand (Coventry University)
Involving the public in research
Speaker: Hesam Nikki Holliday (Coventry University)
What are the different types of research methods?
Speaker: Lauren Bell (Coventry HDRC)
What has research done for us?
Speaker: Gabriela Matouskova (Hope for the Community) and Prof Andy Turner (Coventry University)
How do we find evidence about an area of interest?
Speaker: Naila Dracup (University of Warwick)
Whole system approaches to Public Health
Speaker: John Wilcox (Coventry HDRC)
Using Data to understand health outcomes
Speaker: Dr Adeniyi Fagbamigbe (Coventry University)
Training opportunities
Below is a range of free resources recommended by the HDRC available to help you develop knowledge and skills in research and evaluation.
Open University
The Open University offer free, self-guided, online courses that cover aspects of research, data, and evidence. Some resources developed are shared below:
- Exploring data: graphs and numerical summaries (20-hour self-guided course, introductory level)
- Using data to aid organisational change (10-hour self-guided course, intermediate level)
- Understanding research with children and young people (16-hour self-guided course, intermediate level)
- The power of infographics in research dissemination (7-hour self-guided course, intermediate level)
- Becoming an ethical researcher (18-hour self-guided course, advanced level)
- Quantitative and qualitative research in finance (10-hour self-guided course, advanced level)
National Institute of Health and Care Research
The National Institute of Health and Care Research (NHIR) are the UK's largest funder of health and care research. Some resources developed by NIHR organisations are shared below:
- What are Health Determinants Research Collaborations? (short video)
- Introduction to cultural competence in research (10-minute video)
- Toolkit for conducting Equality Impact Assessments in Research (written guide)
National Centre for Research Methods
The National Centre for Research Methods host a range of resources about the different methods that can be used to carry out research. Included in their resources are a range of podcasts and online resources, some of which are shared below:
The NCRM also deliver in-person and online training workshops on a variety of research methods.
Future Learn – Starting Out in Health and Social Care Research
This online course, hosted on Future Learn, was designed by universities and the NHS. It is a step-by-step introductory course covering every stage of the research process, from developing a research idea and finding research funding to involving the public and sharing research findings.
This course takes around 2 hours per week for 8 weeks and is free to complete. Some groups are eligible for a free upgrade, meaning you can complete it as quickly or slowly as you like. These groups include NHS and local authority employees and charities that provide NHS or social care services.
You can find further information and register on the website. You can register on another page if eligible for the free upgrade.
Cochrane - Involving the public in research
Cochrane offer free training videos about how to involve members of the public throughout the whole research process.
Key videos of interest may include:
- Patient and public involvement in research: What, why and how?
- Co-Production in action
- Setting research priorities with members of the public
- No choice of outcomes about us without us!
Feedback
If you decide to visit and engage with any of these courses, we welcome your views on if you found it helpful or not. If you need any assistance to access any of the above please contact the team by email: CoventryHDRC@coventry.gov.uk.
NIHR
The NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Coventry is part of the NIHR and hosted by Coventry City Council.
Visit the NIHR website