Developing and Celebrating a Research Skilled Workforce Conference 2025

Resources and documentation on the conference, Wednesday 2 April 2025

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The Developing and Celebrating a Research Skilled Workforce Conference 2025 was held on Wednesday 2 April 2025 at the University of Plymouth. The research-curious, research-active, and research leaders were invited to attend this regional in-person conference.

This inclusive NHS England-funded event aimed to bring together health, social and science professionals to help them "surf the research wave", by celebrating work that is transforming services through research-skilled practitioners.

Resources

Practitioners from across the south west of England submitted abstracts for oral presentations and in-person and online posters.

Practitioners shared practice-based research activities. Many of these addressed research capacity-building efforts, service evaluation and improvement, and patient and professional experiences.

These resources will be of interest to health, social and science professionals. They describe real life practice-based work to evaluate and improve services, and therefore offer examples of how other health, social and science professionals might evaluate their practice.

Abstracts

DRSW Conference 2025 abstracts

Posters

Advancing practice through evidence

Culture and identity: research reflections

Developing research capacity and engagement

Innovations in digital health

Promoting inclusion and diversity in practice and research

Research in primary, community and social care

Wellbeing and person-centred care

Previous conferences

Developing and Celebrating a Research Skilled Workforce Conference 2023

Access resources produced and presented at the conference on 29 November 2023.

Practice-based research activity

Secondary prevention

Daykin Porter Fryer Moffatt Midlife Women and Physical Activity

Janet Schmitt Stroke Six Month Reviews

Sarah Lennard Risk characteristics of alcohol andor drug misuse in repeat emergency department attendees for seizures

Nicola Dowdeswell | “My Life” Group Evaluation

Medication management

Pollyanna Kellett Sources of variation creation and maintenance of safety in nursing medication administration

Radiography

Hannah Grocutt | Soft tissue foreign body detection utilising ultrasound and general radiography

Rehabilitation and long-term conditions

Rahab Hashim Prevalence and associated factors of sexual dysfunction in premenopausal women with type 1 diabetes

Sarah Lennard Nocturnal seizure monitoring service evaluation

Sarah Lennard Seizures and emergency department characteristics and factors of repeat adult attendees

Tracey Legg Improving the Delivery of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Post Stroke

Marc Aureli Piqu Batalla Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Paul Minty Development and implementation of an anterior cruciate ligament injury prehabilitation service

Marc Aureli Pique Batalla | Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation

Tracey Legg | Improving the delivery of upper limb rehabilitation post-stroke

Rahab Hashim | Prevalence and associated factors of sexual dysfunction

Rachel Rapson | A feasibility randomised controlled trial of an interactive exercise training device

Communication

Karen Coy Keeping Paediatric Communication Consent Training Relevant

Beth Hawkin | A review of the current management of neonatal jaundice readmissions Yeovil

Andrew Wright | Art Therapy, Autism, and Research Communication

Planetary health

Ruth Bishop Charateristics of natural environment use

Ruth Bishop | Characteristics of natural environment use by occupational therapists

Wellbeing and person-centred care

Kathryn Bamforth Perceptions of healthcare professionals psychological wellbeing

Alice Jennings Carol Jarvis Challenges and opportunities for wellbeing amongst clinical

Kerry Street and Tim Rennie | The exploration of factors influencing the retention of pharmacy staff

Kathryn Bamforth | Perceptions of healthcare professionals psychological wellbeing at work

Promoting incluson and diversity

Mari Rose Kennedy Connecting with underserved communities in Bristol

Rhoda Allison Co production Utilising carer experience and the evidence base

Ruth Bishop Inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities in health research

Sophie Williams Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Shared Decision Making in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Practice

Stephanie Baldock The challenges for women identified as being from deprived backgrounds in attending obstetric US appointments

JoyBevan KatherineBroomfield A Community led participatory research project to address mental health inequalities in Gloucestershire

Katie Williams Advancing Research Careers for Under recognised Groups

Rachel Rapson | Exploring participants’ experiences of participation

Ruth Bishop | The inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities in health research

Katherine Broomfield and Joy Bevan | Community participation action Research

Developing research capacity

Joanne Cooper Ripples Waves and Swell

Susie Pearce | Celebrating a developing a research skilled workforce

Julie Menzies What is the visibility of research within the mandatory English NHS Trust induction process

Penny Smith Maximising the Benefits of Research

Ruth Barker | Barriers and solutions to researcher development

Ralph Hammond The South West Clnical Schools Model

Ruth Endacott New investment at NIHR for NMAHPs

Ruth Endacott | Uniting a region

Sam Harding Supporting NMAHPs research professional

Carrie Biddle Getting Started Making Progress

IbreezAjaz Lack of Inductions and its Implications for International Medical Graduates

NHS Knowledge Library support for researchers

Developing a research skilled workforce in the south west: Audio recording of conference 2023

Kathryn Bamforth | Co-producing a research strategy for nurses, midwives allied health professionals

Culture and identity

Helen Lyndon Fulfilling the research pillar of advanced practice

Janet Schmitt | Developing the research pillar in advanced practice

Kerry Street The exploration of factors influencing the retention of pharmacy staff in UK healthcare settings

Richard Collings THE SENSE study perceptions of research in the NHS

Ruth Barker Healthcare Professionals in Research HPiR Facebook

Suzanne Woodman Reflective practitioner or unconsciously incompetent poster

Hannah Luggar Delegation and caseload management in Occupational Therapy The teams perspectives

Katie Sweet Embedding Research into AHP Roles in ICU Setting

Dr Ibreez Ajaz | Lack of Inductions and its Implications for International Medical Graduates

Sam Harding | Supporting NMAHPs research professional development

Katie Sweet | Embedding Allied Health Care Professionals into research within an ICU

Wendy Cox | What are the experiences of student nurses using a coaching and peer learning model

Steve Blakeway | Examining the impact organisational culture has upon Trainee Advanced Paramedics

Suzanne Woodman | Reflective Practitioner or Unconsciously Incompetent

Primary, community and social care

Steve Blakeway Organisational Culture in Primary Care Paramedics