The Plymouth Health Determinants Research Collaboration team are progressing with funded capacity to support activity which will contribute towards embedding a research culture in Plymouth City Council.
Whilst we work with Council teams and community colleagues to develop priority areas our researchers are busy with Council teams to develop ideas, supporting evaluation questions, mentoring and training.
We have been delighted at the response and interest from many Council teams and are now working to determine the next group of project areas.
We have committed dedicated funding to 8 projects, which includes researcher capacity, funding to second Council staff, bring in academic subject matter expertise and associated costs. Some projects are still in development. For more information, contact the linked researcher.
Underpinning our work is a requirement to create appetite, interest and capacity for evaluation and research within the council and for all partners. Everything we share and teach we hope to be cascaded to wider teams so that learning spreads. We are also looking at the same time for the opportunity to share learning, locally and nationally, and look for additional funding opportunities for both service development and research.
Research focusing on food insecurity as a health determinants issue
An Exploration and Evaluation of Plymouth’s “No Strings Attached” Smoking Cessation Project as a Complex Systems Intervention
Making better use of the Council's data
Developing a theory of change to evaluate the CCR model
We have secured Youth Investment Funding (YIF) to support a two-year ecotherapy pilot
A research project about making memories of children’s play
Supporting a sustainable research rich environment
Co-designing a feasibility study for a trusted person/professional systems approach (Changing Futures).