It’s been a big day for the NHS - in a very bad way…
Labour announces massive plan which will advance NHS privatisation 🚨🚨🚨

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📢 New IDEAS-NET Bulletin out now!

Updates on Core Team, Neighbourhood Health Evaluation, PPIE, Research Inclusion & Aligned Work.

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Just a reminder, courtesy of Chomsky: capital buys power to make policy.

Fantastic to welcome @SteveRaceMP to St Luke’s earlier this month! He met Prof Chris Morris & Fleur Boyle to hear about our work on childhood disability – esp. the peer-led Healthy Parent Carers programme promoting parent carer wellbeing, shaped by 10 years of research 💙
🔗 healthyparentcarers.org

Do talk to @phillharniess.bsky.social in the break if interested in signing up as a site for the CHESS trial #BACDASM2025

At @bacdisability.bsky.social Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 today. Will be posting through the day. Theme for the day is safeguarding. #BACDASM25

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Cover of THE ENDS, new novel, showing the wheelchair-using hero being pursued across the snow by a ravenous polar bear.

Please pre-order. "Exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you like the book, which comes out nexr month.

Self‐Care Interventions for Children and Young People With Neurodisabilities: A Mixed Methods Study of Current Therapy Practice in the United Kingdom Background Self-care is a priority outcome for children and young people with neurodisabilities, their parents and therapists, but there is little evidence about paediatric therapy interventions for...

Congratulations @sam-armitage.bsky.social et al. on a timely and important piece of research on self-care interventions for children and young people.

Great insights around CYP autonomy and the what that looks like in the reality of conventional therapy

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The Interactive Work of Implementing Synchronous Video‐Conference Calls—A Qualitative Study Within Early Intervention for Infants With Childhood‐Onset Neurodisability Introduction This study explores the ‘peripandemic’ implementation of synchronous videoconference calls during COVID-19 for delivering physiotherapy early intervention services to families of infant...

👀 Happy to share a new paper 👀

Taking a micro look at parent-therapist interactions on video calls in EI and implications for practice

'It's a little quirky but I like it' ... said one supervisor 😅😉

Consider it a breakout from the main PhD body, with pertinent nuggets

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Date night with @hharniess.bsky.social 😂

Our research to promote inclusivity and equity of programmes for parent carers of disabled children ⬇️ 🙂
Led by @phillharniess.bsky.social

The Healthy Parent Carers Programme "should be part of every Local Offer" @amandaallard.bsky.social We're training facilitators to run it locally. www.healthyparentcarers.org @exeter.ac.uk @lizkendallmp.bsky.social

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Didn’t quite get the memo on piping down about equity and diverse voices…@diarmuiddenneny.bsky.social and I tread these waters and offer our contribution to this special issue on Pain in Current Opinions in Psychology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (institution access required, sorry)

A man is seen painting grey paint to cover up a mural with the words "FAIRNESS, LEADERSHIP, INTEGRITY, COMPASSION and DIVERSITY" in large multicoloured print.

Historians will write books about this dark period in US democracy.

This will be the cover photo.

It was taken inside the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia on Wednesday.

(📸 Anonymous source, printed in The Washington Post)

At our Future of Evaluation in Health & Social Care Symposium, we were thrilled to collaborate with Sian McArthur & Chris Murray from More than Minutes.

Their visual capture of key themes and discussions added a dynamic layer to our event, offering fresh insights and deeper perspective.

Newcastle always delivers 😀

As The Future of Evaluation in Health & Social Care Symposium concludes, we thank our esteemed plenary speakers for their valuable insights.

In the final session, they addressed questions and delved deeper into the methodological issues raised throughout the course of this event.

Reflecting on mind stretching experiences and networking at

The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care Symposium

Thanks to
@northumbriaideas.bsky.social @soniadalkin.bsky.social for bringing it all together

Day 2 of our symposium is underway!

After a warm welcome from Angela Bate, Dr. Emily Warren, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, shared insights into her research on the potential of realist RCTs.

#HealthEvaluation #SocialCare #RealistRCTs

As the day progresses, we’re engaging in dynamic breakout sessions covering a range of topics. Grateful to learn from esteemed scholars who are expanding our understanding of research methodologies and evaluation through insightful workshops.

#Research #Collaboration #Evaluation #Workshops

We had the privilege of kicking off today’s session with an insightful welcome address from Sonia Dalkin. Following her introduction, Dr. Kathryn Skivington and Professor Laurence Moore took the stage to deliver an engaging plenary on the theme of “Strength Through Diversity?”

A huge congratulations to all the authors behind our successful Group A poster submissions today!

This year, we received an unprecedented number of abstracts—an incredible testament to the quality and relevance of the work being shared.

As our esteemed guests begin to arrive, Sonia Dalkin, Angela Bate and Jason Scott are looking forward to engaging in discussions about the innovative NU: IDEAS team and the future of health and social care evaluation

Rethinking Barriers and Enablers in Qualitative Health Research: Limitations, Alternatives, and Enhancements - Abby Haynes, Victoria Loblay, 2024 Explorations of barriers and enablers (or barriers and facilitators) to a desired health practice, implementation process, or intervention outcome have become s...

Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better!
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