Involvement, Engagement & Dissemination Fund

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL ROUNDS TO THIS FUND ARE NOW CLOSED. 

The NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) is launching a new Enablement Fund to support public and community involvement, engagement, and dissemination activities across its nine member departments.

The purpose of this fund is to support SPCR researchers and member departments in expanding their involvement, engagement, and dissemination activities, with the goal of fostering further opportunity for co-production and collaboration and enhancing inclusion and diversity of the public and communities in research.

Two funding streams are available:

• Project-specific activities: Funding is available up to £2,000 for activities seeking to enhance public and community involvement, engagement and/or dissemination activities within a specific project.

• Department-wide activities: Funding is available up to £5,000 for activities seeking to enhance public and community involvement, engagement and/or dissemination activities across a SPCR Member Department (this includes activities which span multiple department projects and/or multiple SPCR member departments).

Overall the scope of the fund is wide to support activities which would enable:

• the delivery of new and creative approaches to involving, engaging and/or disseminating research findings to relevant public and/or community audiences

• the expansion of current involvement, engagement and/or dissemination plans to a greater diversity of public and/or community audiences

Applications may include activities like co-designing accessible project outputs for public audiences, creative engagement approaches, or developing new partnerships with community groups.

Further information about the scope of fund is provided in the guidance notes.

Deadlines and Timelines:

The fund will run in three rounds across 2025–26, with a rolling deadline to ensure greater opportunity for applications across the membership.

AWARDED projects TO DATE:

• Addressing long term cardiovascular risks after adverse pregnancy outcomes (Project-specific activity, Dr Brook Hodges, Keele) 
• Decluttering primary care in England to improve patient safety (Project-specific activity, Yuan Tian, Manchester) 
• Conversations Through Dil Ki Baat: Mental Health in Later Life (Project-specific activity, Dr Jahanara Miah & Dr Rathi Ravindrarajah, Manchester) 
• OCEAN (Older adults with Complex EmotionAl Needs) Research Involvement Community (Project-specific activity, Dr Katie Saunders & Dr Tom Kingstone, Keele) 
• Using creative methods to understand Somali women' s health experiences and co-create empowered communities (Project-specific activity, Dr Lucy Johnson & Francesca Godfrey, QMUL)
• Voices: A co-produced psychosis soundworld (Project-specific activity, Dr Viet-Xuan Elen Williams & Dr Natalie Shoham, QMUL)
• Storytelling to Undo Stigma: Sharing Patient Experiences of Recurrent Vulvovaginal Pain (Project-specific activity, Dr Tori Ford, Oxford) 
• Grandma's House (Department-wide activity,  Adele Horobin & Joanne Morling, Nottingham) 

• In Partnership: Connecting Communities and Primary Care Research (Department-wide activity, Alisha Newman, Bristol) 

• Building Momentum: Extending Inclusive Research Engagement in Primary Care (Department-wide activity, Dr Jane Vennik & Dr Sascha Miller, Southampton) 

• The Patient Bridge Role: a new approach to involvement in large research programmes. (Project-specific activity, Beccy Summers, Exeter) 

• The parkrun practice podcast (Project-specific actvitiy, Rosina Cross and Emma Cockcroft, Exeter) 

• MINDS: Listening cafes to explore the lived experience of mental health, neurodiversity and trans+ identities. (Project-specific activity, Hannah Bowers and Kate Henaghan-Sykes, Southampton) 

• Connecting Carers: Sharing Knowledge Across Ethnically Diverse Communities (Project-specific activity, Abi Woodward and Christine Carter, QMUL)

• Smell Matters: Co-developing Primary Care Pathways into Parkinson’s Research (Project-specific activity, Viktoria Azoidou and Alastair Noyce, QMUL) 

• Listening to Lived Experience: Shaping Culturally Sensitive Physiotherapy (Project-specific activity, Dore Young, Manchester)

• Community Conversations: Digital access and inclusion (Project-specific activity, Francesca Dakin, Oxford) 

• Creative methods of communicating to inform women’s health research in primary care: workshops from Blackbird Leys and Blackpool (Department-wide activity, Rebekah Burrow and Polly Kerr, Oxford) 

• An Equitable Approach to Improve Mental Health During the Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis Journey. (Project-specific activity, Chloe Pasin and Rohini Mathur, QMUL) 

• Accessibility and acceptability of mental health support for domestic abuse (Project-specific activity, Christina Palantza and Karen Morgan, Bristol) 

• Understanding patient experiences after an urgent referral to the upper gastrointestinal urgent suspected cancer referral pathway where no cancer is diagnosed. (Project-specific activity, Oksana Kryshevich, Exeter)

• Patient and public involvement in research focused on understanding the incidence and prevalence of acquired brain injury in children and young people (project-specific activity, Sophie Orchard and Prof Laila Tat, Nottingham)