Institutional Context
Summary
Coventry University Group (CUG) has a distinguished history and an established reputation of working locally, nationally and internationally to embed collaboration with and for partners. Starting as the Coventry School of Design in 1843 and to the present-day, knowledge exchange has always focused on finding solutions to real-world challenges which underpin economic and societal growth. Local growth and community engagement are focused on the core needs of local citizens - health inequalities, unemployment, and developing holistic and targeted community support for long-term societal advancement and inclusive growth. Expansion has transformed and transplanted knowledge exchange from the City of Coventry campus to the other UK CUG campuses; Scarborough, London, Barking & Dagenham, and Greenwich, and internationally to the Wroclaw campus, Poland.
Institutional context
Coventry University’s origins date back to the Coventry School of Design in 1843, establishment of the Lanchester Polytechnic (1970) and into a modern university in 1992. Coventry University Group (CUG) is proud of its heritage in Coventry and the strong links with the local communities and industries. Understanding, supporting and working collaboratively with the areas in which CUG operates provides the central ethos of a strong enterprise strategy across CUG. Expanding KE activity is central to CUG’s 2030 Group Strategy and has been a key component in its growth to become one of the biggest undergraduate universities in the UK. Building innovation capacity and deepening commercial and community partnerships allows us to create solutions to local needs.
Current partnerships with leading industry and local delivery partners inform the next generation of knowledge exchange. For the CUG communities there is an urgent need to mitigate health inequalities and unemployment. Our response has been the development of flexible personal and professional development, targeted programmes to increase innovation capacity, support for start-ups, scale-ups, and economic growth, and widening access to employment opportunities.
The place-based approach, and core ethos as a partner of choice supporting local economic and societal growth has been transformed and transplanted to new campus locations in the UK, providing the academic rigour and discipline of a University with flexibility to meet the needs of the local community. The CUG today comprises the Coventry city campus, CU London and campuses serving central London, Scarborough, Greenwich, Barking & Dagenham, and most recently Wroclaw, Poland. Each campus supports the community local to it, through dedicated activity such as the Advisory Group in Scarborough and the Anchor Alliance in Coventry.
In 2020 CUG set up CU Services Ltd, to support and enable business and society to leverage the teaching, research and expertise of CUG to create better futures for individuals, organisations and communities. As part of CU Services Ltd, the Enterprise & Innovation Organisation (EIO) provides a focus of clarity within CUG to support a Group-wide approach to KE. CU Services Ltd has developed a plan of near-term enabling actions, and a market sector and collaborative product focus that will deliver an enhanced positive impact with our internal and external stakeholders. The company plays a key role in working across the Group to shape our innovation approach and academic engagement in commercial activities.
At a more granular level, the EIO are responsible for delivering excellence within our strategic partnerships; enterprise and entrepreneurship programmes; CPD and apprenticeship programmes; business and community engagement; support for local growth and regeneration; engagement with third sector organisations and investment in Intellectual Property (IP) and commercialisation. CU Services Ltd also has the capability to meet the need for CUG to scale up its support and leadership of KE and innovation-based activities to meet the future needs of the Group, it’s partners and the communities it serves.
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Local Growth and Regeneration
Summary of approach
Coventry University Group (CUG) is committed to Local Growth and Regeneration (LG&R) in the City of Coventry, and specifically in the geographical areas surrounding its campuses in Scarborough, Greenwich, Barking and Dagenham, and the City of London. Working closely with partners, devolved administrations, LEPs, local government, and Chambers of Commerce, the CUG delivers support relevant to local businesses and maintains long-term partnerships to further LG&R.
This is embedded in the CUG Strategy 2030, led by the Vice-Chancellor with the Group Leadership Team - investing in infrastructure, technology, local enterprise and social capital. The CUG approach is community building through local partnerships, responding to local needs as a collaborative partner: developing solutions for the local communities where CUG is embedded.
Aspect 1: Strategy
The Coventry University Group (CUG) 2030 Strategy promotes the growth of knowledge exchange through strong partnerships which respond to the needs of the local community and region; including unemployment, health inequalities, workforce development, and business innovation. Historically, CUG has always been an institution of the City of Coventry and for the City of Coventry. Over recent years this approach has taken this core belief of supporting the local city and region and delivered in new areas with newly established campuses (in London, Scarborough, and Wroclaw) – translating and transplanting the CUG approach to support the development, recovery and growth of these communities.
CUG has invested significantly in LG&R to support this aim. Dedicated staff (led by the Group Leadership Team) provide a coherent structure for LG&R activities that are measured and evaluated in line with organisational aims, values, and the needs of the local community. The two geographic areas with the highest level of LG&R delivery are Coventry and Warwickshire, and Scarborough Town and the surrounding area in North Yorkshire. These areas are local to CUG campuses and have high levels of demand from local businesses and citizens. These needs are identified in collaboration with local partners in each area including: West Midlands Combined Authority, Coventry City Council, Scarborough Borough Council, Chambers of Commerce, local Growth Hubs and local anchor partners. Funding applications and new projects are initiated based on local need to ensure projects build on, and continue support for these communities.
CUG has 30 years’ experience of co-designing and running business support schemes, and a current portfolio of 8 ERDF funded innovation programmes. All have been developed with the involvement of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and have provided a measurable gain in economic development.
City of Coventry – The City of Coventry is home to the University. From being a College of Design in 1843 through to the amalgamation of Lanchester College of Technology with Rugby College of Engineering Technology to becoming a Polytechnic in 1970, Coventry University was established in 1992. CUG contributes to the continued economic and societal growth of the City as a partner of choice – embedding collaboration and maximising impact with and for partners. Programmes for local growth and regeneration focus on local needs, and target activity for public and community benefit. Priority activities include building economic and societal growth, delivering personal and professional development for local citizens, and widening access to employment.
CU Scarborough – Scarborough is one of the most deprived areas in the country. According to the ONS (2020) 14.5% of the population was income-deprived, and of the 316 local authorities in England, Scarborough is ranked the 80th most income-deprived. There are high levels of illiteracy within the town, and analysis of every parliamentary constituency in England found that 10 wards in Scarborough and Whitby are among those across the country with the highest literacy need (National Literacy Trust). Under-resourcing leaves communities in significant poverty, with low educational attainment, and few prospects. The North Yorkshire campus opened in September 2016 as a direct response to local demand for continuity of higher education provision in the town. The LG&R focus at the campus supports the educational focus to increase educational attainment and reduce levels of deprivation in the town and local area. CU Scarborough carries forward the same ethos as Coventry: a focus on health inequalities, and shaping the future of healthcare and holistic, targeted community support are central aspects of the local need in the town. The campus has become a central point for local growth initiatives, providing a range of education options with the academic discipline and rigour of a university but the flexibility to meet the specific needs of the local community. Furthermore, the campus provides a central community link to CUG research, graduate employment and placement and support for local businesses.
Aspect 2: Activity
Working with partners ensures the focus of projects is identifiable and deliverable, meeting the needs of local businesses and the community.
Project –Technical & Digital Bootcamps
Delivering technical skills to people to meet the growing skills needs on a national and regional basis for current and future technical challenges.
Need: - Across multiple sectors for a highly skilled work force in new and emerging markets to be available to support business in a short timescale
Audience: - Businesses across the Midlands (and two National programmes)
Outcome: - From 2022 onwards CUG has been working with the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and the Institute of Coding to deliver targeted skills programmes focused on increasing the availability of a highly skilled regional workforce to support new and emerging technical markets. Focused skills have been provided in a range of technical courses including: -
Cyber Security
Data Science
Digital Marketing
User Focused Design (UX UI Design)
Digital Leadership and Management
WebApp Development
Cloud engineering, data analytics and sustainability
Art Technical and curation skills
Over 250 people have been trained across 2 years in intensive business-need led bootcamps to meet the skills shortage in these key digital and technical markets. Delivering £1,124k of funded skills activities and securing £933k for future work from 2022-23 onwards.
Figure West Midlands Combined Authority logo
Project - Coventry & Warwickshire Green Business - supporting businesses to develop low carbon technologies and implement improvements to energy and resource efficiency.
Need : - Responding to the strong advanced manufacturing base in Coventry and Warwickshire and the Science Innovation Audit for the Midlands Engine (2016), providing support for new technology and product development in low carbon energy solutions. In 2019 a new 3-year programme started with a focus on the Low Carbon Economy and the use of renewable energy.
Audience :- Coventry and Warwickshire based SMEs
The project:- support on sector-specific business-related topics such as current/future technology developments, market intelligence/opportunities and legislation. Grants of up to £20k are also available to businesses to support the commercialisation of new products and Intellectual Property Rights alongside free energy and resource efficiency audits. The project has developed a unique group of decarbonisation clusters, working across industry sectors with research departments within the University to develop knowledge and impactful action plans around Carbon Accounting and the route to net zero. These have also included electrification of transport and design for lifetime low carbon products and buildings.
Outcome – To date the programme has awarded £2.5m in grants to SMEs, there has been over 14,000 tonnes of CO2 energy savings, 60 new jobs have been created, 150 SMEs have received non-financial support, and 2,450 organisations have joined the local Green Business Network. The ERDF project was delivered with a 40% intervention rate, leveraging an additional £3,750,000 in reduced carbon investment in Coventry and Warwickshire.
Case Study – Rootwave Ltd
RootWave, founded by Andy Diprose and based in South Warwickshire, applies an electrical current to weeds which causes their roots to heat up and die. It avoids the use of conventional herbicides which have a high carbon footprint and can damage the environment.
The inspiration for the company came from Andy’s father, Dr Mike Diprose, who has a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He demonstrated the effectiveness of the technology in the 1970s – although the procedure was much more expensive at the time.
Andy took up his father’s mantle and developed the idea into a start-up, with the potential to revolutionise weed control on small and large scales. The firm had initial success with its hand-weeder ‘RootWave Pro’, which is used in parks and gardens across the UK and Europe to control unwanted plants.
CUG helped RootWave secure grants worth over £30,000 to refine its hand-weeder products and purchase software to help it design systems for larger-scale weed control.
Andy said: “There are so many reasons why an alternative system of weed control is needed today.
“For example, weeds are becoming more resistant to herbicides through overuse, governments are recognising the harm that herbicides can cause, and consumers are also choosier about the provenance of their food, so the business case for farmers to switch is also stronger than ever.
Continued advice on scaling its products and accessing grant money from CUG has seen RootWave grow its staff to 41 employees and develop a larger scale system for farming.
‘The initial support and the grants awarded to us through CUG were a hugely significant part of our growth as a company. All start-ups need money, so it was fantastic that they recognised our potential. The launch of our new system for orchards and vineyards will be an exciting new chapter for RootWave and we’re really positive about the future.’ Andy Diprose, CEO, RootWave
Figure & 3 – Coventry and Warwickshire Green Business funder logos of European Regional Development fund and Midlands Engine
Project - Digital Advantage – support and encouragement for SMEs in North Yorkshire to make better use of digital technologies – Scarborough Campus Lead.
Need: - Requirement to support businesses, particularly micro businesses and those in rural locations, to exploit digital technologies, and to enable those businesses who have a limited digital footprint, to get started (identified in the YNYER ESIF strategy). Starting in 2017 the scheme received a 3-year extension in 2020 to continue to grow the adoption of digital technology.
Audience: - SMEs in North Yorkshire with a digital capability requirement The project was devised to help businesses in the North Yorkshire area to enhance their use of digital technologies to improve competitiveness. The project delivers free one-to-one and workshop support to SMEs with the possibility of a follow-on grant to cover the cost of employing a specialist to address business specific digital issues that the company is experiencing.
Outcome:- To date this initiative has led to over 800 SME engagements with 219 grants awarded.
The project is receiving up to £1.4m of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020
Figure Digital Advantage funder logo, European Regional Development Fund
Aspect 3: Results
Annual reporting on activity and outcomes, combined with evidence of local needs helps to steer the future direction of CUG. In Coventry itself, local partnerships (with organisations including the West Midlands Combined Authority, LEPs, and active memberships of the West Midlands Combined Universities and Midlands Enterprise Universities) keeps the strategy for LG&R projects in line with the changing needs of the local and regional community. Close partnerships with local anchor organisations such as NHS Trusts, City Councils and larger businesses such as the Unipart Manufacturing Group, Severn Trent Water, and Jaguar Land Rover ensure that initiatives are driven by the largest needs where the niche skills of the CUG can be delivered to the greatest effect.
CUG’s approach is data and research driven, and analysis of economic activity engagement with participants is key to understand not just the success of projects, but also any failings, to learn and adapt the scope and delivery.
Aspect 2: Activity
(above) shows the individual results and outcomes achieved from some of our projects. The CUG Strategy is to embed local growth and knowledge exchange aims across the organisation and bring together projects under that single aim. Projects focused on innovation, design, high performance automotive engineering, health, environment, and ICT are particular areas of interest. Through this activity in the recent 3 years 27,051 Small-to-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been supported through LG&R projects. SME investment in these projects between 2019 – 2022 has been £3,699,216, alongside the £8,148,000 received by CUG for LG&R projects from structural funds.Public & Community Engagement
Summary of approach
Coventry University has always maintained a close link to the people of Coventry City. As the University has grown and expanded, this has remained a crucial element of what we do and how we work.
Working with our communities, we have developed an extensive range of programmes which have been co-created with local people to ensure we are supporting their needs. We have applied the same principles across the University Group and have built new links with communities across the UK through our campuses in Scarborough, Barking and Dagenham, central London, and Greenwich.
Aspect 1: Strategy
Public and Community Engagement (P&CE) is a crucial part of the culture at Coventry University Group (CUG). Reflected in the Coventry University 2030 Corporate Plan and evidenced further in the CUG Cultural Strategy for 2020, and again for 2030. The approach is unique to CUG, and the communities it works with. There is a focus on place, centred on the campuses, and space for evolution to recognise the need for change as communities develop. An example of this is the evolution of the one-of-a-kind approach to part-time and doctorate-by-publication programmes – specifically designed to encourage a diverse doctoral student population, making doctoral study available for all.
CUG led the development of Coventry’s Culture Strategy 2017-2030, developing a strategy for the City of Culture Year (2020-21), and beyond. The aim was to engage the citizens of Coventry in cultural experiences, to be accessible for everyone. Cultural and Creative Strategy Group created a new CUG and City-wide strategy for 2023 onwards. These strategies are co-created documents - taking the needs of CUG and the wider community to develop ways of working and evolving together into the future.
Through our strategic approach to P&CE we continue to:
Engage our learners in social responsibility, public and community engagement, third sector partnerships, and social enterprise.
Address health and wellbeing issues within our communities to support inclusive growth.
Maintained a central role in cultural and creative activities in local communities.
Enhance the provision of dedicated business and social enterprise start-up services.
As a member of the Civic Universities Network, we have committed to developing agreements in Coventry, Dagenham, and Scarborough, working in partnership with local government and partners.
Aspect 2: Support
CUG prioritises place, working with community organisations responding to local needs. Delivering an integrated approach to social impact, recognising the interaction and connections between education, health and wellbeing, economy, and enterprise, cultural and creative economy, and community engagement.
Examples of localised, responsive programmes include:
UK City of Culture 2021 - Delivery
Needs: - As a principal partner of the City of Culture Trust, CUG actively supported the growth of the local creative industries and the celebration of the City of Coventry.
Community: - The City of Coventry and all visitors to the City.
Action: - CUG worked with partners in the delivery of the UK City of Culture 2021.
CUG engaged and committed to delivering a successful year of culture in 2021 - reflecting the range and breadth of local arts and creative industries. CUG held competitions from 2018–2022, offering seed funding for projects for the UK City of Culture 2021. The 47 supported projects ranged from a documentary film capturing the oral history of Coventry Evening Telegraph employees; an exploration of the influence of Coventry on the life and work of author George Elliot; filming a podcast history of dance in the City and uncovering the hidden histories of British African Caribbean peoples in historic Warwickshire. Details of CUG staff and student projects can be found below:-
Citizen Social Science and the MiFriendly Cities programme
The MiFriendly Cities programme, led by CUG and Coventry City Council was a £4m initiative (2018-2021), involving 11 partners in 3 cities. The project focused on implementing 31 actions aimed at developing innovative, community-led, and sustainable approaches to enhancing the contribution of refugees and migrants.
As part of the project, CUG designed a Citizen Social Science L2 Qualification, resulting in 100+ accredited Citizen Social Scientists undertaking 60 research projects that reached 2,000 individuals. Many of these have since been employed as researchers by local policy makers. In 2021, these citizen scientists were commissioned by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to undertake a community “listening exercise” to understand more about the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of communities and gather community feedback on potential areas of focus for the regional Mental Health Commission. In the final report, Citizen Social Scientists were cited as co-authors.
Student Engagement in Scarborough Community
Health and education students at CU Scarborough are supported to engage in local community activities. The programme of community activity is led and managed by course leaders, enabling the students to engage in activities with local community groups. The activities are planned, repeated, and supported to bring student groups together on locally relevant issues. These have included: - working with local charities to support families in hardship, supporting the planning of new community spaces to deliver sustainable development goals, and climate change programmes.
Aspect 3: Activity
As a strategic activity for CUG, P&CE is wide-ranging - spanning research, teaching, and knowledge exchange delivered by staff and students.
Examples evidence the breadth and depth of partnerships and solutions to real-world challenges.
Gallery of Living History
Need: - Sharing the stories of forgotten, overlooked, or ignored communities
Community:- City of Coventry
Action:- The launch of the Gallery of Living History (GoLH) took place as part of and during the year of Coventry as City of Culture 2021.
The GoLH seeks to encourage participants and communities to revisit the stories of the forgotten, overlooked or ignored, and those who have been unfairly represented, and to help people gain confidence about their own identity. The aim of GoLH is broad, working with communities and organisations to capture the histories of people within them.
The GoLH is a partnership between Coventry University, and Imaginarium Studios. Across February-June 2022, CUG staff worked with 100 school children and 20 teachers to co-design a sculpture for installation in the city [pictured here], and on permanent display in Coventry.
Community involvement is critical to strengthening the bond between CUG and people in the locality. This initial project has led to a range of further proposals for community engaged public art and installations, and work continues throughout 2023.
The statue created with community groups for the Gallery of Living History, featuring the peach dove and leaves moulded from the handprints of participants.
Coventry Digital
Need:- A digital archive for the history and culture of the City of Coventry
Community:- Coventry and Warwickshire
Action: - The development, launch and implementation of Coventry Digital
Funded initially by CUG, Coventry Digital (coventry.digital) has been developed in partnership with local organisations and communities. Since launching (January 2021), 70,000 digital assets have been added by families, businesses, artists, and institutions This is engaging the public in generating a very real sense of Coventry’s past and present.
In
its first year, 320,000+ searches were made and 42,000 assets were
embedded or social-shared, which has grown to 80,000 individuals (to Jan
31 2023), as well as being used on arts projects, including Mark Murph for Nitin
Sawhney’s Ghost in the Ruins, below:
Photography of Jason Tilley, John Blakemore, and Coventry Architecture Department, as part of Ghost in the Ruins, sourced via @covdig by collage artist Mark Murph.
Coventry Digital partners include: - Reach Licensing, Historic England, Capture (software), and Genusit and Sac-Design (digital scanning). Developed and implemented in 2020, Digital Coventry continues to grow with community engagement. In 2023 the programme will continue to evolve with Scarborough Digital, a platform to support local business and tourism in Scarborough as part of CUG’s strategy to support the wider development of Scarborough Town.
Hope for the Community CIC
Need: - Co-created bespoke positive psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy, and mindfulness programmes
Community: - H4C’s Hope Programme empowers individuals with the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their long-term conditions using positive psychology technique
Action:- Launched in 2015, H4C is a social enterprise spin-out company. Since 2020 more than doubling in staff numbers, assets, and turnover as an active and successful spin out company.
Since the pandemic, H4C has successfully pivoted to a health technology business, continuing to grow as a sustainable spin out social enterprise. H4C have 12 co-produced online solutions market, valued at £558k (July 2022). From 2019 onwards H4C have delivered 280 courses supporting 4,796 people living with or affected by a range of long- term conditions, training 185 new facilitators across the UK.
In September 2021, H4C launched the first of its kind digital community led self-management support co-produced with people living with long COVID. Funded by NHS Charities Together in conjunction with UHCW Charity, the Hope Programme for long COVID provided support to 1,116 people with positive outcomes. The Programme has been commissioned across the whole of the Southwest by the NHS and in July 2022, was featured as a case study in the NHS Plan for improving long COVID services (C1607).
As part of its reinvestment policy, H4C organised and sponsored HopePunk, an art exhibition and festival, offering Hope Programme participants, facilitators and supporters a chance to be at the centre of Coventry’s year as City of Culture.
In April 2022, 42 artists formed the HopePunk Collective to showcase 167 artworks expressing what hope means to them, highlighting the emotional rollercoaster that comes with living with a chronic illness, looking after a loved one or just trying to get by. Taking over 2 floors of the LTB Showrooms in Coventry, 250 people visited, describing the exhibition as “Very inspirational and sent me away with HOPE in my heart”.
FabLab Coventry is a community makerspace which builds on Coventry’s industrial heritage through providing the opportunity to people to learn about advanced manufacturing, facilitating the transformation of ideas into reality. FabLab Coventry connects students, researchers, local communities, and businesses together in responding to social challenges through mutually beneficial learning and social innovation, resulting in qualifications, publications, artwork, citizen science and policy innovation that focuses on the most vulnerable in society, delivers a large-scale citizen social science programme and supports the circular economy.
The infographic here shows the impact FabLab has had: -
Aspect 4: Enhancing practice
P&CE activity is co-created, developed, delivered, and monitored across CUG sites, research, teaching, and knowledge exchange. Co-creation methodology is a key module in the CUG Coventry Essentials training for researchers. A single approach to monitoring and evaluation doesn’t provide flexibility to tailor approaches to the work, this is determined and governed locally.
Examples of monitoring and evaluation are shown below: -
UK City of Culture 2021 Performance, Management and Evaluation Strategy
CUG worked with partners to monitor and evaluate the delivery, and emerging legacy, of the City of Culture. The evaluation approach used CUG Theory of Change expertise to explore cultural, social, economic, health and wellbeing impacts of the programme, as a city and through its communities. The City of Culture award supported the Coventry & Warwickshire LEP priority focus in Culture and Tourism; the year-long programme of delivery created jobs, promoted cultural assets, and boosted the local economy.
The Core Team also received expert support from a Technical Reference Group (TRG) which acts as an independent and impartial group. Led by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, other representatives include Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Spirit of 2012, NESTA, What Works Centre for Wellbeing, UCL, the University of Derby, the British Council and the West Midlands Combined Authority.
Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture generated an unprecedented amount of data relating to cultural participation and engagement across the city’s neighbourhoods and communities. In 2022, Coventry University and the Coventry City Council’s Insights Team organised several cultural data knowledge exchange events:
Lightning talks for City Council staff/a webinar aimed at the academic community to broaden their awareness of the type of UK CoC 2021 data collected: ticketing, cultural participation, sentiment, and attitudes to Covid-19
The Coventry Cultural Challenge made open data available to members of the public and gave them the opportunity to develop ideas and concepts that ‘aim to make life better in Coventry’
At The Reel Store, people were able to ‘Walk Through Coventry Data‘ and learn about the city in a new way through use of data insights and photographs of Coventry through the years.
Ongoing work and research generating and sustaining this legacy can be seen at Home - Evaluating Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 (coventry21evaluation.info)
FabLab and MiFriendly Cities
The projects have been co-evaluated with participants by applying a Theory of Change (ToC) methodology for the evaluation of large-scale community engagement programmes.
This ToC approach has also been implemented alongside research activity for a wide range of local authorities across the UK. It has supported policy makers in improving understanding of urban poverty through the CUG “Life on the Breadline” project. This project (2019-2022) analysed the nature, scope, and impact of Christian engagement with urban poverty in the UK (in the context of austerity since the 2008 financial crisis). The approach has also been co-created with the Home Office to evaluate a programme of training for up to 30,000 staff.
Aspect 5: Building on success
Through the CUG Corporate Social Responsibility Framework, Research and Public Engagement Strategy and Cultural Strategy we prioritise issues around place: skills, educational outcomes, employment, health and wellbeing, culture, and economic development. Best practice from projects is harnessed to support the expansion and development of services and facilities for the local community and actions and outcomes with social impact are reported publicly here.
An example activity of building success with partners is the Centre for Care Excellence (CfCE): -
CfCE is a unique development for patients, service users and families, and for Nurses, Midwives, and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHPs). Its aim is to empower care staff at every level to be able to develop ideas to make ‘patient first’ improvements in care by creating new evidence for best practice, sharing knowledge and expertise.
By developing key specialist areas of research, development, and innovation to benefit a wide range of stakeholders and staff within both lead organisations - CUG and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust. This video, shows the testimonials from collaborators involved in this activity and provide leadership, feedback, and the ability to continue to evolve CfCE.
CfCE is focused on the professionalism and growth in nursing research, establishing research projects, and supporting clinical researchers to develop and deliver research into nursing practice. Working together, CUG and UHCW have established a clinical research community and projects which have delivered evaluation in healthcare for direct patient benefits.
Following the success of CfCE in establishing a route for research in the nursing profession, the same opportunity for health scientists and technicians is being established. This activity will establish a route for growth in the profession and run alongside the Technician Commitment that CUG has made in recognising the role of Technician’s - supporting career development and growth for technicians in the UK HEI and research ecosystem.
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