Supports the health and care system to accelerate innovation which improves people’s health and the regional economy.

Works with the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System and its member organisations, including the NHS Trusts and universities across the region to help them identify, evaluate, adopt and disseminate transformative innovation.

A region-wide and responsive network of people, focussed on applied research, innovation, partnership and collaboration to prevent illness, improve care, promote health and reduce health inequalities.

ARC members work together and with local communities to design, deliver, and implement research that helps to achieve better fairer health and care at all ages and in all places.

Become a member of the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria

Membership is open to anyone involved in researching, planning and delivering health and social care in the North East and North Cumbria region. This includes anyone linked to our six regional universities, health and care providers, community and voluntary agencies and local authorities. We also welcome members from business or industry.

Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, brings together the five North East Universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside in a unique collaboration to deliver world-class public health research.

Fuse is keen to work with everyone working to improve health and wellbeing and tackle inequalities, whether you are a member of the public, an academic, or a policy and practice partner from health, local authority or a third sector organisation.

Fuse hosts a responsive research and evaluation service called AskFuse, and is one of nine leading academic centres of excellence in applied public health research which make up the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR).

Provides the infrastructure to allow high-quality health and care research to take place across the region. Their vision is to improve health and care outcomes for the people of the North East and North Cumbria through research.

The LCRN has regular funding awards and their Study Support Service offers expertise and advice to help make your study a success.

The only BRC in England dedicated to the study of ageing and long-term conditions, improving the lives of people in the North East, across the UK and beyond.

Learn how you can collaborate with the Newcastle BRC and access guidance and support for trainees and investigators.

NIHR CRFs have skilled clinical trial support staff who can advise on and support complex/high intensity experimental research.

The NIHR Newcastle Clinical Research Facility delivers high-quality, cutting-edge experimental medical research and early phase clinical trials.

Click below to discover more about the NIHR Newcastle Clinical Research Facility and find out how to access facilities for early-stage research.

Works with innovators to discover, develop and deliver new solutions in healthcare to improve the population’s health in the North East and North Cumbria.

Plays a major role in shaping the future of research training and education for clinicians, health and care practitioners and methodologists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

You will also find the NHIP Academy -  a great resource to find out more about health and care academic training programmes.

NIHR Research Support Service delivered by Newcastle University and Partners

The NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) provides guidance and input to researchers to develop applications to national, peer-reviewed research programmes. This covers all NIHR programmes and UK Research Councils, as well as national health and care charities.

The RSS is a national service, delivered by eight hubs and two Specialist Centres (in Public Health and Social Care). Hubs are a partnership of organisations and individuals with expertise in applied health and care research. The NIHR RSS delivered by Newcastle University and Partners is one of eight hubs.

All hubs and Specialist Centres can support researchers with advice on:

• finding funding sources
• refining research questions, aims and objectives
• developing appropriate methodological approaches
• planning projects, teams and budgets
• planning for implementation and impact
• writing techniques/pitching an application
• patient, public, service user and community involvement and engagement
• research design to maximise equality, diversity and inclusion

To receive guidance and input, please use the NIHR RSS contact form or email [email protected].

The NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public Health aims to support the creation of high quality research evidence needed to inform policy and practice to improve public health and reduce health inequalities.

RSS support includes:

• Local Authority support and resources
• Fund Public Health Engagement Leads, Local Authority Research Practitioners and Grassroots Awards to support research at all stages in Local Authorities.
• Pre award research design advice
• Provide researchers at all stages of their career with research design and funding applications for research.
• Training and development
• Offer training and development opportunities to increase capacity and capability to undertake research.
• Governance and ethics
• Scope current and emerging systems around ethics and governance. Foster shared learning, develop guidance, templates and a repository of best practice.