Research Strategic Policy Group
The Council’s Strategic Policy Group highlights the value and importance of nursing, midwifery, and AHP research and research roles in tackling real life health challenges and inequalities as well as increasing research capacity and capability for our members.
Our Research Leads Network is comprised of research leads in our members’ faculties or schools. The Network contributes to the Council’s research work and advises us on more detailed strategic research issues.
Since 2018, the Council has also been hosting the Healthcare Professionals Clinical Academic Roles and Career Pathways Implementation Network, which was formerly hosted by the Association of UK University Hospitals (AUKUH) and which works on the UK-wide implementation of clinical academic roles for healthcare professionals (excluding doctors and dentists).
Group priorities
The Council’s Research portfolio focusses on:
- promoting the value and importance of nursing, midwifery, and AHP research and research roles
- increasing research capacity and capability for our members.
- advocating for an increase in research funding and research career opportunities for our disciplines
- promoting strong research environments in universities’ health faculties
- advocating for better career pathways for clinical academics in our professions across the UK
Regularity of meeting: Quarterly
Group Chair
Professor Christopher Burton
The University of East Anglia
Dean of the School of Health Sciences
Chair of Research Strategic Policy Group
Group contact
Emma Shone-Bell
Policy Officer
Emma joined the Council in September 2024. Before moving to London, she worked in New Zealand as a Senior Advisor for the Tertiary Education Commission and Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Policy, Planning and Service Delivery from Victoria University of Wellington and a Bachelor of Nursing from Te Pūkenga Canterbury.
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