Summer Conference 2025

Welcome to Research Month 2025

May is dedicated to exploring all things research strategy. The Council is delighted to be promoting and sharing a range of interviews, webinars, podcasts, and blogs featuring guests from external organisations including CARIN, UK Network of Professors in Midwifery and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. Throughout the month, we will be looking at various themes such as REF, Follett Principles, collaboration, and leadership.

In an introductory video Ed Hughes, Chief Executive of the Council of Deans of Health, opens Research Month 2025 and highlights the variety of activities and resources that the Council will be releasing.

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Webinar: Driving innovation and knowledge exchange

In this webinar, we hear examples of good practice in partnership working between HEIs and industry and service organisations to help drive innovation and knowledge exchange. We explore the impact that good research partnership working can deliver and look to some of the common themes associated with effective engagement. This event is open to all.

Please see all published resources below. More Research Month 2025 podcasts, blogs and case studies are coming soon.

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Upcoming Research Month 2025 Podcasts

• Research Impact in Policy and Practice
• Clinical academic task and finish group

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Upcoming Research Month 2025 Blogs

• Advancing occupational therapy: A new strategy for Research and Innovation by Dr Gillian Ward
• Emergency Care Through a Neurodivergent Lens: A Radiographer’s Research Journey by PHD student Ben Potts

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Upcoming Research Month 2025 Case Studies

• Exploring Maternity Services for Marginalised Groups at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust and Anglia Ruskin University
• Developing AHP Clinical Academic Capacity and Capability at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust and the associated Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
• Developing the Research Skilled workforce Project at Southwest Clinical Schools, NHSE SW Regional Office and all health care organisations and HEIs in the SW region.