North Yorkshire Health Determinants Research Collaboration

Project Description

The NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration North Yorkshire is a research infrastructure project to build research capacity within North Yorkshire Council. It will embed a strong research culture to generate robust evidence that will inform strategy and influence decision making, ensuring more efficient use of resources to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

The Collaboration will develop the research culture of the Council and build Council-University partnerships to conduct and use research on the health and wellbeing issues that matter to communities and which reduce inequalities.

Objectives:
1. Culture Change - fostering and delivering a Council-wide culture that is curious and creative in how it utilises research and seeks evidence-based approaches to inform decision making.
2. Capacity & Capability - building the confidence and competence of NYC staff to utilise, engage and excel in research activity, with support from academic research expertise and resource.
3. Collaboration & Co-production - creating and developing collaborative research partnerships both internally and externally, including public engagement to prioritise, co-design and co-produce our research and extending to underserved communities.
4. Champions of excellent research - becoming catalysts for change driven by strong, committed and highly motivated leadership to embed research into strategic and policy development.
5. Communication - developing and delivering high-quality processes to facilitate knowledge exchange, effective dissemination and impact of research outputs to a range of audiences locally, regionally and nationally.

The HDRC NY has four work packages, each co-Lead by Council staff and University academics: development of research infrastructure & governance, development of research capacity & capability, dissemination & impact, and learning & evaluation.