HAMPSHIRE COLLABORATION FOR HEALTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University’s Sport and Exercise Scientists are:

• Delivering a community-based exercise programme for stroke and TIA patients
• Exploring the utility of robotic-assisted gait training on vascular health and physical activity in sub-acute stroke patients
• Investigating various testing protocols and health markers in patients with respiratory disorders

The NHS and University psychologists are currently collaborating on a number of projects:

University health and social care academics and the NHS

• Are exploring improvements in palliative care in Ghana
• Have been working with nurse managers and team leaders on scoping a project to explore nurses’ experiences of anxiety in the workplace.

• Developing collaborative roles, including work secondments
• 'Life after PhD' opportunities and establishing an innovation research reputation
• Reciprocal access to healthcare and academic library services
• Curriculum development, e.g. undergraduate allied health professional training and postgraduate medical and clinical education training
• Research exploring motivations, influences and barriers to choosing allied health professions
• Academic publications supporting career development, CPD requirements and the Research Excellence Framework (REF)

• Scoping of a study of autism in children
• Qualitative methods expertise and advice on use of health-related quality of life tools in the scoping of a possible study on children referred to Speech and Language
• Therapy services
• Developing health psychology collaborative research in clinical specialities
• A befriending model for community-based care for the aged

• Shared event publicity, reciprocal access to research training
• Research funding submissions
• Shared undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Developing shared knowledge of research methodologies and governance via CPD opportunities