The Brighton Systems and Complex Systems Knowledge Exchange
This project provides a Knowledge Exchange (KE) for sharing ideas about systems and complex systems. It has created a dialogue between academics and practitioners.
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Developing a Knowledge Exchange on Older People's Involvement with an Ethic of Care (KEOPEC)
Principle investigator: Professor Marian Barnes
Co-investigator: Dr Lizzie Ward
£86k Funded by ESRC grant no: ES/J001058/1
Disruption: the raw material for carbon change
'Disruption: the raw material for carbon change' is a £1.3m study funded by the RCUK Energy Programme. The project aims to highlight the ways in which ‘disruption’ impacts on mobility decision-making, identifying opportunities to change mobility practices in ways that reduce carbon emissions. This exploration takes place at three levels: within ‘families’; within organisations, such as schools and businesses; and within government.
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Electronic patient records evaluation project
Academics at the University of Brighton have been working in partnership with staff, patients and carers at the Sussex Kidney Unit (Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust) and associated dialysis units to develop a collaborative approach to evaluating the implementation and ongoing use of an electronic patient record (EPR) system.
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ENSUE – Evaluating service user involvement in mental health services in England
This project is a collaboration between Kings College, London; Imperial College, London and the University of Brighton. The principal investigator is Dr Diana Rose at Kings and the researchers at Brighton are Professor Marian Barnes and Dee MacDonald. It is funded by NIHR SDO and the total budget is £304,331. The project started in July, 2011 and will run until July 2013.
The project is exploring user involvement in three mental health NHS trusts, including the Sussex Partnership Trust. It is addressing questions concerning the impact of involvement, and ways in which changes in the organisation and provision of services is impacting involvement. In particular, it is looking at goals being set by user groups and whether these are achieved; it is exploring the experiences and impact of user governors within foundation trusts, and how the introduction of individual budgets is affecting service users experiences of being able to shape services
Exploration of service user and practitioner experiences of community treatment orders
Principal investigator: Dr Julia Stroud
Managers, leaders and service user involvement
Principal investigator: Professor Marian Barnes
Older people, wellbeing and participation
The University of Brighton and Age UK Brighton & Hove have been collaborating on a programme of participatory research since 2007. We have worked with older people as co-researchers, most recently focusing on experiences of wellbeing and what this means to older people.
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Responding to Child to Parent Violence (CPV)
The hidden abuse by children on parents
Dr Paula Wilcox is leading a multi-agency research project "Child to Parent Violence" to study the emerging problem of violent attacks by children on their parents and carers.
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