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Developing Innovative, Inclusive and Diverse Public Partnerships - projects funded in Round 1

Published: 21 September 2023
Version: V1.0
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Creating energetic and sustainable community research partnerships. Developing the Co-production and Peer Research (CoPPer) network to improve health and reduce inequality

Award ID: NIHR205188
Award: £149,902
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Access to healthcare for disabled and neurodiverse children and young people from underserved and underrepresented communities

Award ID: NIHR205191
Award: £123,377.58
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The Polymyalgia Paradox: Addressing north-south inequities in polymyalgia rheumatica using grassroots community connectors in a deprived urban area

Award ID: NIHR205184
Award: £93,044
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Participatory Arts in Health and Care Research (PAIR): Building a North-West consortium for developing innovative arts approaches to Public and Person Involvement and Engagement

Award ID: NIHR205187
Award: £125,679
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Whatever it Takes

Award ID: NIHR205183
Award: £149,551.67
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Creative Learning Abilities PartNerships (CLAN)

Award ID: NIHR205193
Award: £149,055.76
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Increasing accessibility of affordable healthy food to adults living with Severe Mental Illness in Middlesbrough

Award ID: NIHR205206
Award: £111,649.25
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Empowering Youth for Effective Participation in Health Decision-Making in Newham

Award ID: NIHR205219
Award: £153,436.73
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Better collaboration for better health: building trustworthy and sustained collaboration with diverse ethnic communities to improve equity and health outcomes

Award ID: NIHR205177
Award: £153,101.85
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Race Equality in Public Involvement in Research for Musculoskeletal Pain: a co-production feasibility project with Black African, Asian and Caribbean children, adolescents and families

Award ID: NIHR205207
Award: £50,978.61
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Developing and evaluating innovative tailored peer-led Obesity UK support groups to provide support for, and improve research coproduction with, least heard and underserved communities.

Award ID: NIHR205214
Award: £147,279.90
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A partnership for community-led health behaviour change research in areas of high socio-economic disadvantage

Award ID: NIHR205176
Award: £145,243.41
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A community approach to developing a rare disease network for patient-centred research

Award ID: NIHR205155
Award: £111,765.20
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Partnership for Black People's Health: involving Black communities in addressing health inequalities

Award ID: NIHR205178
Award: £153,672.97
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No research about us, without us! Removing research barriers for people with learning disabilities

Award ID: NIHR205211
Award: £143,160.64
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Removing barriers to inclusion and building strong foundations of partnership and trust with under-served groups

Award ID: NIHR205217
Award: £64,684.51
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