Usha Boolaky - Health and Care Research Wales conference 2020

Research culture and capacity: Building resilience for the future Dr Usha Boolaky, Assistant Director for Research October 2020

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Research Culture and Capacity: Building resilience for the future

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Research Culture and Capacity: Building resilience for the future

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Research Culture and Capacity: Building resilience for the future

UK Health and Care Research Landscape •

Around 25% of the world’s top 100 prescription medicines were discovered and developed in the UK

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Firms that consistently invest in R&D are 13% more productive than firms that don’t

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Every £1 in medical research delivers a return equivalent to around 25p every year, forever.

Investing in UK R&D (May 2019) The Royal Society, The British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, The Academy of Medical Sciences

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Research Culture and Capacity: Building resilience for the future

Research and the NHS Strong history of research and clinical involvement, with greater inter-disciplinary approaches over 20 years Active and strong relationship between innovation, research and roll-out.

Clinical leaders, and building capacity for the future – funding for the longer term, building networks and boosting research and analysis skills.

The role of the wider determinants of health – social care, public health

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Research Culture and Capacity: Building resilience for the future

COVID-19: What have we learned?

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Our current funding model have inherent bias built into them.

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That impact as a means to an end can be a perverse incentive.

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Fragility of research infrastructure and capacity (e.g. HEIs, research organisations, workforce – clinical and academic roles)

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That the gap between policy and research is as big as it ever was.

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That if we don’t address these aspects of the system there is a real risk of public mistrust, poor decision making etc ...

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Time for a paradigm shift?

Research culture stretches beyond individuals and into systems and landscapes: •

Funders aren’t just funders – need to see themselves as part of the culture change

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We all have a responsibility to think about how and when we are communicating effectively – do we need to get more social media savvy? What counts?

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Transdisciplinary research is needed to span boundaries

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Implementation, knowledge mobilisation and effective communication important aspects

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Increasing the number of voices represented matters in deciding what we research we fund, how we fund it and who delivers and consumes it.

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Research Culture and Capacity: Building resilience for the future

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