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The NIHR Three Schools programme: a collaborative approach to health and care research

The NIHR’s Three Schools programme brings together the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR), NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR), and NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) to foster collaboration across key areas of health and care.

The schools are currently delivering three collaborative programmes of work:

• Prevention programme
• Mental health programme
• Dementia programme

Three Schools programme awards at the University of Nottingham 2021-26

Individual Career Development Award (dementia programme)

• Eithne Heffernan: Improving inclusivity when setting the agenda for future research about co-existing dementia and hearing conditions
• Emma Broome: Development of a future Dementia Research Leader: boosting training and development toward an independent Fellowship in strategies to support people who live with coexisting dementia and hearing loss

Research funding (dementia programme)

• Sube Banerjee: DETERMIND-LS-Y3: DETERMinants of quality of life, care and costs, and consequences of INequalities in people with Dementia and their carers: Long term follow-up with Seldom heard group enhancement - Year 3 assessment
• Nadeem Qureshi: A novel artificial intelligence approach to dementia risk prediction model development and testing in the diverse UK population
• Nadeem Qureshi (Cambridge lead institution): Developing a sustainable platform to understand the primary care, public health and social care needs of dementia, including historically underserved populations
• Manpreet Bains (Newcastle lead institution): Enhancing mobility support for people with dementia: bridging the gap between needs and care (EMBrACe)
• Manpreet Bains (Newcastle lead institution): Intersecting social relations of care: an ethnographic study with South Asian people ageing in place with dementia
• Blossom Stephen (Newcastle lead institution): Dementia risk prediction in areas of social deprivation: views of key stakeholders
• Ben Hicks (Newcastle lead institution): Co-developing resources to establish, run and evaluate dementia initiatives through football clubs

Research funding (prevention programme)

• Joe Kai (Bristol lead institution): Improving preconception health through primary care: a mixed methods study to co-produce an intervention