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24th May 2012
How can researchers help to shape the delivery of services, enhance practice, influence policy, inform new product development?
Enhancing the quality and volume
- Identification of multidisciplinary research priorities and capacity across Wales through consultation.
- Identification of sources of funding and support to facilitate collaboration across disciplines, sectors and institutions to bid for Research Council funding and other R&D funding.
- Developing expertise of researchers in all sectors and older people themselves through training, and collaborative work, in relation to quantitative, qualitative and mixed method studies.
- Building links with the other proposed Wales research networks and groups.
- Updating existing databases and literature reviews, thus complementing rather than duplicating research studies.
- Monitoring and reporting on research activity.
- Addressing the negative perceptions of ageing by raising the profile of ageing research particularly through clinical research.
- Small grants to encourage new researchers and for pump priming along the lines of that developed by the Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity (SPARC) network in the longer term.