NHIR Newcastle PSRC successfully granted Newcastle University's Tilly Hale Award 2024

Dr Charlotte Richardson, Dr Laura Lindsay, Prof Hamde Nazar and Dr Matt Cooper

The Tilly Hale Awards are run by the Faculty of Medical Sciences in honour of Tilly who was a dedicated and passionate public and patient contributor and advocate for research inclusivity. They are awarded to applications with an innovate approach to including members of the public and patients in research. For 2024, Matt Cooper, Hamde Nazar, Charlotte Richardson, and Laura Lindsay have been granted one of these awards for their approach to involving informal (unpaid) carers in driving their research agenda. The team is part of the Newcastle Patient Safety Research Collaborative and School of Pharmacy and will be using the award to develop a carer group to support across research avenues and develop ideas and approaches to improving understanding about the impact of caregiving on the carer and the person they support. The group will meet multiple times across the year and be involved in supporting current projects, priority setting, designing research goals, and providing support on how to make research more accessible. Matt and the team will be holding showcase events across the award (in the early part of 2025) so if you are interested in hearing or attending these events please sign up to our newsletter or follow us on X.