CRIPACC

A great year for the #HertsYPAG! Congratulations!

We had our 2024 Annual Review this week. The entire team in CRIPACC has accomplished so much! A great event with analysis, research presentations, discussions about impact, and our plans for research in 2025 and beyond, plus the best company we can have: members of the public, our amazing professional services team, and fantastic researchers pushing the boundaries of knowledge and impact for public health and care. Great work, CRIPACC! 👏 Looking forward to 2025. University of Hertfordshire.

You are invited to the next University of Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire County Council Public Health masterclass 'Supporting a smokefree generation – A Hertfordshire perspective'. Title:   Supporting a smokefree generation – A Hertfordshire perspective Date:   Wednesday, 15th January 2025 Time:   10am – 12noon   This is an online event via MS Teams. For further details and TO BOOK YOUR PLACE, please visit this link https://lnkd.in/e58giD4G During this masterclass we will cover the following learning outcomes: 1) Understand what we mean by “a smokefree generation.” 2) Understand what action is being taken in Hertfordshire to tackle vaping in young people. 3) Increase awareness of what Trading Standards are doing to reduce illegal vapes for sale in Hertfordshire. 4) Understand what the evidence from research tells us about the best way to design services and interventions that will reach smokers and support them to quit successfully   Chair: Professor Alejandro Quiroz Flores, Director, Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), University of Hertfordshire Programme:   Welcome Professor Alejandro Quiroz Flores, Director, Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), University of Hertfordshire Setting the scene – what we mean by ‘smokefree generation’ Rushma Patel, Health Improvement Lead – Tobacco Control, Hertfordshire County Council Vaping for adults for smoking cessation Jo Meola, Senior Health Improvement Manager, Hertfordshire County Council Vaping in children and young people – research findings Adele Glover, Research and Evaluation Officer, Hertfordshire County Council Enforcement – Trading Standards. – what’s happening to reduce illegal vapes for sale in Herts Mike McGregor / Mark Kempster, Community Protection, Hertfordshire County Council What does the evidence tell us about optimising public health action to support smokers to quit? Professor Katherine Brown, Public Health and Applied Behaviour Change (PHAB) Lab, University of Hertfordshire Panel Q&A (all speakers) If you have any queries regarding this masterclass, please contact PHL&[email protected]

New publication alert! Collaboration between colleagues at University of Hertfordshire, University of Essex, and City, University of London. Congratulations to our director, Professor Alejandro Quiroz Flores, one of the co-authors of the article. 👏 Oxford University Press https://lnkd.in/e4iQqBGi

The University of Hertfordshire's De Havilland campus really feels like an airport, with big open spaces and something that looks like a control tower next to a runway. But it is cold out there–please check in on anyone who may struggle in cold weather. This is a good reference from our partners in Hertfordshire County Council about cold weather, updated on 18 Nov 2024: https://lnkd.in/eWdrZ6Ps

Webinar - Invisible Labour of Public involvement Thursday 5 December 15:30-17:00 This is the first in a series of ARC National events on Patient and Public Involvement research which aims to foster conversations and methodological development of patient and public involvement, inclusive involvement and co-production.   Dr Stan Papoulias and Dr Louca-Mai Brady will discuss their recent paper and blog post on the ‘invisible labour of public involvement’ and the role of the NIHR public involvement workforce (staff and researchers who support public involvement in research). The webinar will explore the importance of understanding the perspectives and needs of this workforce, both for embedding public involvement in health and care research, and in relation to new NIHR requirements for inclusive research and sustainable community engagement with a facilitated discussion. There will be opportunities to have a discussion around the themes of the paper. Join here https://lnkd.in/eTdvfHNU

Yesterday we had a great meeting with colleagues from UH Centre for Research in Psychology and Sports and UH Applied Psychology Research Group. We also had a fantastic discussion with colleagues from the mental health programmes in our School of Health and Social Work. Collaboration is essential for CRIPACC and we are looking forward to working with colleagues across schools in University of Hertfordshire. 👏

More opportunities to study with us at CRIPACC and University of Hertfordshire: #PhD dual award studentship! A fantastic opportunity to work with Kathryn Almack and colleagues in Western Sydney University, Australia, to advance the understanding and the experience of family carers of people living with #dementia. Based in CRIPACC and with access to all our networks and partners. Closing application date: 6th January 2025. Please apply! https://lnkd.in/eRMKptk3

Job opportunity: Policy and Community Engagement Officer (Public Health). This is a great position at the University of Hertfordshire to increase engagement between our diverse public health researchers across the University, and external policy makers, organisations and communities. This is a key area of growth and also very important for us at CRIPACC. 👍 https://lnkd.in/eBU6JWAe

We have our research seminar this week and we are very excited to welcome Sarah Perman and colleagues from Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council. Partnerships are fundamental to address the wider determinants of health, and we look forward to hosting our colleagues from the county council to discuss research and collaboration. University of Hertfordshire 👏