School of Healthcare Enterprise and Innovation, University of Southampton

We are immensely proud to announce that our school has been awarded Gold in Mind's Workplace Wellbeing Awards 2023-24. 🏆   ⭐ This is the fifth consecutive year we’ve achieved Gold ⭐ ⭐ Our second consecutive year as the top scoring medium-sized organisation ⭐   The Mind Workplace Wellbeing Index is a benchmark of best practice and policy. It celebrates the good work employers are doing to promote positive mental health in the workplace and makes recommendations on the areas where there's room to improve. 💬 Our Head of School Professor Cheryl Metcalf said: “I am delighted that our school has achieved Gold in Mind’s Workplace Wellbeing Index.   “Employee wellbeing and inclusivity is a priority here and we want everyone to be able to bring their whole self to work. Winning the award for a 5th time in a row is testament to the environment we have all created together."   💬 Ruth Pullen, Assistant Director Strategic Workforce & Infrastructure, said: “Achieving Gold again is fantastic news, thank you to everyone who made it possible.    “Repeatedly winning this award demonstrates our continued and ongoing commitment to supporting wellbeing. I hope it reflects people’s experience of working here.” Thank you to everyone who responded to the staff survey and to everyone who helps promote and support positive mental health and wellbeing in our workplace. We could not do any of this without your amazing support. #SHEI #WeAreUoS #Mind #WorkplaceWellbeing

We can now reveal that ZonMw will take over the secretariat of Ensuring Value in Research (EViR) from 1 January 2025.   EViR has been part of our school for the last five years and works to maximise the impact and benefit to society of health-related research by advancing research practices and funding. Our period overseeing the secretariat has seen EViR develop into a professional organisation with a broad membership base of over 50 organisations.   ZonMw are a Dutch organisation who programme and fund research and innovation in health, healthcare, and well-being. They actively encourage the use of this knowledge and highlight the gaps in knowledge that need to be filled.   Susan Patrick, Head of Enterprise and Partnerships at our school, said: “Although we are sad to see EViR go, we can take great pride in the work we have done developing EViR into the organisation it is today.   “During our tenure EViR has gone from strength to strength with significant membership growth from organisations from all over the world.   “We are delighted to hand over the reigns to ZonMw, an organisation renowned for its significant involvement in international collaboration in healthcare related research. We are convinced ZonMw will be able to take EViR to the next level, and we wish them all the best.” To stay up to date with EViR, visit their website 👉 https://evir.org/ #WeAreUoS

Due to the hybrid nature of our office, we didn't want anyone to miss out on #ChristmasJumperDay 🎄 So we decided to stretch the festive spirit out and have Christmas Jumper Week! Whatever day our colleagues were in this week, they could don their favourite Christmas jumper if they donated to Southampton City Council's care leavers initiative. A care leaver is a young person above the age of 16 who lived some or all of their childhood in care and is leaving the care system. Many care leavers spend Christmas fending for themselves with no family and no place to call home. Every year Southampton City Council relies on donations to give them a gift at Christmas. We managed to amass a lot of fantastic gifts which we hope will bring some joy during a potentially difficult time. There were some spectacular Christmas jumpers on show too, here are some of our favourites 👇 🎅 #WeAreUoS

Our LifeLab, University of Southampton team is feeling festive! 🎄 LifeLab is an award-winning educational programme empowering young people to make healthy lifestyle choices. It is a collaboration between the University of Southampton, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and University Hospital Southampton NHS FT. Get to know some of the team 📽️👇 Faculty of Medicine (University of Southampton) School of Healthcare Enterprise and Innovation, University of Southampton Kathryn Woods-Townsend

Young people from across Hampshire have called on Hampshire and Isle of Wight health leaders to collaborate with them on policies and initiatives aimed to improve health and well-being in their age group. The group of 15 teenagers, who took part in the Young Research Training Programme (YRTP) at the University of Southampton, say that engaging with young people on the health and social care issues that affect them and listening to their lived experiences will lead to positive changes in the community. The YRTP, in association with our very own LifeLab, University of Southampton, aims to develop research and advocacy skills in young people, equipping them with tools to support their academic and employment journeys and beyond. The call was made at the Youth Assembly, a culmination of the 16-week YRTP, where the group presented 12 policy recommendations they had developed based on their own research to around 90 professionals from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight’s Integrated Care Board, Integrated Care Partnership, local authorities and wider health stakeholders. From expanding extra-curricular wellness activities to responding to vaping proactively to encouraging the mixed teaching of Sexual and Reproductive Education (SRE) to producing youth-led marketing of health programmes, the recommendations cover a range of issues affecting local young people. Talitha McCleery, 17, took part in the programme and said: “Young people want to and deserve to be, involved in decisions that impact their health and futures. We believe that the people who sit in positions of power must prioritise consulting with young people if they want their decisions to have real change and make a positive impact.” Libby Tickner, 17, who also took part, added: “We must all work together - school boards, local government, local charities and national non-governmental organisations - to ensure no opportunity is left wasted.” Mary Barker, Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Science & Deputy Director of the Institute for Life Sciences, said: “We know that involving the public in research and the direction of research makes a world of difference, but we don’t do this enough with younger age groups. We feel that since policies are made about young people, they should be allowed to have their say on the health priorities that are important to them. “The quality of research undertaken by the YRTP was extremely high. They carried out qualitative and quantitative research, had robust debates and as a result were able to develop skills that will support them in their future. We would like to thank members of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB and ICP for their commitment to taking forward the young people’s recommendations and in so doing positively impact our community.” #WeAreUoS #LifeLab

An exciting opportunity has a arisen for a Research Fellow to join our team at Southampton Health Technology Assessments Centre (SHTAC). We are looking for a researcher with exceptional analytical and communication skills to join our team supporting decisions about the effective and cost-effective use of medicines, medical devices, diagnostics and other services in the NHS. This is a fixed-term position (12 months) covering maternity leave, to start in March 2025. The successful candidate will work as part of our health economics and modelling team on projects for NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. This will involve critical appraisal of evidence and industry models, exploration of alternative scenarios and uncertainties, and writing reports for NICE Committees and other stakeholders. The role will also contribute to other collaborative research: analysing clinical trial data and developing health economic models. To apply, and to find out more about: 🔸 The role 🔸 Salary 🔸 Working at the University of Southampton 🔸 What we can offer you 🔸 Who we are looking for and desired experience 🔸 Full job description and person specification Visit 👉 https://lnkd.in/e_gZNW85 📅 The closing date for applications is Thursday 19 December 2024. #WeAreUoS #Recruitment #JobOpportunity #HealthEconomics #HTA

We are proud to announce that LifeLab, University of Southampton was named the winner of the Health at Every Age category at this year’s Health & Wellbeing Awards organised by the Royal Society for Public Health. 🏆 The category celebrates initiatives that improve the health of a specific age group in the here and now and makes efforts to protect their future health. Professor Kathryn Woods-Townsend said: “Everyone involved in LifeLab strongly believes that we can improve the health of the population by starting with the younger generation. "For more than 10 years we have been working with young people, parents and teachers across the city to empower them to make healthier lifestyle choices and this award is recognition that this work makes a real difference.” Speaking about LifeLab, RSPH assessors said: “This is an excellent programme which seeks to aid decision-making about health and wellbeing through engagement in scientific discovery. "The importance of this programme cannot be underestimated in terms of its impact on lifelong learning and opportunity – health and wellbeing is the foundation of a vibrant community and productive workforce and economy. This preventative approach provides far reaching Public Health benefits on an ongoing and enduring basis.” Congratulations to our colleagues at LifeLab for this fantastic and well deserved achievement! 📷 Vishaan Vohra, Lisa Bagust, Kathryn Woods-Townsend, Donna Lovelock and Madeleine Harris #WeAreUoS #LifeLab 🎉 🔥

Good luck to our amazing colleagues at LifeLab, University of Southampton who have been shortlisted for an award in the Health at Every Age category at the Royal Society for Public Health Health & Wellbeing Awards this evening. We're keeping everything crossed for you! 🤞 🤞 🚀 #WeAreUoS

We are delighted to announce that we are now partners in the University of Southampton Science Park’s Catalyst Programme. We have joined Health Innovation Wessex (HiW) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in partnering with Southampton Science Park to increase the funding and diversify the expertise on offer in their Catalyst Programme. Established 14 years ago, Catalyst is a six-month business incubation programme that supports innovation-led early-stage science and technology businesses with mentoring and workshop learning from world-class business mentors. Fully funded for successful applicants, Catalyst equips businesses with the tools and connections they need to drive their business forward, as well as providing them a prestigious home at Southampton Science Park and opportunities to network within its innovation community for the duration of the programme. Since their inception in 2010, Catalyst has created 92 companies, 240 jobs and raised £65 million in early-stage funding. 80% of Catalyst companies are still trading today and 17 companies that completed the programme are resident at the science park. Our Professor of Innovation and Catalyst Mentor David Bream said: “The Catalyst Programme has been operating successfully for over 10 years and is without doubt the leading business incubation programme in the South of England. “I’m really excited about this new partnership and the cross-fertilisation of ideas that can flow from us collaborating. This, combined with additional funding and expertise can take Catalyst to a new level and help the school with our ambitious Connected Healthcare Incubator Accelerator (CHIA) project.” Head of School Professor Cheryl Metcalf Metcalf said: “As an enterprise school it’s incumbent on us to drive innovation through business and this partnership is another opportunity to collaborate with some incredible people, innovators and organisations. “We understand that to build a community of engaged, enthusiastic and capable health technology entrepreneurs, we need to work at a regional level with all our partners. We are absolutely delighted to be a founding partner of this regional programme.” Dr Robin Chave, Southampton Science Park CEO, said, “I am delighted that the Science Park will be working more closely with these three very successful and hugely inspiring institutions on our Catalyst business accelerator moving forward. "These collaborations mean that we can work with twice the number of early stage businesses each year, and they will benefit from deeper learning experiences and faster problem solving through the cross-fertilisation of the partners’ ideas and experiences." Find out more about the new partnership here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eAYN5A6c Find out more about the Catalyst Programme here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebS5JC7R #WeAreUoS #CatalystProgramme

We're starting to feel very festive at SHEI HQ, not least because our wonderful hosts at University of Southampton Science Park have lined up an array of amazing festive activities! - Southampton City Council's toy appeal (up to December 6) 🛴 - Community Festive Market, Axis Conference Centre, 4 December 🎄 - Christmas Jumper Day, 12 December 🧥 - Science Park Christmas Party, 12 December 🕺 - Chilworth community carols, 19 December 🎵 For full information on all the activities, including how to get involved, visit 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqDUyMTu #WeAreUoS 🎅 🤶 🎄