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• News | SPCR supports Take the Lead: Data Champions community funding programme

  SPCR joins HDR UK and partners to support community leaders to explore how data can improve the health and wellbeing of their communities.

• Insecure housing amongst forcibly displaced Ukrainian women in England: A qualitative exploration of mental health and coping responses

  Project MH056

• Funding | Prevention Pre-Application Support Funding

  The NIHR Three Research Schools Prevention Research Programme has launched a new call for Pre-Application Support Funding, designed to support researchers preparing applications for an NIHR Career Development funding award.  As part of the programme’s capacity-building work, the funding will provide support for those who would benefit from…

• News | Well done to our Summer 2026 interns

  The SPCR summer internship programme provided 23 under graduated with the opportunity to gain valuable experience across nine member organisations, working on a broad range of primary care research projects.

• Impact | SPCR-supported researcher receives NIHR Impact Prize

  SPCR colleague Dr Tori Ford, Senior Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, has been recognised with an Early Career Researcher award in the NIHR Impact Prizes 2026.

• Blog | Nipple shields to support breastfeeding – a co-production workshop

  A co-production workshop brought together parents, researchers, healthcare professionals and breastfeeding supporters to explore women’s lived experiences of using nipple shields. The event highlighted the benefits, challenges and support needs associated with nipple shield use, helping to shape future research and improve breastfeeding support and guidance.

• Impact of perinatal anxiety on healthcare utilisation: a matched cohort study using electronic health records in the UK

  Project 565

• News | First papers published from major NHS cancer blood test trial

  The first papers from the NHS-Galleri trial, a major study investigating whether a blood test could help detect cancer earlier, have been published in two leading international journals. The trial involved around 142,000 volunteers aged 50–77 across eight regions of England and is assessing whether the Galleri® multi-cancer…

• Blog | The Leadership We Can No Longer Ignore

  Leadership is increasingly important to community-based roles such as social prescribing link workers, yet little attention has been paid to what leadership means in practice for these practitioners. This blog explores why traditional leadership models may not reflect the relational, collaborative and community-grounded leadership these roles require.

• Project 735 | Working with Autistic Adults to Widen Research Participation

  Project dates: 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2025 Phase: PPIE Project 735 Research Team Dr Sascha Miller Dr Jane Vennik Lead Institution Funded amount £7,773.59 Funding round PPIE Introduction and aims Making sure that a wide range of people can take part in research is important so the results are…