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Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Plymouth 
Aim: To celebrate impact and achievement
We will be celebrating the impact of research capacity building initiatives by teams, organisations, and across networks and systems of care, in the South West.
 
 
 

Previous conferences

 

Developing and Celebrating a Research Skilled Workforce Conference 2025 

Access resources produced and presented at the conference on 2 April 2025.
Practitioners from across the South West of England submitted abstracts for oral presentations and in-person and online posters.
Practitioners shared practice-based research activities. Many of these addressed research capacity-building efforts, service evaluation and improvement, and patient and professional experiences.
These resources will be of interest to health, social and science professionals. They describe real-life practice-based work to evaluate and improve services, and therefore offer examples of how other health, social and science professionals might evaluate their practice.

Abstracts

Advancing practice through evidence

Culture and identity: research reflections

Developing research capacity and engagement

Innovations in digital health

Promoting inclusion and diversity in practice and research

Research in primary, community and social care

Wellbeing and person-centred care

 

Developing and Celebrating a Research Skilled Workforce Conference 2023

Access resources produced and presented at the conference on 29 November 2023.

Practice-based research activity

Wellbeing and person-centred care

Promoting incluson and diversity

Developing research capacity

Culture and identity

Primary, community and social care