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Build your research skills with our #ARCLunchandLearn series.

Over 20 short practical videos:
🔬 Methodological skills
✍️ Academic skills
🚀 Implementation and impact
📢 Dissemination sciences

Watch here:
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Stay tuned every Thursday for a new video!

The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) February 2026 newsletter The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: The first major trial to reduce social media use among healthy adolescents, Continuous care from community-based midwives reduce...

🗞️ Read the February national roundup of top stories from all ARCs across the country:

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Including news, resources, blogs, events, opportunities & much more

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NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. Applied Research Collaborations. Top 25 stories of 2025.

Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country!
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Here are our 25 most popular newsletter stories from 2025:
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What a variety!
Scroll to the end to see the top-most clicked-on stories
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❄️ Read our final national newsletter of the year!
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for the latest roundup of news, blogs & opportunities from NIHR ARCs across the country.

❄️ Browse #ARCadvent this month, with daily posts on 1-25 December revealing the most popular stories of 2025!

Creative arts therapies effective for treating trauma in young people worldwide, Oxford research finds New Oxford research supported by NIHR ARC OxTV shows creative arts therapies – including music, dance and drama – effectively reduce PTSD symptoms in children and adolescents worldwide, with particula...

New research by ARC OxTV-funded doctoral researcher Briana Applewhite from @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social shows creative arts therapies effectively reduce PTSD in young people worldwide – especially in culturally diverse communities.

🎨 33 studies, 17 countries, 4,587 participants

Morning Emma! No idea, however, If you drop an email to cellulitis@phc.ox.ac.uk I'm sure Youngjoo one of the team would be delighted to discuss!

NIHR ARCs have around
🗞️ 19,000 newsletter subscribers
❤️ 88,000 social media followers

💻 ARC websites were visited over 860,000 times by over 610,000 users in the past year alone!

✍️ ARCs published over 3,000 news stories & 1,400 blogs in the past 6 years

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💫 #ARCimpacts

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A parent-led digital programme, developed with @arc-oxtv.bsky.social support, has helped > 1,000 families tackle childhood anxiety whilst reducing clinician time by 40%!
Now rolling out across 20+ #NHS areas & expanding internationally to Chile
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💫 #ARCimpacts

Help our colleagues shape cellulitis diagnosis: share your views on what an ideal test should do. 15-20 mins, deadline 18 Nov.

Patients, carers, clinicians & researchers welcome.

Your input will influence NHS practice.

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Oxford child anxiety treatment to be rolled out internationally An Oxford-developed online therapy for childhood anxiety, supported by NIHR ARC OxTV, secures £7m to expand globally. The parent-led digital intervention reduces therapist time by 40% whilst maintaini...

Great news: an Oxford-developed online therapy for childhood anxiety is expanding globally 🌍

The parent-led programme reduces therapist time by 40% while maintaining excellent outcomes. £7m funding will now help 1,600 children across 5 countries.
www.arc-oxtv.nihr.ac.uk/news/oxford-...

Since their inception 6 years ago, ARCs have collaborated with 627 partner organisations across the country, including:

💙230 #NHS partners
🏛️106 local authorities
🎓80 universities

& many more

👉Follow #ARCimpacts & read this summary for more:
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🍰 Happy birthday to NIHR ARCs across the country who turn 6 this month!

ARCs tackle challenges facing health & social care, making a real-world impact

👉 Follow #ARCimpacts this October to find out more

👉🏿 Browse our national roundup here: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar...

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ARC-funded research reveals underweight children cost NHS as much as those with severe obesity ARC-funded research reveals underweight children cost the NHS as much per child as those with severe obesity. Study of 268,000 children finds childhood weight issues cost NHS £340 million annually, ch...

New research challenges what we thought we knew about childhood weight:

Underweight children need just as much NHS support as those with severe obesity – but are we providing it?

Our study of 268,000+ children found weight issues across the whole spectrum cost the NHS £340m/year.

New resources are set to improve admissions to mental health units for young people and their families Today – on Youth Mental Health Day – people are being encouraged to register to attend the launch of important new resources that will help young p

🌟 New resources are available to help young people, families, and clinicians understand what to expect during CAMHS inpatient admissions.

These tools improve communication, offer reassurance, and provide vital support throughout the journey.

New resources are set to improve admissions to mental health units for young people and their families Today – on Youth Mental Health Day – people are being encouraged to register to attend the launch of important new resources that will help young p

🌟 New resources are available to help young people, families, and clinicians understand what to expect during CAMHS inpatient admissions.

These tools improve communication, offer reassurance, and provide vital support throughout the journey.

ATTUNE project: exploring childhood adversity through arts, data, and co-design with young people The ATTUNE Project transforms our understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences by putting young people at the centre of research and solution design. Through creative arts workshops, big data analys...

🔎 Want to see youth reshape mental health for the better?

@theattuneproject.bsky.social fuses creativity, data and innovation co-creating new ways for young people to tackle Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

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Catch up on the 'Exploring lived experience with creative arts' national #ARCseminar:

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With: @arc-gm.bsky.social ARC North Thames @arceastofengland.bsky.social @arc-em.bsky.social

Next event:
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Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile The successful parent-led programme, developed with support from the NIHR ARC OxTV, is being culturally adapted in a new international collaboration.

From Oxford to Chile 🇬🇧🇨🇱 The highly successful OSI parent-led support programme for child anxiety is being adapted for families in a new international collaboration led by Prof Cathy Creswell. A fantastic example of research in action.

#ChildMentalHealth #NIHRImpact

Successful NIHR ARCseminar on Creative Arts and Wellbeing Launches 2025 Series - ARC The first NIHR ARCseminar of the 2025 National ARC webinar series, focusing on "The power of creative arts to improve wellbeing and involvement in research of

Catch up ▶️

#ARCseminar: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts
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Simon Gilbody @arc-yharc.bsky.social
Briana Applewhite @arc-oxtv.bsky.social
Christalla Pithara @arc-west.bsky.social
Tony Woods & Ioannis Bakolis @arc-southlondon.bsky.social

Enhancing person-centred care: new resources for care homes - ARC West Free resources to help care homes create effective, person-centred care plans for residents have been launched to mark Care Home Open Week 2025 (16–22 June). Creating care plans that are both effectiv...

🆕New free resources to help care homes create effective, person-centred care plans for residents have been launched to mark Care Home Open Week.

This work was led by @arckss.bsky.social, and included us, ARC North Thames and @arc-oxtv.bsky.social

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The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) June 2025 newsletter The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: ARC events across England for Dementia Action Week, launch of #ARCseminar series on the healing power of creative arts, national...

Explore the June roundup of top stories from all 15 of our NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs):

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including the latest research news, resources, blogs, events, training & more from ARCs across the country

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Funded by @arc-em.bsky.social, in collaboration with @arceastofengland.bsky.social, @arc-wm.bsky.social, @arc-oxtv.bsky.social and @arc-gm.bsky.social, the study highlights serious concerns around safeguarding, education, and limited treatment.

Read the full paper:
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The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) May 2025 newsletter The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: New guidance on how to disseminate research findings, trauma-focused CBT resources for professionals supporting children, the Pa...

Explore the May roundup of top stories from all 15 NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs)

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Including the latest research, resources, blogs, awards, events, training & more from ARCs across the country

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Save the date flyer reading: The Implementation Conference 2026 25-26 June 2026 Bristol, UK

📢We are excited to be organising the Implementation Conference 2026 alongside @penarc.bsky.social!

🤲The theme is inclusive implementation - making it happen.

🗓️Save the date - 25-26 June 2026 in sunny Bristol

🙏Supported by the UK Implementation Society

👋See you there!

#ImpConf26 #ImpSci

The Healing Power of Creative Arts: A DPhil Journey in Mental Health Research Briana Applewhite, a 2nd year DPhil student in Psychiatry funded by NIHR ARC OxTV, shares insights from her research exploring creative arts therapies for alleviating trauma and PTSD symptoms in youth...

The first presentation at today's #ARCseminar is by Briana Applewhite of @arc-oxtv.bsky.social & @ox.ac.uk, on how creative arts therapies like music, dance, art and drama, can help improve the mental wellbeing of Black young people in the UK

Blog: www.arc-oxtv.nihr.ac.uk/blog/the-hea...

Last month, leading voices from adult social care gathered in London for the NPP Networking & Showcase Event 📢

Hosted by @arckss.bsky.social, the event focused on innovation, inclusion & shaping the future of adult social care in the UK 🗺️

More here 👉 tinyurl.com/2vb5yn2a

See you TOMORROW, Wed 7 May at 1pm, for the first national NIHR #ARCseminar of 2025!

👉🏾 Get your free ticket here if you haven't already
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Part of a series on the healing power of creative arts, this first webinar explores improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing

📢 Exciting opportunity for regulated health & care professionals!

Bursaries for masters level qualifications in clinical research delivery leadership through the Clinician Researcher Credentials Framework.

Application deadline: 1 July 2025, 12 noon.

Details: www.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...

Creative Art for improving patients’ health and wellbeing | NIHR ARC Wessex As part of the Qualitative Research Network we hear from two great speakers from University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - talking about how self expression and creativity support ...

This is your 1 hour - get a cup of tea handy and have some lunch warning for www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/event-detail...

@nihrarcs.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @arc-oxtv.bsky.social @ukri.org

NIHR National Institute for Heath and Care Research #ARCseminar

🗓️ 7 May #ARCseminar

Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts

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Simon Gilbody @arc-yharc.bsky.social
Briana Applewhite @arc-oxtv.bsky.social
Christalla Pithara-McKeown @arc-west.bsky.social
Tony Woods & Ioannis Bakolis @arc-southlondon.bsky.social