The ARC Impact Fellowship is for people who are interested in developing knowledge and skills to implement and disseminate for impact evidence-based improvements in health and care settings.
The fellowship comprises of attendance at implementation and knowledge mobilisation education sessions, and conducting an implementation project (normally in the fellow’s workplace). There are two types of project that fall under Impact fellow scheme:
- Implementation: The project to be implemented must be underpinned by rigorous, relevant evidence but can entail the adaptation of such evidence to fit novel context(s). An essential requirement of the implementation fellowship is to make it valuable to the employing organisation.
- Knowledge Mobilisation: An area of evidence-based change has been identified (either from the individual’s research, from other’s research, or from clinical guidance) that needs to be disseminated and put into practice to bring about change in the service.
The ARC East of England is able to draw on a wide range of implementation strategies, tools, and techniques to enact change in the most impactful way, taking organisational context, the innovation, and the wider health and care landscape into account. People, teams, and relationships between organisations are critical when implementing research and leading change. The Impact fellows are supported by ARC East of England's Implementation Lead, Dr Sarah Robinson, who is also Director of Delivery at Health Innovation East. This partnership between the ARC and Health Innovation East means that implementation fellows are able to benefit from the breadth of implementation activities and expertise that Health Innovation East is supporting across the region – drawing on expertise in change management and implementation science.
We welcome applications from anyone with an interest in implementation of research and best evidence in the health and social care sectors. We also particularly encourage applications from previous ARC/CLAHRC fellows who have done a piece of evidence-based research that they would like to receive support to implement.
