Health, Wellbeing and Care Hub

Service Lead: Megan Klabunde

• Offer research opportunities for students across numerous multidisciplinary studies and across numerous areas of human health (including high priority topics such as mental health, obesity, health disparities etc).
• Community engagement with school programs and outside community groups to participate in research.
• The research conducted as a part of this service will range from mechanistic applied clinical research to opportunities for clinical trials, and then for the active translation of the research into clinical practice.

Service Lead: Gert Scheepers

• Offer clinical group support (including peer mentorship/engagement) services at Essex from across rehabilitation and wellbeing hubs
• Develop system for social work evaluations with Essex County council
• Facilitate social prescribing and prevention services within the Essex community

Service Lead: Dr Veronica La Marche

Offer members of the community a space to learn more about healthy relationships across key relationship (e.g., dating; sexual health/consent; satisfaction; dissolution/rejection) and lifespan milestones (e.g., transition to marriage, transition to parenthood, transition to retirement).

Offer a space for co-creation of research and to facilitate collaborations with community partnerships as they pertain to relationships

• Developing a DClinPsy placement, which will offer treatment for stress and trauma to the community that will be conducted within the hubs
• Other disciplines may also participate in the offering of related services pertaining stress, trauma and for fostering wellbeing for our community

• To showcase the research conducted within the university that focuses on trauma and disparities that lead to health, social and other problems with our local Essex community and world-wide
• Group to provide collaborations pertaining to these themes to expand research and also to translate research results into clinical trials for conducting new research
• Please contact m.klabunde@essex.ac.uk to share research conducted within this field

Service Lead: Andrew Bateman

• Provide neuropsychological rehabilitation and testing services to the community
• Offer clinical placements to trainees conducting neuro-rehabilitation
• Conduct research on rehabilitation and to translate new research into new clinical trials for developing new treatments
• Develop virtual platform for brain injury

Service Lead: Andrew Bateman

• Offer treatments for communication difficulties and for improving daily living activities for those with neurodiversity
• Provide interventions for careers and teachers for those with neurodiversity
• Preventative approach by universally delivering interventions and providing screening for speech and language difficulties

Service Lead: Andrew Bateman

• Providing a range of services including splinting, hand rehabilitation, occupational therapy and support to service users, families, friends and other health care professionals (workforce training).
• Will provide trainings to students and continuing professional development courses and placements

Service Lead: Matt Taylor

It will offer those with long term conditions, (for example, individuals recovering from stroke, COPD, arthritis) and older people the opportunity to benefit from a full assessment and to receive an intervention programme based on existing and new evidence.

Service Lead: Danielle Tucker

• Develop a space for sharing expertise with a range of organisations within the health, public health and social care sectors. - Will host challenge lab style incubation events focusing on key local health management challenges.
• Through this platform we hope to extend the reach of our knowledge exchange in the following areas:

a. Inclusive and collaborative leadership

b. Creating shared vision and meaning across organisational boundaries

c. New forms of organising for accountability/governance

d. Digital innovation and inclusive change management

Service Lead: Chiara Di Cesare

• Research-based service will provide consultation pertaining to co-production and conducting projects pertaining to citizen science
• Focus on developing participatory projects with people with lived experience of the health and wellbeing dimensions within the community
• Conduct citizens science research, which will have citizens collect data
• The aim of the work: to empower people with an active role in the generation of positive changes within their community through participation in research activity.

Service Lead: Osama Mahmoud

• The proposed Hub will support the math sciences researchers to link with public institutions including MSE and businesses and develop knowledge transfer activities
• Data Science is multi-disciplinary by its very nature, but it will provide an opportunity to showcase our research to external partners and provide a greater opportunity for improved cross-disciplinary research and external engagement.