Rehab Forward 2026: Starting Community Research

A multi-disciplinary development event showcasing inspiring community rehabilitation research and providing knowledge and skills workshops to help build foundation level research confidence for community practitioners who want to get started with new research activity.

Learning Outcomes:

· Confidence to engage with community rehabilitation research within evidence-based practice

· Understand how to take the first steps towards becoming more research active

· Skills to underpin new research behaviours in community rehabilitation practice

Audience:

Multi-disciplinary community practitioners with no or little research experience who are curious about rehabilitation research and thinking about taking their first steps into research.

· Also, community practitioners who are early in their research journey. Those looking for a chance to increase their research confidence for better evidence-based practice and/or to get involved in research delivery.

· Also suitable for team leads and managers who want to increase research engagement and capacity in their team, service or community.

· Practitioners from any setting are welcomed, including health & social care and those working in the public, private or voluntary sector.

· We particularly encourage members of communities who are currently under-represented in research and we welcome attendee from across the UK.

Partners

This event was co-designed to meet the research capacity building needs of diverse community practitioners with an interest in rehabilitation. Thank you to all our partners for their contributions to the content of this event.

Info: Keynote Speaker, Panel Discussions and Q&A highlighting diverse research pathways, opportunities and objectives

Info: • Making sense of evidence for practice OR
• Developing a research question from a clinical idea

Info: • Creating research culture in your team OR
• Working in partnership with diverse communities

Info: Signposting to further resources to support next steps in community rehabilitation research

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher Community Rehabilitation Research Network (CRRN)