Springfield Research

Iria Cunha is a practice linking pin in the University’s NICHE-Leeds (Nurturing Innovation in Care Home Excellence) partnership with Springfield healthcare. She has recently been awarded a prestigious National Institute for Health and Care Research School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR) individual capacity development award. The award is in recognition for her work to ‘develop […]

We meet with and involve family and friends in NICHE-Leeds research projects. We speak online once a month on a Wednesday evening, our next meeting will take place on September 14th at 7pm – if you would like to come along you would be more than welcome! If you would like to join us on […]

Family and friends are essential to the NICHE-Leeds partnership. Through involving family and friends we hear about the challenges people living in care homes face, and we work together to develop solutions that improve the experience of residents and their loved ones. The NICHE-Leeds Family and Friends panel was launched in March to engage more […]

The NICHE-Leeds partnership model is based on a Dutch model which was developed at Maastricht University. The Dutch model is called the Academic Collaborative Centre on Care for Older People (ACC-COP, or the ‘living lab’ for short) and started over 20 years ago. On 4th – 6th May we hosted Dutch colleagues in Leeds and during […]