The King’s Engaged Research (KERN) Awards is an annual event celebrating public, patient and community engagement work that is happening across King’s College London. The awards are designed to showcase the diversity of work within the college and provide an opportunity for reward and recognition for those working on these important projects.
The Maternity Opportunities for Research Engagement (MORE) project team have been shortlisted in the Participatory Research (local) category.
The MORE project is funded through the King’s College London Participatory Research Fund. The project is focused on local capacity building, partnership development and co-design of a participatory research project using Photovoice to build a greater understanding of the needs and experiences of an ethnically and socially diverse group of women in south London.
The project team is a collaboration of peer researchers (Vita Moltedo, Zenab Barry, Rachael Buabeng and Tania Sutedja), researchers (Kaat de Backer, Zahra Khan, Zoe Vowles, Hannah Rayment-Jones, professor Jane Sandall and Abigail Easter) and involvement lead (Mary Newburn)
Kaat De Backer, doctoral researcher, King’s College London and the MUMS@RISC advisory panel have been shortlisted for a KERN Award in the PhD and Early Career Research category.
The MUMS@RISC study, a doctoral research study funded by the NIHR, aims to investigate the maternity experiences and perinatal health outcomes of mothers who have their baby removed shortly after birth due to involvement with children’s social care.
The advisory panel consists of a group of mothers with lived experience of infant removal and their trauma-informed approaches to research engagement has led to a Charter for Research Engagement, available here.
The KERN award winners will be announced on 16 January.