INCLUSIVE INNOVATION PANEL
A discussion about taking an inclusive approach to later life research innovation
Join our panel for a virtual session on Thursday 19th January, 1-2:30pm
Does your research involve inclusive innovation with an underrepresented community? Could your research benefit from intersectional approaches?
Join our panellists on 19th January, 1-2:30 GMT for this enlightening event.
Researchers who regularly work with members of underrepresented groups in later life will discuss a range of topics, including:
- Best practice for engaging with, and improving the lives of, members of underrepresented communities
- Opportunity areas for research innovation in later life
- UKRI Funding opportunities for later life research innovation
Speakers
Dr. Anna Lowe, Associate Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and Programme Manager at the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine (Sheffield), overseeing ‘Move More', Sheffield's whole systems approach to increasing physical activity.
Dr. Moise Roche, whose research interests lie in prevention, detection, and management of dementia in Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) populations and who designed and tested a tailored evidence-based intervention to encourage timely help-seeking for dementia in UK black elders.
Dr. Bela Prasad is cofounder of MatchingMind and is passionate about increasing access to care. MatchingMind uses AI driven matching to make it easy for people to find their perfect health partner and is set up to be inclusive, recognising individuals' intersectional identities in order to best meet their needs.
This event will be introduced by George MacGinnis, Healthy Ageing Challenge Director at UKRI, and chaired by Dr. Tim Shakespeare, Research Acceleration Lead at Zinc.
About the host, Zinc VC
Zinc enables social impact by supporting mission-driven innovators. Research and development is core to our business, and we support academics from all disciplines to innovate to improve later life. This is through our Venture Builder programme, which supports the building of mission-driven commercial businesses, and through our partnership with UKRI on the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards.
Learn more about our funding opportunity with UKRI below.
UKRI HEALTHY AGEING CATALYST AWARDS
UKRI and Zinc have partnered to create a new way of applying for research awards.
The UKRI Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards offer £62,500 from UKRI and a proven programme of enterprise and professional development support from Zinc that allows entrepreneurial researchers to impact later life and create impact beyond academia.
Could your research improve later life? Are you interested in personal and professional development alongside your research funding?
