Research funding awarded by Nuffield Foundation and Versus Arthritis

Nuffield and Versus Arthritis£1.94 million has been awarded by the Nuffield Foundation’s Oliver Bird Fund and Versus Arthritis to support research to improve wellbeing among people living with MSK conditions. Awards have been made to six teams across five universities.

The projects focus on recommendations for policy and practice for improving duration and quality of working lives; developing materials to support education and career pathways for young people with juvenile onset conditions; assessing the benefits of social prescribing; and evaluation of a peer mentoring programme for people experiencing economic disadvantage. All the projects will involve people with lived experience as advisors.

Details of all six projects are available from the Nuffield Foundation website.