Vivensa Foundation Academy and Excellence Awards
The Vivensa Foundation has launched the Academy - a place for professionals across all career stages and disciplines to come together to share their knowledge through collaboration and networking and to provide a supportive place for the future leaders in the care of older people.
Why was the Academy created and what can it offer?
The Vivensa Foundation recognises the importance of creating and fostering networks of support, celebrating success and providing safe and supportive spaces to learn and explore solutions to the many challenges that exist in providing care for older people. Conversations with existing professional networks, membership organisations, the recently-formed BBSRC-MRC funded ageing networks and other groups have highlighted an appetite, not to duplicate existing networks, but to provide a forum for connecting people working in a range of professions and disciplines, to:
- Celebrate success, achievement and ambition in ageing-related research and evidence-informed practice
- Create a supportive place to find new collaborators, mentors and advisors
- Facilitate better understanding and foster relationships between academic and clinical researchers and community organisations working with older people
- Sustain existing and nascent networks for the longer term.
The Academy aims to provide a growing, searchable portal of researchers and evidence-informed community organisations with an interest in age-related research. By joining the Academy, members will have access to:
- Advance notice of future funding calls
- A platform for advertising job vacancies
- Professional development opportunities
- Content from experts to share best practice
- Networking and shared learning events.
Vivensa Foundation Academy Excellence Awards
Academic and clinical members of the Academy will also be eligible for nomination for our excellence awards – Two three-year awards of £40k pa each will be made to two researchers:
- One to an early/mid-career researcher: a “rising star”
- One to a senior leader in ageing-related research
Academy membership
Membership of the Academy is open to:
- Current, former and prospective Vivensa Foundation academic and clinical research award holders.
- Members of the UKRI-funded ageing across the life course interdisciplinary research networks
- Evidence-informed community organisations working with older people.
