This category is for academic and practice partners who wish to engage closely and actively with Fuse’s research programmes. It entitles you to:
- Be part of a prestigious national Public Health Research Centre of Excellence and gives you permission to use Fuse’s name and logo in your research work, subject to approval from the Fuse Centre Manager and Communications Manager.
- Sign up for one or two of the Fuse research programmes and attend the programme meetings
- Have access to development opportunities such as collaboration on research projects and informal peer-review from Fuse members for your research at both grant writing and publication stages
- Have access to free research meetings, workshops, seminars
- Receive the bi-monthly infuse electronic newsletter which links to our website, alerting you to new research from Fuse and beyond, views on public health, important changes in the public health field and all upcoming events
- Have access to support and advice through the AskFuse service
- Explore ways to engage with the Fuse Public Partner Network and share your research opportunities
Your commitment would be to keep your contact details up to date on our database, we will send e-mails periodically asking you to confirm or amend your details.
We expect members to contribute through the Fuse blog and attendance at events to enrich the contribution that Fuse makes to public health in the region and beyond. The expectation is that members attend at least one programme meeting and one Fuse research & knowledge exchange meeting each year (although we hope members will attend as many meeting as they can). We will monitor Fuse engagement to verify continued eligibility for membership and where deemed appropriate we may change your membership to a Network member as below.