2025
Season’s Greetings from everyone at Fuse!
We would like to wish all our friends, colleagues and partners a joyful festive season and a creative New Year!
Last modified: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:42:17 GMT
NHRP Academy Internship Programme
NIHR North East and North Cumbria Health and Care Professionals Internship Programme
Last modified: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:44:56 GMT
Fuse research reveals children have complex view of energy drinks
A new study led by Fuse academics at Teesside University, has uncovered a concerning picture of how children and young people perceive and consume energy drinks, despite voluntary sales bans and growing health concerns.
Last modified: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:18:46 GMT
Socialising could reverse frailty in older people
Socialising could help to reverse frailty in older people, according to research led by Fuse Director Professor Sheena Ramsay, part-funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Last modified: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:04:45 BST
University of Cumbria awarded £2.5m for groundbreaking mental health research
Fuse member university celebrates successful National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding bid. The University of Cumbria joined Fuse earlier this year as its sixth university partner.
Last modified: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:01:24 BST
Fuse researchers lead new NIHR study to boost preventative healthcare in Bolton
A collaborative project evaluating the success of the Making Every Contact Count healthcare initiative across Bolton has secured almost £250,000 from the NIHR Three Schools Prevention Programme.
Last modified: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:17:04 BST
Government ban of energy drink sales to under-16s underpinned by Fuse research
A Fuse academic whose research has been vital in highlighting the dangerous impact that energy drinks have on children, is urging people to have their say in a government consultation on banning sales to under-16s.
Last modified: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:44:08 BST
Energy drinks associated with increased risk of mental health issues in children
Evidence shows wider range of risks associated with energy drinks in children. Experts ask how much more evidence is needed before government action?
Last modified: Tue, 20 May 2025 10:16:54 BST
Fuse Associate awarded prestigious Cross-Sector Experience Award
Emma Adams has been awarded a prestigious Cross-Sector Experience Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Last modified: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:04:56 BST
Fuse helps Cumbria secure NIHR grant for Family Wellbeing Partnership evaluation
The University of Cumbria has secured £130,000 to evaluate the Family Wellbeing Partnership, funding that is available to the university through its involvement in Fuse.
Last modified: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:49:02 BST
Stark regional divide in food, health & nutrition revealed in Fuse-backed report
Northern regions have some of the poorest diets in England, putting people at risk of conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure and other preventable diseases.
Last modified: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:05:11 BST
Children in Northern England face increasing food insecurity and obesity
Families in poorer parts of the country are facing increasing barriers to accessing healthy, affordable food, and their children are more likely to experience obesity as a result, warns new report co-authored by Fuse researchers.
Last modified: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:28:30 BST
NHS 10-Year Plan’s focus on prevention welcomed - but action must match ambition
Fuse researchers have welcomed plans to tackle obesity, improve the food environment and ban the sale of energy drinks to children, but caution that long-term structural change is needed to deliver a healthier, fairer future.
Last modified: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:01:54 BST
Celebrating our Fuse Award winners 2025
The Fuse Awards returned this year with a vibrant celebration of the people and projects driving forward public health research across the North East and North Cumbria.
Last modified: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:52:22 BST
Fuse expert awarded OBE for services to maternal, child health and inclusion
Fuse Associate, Professor Judith Rankin, has been named in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours list.
Last modified: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:04:00 BST
Finalists announced for the 2025 Fuse Awards
Fuse is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Fuse Awards, celebrating outstanding contributions to public health research, policy and practice across the North East and North Cumbria.
Last modified: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:58:45 BST
Prestigious academy elects Fuse academic Clare Bambra to its Fellowship
The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected Professor Clare Bambra, a Fuse Senior Investigator based at Newcastle University, to its prestigious Fellowship.
Last modified: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:08:02 BST
Combining diet and activity strategies may prevent obesity in young children
New Fuse research published today (11 June, 2025) in a Cochrane Review has found that combining dietary and activity strategies may help prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years.
Last modified: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:01:52 BST
New online training helps councils use planning powers to promote healthy eating
A new e-learning course designed by Fuse to help local authorities use planning powers to support healthier food environments has launched on the online platform FutureLearn.
Last modified: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:54:41 BST
I-STEM toolkit for stakeholder engagement in implementation
Fuse Associate Dr Sebastian Potthoff and a wider research group at Northumbria University have developed the Implementation STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM) toolkit to help bridge the gap between research and practice.
Last modified: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:43:28 BST
Nominations open for the Fuse Awards 2025
Your chance to recognise and showcase outstanding work in Collaboration, Communication, Public Involvement & Engagement, and Translational Research in 2024 and 2025. Register for the event and nominate now!
Last modified: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:48:42 BST
Piecing it together: Understanding school exclusion through creativity
In this episode of the Fuse podcast, host and public partner, Cheryl Blake, speaks with academic Dr Sarah Martin-Denham and parent Hayley Hudson about the impact of school exclusion, especially on children and young people themselves.
Last modified: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:51:02 BST
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Fuse is expanding its reach and impact with two major developments: welcoming the University of Cumbria as its sixth university partner and appointing Professor Amelia Lake as Deputy Director.
Last modified: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:14:19 BST
Marking three years of the HRA Shared Commitment to Public Involvement
This week we’re celebrating the third anniversary of the launch of the NHS Health Research Authority (HRA) Shared Commitment to Public Involvement in health and social care research.
Last modified: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:15:55 GMT
Celebrating Fuse's innovative and inspirational women
Over twenty women from Fuse have been included in the annual list of innovators published by The Northern Health Science Alliance on International Women's Day.
Last modified: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:46:23 GMT
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Programs in schools to support students' mental wellbeing show potential to improve mental health, particularly in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and distress.
Last modified: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:24:40 GMT
£3m funding to evaluate health and social care improvements
Fuse researchers at Northumbria University have received £3 million of funding to evaluate and support the transformation of services and outcomes across the NHS and care services.
Last modified: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:23:44 GMT
OBE for academic who evidenced importance of school breakfast and holiday clubs
A Fuse Associate who played a key role in bringing breakfast clubs and holiday activities to millions of children across the country has been rewarded for her work in the King’s New Year’s Honours List.
Last modified: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:23:16 GMT
Researchers awarded over half a million pounds to tackle health inequalities
Fuse researchers from the University of Sunderland and Teesside University have been awarded more than half a million pounds for a new study which aims to tackle health inequalities in Black communities.
Last modified: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:49:02 GMT
