Empowering Community Nursing Voices through Research

“How can we help?” is often the question that community nurses naturally ask as soon as they receive a phone call from a distressed family carer or are faced with a difficult situation. The Race to Address Health Inequalities Research Conference is a chance for community nurses from all specialities to extend their help beyond patient and service-user care, and through their research contribute to the advancement of the community nursing field.

Many shifts expose community nurses to health inequalities, which can inspire them to explore and investigate through inquisitive questions and research. Participating in this conference will give you the platform to share your findings, exchange knowledge, and build connections with colleagues who share your ambition and motivation to spark and enact change. This is your chance to highlight the inequality challenges which families and community nurses navigate on day-to-day basis, and to collaborate with like-minded colleagues to address them.

As an early-career researcher, this conference offers you a welcoming audience to present your findings confidently, build your research network, expand the horizons of your knowledge, identify collaboration opportunities, and inspire your next research proposal.

Whether you are an internationally educated nurse looking to integrate yourself into the UK healthcare workforce or visiting to present your work, this conference welcomes you with open arms as it aims to host a diversity of perspectives, foster international friendships, and stimulate multi-cultural conversations between community nursing researchers.

It is time for us to take a step towards the collective benefit of the populations we serve and community nursing. Join us at City University of London on April 15^th-17^th 2025 to work together on finding ways through which we can help to address health inequalities and strengthen the evidence-base in community nursing.

Joodi Mourhli

Joodi is a nursing graduate from the American University of Beirut and a recipient of the Lion’s Award for Distinguished Nursing Students (2022) and the Rouzan Al-Najjar Award for Nursing Excellence (2023). She completed an MPhil in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge in 2024. Currently, she works as a research assistant with Dr. Ben Bowers at the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at Cambridge.

Editor’s Notes:

As put in the ICCHNR’s call for abstracts;

“We want to hear from you, whether your programme of work is large or small: we are interested.”

Nursing work in the UK is also relevant to this conference, and for anyone interested in presenting their work, we would encourage you to do so!

If you aren’t sure where to begin, please see the following resources on writing abstracts:

• RCN Guide which demystifies the process of submitting abstracts
• Example abstract from the Primary Care Respiratory Society

If you need any further support in submitting an abstract, please email us at mail@qni.org.uk, and we will do our best to help, or connect you with someone who can.

You can register to attend the conference here.

Find out more about the UK-wide QNI Community Nursing Research Forum here.