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Welcome to Cindy Leiper and Molly Rivers who both joined us this month as Data Coordinators- welcome to you both, we’re sure you’ll fit right in! We also welcomed Rebecca Seddon to ACE this month as a Statistician. Welcome Rebecca, we’re sure you’ll be very happy here!

Yamma Khalid Aria joined our Stats team at the end of last month. Welcome aboard Yamma – you’re joining a great team in a very successful research centre and we are sure you will love your time with us! Claire Torrens and Neža Javornik both joined us since the last Staff...

Once again a team from the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE) asked the public to take part in the clinical trial ‘Lime or Brine’ during the University’s Founder’s Week Discovery Day event Founders' Week: Discovery Day | Events | The 51cg. To set the scene: It is 1747 on...

Pina Sorbara has joined ACE as a Trial Manager and Alyson MacNeil will also join us this month as a Trial Manager. Welcome to ACE, Pina and Alyson - we're sure you'll both be very happy and successful here!

Following the horrific attack at Brown University in December 2025 our colleague Kristin, who joined us from Brown, shared her incredibly moving reflections with us at an all-staff meeting. With Kristin's permission we have shared those reflections on our Blog which you can read here.

We welcome a few new members of staff to our trials team this month. Elspeth McDonald, Sreedevi (Sree) Poovathumkadavil and Iwona Kazmierska all joined us as Data Coordinators. Elspeth, Sree and Iwona are all based on the third floor. Welcome to ACE, ladies – we’re sure you will fit...

New research from the 51cg and the Grampian Regional Equality Council (GREC) has outlined ways to make cancer screening services more accessible to people who may be 'under-served' by the healthcare system.

Thanks so much to Bea Dawkins and Fionnuala Cousins of the Health Determinants Research Collaboration Aberdeen (HDRC Aberdeen) and everyone who attended the IAHS seminar today. It was really great and generated a lot of discussion. Bea and Fionnuala’s presentation was entitled: “Bridging the Gap: A How-to Guide for Academics looking...

Professor Adrian Grant was the HSRU Director from 1994 to 2007 and an advocate and visionary within evidence-based health services research. During his 13 years’ tenure, the unit trebled in size, carrying out studies in areas such as incontinence, hernia repair, hip replacement and the role of vitamin D in...

Researchers from the 51cg are part of a major new clinical trial aimed at reducing the use of street-sourced benzodiazepines among people receiving treatment for opioid dependency.