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The Health Services Research Unit has led pioneering work in dental research over the years. On the 15th of November, the team was invited to present examples of that work to an audience of dental professionals at the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) conference in London....

Farewell to Lorna Henderson who leaves us this month Congratulations to Eilidh Duncan who officially started her THIS Institute Fellowship this month. The personal fellowship will last for 45 months and will fund Eilidh to work on improving healthcare through advancing the methodology of audit and feedback interventions. As part of...

This UK’s National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)’s Engage conference is now in its 8th year, this year it took place on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th November. The conference has previously taken place in NCCPE’s home city of Bristol, but this year the team ventured north, inviting an...

HSRU’s own Heidi Gardner graduated from her PhD in the 51cg’s winter ceremonies on Friday 23rd November. Her three-year PhD project was funded by the 51cg’s Development Trust, and supervised by Prof Shaun Treweek and Dr Katie Gillies, both based at HSRU. Both Shaun and Katie joined...

Several members of the Health Services Research Unit, including Trial Managers, are currently in Edinburgh to attend the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Management Course (ECTMC). The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the management of randomised control trials (RCTS), by giving an overview of the standard processes and...

Abstract of the presentation: ‘51cg 60% of me wants it to happen’. Health researchers talk about their experiences of patient and public involvement. I will present findings from a qualitative interview study with 36 health researchers and research managers talking about their experiences of patient and public involvement; their attitudes...

An urgent need for technology and knowledge transfer through an intentional collaboration between developed and developing countries is a widely recognised priority, as evident in growing numbers of funding opportunities to enable it. Reasons extent beyond the principle of justice into pragmatism of taking a shared responsibility for global health...

Katie will be presenting alongside members of the HSRU Patient and Public Involvement Partnership at the event, to be held at the Suttie Centre, Foresterhill Campus. Katie's presentation will begin at 1.30pm however the event commences at 9am. The theme of the conference is public awareness, engagement and involvement in clinical...

The main conference programme runs from 7th – 9th October 2019, with pre-conference workshops planned for Sunday 6th October. The ICTMC 2019 meeting will unite international colleagues working in clinical trials, including trialists, methodologists, clinicians and allied health professionals. The programme will include keynote lectures, and a range of sessions designed to...

Farewell to Fernanda Dias da Silva who leaves us this month for Paris: you’ll be greatly missed but we’re sure that Paris will help ease the pain! Farewell to Malou Luchtenberg who leaves us this month to return to her home University in Groningen after having been with us since August...