Event Archive

2021

May

• International Clinical Trials Day - TweetChat on the HSRU Twitter page

  20 May 2021, 12:30 - 13:20

  This Thursday the 20 May is International Clinical Trials Day #ICTD2021 The Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) Public Engagement Group are hosting a TweetChat on the HSRU Twitter page. Join them on Thursday from 12.30-1.20pm BST to discuss your views about #ClinicalTrials and #PublicEngagement. All you need to do is use the hashtag...

March

• Professor Marion Campbell to talk at the HRB TMRN Event on 10 March 2021

  10 March 2021

  Professor Marion Campbell will be one of the speakers at the Health Research Board Trials Methodology Research Network Event on 10 March 2021 (Online)

2020

December

• Evidence for Nutritional Intervention in Hip Fracture and Issues for Clinical Practice

  01 December 2020, 12:00 - 23:55

  HSRU's Professor Alison Avenell will be taking part in an online session presented by FFN Fragility Fracture Network on 1 December 2020 at 12.00pm. This session will introduce the impact of malnutrition on patients with hip fracture and evidence for the importance of nutritional management including from Professor Avenell’s Cochrane reviews....

November

• 2020 MRC-NIHR Methodology Research Partnership Annual Meeting

  17 November 2020

  Registration is now open for the 2020 MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership Annual Meeting which will be held on the 17th November. The MRC-NIHR TMRP Annual Meeting, which takes place on alternate years to ICTMC, will include a programme of talks and breakout discussions. There will be two sessions on the day...

September

• Society for Clinical Trials 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting

  01 September 2020 - 30 April 2021

  The 2020 SCT Program Task Force is pleased to share that content for the SCT Virtual Meeting for 2020 is in development and will be offered from 1 September 2020 to 30 April 2021. For more details please visit the website - www.sctweb.org

May

• Society for Clinical Trials Cancels 2020 Annual Meeting

  17 - 20 May 2020

  After careful consideration of the ongoing spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) overseas and in the United States, the Society for Clinical Trials ("SCT") Board of Directors decided not to conduct SCT's 2020 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland (May 17-20, 2020).

2019

November

• Shared decision-making in planning childbirth - multi-stakeholder research agenda-setting workshop

  28 November 2019

  On 28th November, Mairead Black will lead a workshop in Edinburgh titled ‘Shared decision-making in planning childbirth – multi-stakeholder research agenda-setting workshop’. Dr Katie Gillies and Prof Louise Locock will attend along with leaders in shared decision-making Profs Richard Thomson (Newcastle) and Angela Coulter (BMJ/King’s Fund). Academics with related interest, clinicians,...

• Meeting of the new TMRP Trial Conduct Working Group.

  21 November 2019, 10:30 - 16:20

  HSRU's Dr Katie Gillies, Professor Shaun Treweek and Dr Heidi Gardner will be attending the kick-off meeting for the trial Conduct Working Group of the new MRC-NIHR Trial Methodology Research Partnership, of which HSRU is part of.  Katie Gillies is a co-lead of the Working Group. The meeting will include three...

• 

  Panel discussion held by ID-Hub in line with World Antibiotic Awareness Week

  15 November 2019

  HSRU's Dr Magdalena Rzewuska will be contributing to a panel discussion held by ID-Hub in line with World Antibiotic Awareness Week. With four other experts she will be answering questions on antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic use and stewardship and highlighting our work in the area to a global audience. This is...

• Edinburgh Clinical Trials Management Course 2019

  14 - 15 November 2019

  Members of HSRU will be attending and helping to support the delivery of workshops at the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Management Course this November. The objective of this two-day course is to provide an introduction to the management of randomised control trials (RCTS), by giving an overview of the standard processes and legal...