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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 her permission, we are sharing those same reflections here to a wider audience.

EDI is about dignity, safety, and—ideally—feeling loved,…

Members of the CHaRT and ACE teams collaborate with the University of Edinburgh to deliver the Edinburgh Clinical Trial Management. The 2024 course was in November. Four of our CHaRT colleagues and one of our PhD students attended the course as delegates. Some reflections from them on the course below.

Last month saw many of our ACE team attend the International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference 2024 in Edinburgh. We had a great spread of presentations across the 4 days featuring nine oral presentations, 16 posters, and contributions to workshops and spotlight sessions. Our contributions spanned a range of topics and…

Hi, I am Emilia Piltonen and this is my experience of working as an intern during summer 2023 at HSRU. I was a part of the ‘Designing Greener Trials’ research team for two months working side by side with Professor Katie Gillies and Dr Beatriz Goulao. I want to take…

During the pandemic, healthcare organisations have embraced remote patient-to-provider communication methods, including asynchronous consultations. An outpatient asynchronous consultation allows a patient to communicate online with a hospital's nurse or doctor without being available at the same time. HSRU researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from NHS Grampian and public partners, undertook…

Hello, I am Topaz Manneh, and I am excited to share my internship journey. This experience was made truly special thanks to the unwavering support of my supervisor, Dr. Magdalena Rzewuska-Diaz. She displayed remarkable patience and understanding regarding my unpredictable illness. She not only implemented reasonable adjustments for me but…

By: Peter Flockhart (public contributor from HSRU Public Involvement Partnership group) & Dr Magda Rzewuska Díaz (Advanced Research Fellow, HSRU Patient and Public Involvement Lead)

The bustling and culturally rich city of Birmingham served as the perfect setting for this year's HSRUK conference, providing an ideal backdrop for the range…

While the Care in Funerals project formally wound down a little while ago, its rich dataset still holds plenty of potential for further analysis, thinking and writing.

Jennie Riley, Vikki Entwistle and Arnar Arnason took the 2023 meeting of the Centre for Death and Society annual conference as an opportunity…

Last week we shared this summary of project findings with people who had participated in the Care In Funerals project. We are now pleased to share them more widely.

Academic papers and the Care in Funerals online casebook resource are in progress and will be available soon.

Care in Funerals…

Its been one month since a number of our staff attend their first in person conference since 2019, ICTMC 2022 in Harrogate, and what a great conference to come back to. A number of our staff (and our new MRC Doctoral Training Programme in Trials methods PhD students) share their…