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Award for Aberdeen initiative that 'reduces research waste'
Aberdeen academics have won a prestigious international award for making trials of new healthcare treatments more efficient. Professor Shaun Treweek and his team won the 2019 Cochrane-REWARD prize for reducing research waste after starting an initiative called Trial Forge. Randomised trials are the gold standard for evaluating healthcare treatments - thousands are...
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Explorathon in the City Centre 2019
Explorathon in the City Centre is an opportunity for the public to meet researchers working in a variety of different fields and took place on Saturday 28th September. The HSRU stand was in a tent outside Marks and Spencer in St Nicholas Street. While this is an ideal place to...
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HSRU PhD Students Share Their Work with the Aberdonian Public
Soapbox Science returned for a second event this year, and HSRU researchers braved the rain to discuss their research with the public in Aberdeen city centre.
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HSRU's Dr Magaly Aceves-Martins attends The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF launch
The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF was officially launched in Scotland a couple of weeks ago and Dr. Magaly Aceves-Martins, research fellow from our unit, was part of this kick-off summit. During this meeting, three initial research lines were agreed and will examine how data can deliver new ways...
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HSRU announce their contributions for ICTMC 2019, Brighton, 6-9 October
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HSRU's Public Engagement Group to take part in Explorathon 2019
On Saturday 28th September members of the Health Services Research Unit will be out and about in Aberdeen City Centre. As part of Explorathon 2019, members of our public engagement group will be in Aberdeen’s “golden zone” on Market Street outside Marks and Spencer’s. There they will be talking with...
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Staff News - September 2019
Welcome to Marcin Woznicki who joined the Programming Team in July on a one-year graduate internship. Welcome to Giles O’Donovan who joined us in August to offer administrative support to the Programming Team. Welcome to Gemma Banister who joined us at the end of July to take up a Medical Research for...
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New hysterectomy surgery safer and more effective than current techniques: the HEALTH trial
Removing part of the uterus using a keyhole surgery technique is a more effective way of treating heavy menstrual bleeding than the current most common operation, according to new research led by the University of Aberdeen.
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HSRU Staff talk careers with local academy pupils
We were lucky to be invited along to the Mackie Academy Developing the Young Workforce careers event. 4 members of our team took up the invitation and headed along to tell the S4-S6 students a bit about what we do and how we came to be working in Health Services Research. We...
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HSRU summer internship experience 2019
Gemma Banister tells us about her experience as an HSRU summer intern.