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IAHS Seminar: Bridging the Gap: A How-to Guide for Collaborating with Aberdeen City Council
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...
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Adrian Grant Lecture 2025
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...
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University team part of clinical trial to tackle street benzodiazepine use and drug-related deaths
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen are part of a major new clinical trial aimed at reducing the use of street-sourced benzodiazepines among people receiving treatment for opioid dependency.
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New project to improve policy decisions with better, AI enhanced evidence synthesis methods
A new UK-wide research effort is building better ways to turn research into action. The ESRC funded project, Transforming Global Evidence, led by Queen’s University, Belfast, will help governments, businesses, and communities use the latest science to make faster, smarter policy decisions, including those that will support achievement of the...
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ACE's 'Lime or Brine' trial - Take 2
As part of the UoA’s Explorathon Discovery Day https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/22568/, the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE) public engagement group welcomed visitors to the free family-friendly event to discover more about about clinical trials. After the success of the Tall Ships Races Aberdeen 2025, the ACE crew took the ‘Lime or Brine’ trial...
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NIHR publish extended article - 'Come and work here!'
This month has seen the publication of the extended article 'Come and work here!' Exploring the role of local community-led initiatives to improve recruitment and retention of healthcare staff in remote and rural areas. Among the authors of the article are ACE's Louise Locock and Zoe Skea.
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ACE's recruitment to the 'Lime or Brine' trial hits a record high
As part of the UoA’s involvement in the Tall Ships Races Aberdeen 2025, on the 21st July, members of the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE) welcomed visitors from around the world to explore clinical trials in the event’s Discovery Zone at the Castlegate. Donning naval costume, the ACE crew brought...
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Staff News - August 2025
Buse Keskindag left the Unit at the end of June and will be sorely missed. Buse was with us for just over a year, working with Magda Rzewuska Diaz on the KINDER project, Good luck in everything you go on to do, Buse – we’re sure you’ll be hugely...
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A Story of Skin Cancer Across Two Generations
The ASICA (Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare) project, led by APC's group lead, Professor Peter Murchie and sponsored by Cancer Research UK (CRUK), has been featured in The Telegraph ASICA is a smartphone app designed to make the skin checks adfter melanoma easier and more efficient. In the article, two induviduals...
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ACE aims to recruit members of the public at the Tall Ships festival to the 'Lime or Brine' trial
On Monday 21st July, members of the Aberdeen Centre for Excellence (ACE) public engagement group will be sail-ebrating the Tall Ships Races by taking part in the University of Aberdeen’s programme of maritime themed events based in the Discovery Zone in Aberdeen’s Castlegate: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/tall-ships/. ACE’s Public Engagement Group aim to recruit...