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Staff News - October 2019
Welcome to Emma Berry, Taylor Coffey and Sinan Khadhouri who all joined us this month as postgraduate research students. Farewell to Kath Starr who leaves us at the end of this month to take up post as Senior Trials Manager at Nottingham CTU – we look forward to many productive future...
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Clinical trials, methodology and accountability - a patient and public involvement (PPI) view
Several members of the HSRU team attended the International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC) in Brighton last week. It was a fantastic conference with ubiquitous examples of world leading methodological research being presented. Three of the HSRU team in attendance were patient partners and one of them, Andrew Worrall, has...
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HSRU well represented at ICTMC2019 in Brighton
Some of our colleagues have just returned from Brighton where they attended ICTMC2019 - 5th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference. The event showcased the very latest in trials methodology research and offered plenty of valuable opportunities for networking. The Conference also marked 10 years since the Network of Hubs for Trials...
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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.