14 July 2021
Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research at the University of Oxford and Head of the Global Health Network and Senior Research Scientist in Tropical Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, reflects on the challenges of translating research into standard practice.
06 July 2021
Sandra Jayacodi, public contributor and Chair of the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre Public Advisory Panel, marks Co-production Week by discussing her experiences of being a service user on an award-winning co-produced research project
05 July 2021
Zoe Gray, Associate Director of Involvement, Participation and Engagement, NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (CED); and Tina Coldham, Public Adviser to NIHR CED urge researchers, research commissioners and managers to play a part in improving public involvement in social care research. It follows publication of an NIHR report highlighting recommendations in this area.
02 July 2021
Public contributors and researchers from the mental health theme at the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre share some strategies that enabled them to work collaboratively with individuals from marginalised communities to co-design research.
17 June 2021
Professor Melanie Newport, co-Chair of the NIHR Global Health Research Training Forum Steering Group, reflects on progress in capacity strengthening for researchers and developing supportive research environments in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
11 June 2021
Kamil Sterniczuk, has gone from being a patient to trial participant to public contributor. Teacher of English as a foreign language by profession, he currently works as a part-time postman and Polish interpreter. In this blog he writes about his experience taking part in a clinical trial and urges others to get involved in research too.
10 June 2021
Candace Imison, Associate Director, and Jodi Brown, Senior Stakeholder Engagement Manager, at the NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination, discuss the findings of a new NIHR Themed Review about the experience of children and young people receiving inpatient care in mental health, learning disability and autism units.
08 June 2021
The NIHR's first-ever MedTech Industry Engagement Adviser Martin Hunt writes about his MedTech career, angel investing, and his plans for the new role
27 May 2021
Dr Esther Mukuka, NIHR Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) writes about the importance of EDI in research and why clinical trials need more diversity.
26 May 2021
Esther van Vliet, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Manager at the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR), writes about how public contribution will benefit from a greater variety of views and backgrounds, and the steps being taken to make this happen.
25 May 2021
In this blog, Professor Brian Ferguson, Director of the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme writes about his strategic vision for the PHR programme and reflects on the challenges the research community must overcome.
19 May 2021
Dr Anu Garrib is Principal Research Associate at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), and senior researcher at RESPOND Africa, the NIHR Global Health Group on the prevention and management of HIV and non-communicable diseases, a partnership based in the UK, Uganda and Tanzania
12 May 2021
Research Matron and an NIHR 70@70 Senior Research Nurse Leader Helen, and her student nurse daughter, Lucy, both share a passion for raising the profile of research nurses.
27 April 2021
Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam and clinical trial coordinator Chris Bradley of the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) reflect on the challenges COVID-19 has brought to NHS research. In this blog, they stress the importance of continuing to make research happen.
20 April 2021
The new Programme Director of NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i), writes about his new role and how the UK has an opportunity to use the experience of healthcare professionals to become a creative leader in research science.
20 April 2021
Jayashree P. Kunju, co-applicant on the NIHR-funded global health project Transforming the Treatment and Prevention of Leprosy and Buruli ulcers in LMICs, talks about how her first-hand experience as a leprosy survivor is helping marginalised communities gain awareness and information about how to prevent and treat the disease.
07 April 2021
The NIHR Clinical Research Network’s Associate Directors of Nursing reflect on how they have adapted to the challenges of the past year and how research nurses have responded to the global pandemic.
30 March 2021
Candace Imison, Associate Director at the NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination, reflects on multiple long-term conditions, the existing evidence and what it offers and the evidence gaps that are left to fill.
24 March 2021
The UK’s health and research staff should look back on the last year with a huge sense of pride.
18 March 2021
Jenine de Vries, Project Manager of the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy & Research at Swansea University writes about how a Quality Improvement course for burns nurses in Malawi inspired researchers to produce a free online Practical Guide to Quality Improvement for Burn Care in Low-Resourced Settings.
15 March 2021
Professor David Richards, NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus and Professor of Mental Health Services Research at the University of Exeter, is leading research to establish the best way to provide nursing care during a COVID-19-type crisis.
11 March 2021
A care home for older people may close for a number of reasons, with different approaches taken across the country. Prof Jon Glasby writes about how his new programme of research will help to understand the national picture and develop good practice to ensure that closures are managed as well as possible, and potential negative impacts for residents and staff reduced.
03 March 2021
Angela Obasi, Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on lung health and TB in Africa (IMPALA), explains how women scientists are blazing the trail in a multi-country programme addressing TB and other chronic lung diseases in Africa
25 February 2021
Erica Nelson and colleagues from the Institute of Development Studies outline the shared learnings from the first in a series of webinars with NIHR to support researchers to effectively engage and involve communities in global health research.
16 February 2021
Dr Steve Wootton, Associate Professor of Nutrition, University of Southampton, and Deputy Chair of the NIHR Nutrition and Cancer Collaboration, explains why we are funding research into prehabilitation in cancer.
