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.
11 February 2021
To celebrate Women in Science Day 2021, Deputy Director of Research at NHS England and Improvement, Dr Alison Austin explains how she started her career in the sector and what advice she would give those hoping to have a career in science.
11 February 2021
Annie Keane, from patient involvement group Vocal, and teenager and research participant Alma Jbeili, write about how an innovative comic project Planet DIVOC-91 aims to address the lack of focus on young people’s concerns and experiences in the wider public discussions about the COVID-19 pandemic.
10 February 2021
Louise Jones, Director of Programmes at What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC), explains how WWCSC are teaming up with the NIHR to fund research into children and young people’s mental health.
09 February 2021
Dr Emma Gray, Assistant Director of Research, at the MS Society writes about how recent scientific breakthroughs, and the launch of the landmark ChariotMS trial, funded by an NIHR and MRC partnership, are offering hope to patients with MS.
04 February 2021
The results of the FAST-Forward trial came in the nick of time last year. Professor Jon Wadsley, NIHR National Specialty Lead for Radiotherapy and Imaging, writes about the importance of radiotherapy research on World Cancer Day.
