03 November 2021
Improving our understanding of how universities can better promote wellbeing and support students is both a research and intervention priority, argues Professor Ed Watkins, Director of the University of Exeter Sir Henry Wellcome Centre for Mood Disorders Research and Professor of Experimental and Applied Clinical Psychology.
01 November 2021
COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of novel and ambitious research designs. Programme Director of NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Professor Elaine Hay explains why bold methodologies should come to the fore as we face another pressing health issue: multiple long-term conditions.
28 October 2021
Dr Esther Mukuka, NIHR Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, states that both policy and actions are crucial in improving diversity and inclusion in research, and reveals what NIHR is doing to break down structural barriers. Her blog marks Black History Month.
30 September 2021
As part of World Alzheimer's Month, Professor Martin Rossor, NIHR National Director for Dementia Research, reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected dementia research, and how it might look as we emerge from it.
24 September 2021
NIHR has long led the way in partnership working with patients and the public to shape and conduct research in health and social care. In this blog, Jeremy Taylor, NIHR Director for Public Voice, highlights how we plan to improve our work in this area following a series of workshops with the research community and public contributors.
16 September 2021
Dr. Judith Auma shows how integrated HIV and cervical screening clinics in Uganda increased screening from 31% to nearly 80% in one year and her recommendations for introducing this into the region.
14 September 2021
Glen Garrod, Executive Director of Adult Care and Community Wellbeing at Lincolnshire County Council and former president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), writes about how a new vision for housing and social care research can enable people to transform their care and health, and be more independent.
10 August 2021
Dr Hasnain Dalal and Prof Rod Taylor describe how they’ve used several consecutive funding awards from the NIHR to develop, test and implement a new home-based approach to rehabilitation that is now improving lives for people with heart failure.
02 August 2021
Marrying a personal touch and the advantages of remote therapy should be the goal of children's digital mental health interventions
29 July 2021
Noni Mumba, Head of Engagement at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP), writes about how she overcame some of the challenges arising during the pandemic to be able to continue her work connecting with the community.
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.
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.
