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
Enabling patients and communities to have a genuine voice in global health research - from the funding process to study design, delivery and dissemination - is essential to achieving research impact that can change lives, particularly for the most vulnerable and marginalised communities. 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
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.
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.
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.
02 February 2021
Mark Wilberforce is a social care researcher in the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York and NIHR School for Social Care Research. Here he writes about how he got involved in social care research and offers some advice to other social care researchers.
28 January 2021
Professor Elaine Hay, Director of NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research, reflects on the achievements of the funding programme over the past year and outlines ambitions for 2021.
26 January 2021
Bea Shelley is coordinator for the NIHR Incubator for Mental Health Research, which supports and advocates for academic research careers in mental health. She writes about her conversations with mental health researchers and how the Incubator aims to help the profession.
22 January 2021
Public contributors Bob McAlister and Una Rennard look back at how far the UK Standards for Public Involvement have come in their first year, and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the research landscape.
21 January 2021
Scientists and engineers have rushed to fill the gap for rapid diagnostic tests during the COVID-19 pandemic, but how do we know which ones work best in which settings? The researchers behind the COVID-19 National Diagnostic Research and Evaluation platform (CONDOR) outline how their study is evaluating new diagnostic tests to speed up real-world use.
20 January 2021
Dr Val Snewin, Head of Global Health Research Partnerships at the Department of Health and Social Care, reflects on the experience of engaging with communities and policy-makers in low and middle income countries
15 December 2020
Where next for patient and public involvement in research? Jeremy Taylor, Director for Public Voice, and Tina Coldham, public contributor from the NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (CED), consider this central question and how the centre can take forward the work previously coordinated by NIHR INVOLVE.
08 December 2020
Sophie Durrans, Global Health Research Advisor, chaired a session at the 6th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020), held recently as a virtual conference. Here, she reflects on efforts to ‘level the playing field’ for LMIC researchers, and how we can learn from and work with partners to push this agenda forward in the New Year.
01 December 2020
John Geddes, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at Oxford University, discusses the importance of looking at both the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic on mental health a month after NIHR published its dynamic themed review of 'ongoing' COVID-19.
24 November 2020
Shaun Treweek, Ella Anderson, Adepeju Oshisanya and Miles Witham write about the problem of trials that do not represent the communities they are meant to serve. Here they explain how the NIHR INCLUDE initiative aims to change this.
17 November 2020
Research Midwife and Midwifery Practice Facilitator Hayley Martin stepped away from the maternity ward during the first peak of the pandemic to join the COVID-19 Research Team at the Princess Royal University Hospital, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Now a principal investigator for a maternity COVID-19 data registry study, Hayley writes about her journey.