Lead author Sarah Hoare, (PhD student, Cambridge Institute of Public Health) and co-authors including CLAHRC PI Dr Stephen Barclay, are pleased to announce the publication and press release of their paper ‘Do Patients Want to Die at Home? A Systematic Review of the UK Literature, Focused on Missing Preferences for Place […]
Are you an academic looking to develop your mentoring skills? NIHR CLAHRC EoE is looking for senior academics to mentor an ‘academic apprentice’ for a period of either 3 to 6 months, as part of their Clinical Academic Psychiatry Training apprenticeship scheme 2016. What is the aim of the scheme? The aim is to […]
Challenging the Commodification of Care as a Means for Improving the Wellbeing of Men and Women With Learning Disabilities In the wake of a number of high profile failings in social care, most notably the abuse of people with severe learning disabilities at Winterbourne View in 2011, there has been […]
Academic Writing Month, or AcWriMo for short, is a month-long academic write-a-thon that happens every November. PhD2Published are hosting AcWriMo, which is inspired by the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). AcWriMo caters to the specific needs of academic writers at all stages of their career (from undergrads to the most distinguished of […]
Starting a PhD After completing my Statistics MSc I thought about applying for PhDs in the field that I had done my dissertation in, cognitive impairment. In the end I decided to apply for jobs as a Research Assistant with the thought that I could gain some experience and also […]
Research Training Fellowships: Ageing, rehabilitation and palliative care Application closing date Friday 15 January 2016 The Dunhill Medical Trust has announced the availability of up to four Research Training Fellowships to be awarded in Spring 2016. Applications are invited from talented clinicians and health or social care, professionals (including more senior staff) working in […]
The University of Cambridge has published its new “Research Strategy Office Guidance 2015-16: Concordate to Support Research Integrity” The guidance provides a link to the Universities UK ‘Concordat to Support Research Integrity’, compliance to which is a requirement for Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Research Councils UK (RCUK). […]
Join an National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) programme panel or board There are currently a number of opportunities for public contributors on the NIHR’s Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Prioritisation panels, HTA Funding Boards and Public Health Research (PHR) Programme Advisory board. These are […]
Research Awards for Health Professionals: 2016 January Round 22 January 2016: closing date for preliminary applications 30 March 2016: closing date for full applications This scheme is intended for practising health professionals who wish to carry out a period of humanities or social science research in any area of human […]
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) open application process for the NIHR Fellowships Programme 2016 Deadline for application submissions: 1.00 pm on Wednesday the 20th of January 2016 NIHR Fellowships support outstanding individuals to become the health research leaders of the future by buying out their salary costs, meeting their […]