Guide on Research Collaboration for early-career researchers Sarah Assaad, a PhD student at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, at the University of Cambridge, has co-authored a Guide on Research Collaboration. This guide for early-career researchers was written in collaboration with 51 other PhD students from 25 Universities […]
NIHR School for Public Health Research Fellowships – open to applications The NIHR School for Public Health (SPHR) is excited to offer 16 pre- and post-doctoral fellowships across the eight leading academic centres aligned to the SPHR research programmes and cross cutting themes. The Fellowships will normally be taken up between January and March 2020 […]
On the 26th February 2019, we celebrated the impact of our applied health and social care research projects and partnerships across the east of England at our CLAHRC EoE Showcase in Peterborough. Chaired by our Director Professor Peter Jones, the event bought together researchers, health and social care professionals, patients and the […]
Invitation to Tender: A qualitative review focusing on gender inequalities in clinical academic careers NIHR Academy in partnership with five other organisations, Academy of Medical Science, Cancer Research UK, Health Education England, Medical Research Council, and Wellcome Trust are inviting research proposals to help understand the factors that influence career […]
Chief Allied Health Professions Officer’s Awards 2019 – open for applications The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) Awards celebrate the contribution AHPs have made in supporting improvements in health, care and wellbeing and the impacts described in AHPs into Action. The awards are open to all AHPs, student AHPs and […]
First Surgeon awarded NIHR Career Development Fellowship Our congratulations go to Stephen Price, a past CLAHRC EoE Fellow, who has been awarded an NIHR Career Development Fellowship. Stephen, a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is the first surgeon to be awarded this prestigious post-doctoral training Fellowship. His […]
Project Title: Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for family carers of people with dementia Type of Research: Primary research Background & Scientific Rationale: The problem: Recent systematic reviews led by the lead researcher (1,2) demonstrated that the pooled prevalence of depression and anxiety in family carers of people with […]
Project Title: Unintended effects of medications for sleep disturbance in people with dementia Type of Research: Secondary data analysis Background & Scientific Rationale: Poor sleep is common for people with dementia (PwD). It can lead to poor quality of life for them and their carers. Z-drugs (zolpidem, zopiclone and zaleplon) […]
Project Title: Development of a service specification for deprescribing long-term opiates Type of Research: Realist review Background & Scientific Rationale: Evidence for the long-term benefits of opiates to manage chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is limited and evidence for harm is growing.(1) Reducing opiate prescribing is an NHS Improvement goal (2) […]