Blogs are written by members of the CLAHRC East of England research collaboration on their areas of interest.
Seventh NIHR Infrastructure Doctoral Research Training Camp Developing Your Post-doctoral Career: Attracting Health Research Funding Rashmi Becker, PhD Student. NIHR CLAHRC East of England, Cambridge Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Group I have just returned from a three-day conference at Ashridge Business School for over one hundred doctoral students from […]
My introduction to Patient & Public Involvement: a blog by Lorna Rouse First impressions On first hearing about plans for Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in PROMISE, PROMISE (PROactive Management of Integrated Services and Environments) is a CLAHRC affiliated initiative within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust which aims to provide […]
A Blog by Dr Jane Still: The provision and effectiveness of clinical supervision for psychiatry trainees in a large mental health trust, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) All trainees in Psychiatry have an approved clinical supervisor. The aim of my research was to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical supervision […]
Working with Industry : A blog by Dr Howard Ring To ‘work with industry’ is one of those aims that is simple to state but harder to achieve. In this brief article I will describe why I think it is easier said than done but also why I think it […]
Action Learning Sets: A Blog by Professor Mike Cook Reg Revans , often referred to as the father of action learning, said ‘action learning takes so long to describe because it is so simple’. Action Learning I have been using action-learning sets with a variety of postgraduate students to support […]
“You must get our opinion because it’s very easy to assume”: Older care-home residents and the impact of research activity A blog from the RReACH Seminar, 10 February 2016 In February, the CLAHRC-funded study, Residents Research-Active in Care Homes (RReACH), presented its experiences of collaborating with older care-home residents in […]
Reflections from the 2015 CLAHRC East of England Boot Camp: A blog by Kate Lee, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist ‘If I had known then what I know now’ This was the title of the introductory panel session in which the ‘Boot Camp’ delegates heard from a panel of six highly successful […]
“Life as a CLAHRC Funded GP Research Fellow” I love my work. In the current climate of a cash-strapped NHS with seemingly ever-increasing patient demand this may be a rare thing for a GP to say, yet it is true. Of course, most GPs relish the clinical challenges and variety […]
“Taking the first tentative steps towards a PhD…” by Rachel Daly This is one of many firsts this week. I am attempting to write my first blog! So far this week I have also tweeted my first tweet and completed my first National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) residential […]
Who are the experts? Reflections on public and patient involvement in research: A blog by Harriet Cooper, PhD Student in the PPI Research Theme Who decides what a programme of rehabilitation should look like, when someone becomes disabled? When a child or young person is diagnosed with an impairment, does […]