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Exploring Health Data Through Puzzles and Play: My Internship with the Centre for Trials Research

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Exploring Health Data Through Puzzles and Play: My Internship with the Centre for Trials Research

Posted on 11 December 2025 by Richard Haggerty

by Christabel Gono, Final Year Medical Pharmacology Student and Summer Intern Bringing Routine Maternity Data into Conversation I’m a final-year Medical Pharmacology student, and I joined the Centre for Trials […]

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TOP-CAT HDR UK Black Internship

Posted on 15 October 2025 by Robert Trubey

We successfully hosted two more interns as part of HDR UK’s Black Internship Programme this summer in the TOP-CAT team at Centre for Trials Research. Reflecting on their time in […]

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The Power of Community in the Peer MIST Project

Posted on 20 June 2025 by Paula Foscarini-Craggs

- Izzy Dodd on behalf of the Welsh Refugee Council Reflecting on the past year of the Peer MIST project has left an incredible sense of empowerment and community amongst […]

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Qualitative Research – the ‘What’, the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’ 

Posted on 30 May 2025 by Jeremy Segrott

Contributors: Nina Alexander, Ffion Hadfield-Jones, Advika Iyer, Naomi Jones, Begw Owen, Jeremy Segrott, Leema Shams, Aliyah Shore-Nye, Ludan Tajeldin  From the tutor – Jeremy Segrott  Year 2 students in the […]

 
Cerebral Palsy and the Workplace  

Cerebral Palsy and the Workplace  

Posted on 8 April 2025 by Richard Haggerty

- By Bryan Farrah Introduction   Hello, my name is Bryan, I’m from Cardiff born and bred. I have been working as an intern in the Centre for Trials Research as […]

Centre for Trials Research at the Cardiff Science Festival “Be a Scientist” Event

Centre for Trials Research at the Cardiff Science Festival “Be a Scientist” Event

Posted on 31 March 2025 by Linda Adara

Cardiff Science Festival Be a Scientist Tuesday, 25 February 2025 Linda Adara, Sarah Rawlinson, Kim Munnery, Kelly Lewis, Dolce Advani, Ceri Fayne, Nuria Marquez Almuina In celebration of this year’s […]

Focus on men’s mental health at pop-up barbershop event

Focus on men’s mental health at pop-up barbershop event

Posted on 20 March 2025 by Claire Nollett

blog by Dr Sarah Rees, NCMH In the lead up to Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, the Centre for Trials Research and National Centre for Mental Health attended an event […]

Humanising health care: Sharing real life patient stories about vision impairment and depression with eye care students 

Humanising health care: Sharing real life patient stories about vision impairment and depression with eye care students 

Posted on 13 February 2025 by Claire Nollett

When asked which sense they would be most scared to lose, nearly 75% of people said their sight. It’s not hard to understand why. Most of us rely on our […]

A Reflection Of My Summer Internship As A Research Assistant

A Reflection Of My Summer Internship As A Research Assistant

Posted on 10 December 2024 by Richard Haggerty

-by Kayleigh Nash Kayleigh is a second year Biomedical Sciences student, took part in Cardiff University's On-Campus Internship Scheme in summer 2024.  Here, she reflects on what she gained from […]

Addressing The Knowledge Gap – Developing CONSULT E-learning On Trials Involving Adults Lacking Capacity To Consent

Addressing The Knowledge Gap – Developing CONSULT E-learning On Trials Involving Adults Lacking Capacity To Consent

Posted on 9 December 2024 by Victoria Shepherd

Historically, trials have focused on the number of participants who take part without paying too much attention to whowas being included - or rather, being excluded. More recently, however, there […]