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Exploring New Horizons In Big Sky Countries – Churchill Fellowship Visits To Canada And Australia

Exploring New Horizons In Big Sky Countries – Churchill Fellowship Visits To Canada And Australia

Posted on 24 April 2024 by Victoria Shepherd

From January to April this year I have had the amazing experience of visiting Canada and Australia as part of a Churchill Fellowship. The aim of Churchill Fellowships are to […]

Bridging The Gap – Can Advance Research Planning Help Address Some Of The Challenges Of Research With Adults With Impaired Capacity To Consent?

Bridging The Gap – Can Advance Research Planning Help Address Some Of The Challenges Of Research With Adults With Impaired Capacity To Consent?

Posted on 6 December 2022 by Victoria Shepherd

Bridging The Gap – Can Advance Research Planning Help Address Some Of The Challenges Of Research With Adults With Impaired Capacity To Consent? In order to include people in research […]

New Beginnings: The First CTR Nursing And Allied Health Professionals Group Awayday

New Beginnings: The First CTR Nursing And Allied Health Professionals Group Awayday

Posted on 24 November 2022 by Victoria Shepherd

As there are a number of nurses and allied health professionals working in a range of research roles in the Centre for Trials Research, we recognised earlier this year that […]

Unpacking the ‘Black Box Of Horrendousness’

Unpacking the ‘Black Box Of Horrendousness’

Posted on 23 June 2022 by Victoria Shepherd

How can we address the challenges of conducting trials with adults with impaired capacity to consent? Anyone who has been involved in developing or conducting trials involving people who are […]

Recruitment for Critical Care Trials – What Strategies Work Best? Findings From an Intercalated Medical Student Project

Recruitment for Critical Care Trials – What Strategies Work Best? Findings From an Intercalated Medical Student Project

Posted on 3 February 2021 by Victoria Shepherd

Timia Raven-Gregg writes:  Following my fourth year at medical school, I decided that I wanted to gain a better understanding of clinical research and have the opportunity to undertake a research […]

International Year Of The Nurse And Midwife 2020 – Celebrating Nurses And Midwives’ Roles In The Work Of The Centre For Trials Research

International Year Of The Nurse And Midwife 2020 – Celebrating Nurses And Midwives’ Roles In The Work Of The Centre For Trials Research

Posted on 29 January 2020 by Victoria Shepherd

The World Health Organization has dedicated 2020 to nurses and midwives to create a ‘once in a generation opportunity’ to showcase the critical role that the nursing and midwifery professions […]

NIHR Fellowship Project Exploring Research Involving Adults Lacking Capacity To Consent – Our Public And Patient Involvement Journey

NIHR Fellowship Project Exploring Research Involving Adults Lacking Capacity To Consent – Our Public And Patient Involvement Journey

Posted on 28 October 2019 by Victoria Shepherd

Project exploring research involving adults who lack capacity to consent For the past 3 years I have been conducting a project exploring the ethical, legal, and practical challenges that may […]

Clinical Trials As A Catalyst For Change In The ‘Big Easy’ – The 40th Society For Clinical Trials Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA

Clinical Trials As A Catalyst For Change In The ‘Big Easy’ – The 40th Society For Clinical Trials Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA

Posted on 13 June 2019 by Victoria Shepherd

By Victoria Shepherd and Nigel Kirby A taste of New Orleans At times New Orleans felt very much like Wales…… wet. However, when the sun came out and the puddles […]

Improving Care In Long-Term Care In Brazil And Europe Through Growing Research Collaborations – The LOTUS Initiative

Improving Care In Long-Term Care In Brazil And Europe Through Growing Research Collaborations – The LOTUS Initiative

Posted on 8 May 2019 by Victoria Shepherd

Sowing the seeds of collaboration In June 2018 I was fortunate to be selected to join a Newton Fund OPAL event in Brazil on identifying and addressing shared challenges of […]

Better Healthcare Through More Inclusive Research – A Dissemination Event On Innovations In Clinical Trials Design And Delivery For Under-Represented Groups

Better Healthcare Through More Inclusive Research – A Dissemination Event On Innovations In Clinical Trials Design And Delivery For Under-Represented Groups

Posted on 13 December 2018 by Victoria Shepherd

A vision for ‘better healthcare through more inclusive research’ During the past year, a project looking at innovations in clinical trials design and delivery for under-represented groups has been carried […]