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Working With Midwives And The Wider NHS: RDCS South East Wales Research Events

Working With Midwives And The Wider NHS: RDCS South East Wales Research Events

Posted on 20 June 2019 by Sue Channon

The RDCS South East Wales team have had a busy week with two events both focussing on different stages of developing a research funding application. All Wales Reproductive and Childbirth […]

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 […]

Supporting Successful PhDs: Dr Sarah Rees and the Arbour App

Supporting Successful PhDs: Dr Sarah Rees and the Arbour App

Posted on 15 May 2019 by Richard Haggerty

Sarah Rees recently passed her viva and gained her PhD: The development of an intervention to support doctors and medical students in their decision whether to disclose their mental ill […]

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 […]

The Changing Landscape Of Medical Devices And Clinical Investigations: Medical Devices Regulation (MDR)

The Changing Landscape Of Medical Devices And Clinical Investigations: Medical Devices Regulation (MDR)

Posted on 12 April 2019 by Claire Johnson

Background A strong contingent of Centre for Trials Research staff, including representation from trial managers, senior trial managers, pharmacovigilance and safety, and quality assurance attended the medical devices training day […]

RDCS Developing A Research Idea Event 2019

RDCS Developing A Research Idea Event 2019

Posted on 11 April 2019 by Sue Channon

RDCS South East Wales held their Spring workshop on ‘Developing a research idea’ on 9th April 2019 in the Glamorgan Building at Cardiff University. This is a free event aimed […]

World Autism Awareness Week 2019

Posted on 1 April 2019 by Claire Johnson

You may have heard the saying “When you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism”.  This is certainly true, and through my work as […]

Do Something Different Day: A Day In A Clinical Trials Unit

Do Something Different Day: A Day In A Clinical Trials Unit

Posted on 26 February 2019 by Carolyn Blake

Do Something Different Day The Centre for Trials Research participated in the School of Medicine’s ‘Do Something Different Day’ inviting colleagues to try something different by joining our Data Managers, […]

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 […]

FLIGHT Study Milestones: Researching Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)

FLIGHT Study Milestones: Researching Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)

Posted on 22 November 2018 by Julie Pell

FLIGHT is a multicentre randomised trial of First Line treatment pathways for newly diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia: Standard steroid treatment versus combined steroid and mycophenolate.  Funded by the National Institute for Health […]