On the 24th April 2020 we were to hold our first MSK virtual Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) meeting. By this point virtual/ remote meetings are the new normal. …

On 29 January, the West Midlands Teaching Partnership and Keele University hosted a workshop on emotions in social work practice for experienced social workers and social work students, led by Professor Alessandro Sicora from the University of Trento, Italy. Professor Sicora’s work outlined that emotions have often been described as…

Written by Professor Athula Sumathipala | Published 23rd March 2017 Professor Athula Sumathipala summarises the events of a two-week Ethics Teachers’ Training Course (ETTC) which took place on 20th February for two weeks in Sri Lanka. The training was delivered jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation…

Written by Dr Chris Littlewood | Published 25th May 2017 On Monday 15th May the Research Institute for Primary Care & Health Sciences hosted a seminar attended by 70 clinicians and academics from across the UK. …

Written by Treena Larkin |Published Thursday 14th September 2017 Every four months, a group of Allied Health Professionals get together to form the NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust (SSOTP) ‘Evidence-Based Practice’ (EBP) group. The group is made up of clinicians working within musculoskeletal healthcare, such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists…

Written by Isabela Troyer | Published 15/09/2017 As an international PhD student studying in the UK, I am committed to developing research links between the UK and my home country, Ecuador. In particular, investigating the opportunities to translate my research into an Ecuadorian context. I was recently given the opportunity to travel back to Ecuador with the Santander travel bursary, where I was able to explore the transferability of my research around mental health and using patient and public involvement.

Written by Dr Faraz Mughal As a GP and Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Clinical Fellow for Children and Young People’s Mental Health, I was delighted when I heard the news that my NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) In-Practice Fellowship application was successful. The fellowship will not only allow me to develop research skills and evolve as a clinical academic, but will also allow me to further understand self-harm within primary care, a subject which personally, really troubles me.

Written by Dr Ben Saunders I think I speak for most qualitative researchers when I say saturation is taken for granted, yet there continues to be inconsistency in how it’s used and even uncertainty on how to use it. …

Written by Chris Morton | PhD Student Multi-state modelling, a flexible framework which describes complex clinical processes over time, is often overlooked by the more favourable survival and longitudinal models. In this blog, I hope to provide an accessible introduction to multi-state modelling, drawing on my recent dissertation for my MSc at Lancaster, whilst also introducing my current research.