Last month, our NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland Initiative (NESSIE) team celebrated our second anniversary by reflecting on what we have achieved over the past two years. We thought we would share some of our highlights and activities in this blog. As you know, our focus for evidence synthesis projects is on health and social care, […]

Welcome to the next edition of our “Spotlight on a Researcher” series. If you have missed our previous editions you can find these here. This week I have been chatting to Professor Emma France about how she got involved with NESSIE. Emma is based within the Centre for Healthcare and Community Research (CHeCR) at the […]

This is the next blog post of our “Spotlight on the Researcher” series and this week focuses on Professor Jackie Price. We have been chatting about her career, research interests and all things NESSIE. Jackie is one of our co-leads and alongside Professor Alex Todhunter-Brown developed the idea of NESSIE. Jackie trained as a medical […]

So, the blog baton (if that is a thing) has been passed to me by Peter Matthews.  In his blog, which was the first “spotlight on researcher” posts, Peter said it was the scariest blog he had ever written.  In my case, this is the FIRST blog that I have ever written…..so I hope you […]

Well, this is possibly the scariest blog post I’ve written. I was asked to do this “spotlight on researchers” post and asked for some idea of what I should write. Turns out I’m the first person they’ve asked, so I’m setting the tone for everyone else… apologies in advance to my colleagues! So, what’s my […]

We are delighted to announce the launch of the NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland InitiativE or NESSIE. NIHR is the National Institute for Health and Care Research who pay for and complete research within the UK. They have paid for nine specialist research groups throughout the UK including NESSIE. Researchers from four universities have come together […]