Congratulations Chris Sweeney!
Congratulations to our 2nd year PhD student Christopher Sweeney for Best Oral Presentation Award at the recent Health Visiting 2023 conference Oct 9, 2023
SCPHRP seminar series 7: Chemical and environmental contaminants in food
Location: Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 6, The University of Edinburgh Time: Oct 17th, 10-11.30am: Food represents the most chemically complex part of the environment to which humans are exposed on a daily basis. Food consists of chemical components that give it nutritional value, such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, water, …
Care homes achieving realistic movement strategies (CHARMS)
Development of an intervention programme theory to increase movement in care homes for people with cognitive impairment: Care homes achieving realistic movement strategies (CHARMS) Link to full text Main findings: Context appropriate interventions increase movement/physical activity in care homes. CHARMS materials guide care homes to develop movement/physical activity strategies. Older …
New research: Challenges and possible solutions for accessing scholarly literature among medical and nursing professionals and students in low-and-middle income countries: A systematic review
New review by Mengying Zang, Larry Doi, Joshua Awua, Hayford Asawe and Rosie Stenhouse. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026069172300031X The issue of access to scholarly literature is key to the development of evidence and evidence based practice for nursing and healthcare. Within low and middle income countries this access is impeded by a …
Clinical Audit: Application of its concepts in public health setting
SCPHRP research seminar series no 3.: Clinical Audit: Application of its concepts in Public Health settings This seminar will provide an introduction to clinical governance, clinical audit, audit vs research, audit cycle, steps in implementing clinical audit and application of its concept in public health setting with examples A clinical …
Four students from Dunbar Grammer School do work experience as researchers
In November 2022 we welcomed four students from Dunbar Grammer School into SCPHRP for a week to do some work experience, and have a chance to experience what being a researcher is like. They were (front, L to R) Libby Cowsill, Heidi MacFarlane Baker, Oliver Coghlan and Ewan Thomas This …
POSTPONED Urban rewilding: new vision or repacking of the old?
Due to industrial action, this event has been postponed Who: Dr Paul Jepson, author of REWILDING :The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/rewilding-2/ When: Thu, 24 Nov 2022, 16:00 GMT Where: Elliot Seminar Room, Minto House (MIN_2.403) Minto House 20-22 Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JZ OR Online How to book: Book …
Telehealth provides unique opportunities to improve access to early years health services for young mothers, but barriers remain
Understanding the use of telehealth in the context of the Family Nurse Partnership and other early years home visiting programmes: A rapid review Researchers from SCPHRP have recently published a rapid review which sought to understand the use of telehealth in early parenthood programmes sharing similarities with the Family Nurse …
More evidence that female empowerment plays a crucial role in household nutrition and food security
New research paper by Sidra Ishfaq (see her biography in People), who was a visiting scholar at SCPHRP in 2021, plus members of SCPHRP. It provides further evidence that female empowerment plays a crucial role in household nutrition and food security. The study, published in PLoS ONE, ( https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275713) aimed …
New paper on 20mph! Use of natural experimental studies to evaluate 20mph speed limits in two major UK cities
New paper from the NIHR funded 20mph project led by Ruth Jepson. This paper was authored by Karen Milton and Mike Kelly plus members of the 20mph team Read it in full here – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140521001717 or get the highlights below! Innovative study designs, including natural experiments, are important for assessing the …
