Hello and welcome to our February bulletin. Bringing you our usual mix of news, publications, project updates and much much more. SCPHRPs trip to New Zealand & Oz Ruth Jepson and John McAteer recently returned from New Zealand and Australia. They were sharing the work of SCPHRP during a number of invited talks …
SCPHRPs Dr Ruth Jepson will be running a two day course ‘How to Undertake a Systematic Review organised by Edinburgh WTCRF, Education Programme on Monday 19th March and Tuesday 20th March. Day 1. An introduction to systematic reviews The day will include the following topics: What are systematic reviews and why are they …
A grounded theory of how social support influences physical activity in adolescent girls Yvonne Laird (SCPHRP), Samantha Fawkner (Physical Activity for Health Research Centre, University of Edinburgh), Ailsa Niven (Physical Activity for Health Research Centre). Purpose Adolescent girls are not sufficiently active to achieve health benefits. Social support from friends and family has …
SCPHRP’s Hannah Biggs has received funding from the Institute for Academic Development at Edinburgh University (IAD), the UoE innovation Initiative Grant. The funding is to evaluate Well!Bingo, a public health intervention for women over 55 in bingo clubs. This project is a collaboration with the University of Stirling. Well done …
Welcome to our January Bulletin 2018 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Healthy University of the Future Hackathon Join us to help design innovative solutions to improve student health. We are looking for students from across the University of Edinburgh to take part in a hackathon to design a ‘Healthy University of the …
SCPHRP’s Jane Hartley was fortunate enough to attend the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution’s national conference ‘Conflict, it’s all about the brain…or is it?’ It was a fantastic day held at the Glasgow Science Centre with really interesting speakers. The day was showcasing new work around ‘the emotional homunculus’, the drug …
A hackathon is a timed competition-style event where teams are expected to get creative and work collaboratively and come up with a design or idea Join us to help design innovative solutions to improve student health.We are looking for students from across the University of Edinburgh to take part in …
Congratulations to SCPHRP’s Yvonne Laird who has been awarded funding from the UoE innovation Initiative Grant Designing a ‘Healthy University of the future’ This coincides with funding from the Institute for Academic Development to run an event during the Festival of Creative learning. The grant will be used to conduct focus …
Congratulations to SCPHRP’s Jane Hartley who has won three funding bids for work in 2018. The first two funds are from the Institute for Academic Development at Edinburgh University (IAD). The funds will be used to host a workshop series. The first workshop will be held in March 2018: Relax, …
Welcome to our December Bulletin 2017 WINTER MAGAZINE ONLINE NOW In this edition of the magazine, we are saying goodbye to 2017 and hello to 2018 by showcasing some of the projects SCPHRP has been working on over the past year, while also giving updates from other organisations in …
