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Making Connections: An event made for and with young people in research

  • 06 Mar 2025
Students sitting on chairs in school

Schools found Government COVID-19 guidance difficult to implement and ineffective

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Paper:

School life during COVID-19: a qualitative study exploring English secondary school staff and pupils’ experiences of the school-based mitigation measures

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Masters in Research studentships for health and care professionals

  • 28 Feb 2025
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Understanding the lethal interactions between benzodiazepines and opioids to develop new harm reduction strategies

Screenshot of the qualitative study of benzodiazepine/z-drug and opioid co-use patterns and overdose risk
Paper:

A qualitative study of benzodiazepine/z-drug and opioid co-use patterns and overdose risk

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Video explores impact of co-production in research through zine-making workshop

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Exploring the research on point-of-care testing in ambulances

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Paper:

Point-of-care tests in the emergency medical services: a scoping review

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Patients on a hospital ward

Using data to tackle NHS and social care pressures in the South West

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Child mortality has risen since pandemic, new study shows

  • 23 Jan 2025
Child mortality PLOS paper
Paper:

Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019–2023

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Joint replacement surgery unjustifiably delayed or denied for many people living with obesity

A doctor talks to a patient with shingles rash on a screen between them

Patients’ understanding of shingles is poor with some blaming themselves for its onset, study finds

  • 14 Jan 2025
Paper:

‘Everyone has heard of it, but no one knows what it is’: A qualitative study of patient understandings and experiences of herpes zoster

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