The School of Nursing and Midwifery is pleased to announce that two new students have started their doctoral studies. Mr Gareth Partington and Ms Heather Baid, who is a member of SNM staff, have registered for their MPhil studies this October.
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Action for Health project kicks-off
Dr Nigel Sherriff and Dr Lisa Gugglberger from the Centre for Health Research have recently travelled to Luxembourg to mark the launch of the EC-co-funded Action for Health Project.
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Senior lecturer speaks at two international events on infant feeding
Carol Williams, senior lecturer in the school, has recently spoken at two international events on infant feeding in Italy and London.
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Shirley Bach gives keynote lecture to Malaysian nurses association
Professor Shirley Bach, head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, recently gave the keynote lecture at the annual conference of the Malaysian nurses association.
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Heart failure research will save NHS millions
A senior lecturer from the University of Brighton is conducting research that could save the NHS millions of pounds by treating heart patients in their own homes.
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Cate Bell, a Centre for Health Research professional doctorate student who is due to graduate this summer, has been invited to give a presentation at the All Wales Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research Forum in Wales on 7 December 2012 about her research into women's experiences of excellent midwives.
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Dr Chris Cocking has won second prize in a university research poster competition
Dr Chris Cocking, senior lecturer in the school, has one second prize in a research poster competition hosted by the Research Office. Find out more on his blog.
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New award: funding to support Community University Partnership Resilience research
Professor Angie Hart has been awarded £32,000 by the AHRC to act as principal investigator on a 12 month research project into Community University Partnership Resilience.
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Senior researcher joins CHR on secondment from Austria
Lisa Gugglberger from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research in Vienna has recently joined the Centre for Health Research on secondment.
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As a core part of the Gradient Project on reducing health inequalities, Professor John Kenneth Davies and Dr Nigel Sherriff from the Centre for Health Research have now published the Gradient Evaluation Framework (GEF).
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International relations funding
As part of an attempt to develop a new research partnership between the Centre for Health Research and Nagoya City University, Dr Nigel Sherriff has been awarded International Relations funding from Nagoya City University to travel to Japan.
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Computer-generated tours of virtual hospitals can help patients with intellectual disabilities to overcome fears and to understand treatments they are about to undergo, according to a new study.
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Research featured in the Times Educational Supplement
An article by Dr Nigel Sherriff of the faculty's Centre for Health Research and Dr Carolyn Jackson of Lancaster University has been made the subject of a two-page piece in the Times Educational Supplement published on 7 October 2011.
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Led by Dr Nigel Sherriff, the Centre for Health Research has been invited to be a key partner in a new HIV project funded by the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) of the European Commission (EC).
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