Event Archive

2016

February

• HSRU Methodology Workshop - Eye movements: A window into hidden expertise

  16 February 2016, 12:30 - 14:30

  Eye movements: A window into hidden expertise Matt Stainer and Ben Tatler, Active Vision Lab, University of Aberdeen and Ken Scott-Brown, Abertay University

January

• HSRU Methodology Workshop, Wednesday 20th January 2016

  20 January 2016, 12:30 - 15:00

  Sandwiches 12:30 for 12:45 workshop start - please register your place with Andrea Fraser (andrea.fraser@abdn.ac.uk) Work, family and wellbeing in a digital age: Experimenting with visual methods

2015

December

• HSRU methodology workshop: 'Brave new world? Mixed Methods Systematic Reviewing'

  01 December 2015, 12:30 - 14:00

  This workshop will involve interactive, group-based activities that focus on how teams work together to identify, process and synthesise both quantitative and qualitative evidence when undertaking a mixed methods systematic review. This workshop will be of interest to systematic reviewers and those who use systematic reviews. Previous experience of explicitly doing mixed...

June

• Methodology Workshop Series, Spring 2015: Shared decision making and the challenges of implementation

  03 June 2015, 13:15 - 14:30

  Shared decision-making is an approach that involves patients and their clinicians in working together to find the right care or treatment for an individual based on what is important to that patient, informed by relevant evidence. It is an important component of the wider field of person-centred care. Despite growing...

May

• Methodology Workshop Series, Spring 2015: Modelling decision making to make a difference

  13 May 2015, 12:30 - 14:00

  In the UK, policy decisions on the adoption of new treatments are informed by a cost-effectiveness analysis over a lifetime time horizon. However, evidence on relative treatment efficacy comes from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that typically have a follow-up period of only a few years. Mean survival time is a...

April

• Methodology Workshop Series, Spring 2015: Using digital and innovative online methodologies

  21 April 2015, 12:45 - 14:00

  For further information, please contact Dr Heather Morgan, h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk or Pawana Sharma, p.sharma@abdn.ac.uk.

March

• Methodology Workshop Series, Spring 2015: Research applications and data management

  31 March 2015, 12:45 - 14:00

  For further information, please contact Dr Heather Morgan, h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk or Pawana Sharma, p.sharma@abdn.ac.uk.

• 3rd HIS Annual Symposium: Bringing Evidence Together

  26 March 2015

  Health Improvement Scotland (HIS), Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) and Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) are pleased to announce the 3rd HIS Annual Symposium:  Bringing Evidence Together.  This event will celebrate the launch of the HIS Evidence Directorate and the strategic alliance between HSRU, HERU and HIS. The event is scheduled...

• UKCS Conference 2015

  25 - 27 March 2015

  The 22nd Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom Continence Society (UKCS) will take place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) from 25 - 27 March 2015.  

February

• HSRU Methodology Workshop

  24 February 2015, 12:30 - 14:00

  The title of this workshop is: Understanding, appraising and reporting systematic reviews that use individual participant data (IPD).   The workshop will take place on Tuesday, February 24th in room 115 (Health Sciences Building) from 12.45.  The workshop will be run by Professor Lesley Stewart (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/staff/stewart.htm) and her colleague Mark Simmonds (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/staff/simmonds.html)...