Event Archive

Save the date - 6-9th October 2019, ICTMC 2019, Brighton

5th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference 2019

Saturday 28th September 2019 - Soapbox Science Event

Heidi Gardner will be leading another Soapbox Science event that will take place in the centre of Aberdeen City as part of European Researchers’ Night. Explorathon 2019 offers events across the city centre, bringing Aberdeen's researchers closer to the public through fun and engaging events, talks, comedy and hands on activities....

HSRU's Public Engagement Group to take part in Explorathon 2019

On the morning of Saturday 28th September members of the Health Services Research Unit will be out and about in Aberdeen City Centre. As part of Explorathon 2019, members of our public engagement group will be in Aberdeen’s “golden zone” on Market Street outside Marks and Spencer’s. There they will be talking...

Call the tooth fairy - The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas 2019 - Edinburgh Fringe

Most academic research needs to be more relevant, produced more quickly and for less money.  Is this possible?  Jan Clarkson (University of Dundee & NHS Education for Scotland) and Craig Ramsay (HSRU, University of Aberdeen) return to CODI to share their latest ground-breaking research - and you may be surprised by...

Save the date - NHS Scotland Event 2019

This year's event will take place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 May at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow.

The 4th Annual International Symposium on Advancing the Science and Impact of Audit & Feedback

HSRU's Craig Ramsay and Beatriz Goulao will be joined at this event by Jeremy Grimshaw to facilitate the workshop titled: Study designs for evaluating effectiveness of audit and feedback Workshop Overview:  Considerations in choosing a study design Randomized designs  Non-randomized designs Case study examples  The 4th Annual International Symposium on Advancing the  Science and Impact of...

"A Trial at Sea" activity to feature at the University's May Festival

HSRU's Public Engagement Group will again be heading to the University of Aberdeen's May Festival on 21 and 22 May 2019. The group will be putting on an activity called "A Trial at Sea! How to find out which medicines work best". They will re-enact James Lind's first clinical trial with...

Society for Clinical Trials 40th Annual Meeting 2019 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Professor Shaun Treweek to speak at the Satellite meeting for the European Congress on Obesity - Saturday, April 27th 2019

The University of Dundee will be hosting a one day meeting on Saturday 27th April on behalf of the NIHR collaboration on cancer and nutrition with support from The World Cancer Research Fund, the Association for the Study of Obesity and The Scottish Cancer Prevention Network. The aim of the meeting is to consider current...

Friends of Aberdeen University Library AGM, followed at 6.30pm by a talk: Testing Times

New health treatments and medicines are "scientifically proven using tests", but this is not new, in fact it is ancient.