Event Archive

2024

May

• Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Helen Weiss - 'Improving menstrual health in Uganda: MENISCUS - a school based-cluster randomised trial'

  29 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Helen Weiss 'Improving menstrual health in Uganda: MENISCUS - a school-based cluster-randomised trial'     Professor Helen Anne Weiss DPhil FMedSci   Helen is a Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the MRC International Statistical and Epidemiology Partnership, based at the London School of Hygiene &...

April

• (ACWHR) ACWHR Seminar with Professor Edwin van Teijlingen - Reflections on the medical/social model of childbirth

  17 April 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Join the Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research's (ACWHR) virtual seminar with Professor Edwin van Teijlingen on Wednesday the 17th April on 'reflections on the medical/social model of childbirth'. Professor van Teijlingen is trained as a medical sociologist and has an interest in mixed-methods research, qualitative research and evaluation research. A large share of...

March

• Cafe Med - Seminar 2: Data saves lives: how the Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Database has been improving our understanding of pregnancy risks for over 75 years

  11 March 2024, 18:00 - 19:30

  Sir Dugald Baird had the foresight to start collecting data on all pregnancies in Aberdeen in 1949 - we take a look at how data in the AMND has led to breakthrough research and changed our understanding of pregnancy complications for the last 75 years. Learn how we carry our...

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  6th Anniversary of the ACWHR and Inaugural Sohinee Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture

  04 March 2024, 13:00 - 17:00

  In celebration of International Women's Day (IWD) in March 2024

February

• ACWHR Seminar with Dr Rosie Townsend - Retinal biomarkers of pregnancy risk

  21 February 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Join the Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research's (ACWHR) virtual seminar with Dr Rosie Townsend on Wednesday the 21st February on retinal biomarkers of pregnancy risk via MS Teams.

2023

December

• Webinar: Setting up a PPI group for those with lived experience of early pregnancy loss

  18 December 2023, 12:30 - 13:30

  We are hosting a live webinar on Monday the 18th December to share the experience of taking part in a bespoke PPI group for those with lived experience of early pregnancy loss and to share how it shaped future research applications.

November

• Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Dr Neil Ryan (Dugald Baird Centre AMH) - 'Novel Means of Detecting Endometrial Cancer - The MEWS and Origin Studies'

  15 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Dr Neil Ryan 'Novel Means of Detecting Endometrial Cancer – The MEWS and Origin Studies' Location: Hybrid Event – Dugald Baird Centre, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital & Virtually via MS Teams Neil is a Clinical Lecturer and Gynaecology Oncology Surgical Subspecialty Fellow at the University...

• Webinar: Setting up a PPI group for those with lived experience of early pregnancy loss

  10 November 2023, 12:30 - 13:30

  We are hosting a live webinar to share the experience of taking part in a bespoke PPI group for those with lived experience of early pregnancy loss and to share how it shaped future research applications. Please contact acwrh@abdn.ac.uk for the link to join.

October

• SEMINAR: Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Suzanne Hagen - 'Leading the advances in conservative management of pelvic organ prolapse' (Online)

  25 October 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Suzanne Hagen – 'Leading the advances in conservative management of pelvic organ prolapse'   Suzanne Hagen is a Chartered Statistician, Professor of Health Services Research in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and Deputy Director of the...

September

• Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Bolanle Brikinns - 'The role of lifestyle factors in the development of CVD in women with history of hypertensive disorders'

  21 September 2023, 12:30 - 13:30

  Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Bolanle Brikinns - 'The role of lifestyle factors in the development of CVD in women with history of hypertensive disorders'   Bolanle is currently a Lecturer in Health and Social Care at the University of Essex and Honorary research Fellow at the University...