Institute of Health and Wellbeing Early Career Researchers' Blog
Solange Parra is a second year PhD student from University of Glasgow. The following is a description of a prospective cohort study they have conducted looking at the association between height and risk of 24 cancer sites in the UK Biobank.
CONTINUE READINGMeigan is a PhD student based in the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences unit and is supervised by Professor Sharon Simpson, Dr Anne Martin, Dr Emily Long and Dr Jennifer Logue. Meigan’s PhD topic is Understanding the Barriers & Facilitators of Weight Loss in adults participating in Behavioural Weight Loss Programmes.
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The embrace – Two generations of black men
Photo by: Trudy Dawson, Edited by: Patrice Reid
Copyright © 2020 Trudy Dawson.
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement evokes many feelings and thoughts. The fact that I have to write ‘black lives matter’ or the fact that this string of words has to be said is unreal. My mind is still coming to grips with the slogan. I am coming to grips with the fact that today the BLM chant echoes centuries-old outcries for equality against chattels and injustices. Chattels and injustices imposed by one set of humans onto another who are phenotypically different, and that remain due to notions of otherness.
It is unfair. It is wrong. It is heart-breaking. It hurts.
This piece is part of a series collecting the experiences of researchers during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Patrice Reid is a Commonwealth Scholar pursuing her Ph.D. in Psychological Medicine. Her research is focused on the development and field testing of a culturally grounded digital intervention to address alcohol and marijuana abuse in young Jamaicans. The following is a reflective piece by Patrice on living in lock-down.
Continue ReadingThe following is a comic strip. This piece is part of a series collecting the experiences of researchers during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue ReadingThe following is a poem. This piece is part of a series collecting the experiences of researchers during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue ReadingThis piece is part of a series collecting the experiences of researchers during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Sam Brady is an AHRC CDP PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the socio-political and technical history of the sports wheelchair in collaboration with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. He also excels at eating, worrying and obsessively tweeting @SamB24. In the following post, Sam reflects on his situation in light of lock-down
Continue ReadingThis piece is part of a series collecting the experiences of researchers during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Rachel Thomson is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow who started a PhD modelling the impacts of welfare policies on population mental health at the University of Glasgow in September 2019. Her clinical background is in public health medicine, and since March 2020 she has returned to clinical practice on a part-time basis to assist with the public health response to COVID-19 in NHS Ayrshire & Arran (A&A). In the following piece, Rachel reflects on her experience of this time as PhD student and public health professional.
Continue readingI am in my first year of completing a PhD looking into the impact of post-migration life difficulties on mental health and somatic symptoms. I would like to take this opportunity to present my current work which focuses on the mental health and somatic symptoms of asylum seekers and refugees in the context of post-migration life difficulties. In addition to presenting my research work as it is developing, I would also like to briefly talk about my personal background and how this has influenced my personal and academic development.
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday 26th February, Seven Early Career researchers working within UoG’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing presented their work, during the institute’s annual research away day. Following the format of the three minute thesis competitions held in universities worldwide, each presentation had to be under 3 minutes long and use only one power point slide (no animations allowed). During the away day, the presentations were judged by a panel for winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. All the presentations were excellent.
I drew up a brief summary of each person’s work, while they were presenting, which I now present to you:
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