Projects (207)

A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland. Oct 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2025
A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland.
NHS Boards in Scotland are implementing new observation policies in line with the Healthcare Improvement Scotland guidanc... Read More about A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland..

Quantifying AMR in the River Almond Catchment Area Sep 27, 2021 - Mar 31, 2027
Aim
To Quantifying AMR Pollution and identify the major sources of point and diffuse AMR pollution in the River Almond Catchment Area in order to provide a baseline for future risk assessment and intervention strategies.

TRANSITION Nov 16, 2020 - Mar 31, 2023
This project is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University to improve significantly the understanding of transition to civilian life within Scotland. By providing policy makers and service providers with evide... Read More about TRANSITION.

PhD studentship: DATA SCIENCE AND ADHERENCE TO MEDICATIONS Mar 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2027
Adherence to medications is increasingly important for population health, as chronic conditions become more prevalent. With the development of IT infrastructures that record medication prescribing and dispensing in routine care, data on medication us... Read More about PhD studentship: DATA SCIENCE AND ADHERENCE TO MEDICATIONS.

ACS discharge and medication education using Avatar technologies to prevent 30-day readmission. Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2022
Australian data report that up to 1 in 5 acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients are readmitted within 30-days.[1] It is estimated that between 2017-18, ACS events cost Australia $1,930 million.[2] Internationally, Hospital Readmissions Reduction Prog... Read More about ACS discharge and medication education using Avatar technologies to prevent 30-day readmission..

Design a smart system for pathogens detection in bathing waters Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2025
Monitoring the quality of recreational waters such as beaches and rivers is becoming a global concern to protect human health (e.g. the EU Bathing Water Directive (BWD) in Europe). In Scotland, water quality at 86 designated bathing water sites is as... Read More about Design a smart system for pathogens detection in bathing waters.

The Bassett Scholarship for improving midwifery perinatal bereavement care in Lothian Oct 1, 2020 - Dec 31, 2024
This proposal will provide a midwife interested in the area of bereavement the opportunity to undertake a PhD over a 3 year period. This undertaking will develop skills and understanding of midwives within the clinical area and universities relative... Read More about The Bassett Scholarship for improving midwifery perinatal bereavement care in Lothian.

Biochemical Society Summer Vacation Scholarship May 15, 2017 - Jul 10, 2017
Nrf2, a transcriptional activator of cell protection genes, is an emerging target for neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Nrf2 activity is reduced in dementia patients and Nrf2 inducing compounds prevent neuronal damage i... Read More about Biochemical Society Summer Vacation Scholarship.

Evaluation of Glasgow's Improving Cancer Journeys programme Jun 2, 2015 - Dec 31, 2024
The evaluation proposed here is necessarily flexible to support the programme’s evolution. The overall aim is to provide the programme with the most valid and robust practical evidence in a timely and systematic manner. It will focus on specific proc... Read More about Evaluation of Glasgow's Improving Cancer Journeys programme.

Development of a Virtual Reality application for home haemodialysis training Apr 1, 2023 - Oct 31, 2025
Patients entering end-stage kidney disease often need dialysis prior to transplantation - this may be delivered as in-centre dialysis (haemodialysis), or peritoneal dialysis. Increasingly, patients are offered home haemodialysis, with proven benefits... Read More about Development of a Virtual Reality application for home haemodialysis training.

Co-produced career guidance intervention for people living with dementia Sep 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2023
Project, led by Dr Louise Ritchie of the University of the West of Scotland and Co-investigators (Prof Debbie Tolson and Emma Bolger of University of the Westof Scotland, Dr Valerie Egdell and Katie Brittain of Northumbria University and myself) to c... Read More about Co-produced career guidance intervention for people living with dementia.

Five year records based follow up of people who participated in the Telescot hypertension and COPD trials Jun 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019
Five year records based follow up of the participants in two telemonitoring trials will be carried out for the following reasons
1. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an incurable, progressive lung condition characterised by intermitten... Read More about Five year records based follow up of people who participated in the Telescot hypertension and COPD trials.

Development of an in vitro suppression assay to assess functionality of therapeutic regulatory T cell for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis Jun 11, 2023 - Aug 14, 2024
MRS Summer Studentship for ENU Undergrad student Martin Swapp - 8 weeks in duration over summer 2023

Using microfluidic biochips to develop a dynamic environment for pathogen infections Jun 5, 2023 - Jul 16, 2023
To give hands on experience for an undergraduate student in cell culture.

Development of an immobilized artificial membrane liquid chromatography /mass spectrometry-based platform to assess the pulmonary permeability of drug candidates. Jun 12, 2023 - Aug 4, 2023
In this project, 53 analytes whose apparent permeability through Calu-3 cell line is known from the literature (Lin, Chiu, Wang, & Tung, 2022) will be studied by immobilized artificial membrane (IAM)- HPLC. Indeed, Berry and co-workers (Zemski Berry... Read More about Development of an immobilized artificial membrane liquid chromatography /mass spectrometry-based platform to assess the pulmonary permeability of drug candidates..

Take Ten Scoping Study Jan 4, 2023 - Aug 31, 2023
This is an external inward investment by the Scottish Catalyst Fund to conduct a programme of scoping work with a company new to Scotland and the University. We will be working with the company to test their healthcare technology device in a range of... Read More about Take Ten Scoping Study.

Co-design of a clinical decision support tool for use in patients with acute chest pain in the Emergency Department Aug 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2023
Our objective is to reduce 30-day reattendance by a fifth in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the Emergency Room using artificial intelligence tools to augment clinical decisions. To achieve this, we will provide diagnostic probabilities... Read More about Co-design of a clinical decision support tool for use in patients with acute chest pain in the Emergency Department.

Medical Research Scotland Vacation Scholarship Jun 13, 2022 - Aug 8, 2023
Investigating the anti-metastatic potential of Honokiol by attenuating KISS1/ KISS1R signaling

Exploiting micofluidic devices for physiologically relavent drug screening against human pathogens  Jun 1, 2022 - Jul 27, 2022
Undergraduate student summer project (8 weeks)

Virulence of diverse Listeria monocytogenes strains in an invertebrate infection model Jun 1, 2022 - Jul 27, 2022
Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) is a bacterium which is found throughout the environment and is the cause of listeriosis, a major food-borne disease. While annual case numbers are relatively low listeriosis has a high rate of fatality of 20... Read More about Virulence of diverse Listeria monocytogenes strains in an invertebrate infection model.