The MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, @uofglasgow, studies how to improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities. Part of @UofGSHW.
Glasgow, Scotland
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Our final lunchtime Webinar💻Evaluation of a complex systems science programme 📅 is this Wednesday 26 Feb with Dr Liz Such @UniofNottingham . Learn how SIPHER started, grew and developed to deliver on its ambitions over 5 years. Please join us! 📷bit.ly/3YJeBo6
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🚀New resource alert!
Engaging Children with Health Data: A Toolkit
Designed for researchers, this toolkit offers interactive slides & hands-on activities to make #healthdata fun & accessible for young learners.
🔗Explore: eprints.gla.ac.uk/345833/
#STEMEducation
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SIPHER Webinar🏠 Housing as a Social Determinant of Health this Thursday 20 Feb, 12:30 PM. Join Dr Lisa Garnham for an overview of SIPHER’s qualitative and quantitative research on the relationship between housing and health. Secure your spot now! 👉bit.ly/3YJeBo6
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New research in @BMC_GPH examines whether income has a direct impact on health outcomes.
Findings suggest higher income is linked to lower odds of depression, smoking, and mortality – plus a reduction in BMI. #PublicHealth #IncomeHealth
Read more➡️doi.org/10.1186/s44263-025-0…
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NCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous!
The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers.
Read the call: ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR/inde…
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📣Join the @NIHRresearch OPTIMA project's webinar this Wednesday to explore how Scotland’s urban planning, policy and outcomes operate and intersect. A free and insightful discussion with Euan Leitch @SURFscot.
🗓 Feb 5 | 12:30 PM
🔗Register now: events.bookitbee.com/univers…
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Glasgow has been awarded £5m research funding from NIHR over the next 5 years to help improve the lives of citizens and tackle #healthinequalities
Prof Laurence Moore is the @UofGlasgow lead in the partnership with @GlasgowCC @NHSGGC @UniStrathclyde
➡️gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1143…
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Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions @NCRMUK training course
🗓️6th-8th May, Glasgow
This intermediate level course will provide participants with an understanding of the #ComplexIntervention research process.
@andybaxter @theSPHSU @UofGHEHTA
ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php…
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Our first @NIHRresearch OPTIMA project's blogs are now live. We discuss the '20-minute neighbourhood' and health (inequalities), both potential benefits: gla.ac.uk/research/az/optima… ; and potential harms: gla.ac.uk/research/az/optima… @UofGSHW @theSPHSU
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📢 Out now! SIPHER Bulletin No. 17. All the latest on our work including reports on life expectancy & child poverty, new webinar dates plus a feedback request to Evidence & Gap Map users. Explore: bit.ly/4h7rRd8 Want to get directly subscribe now: bit.ly/3HvNGTq
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The Mental Wealth Initiative, in partnership with EBC, @hjerneradet, @epc_eu, @WorldBank, @BakerInstitute & @EMEAorg, proudly announce the release of their report, “The Value of Social Production in Norway,” during @wef in #Davos.
🔎 Read more: braincouncil.eu/social-produ…
New #NaturePlay web tool developed by @theSPHSU
🧑🏫 For Early Years practitioners, nursery managers & providers
📌 Maps factors influencing outdoor play & their connections
🌱 Explores the benefits of nature-based learning in Scotland
🔗 nature-play.glasgow.ac.uk
#OutdoorLearning
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A new research project involving @vkatikireddi is aimed at improving policymakers’ understanding of the impact of smartphones and social media on young people📱
Led by @Cambridge_Uni, the work has been commissioned by @SciTechgovuk
More 👉gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1140…
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Check this out — a photovoice exhibit exploring adolescent sleep by one of our PhD students, @CatrionaLEwart!
The Eyes Wide Open exhibit is now on display @UofGByresHub showcasing adolescent experiences and understanding of their sleep through photography #sleep #adolescenthealth #photovoice #PhD
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New SIPHER Webinars
🏠 Housing as a Social Determinant of Health
📅20 Feb, 12:30 PM
👩⚕️Presenter: Dr Lisa Garnham
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📊 Evaluation of a complex systems science programme
📅26 Feb, 12:30 PM
👩🔬Presenter: Dr Liz Such
Secure your spot now! 👉bit.ly/3YJeBo6
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Free Glasgow Skeptics talk by Prof Kristin Mitchell – ‘Putting the sex into wellbeing’
🗓️21st January, 7.30-9pm
📍The Admiral Woods bar, Waterloo St, Glasgow
🔗tinyurl.com/29r989h2
@KMitchinGlasgow @GlasgowSkeptics @UofGPE @theSPHSU
Not everyone has the same opportunities to lead a long and healthy life—so it's fantastic to see #HealthInequalities as a key theme of the MVLS #CollegeFutures PhD Programme. 🩺🎓
🚀 MVLS #CollegeFutures PhD Programme! 🎓
Starting Oct 2025, we're offering 12 funded PhD studentships in:
🔬 Fundamentals of Life
💊 Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics
🌍 Planetary Health
💉 Health Inequalities
Head of MVLS, Iain McInnes, explains our #MVLS2033 vision 📺
🎥 Involving Young People's Voices in Mental Health Research – TRIUMPH youth advisors & Christina McMellon share how co-production with young people and involving them from the start can widen the research agenda and influence the research Qs. Watch here: youtu.be/wCo0zhSNGAw
Want to dive deeper? Christina's @UKRI_News case study explores why a youth advisory group was central to the development of the TRIUMPH network.
Read how their voices influenced change: bit.ly/4jbiXg7
#YouthInResearch #MentalHealthNetworks