The NHS is paying increasing attention to leadership within clinical teams. Leadership training can be delivered in different ways, for example, to the team leader alone or to all team members. However, it is not clear which approaches work best. Researchers looked at leadership training for surgeons, and asked what makes training effective. In this podcast, Helen Saul, Editor in Chief of NIHR Evidence, speaks with Amy Grove, Professor of Implementation Science and NIHR Advanced Fellow, University of Warwick; and Peter Hutchinson, Director of Clinical Research, Royal College of Surgeons of Eng ..read more

Professor Martin Tobin and Dr Catherine John talk to Professor Turi King about the first 10 years of the NIHR Leicester EXCEED Study, from its original aims through to the research questions its data is helping to answer today. EXCEED (Extended Cohort for E-health, Environment and DNA) is a longitudinal health study that looks at the causes of long-term health conditions by collecting information about genes and lifestyle. More than 11,000 people have already taken part in our research which is leading to discoveries that can improve and save lives. Based at the University of Leicester, EXCEE ..read more

Discover how the UK is taking vaccine research delivery to the next level with NIHR support. During the pandemic the UK demonstrated its ability to deliver vaccine trials at pace and scale. In this podcast you will hear how that UK expertise and capability is being harnessed to drive rapid development of future vaccines. Professors Andrew Ustianowski and Saul Faust discuss four key areas of work now underway to develop the UK Vaccine Innovation Pathway. From growing our community of vaccine trial investigators, to developing site capability, and from optimising study placement to building aw ..read more

In this episode we are exploring public health research - what it is and how it can help people to live healthier and longer lives.  For many people their only experience of public health research will be related to infection prevention and protection during the COVID19 pandemic.  But that's just one area of public health research and this podcast explores the bigger picture of what public health research is and how it can benefit us all.  Our host, Professor Turi King chats with Professor Jane West who is NIHR national speciality lead for public health and director of public ..read more

This short new NIHR podcast series hosted by Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research and Co-Lead of the NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group, brings together experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to discuss the threat posed by AMR and what  can and should be done to tackle the problem. In this first episode, William is joined by Professor Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor at the UK Health Security Agency ..read more

The global pandemic has had a huge influence on how we work. This episode, with guests from multiple NIHR funded projects, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected community engagement and involvement (CEI) activities, as well as how CEI and research was adapted to cater to local restrictions and changing context. The guest speakers describe how CEI is embedded in their research, how it has benefitted their projects and the CEI work they are most proud of. In addition to this, the guests also share the  challenges they faced within CEI due to COVID-19,  how these challenges were a ..read more

This introductory episode focuses on NIHR’s approach to Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) in the global health research we fund. Gary Hickey, a Senior Public Involvement Manager hosts this podcast and is joined by fellow NIHR colleagues and Assistant Directors of Global Health Research programmes, Sarah Puddicombe and Mike Rogers. In this podcast you’ll also hear from Vijay Rajkumar, a public contributor who has been involved in the commissioning of research awards.  The guests discuss the importance of embedding meaningful CEI, how CEI is considered in the commissioning of NIHR ..read more

The second episode in this series, split into two parts, discusses implementation of community engagement and involvement (CEI) across a range of countries and explores the different approaches used across these countries. Host, Doreen Tembo, Global Health Community Engagement and Involvement Lead at the NIHR Coordinating Centre is joined by members of the research team studying Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and intervention programmes to improve patient experience and reduce stigma. In part 1, the guests describe how CEI is embedded in the project, adapted across these different countries, and mech ..read more

Rising numbers of young people have depression. It can affect their relationships with family and friends, disrupt their school lives and interfere with sleep. Services are struggling to meet their needs and many young people are waiting months to access the talking therapies that could help them. Sometimes, doctors might consider prescribing antidepressant medicines. Research supports the use of some antidepressants in young people, and suggests that others should be avoided In this podcast, Helen Saul, Editor in Chief of NIHR Evidence, speaks with Bernadka Dubicka, who is Consultant Child an ..read more

Episode 4 of the NIHR podcast series discussing the big research challenges facing healthcare, hosted by Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford . Every week, UK clinicians with experience of research discuss the tough questions about research. In this final episode,  Sanjay is joined by research optometrist Laura Taylor, ophthalmology registrar Dr. Mital Shah,  and Dr. Tanya Baron, an emergency medicine consultant and former GP, to discuss to what extent health research has kept up with the wider digital revolution taking place in ..read more