International Seminar on Serious Mental Illness – International Challenges for Criminal Justice

On the evening of Tuesday 7th of May 2024 the International Network for Criminal Justice (IN-CJ) hosted an international seminar on serious mental illness – international challenges for criminal justice. The seminar was chaired by Dr Coral Sirdifield, Senior Research Continue reading International Seminar on Serious Mental Illness – International Challenges for Criminal Justice

CaHRU awarded NIHR ARC EM grant to evaluate ambulance innovations and mental health pathways in the East Midlands

Prof Niro Siriwardena and Dr Gupteswar Patel from CaHRU successfully secured funding from NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands for a new study, Evaluating New Ambulance Mental Health Pathways (ENAMHP), to work with mental health care providers, a lived experience Continue reading CaHRU awarded NIHR ARC EM grant to evaluate ambulance innovations and mental health pathways in the East Midlands

Georgie Nicholls joins PANDA study

Georgie Nicholls recently joined the Community and Health Research unit as a research assistant on the PANDA project (Improving Pain mAnagment for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance). This project utilises a realist methodology to identify what can be Continue reading Georgie Nicholls joins PANDA study

Improvement science and Research Methods seminar given by Dr Gupteswar Patel: Use of theories in qualitative research – a multi-disciplinary perspective

On 16th April Dr Gupteswar Patel gave a presentation on the topic of the “Use of theories in qualitative research: a multi-disciplinary perspective”. Qualitative research relies on theories to provide frameworks for understanding and interpreting complex phenomena, guiding researchers in Continue reading Improvement science and Research Methods seminar given by Dr Gupteswar Patel: Use of theories in qualitative research – a multi-disciplinary perspective

Developing standards and quality indicators. An example of a modified RAND approach

On 19th March, Dr Coral Sirdifield gave a seminar entitled “Developing standards and quality indicators. An example of a modified RAND approach” Coral talked about an NIHR funded study that she led recently, part of which involved creating standards and Continue reading Developing standards and quality indicators. An example of a modified RAND approach