To mark Cancer Survivors Day 2024 last month, the project managers in our Living With and Beyond Cancer (LWBC) theme have reflected on how their vital work has moved forward in the past 12 months, for the benefit of people living with and beyond cancer regionally and nationally.
To celebrate this year’s International Nurses Day, Favour Adoghe, BRC Research Nurse, has shared her passion for research and an insight into her role on Manchester BRC studies at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
To celebrate this year’s International Nurses Day, Lisa Murray, the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre’s Education and Training Manager and registered nurse, has shared an insight into her role which involves promoting BRC opportunities to nurses to drive future healthcare advances.
To mark this year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which is taking place on 11 February 2024 and focuses on Sustainable Development Goals, Dr Nisha Nair has written a blog about why sustainability is so important to her and how this relates to the laboratory environment.
Highlighting International Alopecia Day, Dr Matthew Harries, deputy lead of Manchester BRC’s inflammatory hair diseases research programme shines a light on the condition, and shares his insight into BRC research in this area.
In her blog paediatric audiologist Becky Gartside shares the benefits of her 12-week placement within the Hearing Health Theme, and how this has encouraged her to seek out a part-time research position.
On World Hearing Day Melanie Lough, Research Audiologist, discusses her proposed project that aims to widen the use of extended high-frequency hearing testing (audiometry) within NHS hearing services – and how patient and public involvement is helping to shape this research.
For World Hearing Day 2021, Dr Ciara Kelly, Manchester BRC Researcher and Developmental Psychologist, discusses strides made in newborn hearing loss and the importance of babies wearing hearing aids often.