Delighted to start 2026 with my first PhD paper published 🎉 This review maps 35 UK complex intervention studies to improve access to healthcare for ethnically underrepresented groups. Promising approaches, but gaps in effectiveness & equity remain.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Great to present @ukri.org funded work on stratified rehab after hip fracture at @gerisoc.bsky.social Belfast.
Great to see colleagues old and new!
🔊 🔊🔊 CALLING ALL NHS MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOTHERAPISTS/ SERVICE MANAGERS 🔊 🔊🔊
Please complete survey to inform programme of research on community appointment days
at link 👉 forms.office.com/e/eBFWf5rsmk or QR 👇
Please share widely to your networks
@thecsp.bsky.social @tobysmith.bsky.social
Fragility Fracture Network Global Congress Porto 0ct 1-4 2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN:
fragilityfracturenetwork.org/2025-congres...
New perspective in NEJM pitching for improved access to FLS
Coordinating Multidisciplinary Care — Improving Outcomes after Fragility Fractures
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The value of healthy #ageing: Estimating the #economic value of #health using time use data
👉 Healthy older people create economic value by engaging in non-market activities
#Prevention #Aging #Care #PublicHealth
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research #ARCadvent Top ARC stories of the year Day 5 Seven key questions for more equitable & representative research Main image: A man smiling whilst sitting at a desk in front of a laptop
#ARCadvent day 5️⃣:
@unibirmingham.bsky.social researchers funded by Birmingham BRC & @arc-wm.bsky.social developed a toolkit to guide representative & equitable inclusion in clinical research. REP-EQUITY describes 7 key questions to consider when planning & recruiting arc-wm.nihr.ac.uk/rep-equity/
Useful tips for those interested in Supported Self Management
The 16 communication skills of top performers youtu.be/oe64JcjUVnk?... via @YouTube
#SelfmgtLIVING-Works
An interview by Bart’s Life Sciences with @proflizsampson.bsky.social
and me about our proposed work at the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing bartslifesciences.org/transforming...
Screenshot of article title: About Falls Efficacy: A commentary on “World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative”
Just published in Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls:
About Falls Efficacy: A commentary on “World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative”
Great work by Shawn to lead this discussion!
Free to read here: www.jfsf.eu/Article.php?...
So many fantastic workshop suggestions coming through!
If you are interested/have an idea and want to be linked to like minded people across the globe to develop a workshop....then drop me a message (k.sheehan@qmul.ac.uk).
Very keen to bring new faces to the Fragility Fracture Network!
🌟Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow🌟
🔊 Closing Dec 11th 🔊
▶️ At NIHR BRC, Barts Health & @qmul.ac.uk
▶️ 50:50 clinical: academic
🌟 Post 1: Ortho inpatients + research supported by me
🌟 Post 2: MSK outpatients + research supported by Dylan Morrissey
▶️ Apply 👇
qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
Flyer for upcoming webinar to launch CONSULT Training 5th Dec 2-3pm
📢4 days left📢 until our webinar introducing the CONSULT e-learning on trials involving adults with impaired capacity to consent - plus an opportunity to ask our expert panel about the key challenges you encounter!
📆5th Dec
🕑2-3pm
🔗register tinyurl.com/2s3nmbz7
#InclusiveResearch #ClinicalTrials
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
🌟🌟JOB ALERT 🌟🌟
Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellow in Hand Therapy
40% research
60% clinical
Work with field leader Dr Lisa Newington to develop and lead your own projects, & access our clinical academic training programme!
come join us!!
apply 👇
qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
🧪 Struggling to explain correlation? Consider using some examples from www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
Re-upping this excellent article pointing out the many problems with a 'Barriers and Enablers' approach. It's binary, reductionist, atheoretical, doesn't take sufficient account of context, and is ill suited to #complexity. 👎
#AcademicSky #MedSky #MedEd
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Is sharing our writing a thing here? 😊
Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...
We created a resource for people with #dementia, carers and health and social care professionals including social prescribers #dementiasupport
www.forwardwithdementia.org/en/
Professor Adam Gordon places the chain of office over Professor Jugdeep Dhesi's head.
Professor Jugdeep Dhesi speaks at a lectern. She wears a silver chain of office.
And that's a wrap on @adamgordon1978.bsky.social's presidency at @gerisoc.bsky.social as he hands the chain of office to @jkdhesi.bsky.social. #BGSconf
📢 📢 Job alert: Orthopaedic Lead Research Associate, Barts Health!
Join a fab team with national recognition for excellence in delivering research in MSK/Orthopaedics.
Work closely with our team at Bone & Joint Health, QMUL
Open to AHP/Nurses (B7)
Apply 👇
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/jobs/#!/job/...
E-learning tool available via learninghub.nhs.uk for all staff working with older adults to develop awareness and recognition of depression as well as talking to older adults about depression
##BGSConf
How concerns of falling can affect your gait and balance
#BGSConf
📢 📢 FRAGILITY FRACTURE NETWORK WORKSHOPS CALL
Global Congress Porto Oct 1-4 2025
Workshops call open! Jan 15th deadline.
Share your work to support patients with fragility fractures globally
Proposal form and guidance at link 👇
fragilityfracturenetwork.org
🌟 🌟 🌟 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🌟 🌟 🌟
Research Assistant/Postdoctoral Research Assistant
APPLY 👇
Come join a fantastic team Barts Bone & Joint Health @QMUL
to work on a @UKRI_News rehabilitation and fragility fractures research programme!
Deadline 05/12/2024
qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/candidate...
🥳🥳🥳JOB OPPORTUNITY -2 POSTS! 🥳🥳🥳
Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow (MSK/Orthopaedics) with
@BartsBRC
50:50 research:clinical (up to 8a)
Come join a fantastic team!!!
apply 👇
qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
I have the conversation a lot in my day job! Trying to invest in prevention (ideally in community) while responding to crisis (and subsequent government targets/metrics) #bgsconf #gerisky #choosegeriatrics #frustrating
So I’ve a created another starter pack!
Please let me know if i’ve missed an account to follow.
#PharmSky you know what to do 🪄
go.bsky.app/B74j3LM
Looking forward to running this webinar on 3rd December, looking at physical mobility issues in dementia, current challenges for mobility support in dementia and how we might address this through a socio-ecological approach.
Link below if you’re interested!
search.app/dsZi5p4Scovb...
Real-world mobility recovery after hip fracture
5,909 observation days
Median daily total walking duration ⬆️ until 36 weeks reaching 40 min
Daily sit-to-stand-to-walk transfers plateau after 6 weeks with <40 transfers
academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
