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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Register for OPTIMISE webinar

Introducing OPTIMISE recommendations for designing more inclusive consent processes to ensure trials are accessible for people with communication &/or decision-making needs

📆1st Dec
🕙2-3pm
🔗https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/optimise-webinar-registration

Flyer for OPTIMISE launch webinar on 1st December from 2-3pm

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · 17d

Involved in palliative care research? Join our workshop to explore issues around mental capacity & consent in palliative care research & build collaborations

📆 17 October, 10:30–3pm
📍 Royal College of Physicians, London
📩 @drcarolinebarry.bsky.social

healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/events...

Building inclusive practices around mental capacity and consent in palliative care research

healthandcareresearchwales.org

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 19d

NIHR will commission up to 10 Application Development Awards for early to mid career health and care professionals including nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professions. Apply by 4th February

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/appl...

Application Development Award for Health & Care Professionals

NIHR invites applications for up to 10 Application Development Awards to support early to mid career HCP researchers preparing future funding proposals.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Rhiannon Phillips @nannon-phillips.bsky.social · 26d

🔊Fully funded PhD studentships at Cardiff Metropolitan University

We're now accepting applications for the 2026 Wales Graduate School for Social Sciences PhD studentship competition in Psychology, Sport, Education, and Linguistics and Bilingualism.

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Sep 2

Apply now for a Churchill Fellowship @churchillfship.bsky.social : a once in a lifetime chance to explore global ideas, grow personally and professionally, and create real change in the UK.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/chur...

Churchill Fellowship - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER

Apply now for a Churchill Fellowship: a once in a lifetime chance to explore global ideas, grow personally and professionally, and create real change in the UK.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Prof Jane Ball @janeeball.bsky.social · Sep 8

So pleased to be launching our research strategy today, at the RCN International Research Conference #RCNResearch2025

Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · Sep 8

🚀 Launching: the RCN Research Strategy.

Our mission; to empower you to participate in, lead on, and embed quality nursing research into your practice.

Want to learn more? Download and read the strategy here: https://bit.ly/42iUhv5

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Find out more about the QRI+INCLUSION SWAP (Study Within a Project) in SCC AFTER in this short video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjK4...

#TrialsMethodologyResearch #WorldRadiotherapyAwarenessDay #WRAD
@ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

What is the QRI+INCLUSION SWAP in SCC AFTER

YouTube video by Centre for Trials Research

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today is #WorldRadiotherapyAwarenessDay #WRAD. SCC-AFTER is #ClinicalTrial looking at adjuvant #radiotherapy in patients with high-risk primary cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma after surgery with focus on #Inclusvity

ℹ️ www.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-for-t...

@nihr.bsky.social @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 2

I highly recommend applying to the Churchill Fellowship - one of my most exciting personal & professional opportunities in terms of learning about international perspectives & building long lasting connections & collaborations @churchillfship.bsky.social

www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-expert...

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 31

New EMPOWER Dementia Network+ Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies and resources to support genuine co-production with people living with dementia.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/the-empower-...

The EMPOWER Dementia Network+ Co-production Toolkit

New EMPOWER Dementia Network+ Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies and resources to support genuine co-production with people living with dementia.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 1

Many thanks to Health and Care Research Wales who fund CONSULT, and to co-authors @kerryhood.bsky.social @katiegillies.bsky.social and others

More info about CONSULT: www.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-for-t...

@ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social @cumedicengage.bsky.social

CONSULT

Deciding about research for others: a feasibility study and effectiveness trial of a novel decision support intervention for consultees and legal representatives of adults lacking capacity to consent.

www.cardiff.ac.uk

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨New paper🚨 Feasibility stage of CONSULT SWAT evaluating decision aid for families acting as consultee/legal representative in studies involving adults lacking capacity to consent

🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s130...
ℹ️ www.capacityconsentresearch.com/consult-swat

#TrialsMethodologyResearch #InclusiveResearch

Image of a paper from Trials journal which reports the feasibility stage of CONSULT SWAT

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UK CTU Network @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk · Aug 20

We’re delighted by the interest and engagement with the #UKCTUNetwork Strategy 2025–2030 - nearly 300 downloads & counting.

Get your copy here ukcrc-ctu.org.uk/network-stra...

We look forward to sharing details of our work plan with you over the next few months.

#ResearchStrategy #ClinicalTrials

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Marion Campbell @marionkcampbell.bsky.social · Aug 19

I agree - there needs to be much more done to improve the inclusivity of trials! There was a useful recent rapid response in the BMJ from @vickylshepherd.bsky.social outlining the importance of this, and some of the work being done in this space. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · Aug 19

Great response by @vickylshepherd.bsky.social highlighting the particular exclusion from research of older adults with impaired capacity - and thank you for flagging the valuable work in this space by @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social chaired by the fabulous Bella Starling!

Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 18

My rapid response in @bmj.com on research funders' joint statement calling for better inclusion of older people in research highlights the key role of #TrialsMethodology research e.g CONSULT www.capacityconsentresearch.com @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

#InclusiveResearch

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Screenshot of a rapid response article in The BMJ titled Research must be (re)designed to include older people if it is to meet tomorrow's health and care needs

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 18

My rapid response in @bmj.com on research funders' joint statement calling for better inclusion of older people in research highlights the key role of #TrialsMethodology research e.g CONSULT www.capacityconsentresearch.com @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

#InclusiveResearch

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Caroline Barry @drcarolinebarry.bsky.social · Aug 13

Really looking forward to chairing this workshop alongside @vickylshepherd.bsky.social - keen to reach a wide range of people interested in mental capacity and consent to palliative care research.

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 13

For more information about the workshop 'Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity and Consent in Palliative Care Research' or to register, please contact:

Dr Caroline Barry
bsky.app/profile/drca...

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢Registration now open: Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity & Consent in Palliative Care Research

✅Hear research findings
✅Identify research gaps & priorities
✅Opportunities to collaborate & contribute

📆 17th Oct
📍 RCP, London
🔗 www.capacityconsentresearch.com/palliative-c...

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Flyer for workshop titled Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity and Consent in Palliative Care Research at RCP in London on 17th Oct

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SAPC @handle.invalid · Jul 7

We are looking forward to welcoming you to SAPC ASM 2025, Cardiff tomorrow.

SAPC_ASM#

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Prof Debra Jackson AO @debrae.bsky.social · Jul 6

What helps or hinders nurses to lead funded research projects? A survey of UK nurse lead‐investigators onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What helps or hinders nurses to lead funded research projects? A survey of UK nurse lead‐investigators

Background There have been recurring UK initiatives to increase nurse research capability but little robust evaluation of long-term effectiveness. More nurses undertake doctorates, yet few lead majo...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · Jul 1

An ontological framework for organising and describing behaviours: The Human Behaviour Ontology, wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-2... - an important new paper for all behavioural scientists, allowing a coherent, extensive, computer-readable representation of behaviour in all its complexities.

wellcomeopenresearch.org

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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢One week until our OPTIMISE workshop to develop recommendations to help researchers design consent processes to be more inclusive of people with communication and/or decision-making needs @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

Room for 1 or 2 more to join us, contact for more info!

#InclusiveResesrch

Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Jun 9

📢 OPTIMISE workshop - developing recommendations for inclusive consent processes for trials

Keen to include researchers working with different populations with communication &/or capacity needs e.g care homes, learning disability, emergency

📅 8th July
📌 Cardiff, in person

Please get in touch!

Flyer for OPTIMISE event in Cardiff 8th July

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Alex Ruck Keene @capacitylaw.bsky.social · Jun 29

Reposting this from last year as this issue keeps coming up: why thinking about capacity in the abstract is usually so unhelpful: www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/capacity-to-...

Capacity to consent to having capacity assessed – and why thinking about capacity in the abstract is usually so unhelpful

In response to a question posed by the excellent Zena Bolwig on LinkedIn, an interesting discussion has broken out about whether you need to have capacity to consent to having your capacity assesse…

www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk

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UK CTU Network @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk · Jun 20

Diversity and inclusion matter in clinical trials. They help ensure results are meaningful to those most affected.

There’s more to do, but we’re proud of CTU projects like INCLUDED which offer practical guidance to researchers.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/3st5jzke

#ClinicalResearch #EDI #Red4Research

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