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Presentation of Marko Voss Community Volunteer Award 2022

University of Nottingham Community Volunteer Award 2022

I was very pleased to attend the University of Nottingham’s 2022 Volunteer Award event last night. I had nominated Marko Voß for his continuous efforts creating the HealthScout during the Covid-19 pandemic, and was thrilled that the award judging panel agreed with me and awarded him Community Volunteer of the Year. In March 2020 University of […]

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Deatails of Running Through presentations at EFIC conference

Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC) 2022

Excited to be presenting some of our Running Through study initial findings at the Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC) 2022, this week (April 27-30). The hybrid conference is online as well as live in Dublin, Ireland. I will be presenting a poster (#784) on ‘Self-reporting of joint pain by members of the running community’. Interested […]

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PPI in Translational Research BRC Musculoskeletal Conference 2022

I was honoured to be invited to give a keynote presentation on Patient and Public Involvement in translational research on the final session of the two day NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Medical Research  Virtual Conference 2022. As well as a brief introduction to translational research, I presented some cases of award-worthy PPI activities involving our musculoskeletal PPI […]

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QR-PSF funding to develop HealthScout for PROMs research

Excited to start work today on a new project linking with Nottingham University Hospital policymakers on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS), thanks to funding awarded to me from the QR Policy Support Fund through the University of Nottingham Institute for Policy and Engagement. We aim to adapt the HealthScout app in order to understand treatment outcomes […]

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Running Through February Update

After just one month we are excited to have recruited over 1500 participants to our Running Through study. The volunteers who have agreed to share their running data and complete weekly updates on their health status will help us investigate the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on runners training, injury, illness and recovery. We have […]

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Running Through Launch

I am excited to share the launch today of our new study ‘Running Through‘. Through inviting members of the running community to share their training data, we hope to examine changes in running habits associated with the current restrictions. COVID-19 is affecting all our lives. Through changes to our working, family or social circumstances, the […]

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Nottingham Institute for Policy & Engagement Pandemic Award

With all the amazing work colleagues at all three University of Nottingham international campuses have been involved in during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was an honour to have been short-listed for the Nottingham Institute for Policy and Engagement Pandemic Award. This was a one-off award for 2020 which recognises any member of staff who has made an […]

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