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Evaluating the impact of the UK’s first saNctioned sAfer drug Consumption faciliTy (ENACT): A mixed-methods natural experiment study
PI: Dr James Nicholls
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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A Multi-component Evaluation of New Restrictions on Marketing of Less Healthy Foods in England
PI: Dr Allison Ford
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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NESSIE - NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland Initiative
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Strengthening the Trust in Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Through Better Reporting
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: Fondation Brocher
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a peer-delivered, relational, harm reduction intervention to improve mental health, quality of life, and related outcomes, for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems: The ‘SHARPS’ cluster randomised controlled trial.
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research and The Salvation Army
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PRISMA reporting guideline and standards for qualitative evidence synthesis
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Cancer Research Transatlantic Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) Award Round 2
PI: Dr Piotr Teodorowski
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Long Covid and Critical Service Occupations: impact on Employees and Organisations
PI: Dr Alice MacLean
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Monitoring the use of location promotions in retail outlets: a baseline
PI: Dr Richard Purves
Funded by: Public Health Scotland
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Using LEGO® to discuss data science with Polish community
PI: Dr Piotr Teodorowski
Funded by: Research Data Scotland
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Evaluating Later and Expanded Premises Hours for Alcohol in the Night-time Economy (ELEPHANT)
PI: Professor Niamh Fitzgerald
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Independent Review of the Alcohol Premises Licensing System in Northern Ireland
PI: Dr James Nicholls
Funded by: Northern Ireland Executive
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Intervention development and acceptability/feasibility study of a greenspace programme for mental health and problem substance use
PI: Dr Wendy Masterton
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Chitetetzo: improving adolescent road safety and reducing road traffic collisions
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Test, evidence, transition: supporting faster breast cancer diagnosis
PI: Dr Erica Gadsby
Funded by: Cancer Research UK
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Rapid Access Referrals for Prostate Cancer
PI: Dr Erica Gadsby
Funded by: Cancer Research UK
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Improving outcomes of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA): applying behavioural science to enhance dispatcher assistance and increase rates of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
PI: Professor Barbara Farquharson
Funded by: British Heart Foundation
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The Adult Tobacco Policy Survey: Understanding how smokers and ex-smokers respond to tobacco control policies in the UK
PI: Professor Crawford Moodie
Funded by: Cancer Research UK
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Learning disability & dementia - supporting transition to a care home (UKRI Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards)
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Edinburgh Drug Consumption Room feasibility study
PI: Dr James Nicholls
Funded by: City of Edinburgh Council
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Breastfeeding frequency and incidence of type 2 diabetes in women who have had gestational diabetes: a record linkage study
PI: Dr Claire Eades
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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GOALD: Connectivity and Digital Design for Health and Well-being Across Generations, Places and Spaces
PI: Professor Catherine Hennessy
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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TOPSY trial:Treatment Of Prolapse with Self-care pessary
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Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Governing parental opioid use: a relational ethnography
PI: Professor Anne Whittaker
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Methods of assessing perinatal anxiety: The acceptability, effectiveness and feasibility of different approaches
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Mental Health Promotion and Intervention in Occupational Settings: MENTUPP
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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British Academy Visiting Fellowship
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: The British Academy
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Long Covid: Amplifying the voices of people with lived experience to improve understanding, support, treatment and education. Share-to-improve: Long Covid experience (COv-VOICES) Study
PI: Professor Kate Hunt
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women's Access and Attitudes Towards Contraception
PI: Dr Allison Ford
Funded by: Department of Health
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Perspectives of older couples with a learning disability when one partner has dementia: identifying support needs of carer dyads.
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: The Dunhill Medical Trust
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Evaluation of an Equine Assisted Learning Programme for School Children and Young People
PI: Professor Jayne Donaldson
Funded by: Equitots Lanarkshire Community Interest Group
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A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services and treatments
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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British Academy Writing Workshop (Global Challenges Research Fund)
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: The British Academy
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Outpatient cervical ripening for induction of labour
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Understanding the contextual factors that impact on the effective provision of opiate substitution therapy (OST) and needle and syringe programmes (NSP) in the UK: a multi-method study and realist evaluation of what works, for whom and under what circumstances
PI: Professor Catriona Matheson
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Clinical Academic Careers for Scotland
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Improving the mental health of farmers: preferences and feasibility for community based supports.
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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The Impact of Minimum Unit Pricing of Alcohol on Ambulance Call-outs in Scotland (IMPAACT)
PI: Professor Niamh Fitzgerald
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Improving Maternal Mental Health in South East Asia through assets based approaches
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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SCENIC: Surmounting COVID Challenges, Experiences of Nurses in Charge
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Funded by: NHS Lothian and NHS Grampian
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Developing a behavioural intervention to increase lay-people's intentions to initiate CPR in the event of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)
PI: Professor Barbara Farquharson
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Tender Distress Brief Intervention
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Scottish Government
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DBI COVID study
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Creating Safe Handover Systems In Pre-Hospital Care
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Gordon Aikman MND Scholarship
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Scottish Government and MND Scotland
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Perinatal Mental Health Assessment and Treatment: an evidence Synthesis and Conceptual Framework of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Home BP monitoring in pregnancy - Covid 19
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Scotland's Census 2021 External Methodology Assurance Panels
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Funded by: National Records of Scotland
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Developing an adapted parent-youth teamwork intervention to improve medication adherence among adolescents with asthma: a feasibility study
PI: Dr Pamela Rackow
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Partnership funding with Cancer Research UK for the Cessation in Pregnancy Incentives Trial (CPIT): A multi-centre phase III Randomised Controlled trial.
PI: Miss Jennifer McKell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Assessing the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing on Homeless and Street Drinkers: A qualitative study
PI: Professor Anne Whittaker
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Using Behavioural Science To Improve The Effectiveness Of Telephone-Assisted CPR
PI: Professor Barbara Farquharson
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Improving outcomes for children and families affected by paternal substance misuse: A feasibility study of the parents under pressure programme for fathers
PI: Professor Anne Whittaker
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Improving the prehospital identification and care for people presenting with query COVID 19 symptoms
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Ambulance call-outs for psychiatric emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Mothers and Postnatal (MAP) Care at Blacktown Hospital
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Funded by: New South Wales Ministry of Health
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Qualitative synthesis of values and preferences on treatment of persisting pain in children
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: World Health Organisation
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Right to Health in Prison
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Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Scottish National Midwifery Research Programme
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Covid19 & Community Resilience With A Focus On Preparedness Flooding
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Funded by: Scottish Flood Forum (SFF)
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A Pilot Trial of the Mini-AFTERc intervention to manage Fears of Cancer Recurrence in patients with breast cancer
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Life through a lens: participatory action research to collaboratively implement non-pharmacological interventions with people who have a learning disability and dementia
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: Alzheimer's Society
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Development of interventions to increase adherence to physiotherapy among young children with cystic fibrosis - Medical Research Council's complex intervention framework phase I study.
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: Cystic Fibrosis Trust
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Post-diagnostic support for people with a learning disability and dementia (funded through delegate fees)
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: Delegates - Short Courses
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Young adult’s perceptions of alcohol packaging as a form of promotion, and how it could be used more effectively to communicate health messaging
PI: Professor Crawford Moodie
Funded by: Alcohol Focus Scotland
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Translate, educate and empower nurses to improve cancer care
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Funded by: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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The RTrT Partnership: Reducing Traffic-related Trauma - A community-based prevention and first-response programme intervention for Malawi and beyond
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Implementation of an evidence based pelvic floor muscle training intervention for women with pelvic organ prolapse (PROlapse and PFMT: Implementing Evidence Locally - PROPEL)
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: a combined feasibility and pilot trial of a theory-based intervention using narrative, images and embedded behaviour change techniques, delivered via text-messaging
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Brain Tumours, Lifestyle Intervention and Fatigue (BT-LIFE)
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Brain Tumour Charity
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Multicentre randomised trial of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of basic versus biofeedback-mediated intensive
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Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Finalising the mode and timing of delivery of components of an intervention to address illness perceptions of diabetes among women with previous gestational diabetes
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Investigating pregnant women’s and health care professional’s views about knowing their individual risk of future pelvic floor dysfunction: a feasibility study for the UR-CHOICE Randomised Controlled Trial
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Life Stories Project - Down's Syndrome
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: R S Macdonald Charitable Trust
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Improving the rate of bystander CPR in deprived communities: a development study
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Building a Movement: Community Development and Community Resilience in Response to Extreme Events
PI: Dr Sandra Engstrom
Funded by: National Centre for Resilience Scotland
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The role of CHildhood Adversities and their subsequent impact on mental ill-health and Suicidal behaviour (CHASe)
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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To Establish a Scottish Improvement Science R,D & KT Collaborating Centre (SISCC)
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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ITT For the Provision of an Evaluation of Whole System Patient Flow
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Funded by: Scottish Government
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Learning Disability & Dementia training delivery (Hansel)
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: Hansel
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Developing theory based interventions to minimise drop-out in randomised trials
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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ScoPIC - The Scottish Person Centeredness Intervention Collaboration
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Scottish Government
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SAS New Clinical Response Model
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Funded by: Scottish Ambulance Service
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Vale of Leven Inspiring Care Scholarship Programme, Within the Clinical Academic Research Careers
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Scottish Government
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The development of a virtual cohort of children born to opioid dependent mothers in Scotland
PI: Professor Anne Whittaker
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Synthesis of survey data on electronic cigarette use
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Funded by: Scottish Government
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Non-Accredited Mentorship Module
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Funded by: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
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Multicentre randomised trial of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of basic versus biofeedback-medicated intensive pelvic floor muscle training for female stress or mixed urinary incontinence
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Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Longitudinal trends in national smoking prevalence and e-cigarette use in the European Union
PI: Dr Catherine Best
Funded by: Cancer Research UK
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Developing a Distress Brief Intervention
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: NHS Health Scotland
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Identifying and critiquing diffferent approaches to developing complex interventions
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Funded by: Medical Research Council
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The Vale of Leven Inspiring Care Scholarship programme
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Gordon Aikman MND Scholarship
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Scottish Government and MND Scotland
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Improving early detection of melanoma by increasing young people's awareness of symptoms, skin self-examination and communication: a quasi-experimental trial with embedded process evaluation
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Funded by: Melanoma Focus
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Understanding the needs of homecare workers supporting people with dementia and cancer.
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Representation and Stereotype of Down syndrome: a social media investigation
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Determining the Impact of Smoking Point of sale Legislation Among Youth (DISPLAY) study
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Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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The development and initial validation of a screening scale for antenatal anxiety
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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PhD Fellowship in Normal Birth
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: Royal College of Midwives
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Short term use of a glucose meter to enhance dietary education as part of an evaluation for type 2 diabetes prevention among people with impaired glucose regulation
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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