We are recruiting a PhD candidate to join our team at the School of Public Health, University College Cork, to investigate the process and impact of tailoring implementation strategies to support evidence-based interventions in healthcare.
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Daire Buckley joins the team for a TMRN Summer Scholarship
09 Jun 2021Daire has started on an eight-week Trial Methodology Research Network Summer Scholarship.
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Research team awarded Irish Research Council New Foundations funding
06 Apr 2021Dr Sheena McHugh (Principal Investigator) and Dr Fiona Riordan (Co-investigator) have been awarded funding to conduct a project in partnership with Friendly Call Cork/Cork City Partnership.
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Dr Sheena McHugh named as a Health Research Board Research Leader
31 Mar 2020Dr Sheena McHugh has been named as one of five new Research Leaders by the Health Research Board
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Findings from the APA Falls Project presented at the AUDGPI/IGCP Joint Scientific Meeting 2021
13 Mar 2021Dr Susan Calnan presented findings from the APA Falls Project at the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) Joint Scientific Meeting which was held virtually on the 12th and 13th of March.
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New micro costing paper published in Implementation Science
18 Feb 2021The paper outlines how we retrospectively costed the development of the IDEAs intervention, a multifaceted intervention in primary care to improve attendance at diabetic retinopathy screening.
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Irish Implementation Science Training Institute 2022 - Now accepting applications!
09 Dec 2021The Irish Implementation Science Training Institute 2022, is a training course in implementation science, hosted by the newly formed Health Implementation Research Hub at the School of Public Health, University College Cork.
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New article on the acceptability and feasibility of conducting the IDEAs pilot trial published in HRB Open.
14 Jul 2021The research note outlines the acceptability and feasibility of study procedures used as part of the IDEAs cluster randomised pilot trial of an intervention in primary care to improve uptake of Ireland’s national diabetic retinopathy programme.
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Michelle McNamara joins the HRB Research Leader Award CUSTOMISE project
14 Oct 2021Michelle McNamara is a PhD student on CUSTOMISE (Comparing and Understanding Tailoring Methods for Implementation Strategies) funded by the HRB Research Leader Award. She is also a student on the four-year HRB SPHeRE programme (Structured Population Health and Health-services Research Education).
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Dr Eimear Morrissey joins the Health Implementation Research Hub (HIRH) as an Evidence Synthesis Ireland Fellow
23 Mar 2022Eimear will work with the team on an update of the Cochrane review Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice. During her 12-month fellowship Eimear will be co-mentored by Dr Sheena McHugh (UCC) Lead Investigator of HIRH and Professor Luke Wolfenden Professor and NHMRC Investigator Fellow based in the University of Newcastle, Australia.
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Read our new paper on the acceptability and feasibility of conducting a pilot trial in primary care now published in HRB Open
08 Feb 2022The paper outlines how we explored the acceptability and feasibility of the study procedures used in a cluster randomised pilot trial of an intervention in primary care to improve uptake of Ireland’s national diabetic retinopathy programme.
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New pilot trial paper published in BMJ Open
21 Oct 2021The paper outlines how we investigated the feasibility and preliminary effects of an intervention to improve uptake of Ireland’s national diabetic retinopathy programme, Diabetic RetinaScreen, among patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
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