Researchers at Swansea University are calling on headteachers and senior leadership staff to complete a survey about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have today announced a new Hub to provide innovative data resources for mental health research and innovation. The Hub will improve the discoverability and usability of diverse data sources for research to help improve the lives of people with mental health problems.
Researchers are set to test approaches to setting up a major new UK-wide study that will follow babies born in the 2020s over many decades to understand how societal circumstances and events affect them. A £3 million investment, made by the Economic and Social Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, will allow researchers to develop a two-year-long birth cohort feasibility study.
One year since the emergence of COVID-19 in the UK, and the production of data driven analysis informing government and public service delivery continues at pace. In Wales, the swift creation of the One Wales approach galvanised expertise and brought together organisations at the heart of decision making.
Researchers find that 36% fewer people were admitted to hospital in Wales and Scotland in the first lockdown due to asthma. A study from researchers from the Population Data Science group based at Swansea University Medical School has found that the first lockdown was associated with a 36% pooled reduction in emergency admissions for asthma….
While the total number of people vaccinated for COVID-19 is widely reported, there are many important questions about the real-world effectiveness of the vaccines on different population groups, their impact of the disease transmission and how vaccines will affect the course of the pandemic that require access to crucial real-world data on vaccine delivery, infections…
The Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank and its technology infrastructure platform, Secure eResearch Platform (SeRP), based in Population Data Science at Swansea University, is a partner of the Wales Networked Data Lab (NDL) site enabling access and safe use of data to answer important questions posed by the network and its partners. Funded by…
One of the features that sets the SAIL Databank apart is the ability for researchers to be truly flexible in where they access their anonymised data. Through processes and technological developments crafted over the last 10 years, SAIL has perfected access to secure research without compromise to security, data quality or user experience. But what…
This analysis of prescription records for over 100,000 pregnancies found that women who stopped their asthma medicines during pregnancy were at increased risk of preterm birth and not breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks, whereas women who continued with their inhaled corticosteroids were at lower risk. Prescriptions records could be used to identify the women who need…
Swansea University has received £125k of funding from Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) to study the impact of the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 on cardiovascular disease (CVD).
