Health and Care Research Wales recently announced £6.5m investment in new research projects across Wales, as part of their 2020-21 funding, designed to ‘fund high-quality research that addresses different research needs across Wales’. Many of these new research projects will use the SAIL Databank Trusted Research Environment (TRE) to address their research questions. Containing billions…
In this guest blog Ed Chalstrey, from the Alan Turing Institute discusses best practices for doing research with Trusted Research Environments (TRE). Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift towards ‘big data’ research had presented health and social care researchers with a problem: what is the best way to conduct collaborative projects involving sensitive data?
Eight out of 23 newly funded research projects in Wales, funded by Health and Care Research Wales, are to use SAIL Databank based in Population Data Science at Swansea University in their pursuit to uncover potentially life-saving insights into a range of health and social care challenges. These key investments from their 2020-21 funding call…
From ADR Wales. The COVID-19 pandemic showed how access to timely data is critical for researchers and policymakers to best understand a situation and its impact on society. Due to the increased need for this data, the data acquisition team at ADR Wales and its partnered SAIL Databank have secured to date 28 new data…
Read the latest blog from Cystic Fibrosis Trust posted on 31st August 2021 that details the research undertaken by the One Wales team – “The uptake on the vaccine from people with CF is encouraging – and a step in the right direction” https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/news/covid-19-vaccination-among-the-cf-population-in-wales During the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become clear that getting up-to-date and…
