Research Unwrapped, is the podcast series that highlights topics and research coming out of the National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research. In this first episode host Michael Parker, a research student at the Centre talks to Centre researchers Dr Michaela James and Dr Emily Marchant about their PhD Journeys. The podcast sees them share the challenges, rewards, hints and tips and…
Last month, Health Data Research (HDR) UK, in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, announced nine successful applications following a £2m UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding call to support UK Government’s National Core Study (NCS) programme. Nine projects were funded, with five of those requesting to use the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank,…
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…
