The INFORMED study, which forms part of the MAGENTA Project, invites expectant mums aged 18-45 living in Swansea to take part in a new study. While MAGENTA focuses on the effects of heat exposure on pregnancy, INFORMED engages with pregnant women during the cooler months of the year to explore whether differences in housing and…
Sam Turner, Co-Investigator and Senior Research Officer at MAGENTA was recently invited to speak at the Health and Care Research Wales Annual Conference 2024. Sam participated in the parallel session “Climate change impacts on health and social care: What are the implications for researchers and research funders?” This session introduced the topic of climate change…
In this blog post, Dr Jim Rafferty, Senior Statistician for the MAGENTA project, shares with us his inspirational journey into research. What did you do before joining Population Data Science at Swansea University? PhD in theoretical physics from 2007 – 2011. I worked for a medical physics research company for four years before returning to…
Dr Hywel Turner Evans, Research Officer, SAIL Analytical Services at Population Data Science at Swansea University, shares his inspirational journey into research with us. What did you do before joining SAIL Databank? I studied for a PhD in Antimatter Physics and worked as a data analyst on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva….
A new study published in BMC Infectious Diseases reveals younger women, those without multimorbidity (two or more chronic conditions), current and former smokers, and those living in deprived areas were less likely to receive the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. The study by the Born in Wales team based in the National Centre for Population Health…
A new study led by researchers at Swansea University has revealed that potentially only one in three pregnant women in Wales would actually have the Covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy, even though two in three said they would have the jab. Vaccine hesitancy is an important consideration among vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women especially during…
