Departmental news
Congratulations to Manjula Patel
Manjula Patel has been awarded a PhD in Health and Social Studies for their PhD on ‘Compassionate Communities Approaches to End of Life Care as a Therapeutic Landscape’. Manjula was supervised by Anne-Marie Slowther and Gillian Hundt in the Division of Health Sciences.
Congratulations to Professor Kate Seers
Professor Kate Seers has been conferred the honour of being admitted to the Freedom of The Barbers’ Company by Presentation, “in recognition of her immense contribution to the Company’s Clinical Nursing Scholarship Award programme” starting on 19th July 2021. This is a great honour and only 1% of Freemen join via Presentation (where the Court invites them to join the Company).
Congratulations - Professor Sophie Staniszewska
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Quarter million pound research fund will help improve hospice care in West Midlands
Hospice care across the West Midlands has received an exciting boost as WMS researchers have received a quarter of a million pound grant to establish better care for terminally ill patients.
NIHR Advanced Fellowship for Dr Rachel Spencer - Unit of Academic Primary Care
Rachel Spencer (GP Academic Clinical Lecturer with UAPC) has been awarded a highly competitive NIHR Advanced Fellowship. This award is for £850,000 over four years and is the largest funding ever to be handled by Coventry and Rugby CCG.
Eight Members of the WMS Community Secure Warwick Institute of Engagement Fellowships
We are pleased to share news that eight members of the WMS community have secured Fellowships with the University's Institute of Engagement.
Co-production of knowledge: the future - BMJ
Congratulations to Professor Felicity Boardman
Congratulations to Professor Felicity Boardman who has been made a Foundation Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement.
Congratulations to Professor Sophie Staniszewska
Congratulations to Professor Sophie Staniszewska who has been made a Foundation Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement. Sophie says becoming a Foundation Fellow creates 'a great link for us and a chance to further embed involvement and engagement in our teaching and research'.
‘COVID-19 control measures choking rural, slum dwellers’. Professor Frances Griffiths
Sci Dev Net (26.11.2020) – ‘COVID-19 control measures choking rural, slum dwellers’. Professor Frances Griffiths, the study’s co-author and a professor at the UK-based Warwick Medical School, tells SciDev.Net that slum dwellers were already disadvantaged by unreliable water supply, poor provision of toilets and makeshift housing in the slum communities and there is a danger of them being deprived further by COVID-19 control restrictions.