Examples of our research activities
Health Behavioural Change
Our MAP (motivation, action, prompts) project developed and tested a novel programme to train health professionals delivering diabetes care across Scotland – now being rolled out across health promotion teams.
Current projects
Professor Julia Allan is collaborating with researchers and clinicians from primary care, computing science and dermatology to optimise a digital intervention (ASICA) designed to support people with melanoma to detect recurrence earlier by supporting regular total skin self-examination. This work is funded by Cancer Research UK.
Professor Julia Allan is collaborating with researchers from public health, and nutrition and colleagues from the third sector to develop a dietary support intervention which can be delivered to low-income families via the social prescribing network. This work is funded by the Scottish Government.
Gozde Ozakinci is involved in NIHR-funded PETNECK2 randomised controlled trial. In this major study, the aim is to develop a new strategy to follow up head and neck cancer (HNC) patients at 1 year from end of treatment has been developed. This follow-up is guided by a PET-CT scan to determine the risk of cancer coming back (called recurrence) and allows low risk HNC patients to have patient-led follow-up, giving them more control over their follow-up appointments. Gozde is investigating the fears about cancer coming back in this trial using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Sinead Currie is the lead for the Scottish Preconception Health Research Network, which is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is an executive committee member of the UK Preconception Partnership. Her work is highly multidisciplinary and she is currently co-leading a working group on preconception health with the Scottish Government.
News
- Coverage for the ESRC Social Science Festival in October 2024 in which Gozde Ozakinci shared the findings of the Step Count Challenge research.