Martin’s experiences receiving new prostate cancer treatment
18 May 2023
Martin Green, an ex-firefighter from Shepperton in Middlesex was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018. He tells us about his experience of being on the PROpel trial.
18 May 2023
Martin Green, an ex-firefighter from Shepperton in Middlesex was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018. He tells us about his experience of being on the PROpel trial.
06 March 2023
Mum Emily Taylor talks about why she and her son are taking part in research to protect him, and other children in the future from a dangerous childhood virus.
10 January 2023
Maria Croft is a Clinical Research Practitioner in the CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex Research Delivery Team.
05 December 2022
Rachel Connolly is a third-year Adult Nursing student at the University of Surrey. As part of her degree course, Rachel undertook a placement with the Research, Development and Innovation team at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
30 November 2022
In the latest in our series of Your Path in Research profiles, we spoke to Tom Grant about how a student placement in a research team led him to a career as a research nurse
29 November 2022
As part of our ongoing Your Path in Research series, giving first-hand accounts of careers in research, we spoke with Dr Lucy Connolly about how she started in research, and why it is an important aspect of her work.
25 November 2022
Dr Samantha Forner is a Specialist Registrar in Clinical Oncology with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, and is currently enrolled on the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme.
16 November 2022
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust use Join Dementia Research to find potential recruits to dementia studies.
15 November 2022
In the latest of our Your Path in Research series, we hear from Tanya Klopper, who has conducted numerous research studies in addition to her busy clinical workload, and tells us why every clinician should be doing research
14 November 2022
Samantha Short, 33 from Kent, and her nine-month-old baby, Jack, are taking part in the HARMONIE Study.
09 November 2022
Teresa Salami-Oru is a Consultant in Public Health at East Sussex County Council and is the lead for public health research.
09 November 2022
As the NIHR continues to develop its portfolio in local authority and public health settings, the opportunities for careers in research are expanding in interesting, and sometimes unexpected ways.
01 November 2022
The Children’s Emergency Department at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton won a NIHR Clinical Research Kent, Surrey and Sussex’s Research Support Award in the Acute Trust: Non-COVID-19 category in 2021.
12 October 2022
Physiotherapy Team Leader at Haslemere Community Hospital, Jia Hui Gan, has recently been awarded a predoctoral clinical academic fellowship (Bridge) by Health Education England and the NIHR, and is a member of the NIHR CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex Early Career Researcher programme.
10 October 2022
Lee Tomlinson, Head of Research at Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust was one of our region’s NIHR 70@70 senior nurse and midwife leaders. The programme ended in March 2022 and now NIHR has launched a new Senior Research Leader Programme for nurses and midwives which builds on the success of the 70@70 programme.
26 September 2022
Research can be life-changing for many people. Here Carol Farrow speaks about having lived her whole life with the skin condition Psoriasis, and found a treatment thanks to research at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.
21 September 2022
Researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School are using Join Dementia Research to recruit volunteers to one their studies: Determinants of quality of life, care and costs, and consequences of inequalities in people with dementia and their carers (DETERMIND).
31 August 2022
Harold Trill first took part in a research study in 1992 and 30 years later he is taking part in another study, being run by his local NHS community trust in Kent.
25 July 2022
Over 100 Clinical Research Practitioners from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex have signed up to the CRP Directory. So far six CRPs have gone through the accreditation process and are now on the CRP Accredited Register.
18 July 2022
CRN Kent Surrey and Sussex spoke to East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust’s director of research and innovation, Jess Evans, about the Trust’s ambitious plans for research.
20 June 2022
We spoke with Lindsay Forbes, Professor of Public Health at the University of Kent about the exciting work CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussexis doing to support Kent County Council
10 June 2022
We spoke with Jack Barrett about his role as a research paramedic, and his work studying the way that traumatic brain injuries in older patients are triaged.
20 May 2022
Robert Lane, 73, is a retired electrical engineer from Berkshire. Since being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2015 he has taken part in several trials at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust in Guildford.
12 May 2022
Claire Pegg is Lead Research Nurse at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
06 May 2022
Emma Meadows is a Research Midwife at St Richards Hospital in Chichester.