Dr. Caroline Ellis-Hill has just been accepted as a qualitative methodologist on the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) panel for Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR). Caroline from the Centre for Qualitative Research (CQR) in FHSS is the second BU academic to join a NIHR panel this year. Earlier this year Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen was invited to be a member of the NIHR’s HTA Clinical Evaluation & Trials Board ( http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hta/our-people ).
Congratulations!
Professors Vanora Hundley & Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Collard on new publication
NIHR – mental health advisor required for panel










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