Happy New Year! If making more time for writing grant proposals and research articles is one of your New Year’s Resolutions, then make the most of HSS Writing Week (3rd to 6th January). The aim of this week is to help support staff to find time in their busy schedules to work on those all-important grant proposals and research articles that keep getting lost under piles of marking.
We’re not expecting you to do it alone. Did you know that the Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit can provide support for people undertaking healthcare research? As part of Writing Week, members of the unit will be available to help during the week (see below) so why don’t you pop in and see us (5th floor Royal London House) or send us an email.
BUCRU Availability
| Who? | When? | What with? |
| Peter Thomas
(Professor of Healthcare Statistics & Epidemiology) |
Tuesday and Wednesday | research study design and statistics |
| Helen Allen
(Public and Patient Involvement Lead) |
Tuesday and Thursday | involvement of service users in research projects, arranging focus groups and interviews |
| Sharon Docherty
(Research Fellow: Quantitative Methods) |
Thursday and Friday | designing, conducting and analysing quantitative research |
Making the Most of Writing Week: Research grant applications – not THAT PPI










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