We've launched a new webinar on voice and message banking!
Join to learn how to help people with #MND consider voice & message banking options. The session will also provide an overview of current providers & the process involved
🗓️30 April
📍Online & free
Book on mndassociation.org/education-events
MND Association PhD studentships fund top UK and Ireland research into motor neurone disease. Four year awards. Summary applications due 1 May 2026.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/phd-...
MND Association Healthcare Grants support research to improve care and quality of life in #MND #ALS. UK and Ireland applicants welcome. Apply by 1 May 2026.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/mnd-...
Nicola Tuner is in Brighton at the @pccongress.bsky.social sharing two projects we have been working on funded by the @mndassoc.bsky.social - delighted to be able to share these posters
Terracotta background with a white laptop icon on the bottom right and the MND association logo on the bottom left. On the top left, there is he title of the event, "ACT principles for health and social care professionals" and the dates: 10 March 2026, 19 May 2026 and 15 July 2026.
Terracotta background with a white laptop icon on the bottom right and the MND association logo on the bottom left. On the top left, the text says: "Aims: understand psychological challenges in MND and how to apply ACT; practice how to apply ACT to these challenges; consider how to integrate ACT into your practice; recognise the common barriers to using ACT.
On 19 May we're hosting the second competency builder session on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy!
HSCPs from any discipline can join this online workshop & and learn to use ACT principles in their practice to help people with #MND consider therapies
Book on mndassociation.org/education-events!
Join our study! Are you a research academic based in higher education? If so, we would like to invite you to an engagement workshop to discuss recommendations and accommodations that can be made to support researchers when navigating failure in higher education. What is the research about? Failure is often a predominant feature of academic research and can include things such as research grant paper rejections, non-promotion or supervision upgrades. We are asking you to share your views on a framework of recommendations we have developed including the usefulness of the recommendations identified. We would like to talk to research academics at any stage of their career (early, mid or late) who: Hold a research post including – PhD students, Postdoctoral researchers, Research Assistants, Associates or Fellows, Senior Research Fellows, Readers, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors or Professors (clinical or non-clinical). What will I have to do? We would like to invite you to attend a focus group remotely over Microsoft Teams where you will discuss your experiences of failure in academic research culture. You will be asked: Thoughts on accommodations to maintain wellbeing whilst navigating failure. To feedback on a framework of recommendations developed by the research team and how it could be implemented across research cultures. This might include what works for whom and when in regard to this topic. The focus group will take between 90-120 minutes and you will receive an e-voucher as a thank you for your time. For further information, please use your institutional email address to contact us: Dr Celia Bernstein researchculturestudy@warwick.ac.uk
Join us to help develop recommendations to improve how "failure" is understood and experienced in HE!
We want to hear from academic researchers at ANY career stage - PhDs all the way to established professors - in ANY department or discipline.
*Please re-post to your networks!*
UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Sign up to hear about our latest research on improving end-of-life care and future projects and collaboration opportunities. Our research team is part of PELiCam in the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge.
Sign up here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Our new paper revealing the often under-reported harms in end-of-life care, within reported incidents. This inhibits systems learning and downplays the patient and family voice
Access our new research paper in BJGP on learning from injectable medication incident reports in the community. We highlight the potential of cross-organisational targets to visit within 2 hours in a crisis
📣Out today: “The system doesn’t really cater for the trauma that Black people have experienced” – Experiences of grief and bereavement in Black British and Black Caribbean heritage communities in England: A qualitative study
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Policy brief: tinyurl.com/34sh98ac
If you're an ECR who has done great work to promote open research, please consider applying for this excellent award! I recieved this earlier this year and my minifig sits proudly in my office 😊 A great way to recognise ECR contributions!
Vacancy for a Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Oxford. Lead dementia and mental health research shaping future care for older adults. Closing date: 5th January
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
'The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) expresses serious concerns following the University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend children’s nursing and mental health nursing programmes.'
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
NEW on Wonkhe: Little England’s splendid isolation in European HE looks increasingly absurd bit.ly/4i2SbpV
Cuts to Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion courses at the University of Nottingham will have wider implication for the NHS workforce at the time when we need more nurses
www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-g...
Research Associate (Fixed Term, full-time post). Come work with me and amazing colleagues at University of Cambridge. An excellent post for a dynamic post doctoral researcher and thinker...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
📢New publication from the TVLife study: Living with tracheostomy ventilation for MND - Family member perspectives - important to understand both the challenges and joys. Families sharing their experiences on HealthTalk: healthtalk.org/experiences/...
doi.org/10.1080/0963...
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Superb news showcasing the wonder of medical science.
Huntingdon's is a brutal terminal disease.
This new gene therapy slows the disease's advance by 75%.
One medically retired patient has now returned to work.
Others, expected to need wheelchairs, are walking.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In @dailymirrornews.bsky.social today - with thanks to @martinbagot.bsky.social
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Thank you so much to all who have taken part in the EMPOWER survey to date! Only more day to go to register your views. We particularly want to hear from midwives and health visitors 👇
@rcn.org.uk @rcm.org.uk @nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @arc-em.bsky.social
t.ly/pDJPH
Advert for research into supporting employees with chronic pain
We are seeking #hcps and #HR to take part in online interviews about supporting employees with pain.
Reframing resilience in community healthcare. Our latest piece in BJCN
magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1...
