Blog of the Early Careers Forum of EUSPR – Updated 20/01/2017

20/01/2017 Update

Do GPs want or need formal support following a patient suicide?

Our first article for this year is already online – it comes from Pooja Saini, a researcher and Chartered Psychologist at the University of Liverpool, currently involved in suicide prevention research. In this blog post, Pooja shares her research and describes what role GPs and Primary Care providers can play in suicide prevention. Additionally, her research highlights the opposite effect: the effect patient suicide has on GPs.

You can find Pooja’s blog at https://euspr.hypotheses.org/479

As always, please do comment underneath the blog & feel free to share in your networks. Thanks very much Pooja for telling us more about your research!


12/08/2016 Update

‘Public Health PhD Symposium 2016’ – reflections on organising and delivering a postgraduate research conference

A new article has been published on the EUSPR’s Early Careers Forum blog. This contribution comes from Rebecca Crook, postgraduate researcher at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Rebecca recently organised a one-day symposium for postgraduate researchers on the theme of ‘Methods in Public Health Research’. In this blog post, she reflects on this experience and shares her lessons learnt for others who might find themselves in a similar position. Perhaps it will inspire you to host a similar event at your own institution?

You can find Rebecca’s blog post at https://euspr.hypotheses.org/349

Thank you Rebecca for sharing your experience!

As always, we welcome comments on the post & are happy for you to share it in your networks.


21/07/2016 Update

Substance use in Brazilian migrants in the UK: the role of acculturation

A new article has been published on the EUSPR’s Early Careers Forum blog. This contribution comes from Martha Canfield at King’s College in London, UK. In her post, Martha summarises her PhD research for us, in which she compared substance use among Brazilian migrants in the UK and among Brazilians living in Brazil, and how, for migratory groups, substance use may be associated with acculturation.

You can find Martha’s blog post at https://euspr.hypotheses.org/313

Thank you Martha for sharing your findings with us!

As always, we welcome comments on the post & are happy for you to share it in your networks.


22/06/2016 Update

Reflections on sober raving: alcohol free fun for further research?

A new article has been published on the EUSPR’s Early Careers Forum blog. This contribution comes from Emma Davies at Oxford Brookes University. Emma reports on her recent experience of attending a ‘sober rave’ event in London and suggests alcohol-free events as a possible future research topic to inspire new approaches to prevention. Thank you Emma for dancing away in the name of science! 🙂

You can find Emma’s blog (and a picture!) at:
http://euspr.hypotheses.org/285

As always, we welcome comments on the post & are happy for you to share it in your networks.


25/05/2016 Update

The non-existent bridge between research and practice

A new article has been published on the EUSPR’s Early Careers Forum blog. This contribution comes from Miriam Blikmans, a research master student at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In her post, Miriam comments on how she has experienced the gap between the worlds of research and practice during her first year in the academic world, leading her to ask if academia is an island? I’m sure you’ll agree that she raises some important points.

You can read and comment on it here: http://euspr.hypotheses.org/276


11/05/2016 Update

Challenges with implementing effective school-based prevention – the Estonian experience

A new blog post is available on the EUSPR’s Early Careers Forum blog. It was written by Karin Streimann who works at the Estonian National Institute for Health Development and is also a doctoral researcher at Tallinn University. It describes some of the lessons Karin has learnt in her work delivering seminars on drug prevention to schools.

You can read and comment on it here: https://euspr.hypotheses.org/262


27/04/2016 Update

Why you should care about reflexivity in prevention research

In today’s post, Angelina Brotherhood, doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, invites us to reflect on ‘why’ we conduct our research and how our own values and beliefs influence our research. She argues that being clear on research purpose and underlying values is especially important in fields such as prevention research.

You can read and comment on it here:http://euspr.hypotheses.org/240


14/04/2016 Update

Looking beyond randomization to estimate the effects of interventions in RCTs

This month’s contribution comes from Sinziana Oncioiu, who is a public health researcher affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. In this article, she will provide an in-depth delineation of her research which she presented at the EUSPR conference in Ljubljana in 2015. Her research targets complementary analyses to intention-to-treat analysis in an effectiveness study that was conducted at Karolinska Institutet.

You can read and comment on it here: https://euspr.hypotheses.org/215


31/03/2016 Update

New blog post: “Early career preventionists in North America: Who are they and what do they hope for?”

A new article has been published on the EUSPR’s Early Careers Forum blog. This is a special guest contribution from our sister organisation in North America, the Early Career Preventionist Network (ECPN). The post was contributed by the ECPN’s current chair, Dr Marie-Hélène Véronneau, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

You can read and comment on it here: http://euspr.hypotheses.org/201


17/03/2016 Update

New blog post: “Alcohol and Tobacco in French teenagers’ favorite TV shows”

Please see the following link for the latest blog of the EUSPR’s Early Careers Forum. Boris Chapoton is a researcher in cancer prevention. In this article, he provides an overview of his work on media influence and substance use in young people, which led to him being awarded the EUSPR/ SPAN Early Career Researcher Prize at the recent EUSPR conference.

You can read and comment on it here: https://euspr.hypotheses.org/183