Biostatistics UoM

News and information from the Centre for Biostatistics @FBMH_UoM @OfficialUoM

[RSS Manchester @RSSManchester]

📢Join us for our next online event focussing on ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes.
⏰20th May, 2pm.
@RoyalStatSoc

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

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[The University of Manchester @OfficialUoM]

📢 We’ve been ranked 1st in the world for social and environmental impact to achieve the @UN Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs

#THEglobalimpact #THEunirankings @SocialResponUoM @UoMNews @julianskyrme @ConnectSDGs

[RSS Manchester @RSSManchester]

💻In our next online event, @Vnafilyan and @JamesNazroo will speak about ethnic inequalities and COVID-19 outcomes.⏰ 20th May, 2pm. @RoyalStatSoc

All welcome! Register at: https://t.co/zCDcnYn41R

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

*SEMINAR* Our next Graham Dunn Seminar (virtual edition) focusses on Adaptive Clinical Trials. Speakers: Sofia Villar, Phil Pallmann, Nigel Stallard. Wednesday 17th March, 2pm. All welcome! https://t.co/W71BreZgNZ

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

Looking forward to Matthias Pierce talking about use of secondary datasets to study mental health epidemiology 3rd Feb 2021

[UoM Psychology & MH PGRs @UoM_PMH_PGRs]

For our next seminar we welcome Dr Matthias Pierce, who will be speaking about mental health epidemiology in secondary datasets.

Everyone welcome ☺️

📆3rd February 2021
⏲️13:00 to 14:00
📖https://t.co/XMaUSpfaLM

See ⬇️ for more details

[RSS Manchester @RSSManchester]

A reminder of our next online event. We have the excellent Prof. David Hand speaking about "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" on 25th Jan 2021. You can sign up on the @RoyalStatSoc website or through https://t.co/tayphYkRGJ

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

New paper from @LizHowarthKN @cotterillsarah1 and colleagues considers uptake and retention in the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme - finds differences between service providers and according to patient characteristics

[NIHR ARC Greater Manchester @ARC_GM_]

✨PUBLICATION✨

New publication from the @NIHRresearch funded DIPLOMA team in @DiabetesRC

'Going the distance’: an independent cohort study of engagement and dropout among the first 100 000 referrals into a large-scale diabetes prevention program

📎 https://t.co/aYeXhIiVdv

[RSS Manchester @RSSManchester]

We are holding an online event with @laure_wynants and @jamiecsergeant about prediction modelling in COVID-19. 4th December, 3pm. All welcome! Register on the @RoyalStatSoc site, here: https://t.co/hN6dZKI6Jk

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

EVENT: Our friends at @RSSManchester are holding an online event with @laure_wynants and our very own @jamiecsergeant about prediction modelling in COVID-19. 4th December, 3pm. All welcome! Register here: https://t.co/DpumrDeZP9

[MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership @MRCNIHRTMRP]

If you want to find out more or contribute to the #trialretention theme, led by #ChrisSutton, @griersonj5 and #LindaONeill, get in touch. @VickyLShepherd will host tomorrow and take on the working groups theme of #inclusivity - See you in the morning! #TrialConductResearch

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

Latest from our own @jd_wilko and colleagues, raises concerns about methods used in a prediction tool used for IVF outcomes

[Gary Collins @GSCollins]

Our letter with @BenVanCalster @jd_wilko now online raising some concerns on a new prediction tool for first‐trimester outcomes (https://t.co/rXcH8YfdEK )

[Dr Kristian Brock @CatchTwentyToo]

Researchers commonly send me data in Excel spreadsheets but they often lay it out in ways that makes it difficult to analyse.

I wrote this post yesterday setting out my six simple rules for saving data in Excel:

https://t.co/qHYcCd1ohx

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

Tomorrow is our afternoon seminar focussing on the analysis of smartphone collected data. Hope to see you there!

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

*SEMINAR* Our next Graham Dunn Seminar (virtual edition) focusses on the analysis of smartphone collected data. We will hear from three excellent speakers: @nielsvberkel, Yunxiao Chen, Noémi Schuurman. Wednesday 28th October, 2pm. All welcome! https://t.co/txdILFy465

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

This looks a great opportunity for any PhDs or postdocs with a connection to NIHR. Why not come do a placement with us.

[Trial Forge @Trial_Forge]

Designing randomised trials? Have a look at our resources, now including the INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework https://t.co/LSAis6HQfo #inclusivity

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

New research from @jd_wilko in our team. Its a preprint so comments welcome

[Biostatistics UoM @BiostatsUoMan]

Sadly this is for 15 months rather than £15 million, but still a great opportunity for the right candidate

[David French @davidfrenchx]

New 15m post-doc job at Univ Manchester - would suit psychologist with good qual or quant skills: https://t.co/ffbKA3Z7Z2

Part of HEDLINE project - this post to assess delivery of Healthy Living digital intervention for people with t2dm (funded by NIHR). With @cotterillsarah1

[Discover Society @DiscoverSoc]

Struggling with the design of behaviour change public policy research? Help is at hand from @cotterillsarah1 @peterjohn10 and @MarieJohnstonx to optimise the rigour & legitimacy of any behavioural intervention
https://t.co/MdOSUFFJRR

[Policy & Politics @policy_politics]

Make sure you don't miss out on @berglund_oscar 's latest reading list including essential reading recommendations for #PublicPolicy, #Politics & #SocialPolicy from @policy_politics

All articles featured are free to access until 31 Oct or Open Access: https://t.co/YhMb6gQ3zU