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Mujahid Elobeid - IDCORE Interview 2022

BackgroundMujahid has a background in Mechanical Engineering, which led to an MSc in thermo-fluids for the petrochemical industry. Following this, he worked as a research engineer at the Centre…

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Welcome to Interdisciplinary Futures

Professor Chris Speed, Director of Edinburgh Futures Institute, welcomes students who have been offered a place on the MA Interdiscplinary Futures programme.

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Episode 5: Clinical decision making: Evidence based, or Values based?

Welcome to the fifth episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. This episode's guest is Professor Jonathan Michaels, ex-NHS consultant in vascular surgery and now Honorary Professor of…

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How many #newborn #babies in Scotland develop a #coronovirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection?

New #research from the COPS project investigates the number of #newborn #babies born to mothers infected with #coronovirus (SARS-CoV-2) went on to develop infection themselves between March 2020 and…

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Design Community Archive: EFI REBRAND

Recorded live in December 2021: Presentation and discussion of the Edinburgh Futures Institute rebrand. Collaboration between external agencies and inhouse designer and comms team. Starring Siobhan…

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Current Issues in Medical Law & Ethics Postgraduate Webinar Series: Event 1

"A collective movement”: opting for deemed consent organ donation in Northern Ireland Ms Ruby Reed-Berendt from the University of Edinburgh About this event Join…

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Creating Edinburgh: Introduction to Open Educational Resources

A short introduction to creating, finding and using open educational resources for the Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City course.

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Usher innovation community

The Usher innovation community supports collaboration between academics, service professionals and industry to identify, evaluate and adopt new data-driven solutions to transform the delivery of care…

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Episode 4 - Clinical Negligence and Patient Safety

Welcome to the fourth episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. This episode's guest is Dr Sarah Devaney (University of Manchester). Dr Devaney and Professor Anne-Maree Farrell draw…

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#research UK waning of first and second-dose Oxford-AstraZeneca & Pfizer BioNTech #covid19 #vaccine

#research recently published from the DaC-VaP-2 project in the International Journal of Epidemiology provides further strong evidence for the waning of first and second doses of the…

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Episode 3 - DNACPR decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic

This episode's guest is Upeka de Silva, the Policy Officer for the national charity Compassion in Dying. Upeka talks to us about the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) review into DNACPR…

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Actions that change systems

The final event in The Future of Climate Justice series took place online with an extended community of climate justice leaders who share and examine the actions that can change systems.Climate…

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AMUK: A performance by Khairani Barokka

On 14 October 2022, Indonesian writer and artist Khairani Barokka performed a new, archipelago-futurist piece on environmental and climate crises as the result of centuries of colonial extractivism.…

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Vaccine Breakthrough Project: How have these results been used in real life?

What actually happens once a research paper has been published? In this soundbite, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) volunteer Lynn Laidshaw asks Vaccine Breakthrough Project's Principal…

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Vaccine Breakthroughs Project: A PPI Perspective

Why is the work done by the Vaccine Breakthrough Project important? In this soundbite, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) volunteer Deb Smith tells us a little bit about why she believes the…

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Who is most likely to experience severe COVID-19 despite being vaccinated?

Who should be prioritised for the Autumn 2022 COVID-19 booster vaccination doses in the UK? In this soundbite, data analyst Utkarsh Agrawal (University of Oxford) summarises the key take home…

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