The 3-year research investigation for this studentship will focus on advancing knowledge of the neuro-biomechanical mechanisms of movement recovery after stroke.
Participant recruitment is an acknowledged challenge for clinical trials in any area of health research. If projects cannot recruit the required numbers of participants, they may be forced to close and potentially useful interventions may therefore be prevented from being made available, and public money may be wasted.
Policy and practice in many areas of health and education have been informed by results from birth cohorts, which are longitudinal datasets that follow large numbers of individuals from birth and throughout their lives.
Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescriber Study1 is a five year research project funded by the National Institute of Health Research, a UK government body, and is designed to estimate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of pharmacist prescribers assuming responsibility for medicines management within care homes.
UEA is a research intensive university and is 10th in the UK for quality of research outputs (Times Higher REF 2014 analysis). At UEA, postgraduate researchers have the opportunity to become part of a supportive and engaging research community.