Anti-Waffle Podcast

In this episode we talk about the life changing work of @DrLisaGould whose research is about improving outcomes for patients with dementia when in hospital @imperialcollege 

In this episode we chat with Professor Bryony Dean Franklin, who is carrying out research on medication safety @School_Pharmacy.  We talk about what might go wrong and why and how it can be prevented from happening. Is barcoding the future of patient safety? @UCL #podcast #research

We spoke to Dr Lena Ciric and Dr Tse-Hui Teh about their research and the vacuum toilet!  Using waste as compost, how it works and where the toilet is now @UCL

Professor Catherine Tuleu, from UCL School of Pharmacy talks about devising medicine delivery for children.  The difficulties of the balance of making medicine easy to take for children, but not too attractive. How much work goes into the process, the tools they use and making the experience a positive one for the patient. First point of contact in treatment is so important. 

We chatted to Rebecca Powell from UCL School of Pharmacy about artificial nerve regeneration, and how they hope to do it!

Dr Katelyn Smalley is a health policy researcher with a background in Political Economy. She recently completed her PhD in Health Services Research at Imperial College London, and currently works as a Research Fellow in Person-Centred Care at the University of Plymouth. Her research focuses on improving access and quality of healthcare services in the NHS.

Dr Ruth Brauer, is a lecturer in Pharmacoepidemiology, at UCL.  Her main research focus is assessing the risks and benefits of drug use in vulnerable patient populations. On this podcast we discussed the importance of collecting data on a wide scale and where data is collected from.  We also chatted about the importance of collaboration and who is using this data to inform their research.

Dr Tim Beasley-Murray is a researcher at UCL. We talked about his research and the book he is currently writing.  We discussed playing the game of Academia and what do those rules look like?  Rules we have to follow, and how do they influence us in different situations.  Reality vs Games. Playful vs the serious.

Andrew Cartmel is a playwright and author of the Vinyl Detective novels.  We spoke about how he tackles research for his books and plays.  We discussed the balance between too much/too little research, getting facts right,  different types of research and using real life experience.   The new Vinyl Detective book and his new play ‘Glacier Lake’ is coming out in May. 

Dr Sara Garfield talks to us about her research into patient engagement and factors influencing patients' decisions about treatment and shared decision making