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Oct 23
NEW PhD opportunity with CHSS!
CHSS is offering a 3 year (fulltime) or 5 year (part time) PhD studentship to undertake research in health services and evaluation based in the Centre commencing in September/October 2018. We are looking for a student who is enthusiastic about health services research and can become part of the research endeavour within CHSS. Applicants will …
Oct 13
New blog from CHSS Senior Research Fellow – ‘Hunger and obesity – a 21C paradox’
CHSS Senior Research Fellow Dr Erica Gadsby works in public health, health policy and systems research. In a new Guest blog published on the Royal Society for Public Health website, she discusses how the media’s focus on obesity is obscuring another concern affecting children in our poorer households: that of hunger. **Erica will also feature in our …
Sep 26
NEW! CHSS study – performance-related pay and care of those with long-term conditions
Offering general practices more money according to the number of people with long-term health conditions they treat, for example, with diabetes, cancer or dementia, does not lead to improved care, according to a study by Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent.The study, led by Dr Lindsay Forbes, Senior Clinical Research Fellow. …
Jul 31
CHSS Newsletter Summer 2017
Our latest CHSS Newsletter is now available to read or download on our website. We hope you will enjoy our latest news, events, publications and staff updates, including: a report on the highly successful CHSS pre-election health policy debate our recent KAPCU (Kent Academic Primary Care Unit) seminar exploring how primary care and mental health services can …
Jul 21
CHSS receives funding for HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme 2017-18
Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEKSS)/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme 2017-18 CHSS (Centre for Health Services Studies), University of Kent is to become a new provider for the Health Education Kent Surrey Sussex (HEKSS)/National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Integrated Clinical Academic Programme (ICAP) 2017-18. Funding has been awarded to the Centre to enable …
Jun 01
Watch CHSS pre-election health policy debate here!
There was a packed house at the Gulbenkian Theatre for last night’s CHSS-hosted health policy debate. Whatever their political leanings, all who came along were clearly passionate about future health and social care services in our region, and at national level. We are extremely grateful to all the brave Parliamentary candidates who came along to …
May 26
CHSS Director’s address on local air quality
On Wednesday evening CHSS Director Prof Stephen Peckham spoke on ‘Air Quality in Canterbury; what we know and what we need to know’ at Canterbury Christ Church University. The event – hosted by the Sustainability Research Network – took place at the Old Sessions House, Canterbury. Air pollution is a major public health problem and Canterbury already …
May 26
CHSS at U3A/University of Kent Research Showcase
CHSS staff and PhD students were among the many attendees of the U3A/University of Kent Research Showcase on 23 May in the Gulbenkian Foyer. More than a hundred members of the Canterbury and District branch of the University of the Third Age were welcomed, to share research projects, posters and performances, and find out about …
May 22
Double congratulations!
We are delighted to announce that CHSS Public Engagement Officer Amanda Bates has just had her award of PhD confirmed. Congratulations Dr Bates! Congratulations also to PhD student Rowena Bicknell on her double win at the Students’ Award ceremony! Rowena was awarded Student of the Year and Outstanding Contribution to College life (both jointly with …
May 19
NEW Blog: Professor Bob Hudson on public accountability in NHS
Where does accountability lie within the NHS? CHSS Visiting Professor Bob Hudson writes that the current ways of the healthcare system make public scrutiny and citizen accountability opaque and increasingly incomprehensible to outsiders. He argues that engaging with citizens is key to giving the healthcare debate legitimacy. For the past forty years, Professor Hudson has been …
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