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Honouree Lecturer Mary Kirk has recently published a paper in the British Journal of Community Nursing

CPP Honouree Lecturer Mary Kirk has recently co-authored and published a paper in the British Journal of Community Nursing called ‘Advance care planning for people living with dementia’. This paper reviews the literature in regards to the barriers of the … Continue reading

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Music helps neuro-rehabilitation patients

A new study suggesting live music can help hospital neuro-rehabilitation patients has won an outstanding innovation award. University psychologist Dr David Wilkinson is working with hospital clinicians and ward staff on a project to find a new way of helping … Continue reading

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Lecturer at Medway showcases life as a community pharmacist

A 1-page interview with Medway’s Teaching Practitioner Elizabeth Scahill is featured in the current issue of the Pharmaceutical Journal. Liz explains how she spends 2 days each week at the School, drawing on her current working experiences at Boots to … Continue reading

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Medway promotes patient-centred consultation

Medway School of Pharmacy values the links that it has with local pharmacists. In November, almost 80 local pharmacists and students attended an interactive meeting organised by the West Kent and Medway Pharmacy Forum in partnership with the Centre for … Continue reading

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Research Seminar: Understanding cell shape: reconstituting the actin-membrane interace.

Dr. Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge Wednesday 17th December, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1 Membranes are central organizing surfaces for signaling and actin polymerization in the control of cell shape and movement. My … Continue reading

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Final year undergraduate students engineer bacteria to digest lactose

Petri plates containing solid nutrients (agar) are used extensively in microbiological studies and sometimes microbial growth can take on quite spectacular forms. The image here shows colonies of a bacteria calledEscherichia coli (E. coli) growing on a ‘MacConkey’ agar plate. … Continue reading

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New appointment for CHSS Director

Professor Stephen Peckham, Director of CHSS, has been appointed an Associate Professor at theInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Stephen is currently working on a joint project on accountability with Professor Raisa Deber and we … Continue reading

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Biologising parenting

Dr Jan Macvarish, Research Fellow at CHSS is quoted in an article in the New York Times, 24 November 2014 ‘Can brain science be dangerous?’ Dr Macvarish is quoted as part of a growing critique of ‘neuroparenting’ policy. Reference is … Continue reading

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Runners raise £6000 for Pilgrims Hospices

Our Athletics and Cross Country team, who ran over 200 miles from our Canterbury campus to Paris, have raised £6000 for Pilgrims Hospices. The runners completed over 26 miles a day for eight consecutive days – the equivalent of over … Continue reading

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Research to shape exhibition on child migration

Research on child migration by Professor Gordon Lynch will shape a new exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood, London in 2015. The touring exhibition, titled ‘On their own – Britain’s child migrants’ , will draw on Professor Lynch’s research … Continue reading

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