Five receive research awards totalling £50K
The grant of five pharmacy practice research awards for 2006 with a total value of £50,000 has been announced by the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust — the independent body established by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1999 to promote practice research.
The awards are intended to enable the recipients to develop their skills
as pharmacy researchers and to equip them to undertake specialist research
in the field of pharmacy practice.
Gianpiero Celino, director of Webstar Health, will receive a £35,000
Sir Hugh Linstead fellowship, which he will use to support a project
on patient-centred outcomes from medicines use review (MUR), based at
Keele University.
James Desborough, of the school of chemical sciences and pharmacy, University
of East Anglia, will receive a £5,000 Sir Hugh Linstead fellowship
to conduct a pilot of a randomised control trial for a study of the effect
of MURs on patients’ self-reported adherence.
Tabassum Jafri, of the engineering design centre, Cambridge University
Engineering Department, will receive a Galen award of £6,000 towards
a study on improving medication safety.
Adam Mackridge, of the school of pharmacy and chemistry, Liverpool John
Moores University, will receive a Galen award of £2,000 to undertake
qualitative research methodology training.
Jasmin Widmann, of the school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences,
University of Manchester, will receive a Galen award of £2,000
to undertake qualitative research methodology training to support her
in her PhD on the perceptions of adolescent and adult kidney transplant
patients towards the risks and benefits of drug therapy.
The Linstead fellowships, made annually to a total value of £40,000,
are funded by a grant from the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust. The
Galen awards, made annually to a total value of £10,000, are funded
from a bequest by the late Rowland Henry Williams.
Details of the application process for the 2007 Practice Research Awards
will be announced in January 2007.
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