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Congratulations to our @hrbtmrn Director Prof Declan Devane, who has just been announced as a recipient of one of the President’s Awards for Research Excellence 2015 NUI Galway. As well as Director of the HRB-TMRN, Declan is Professor of Midwifery NUI Galway and the Saolta University Health Care Group (Ireland). He is an Editor with the Cochrane Pregnancy

This year’s IRNN annual conference will be held on Thursday 12th November 2015. Call for abstracts is now open for oral and poster presentations. All research nurses and midwives are welcome to submit an abstract based on their clinical research (can be research undertaken independently or with colleagues as part of a team). GENERAL INFORMATION

Over twenty successful applicants to this years’ HRB Cochrane Systematic Review Training Course attended NUI Galway on June 25th & 26th. The course which was delivered by HRB-TMRN members Prof Declan Devane NUI Galway & Dr Valerie Smith TCD / NUI Galway. The course focused on all aspects of conducting a systematic review including; developing a protocol, assessing study eligibility and

The HRB-TMRN are delighted to announce plans for a 1 day course in October 2015: An Introduction to Economic Evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials. Places will be limited. Expressions of interest can be sent to hrb-tmrn@nuigalway.ie  

 An eager classroom of Logistic Regression enthusiasts attended this years Summer School (June 17th & 18th), which was delivered by Dr John Newell HRB-CRF / NUI Galway and Prof George McCabe, Purdue University. The theme of the summer school was understanding and implementing Translational Statistics through logistic regression. Welcome visitors were from Galway, Dublin and Norway, along with Prof

The HRB-TMRN is delighted to welcome Professor George P. McCabe to NUI Galway. Professor McCabe is affiliated with the Department of Statistics and is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Science at Purdue University and co-author of the globally used Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, currently in its 8th edition, and a business statistics text, currently

http://www.cochrane.org/ One of the major challenges facing researchers doing trials is maintaining the momentum for recruitment. Valerie Smith a research midwife from the Health Research Board’s Trials Methodology Research Network in Ireland, tells us about one of her strategies, based on the power of tea. http://www.cochrane.org/podcasts/ICT-day-2015/the-power-of-tea 

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]To mark International Clinical Trials Day on May 20th 2015, we held national writing competition in association with ‘The Irish Times’. It was open to patients, clinicians, researchers, academics and people working in industry with the aim of conveying to a general audience the importance and value of conducting clinical trial research. We