Congratulations to the following fellows who were recently awarded travel bursaries to attend the Global Evidence Summit 2024 in Prague in September 2024. The conference will provide an opportunity for our fellows to learnhow best to produce, summarise and disseminate evidence to inform policy and practice.
In this blog for anyone interested in traffic safety, Prabhath Piyasena, a research fellow in global eye health and his team at Queen’s University Belfast, look at the latest evidence on the association between poor eyesight and road traffic crashes in developing countries, which has not been studied before. Do you know the number one […]
This year, we have been lucky to have a bumper crop of ESI Summer Scholars. They are placed at University of Galway, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, and Queens University Belfast who are partner institutes of ESI. If you are an undergraduate student at any of these locations, and would be interested in summer […]
In this blog for people with breast cancer and their families, Dr Niamh Kilgallen, a Senior Researcher with the National Cancer Control Programme in the Health Service Executive, looks at the latest evidence on radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer and asks if the treatment time for radiotherapy can safely be reduced to one week. […]
The latest Evidence Synthesis Ireland SWAR Award scheme round has been launched. We are pleased to announce that lead applicants can be from any Higher Education Institute in the world but must include a co-applicant from the island of Ireland. A SWAR can help provide evidence to inform decisions about how we plan, do and […]
Congratulations to the recipients of the SWAR Awards 2024. Dr Aoife O’Mahony (UCC), Prof Margaret McGrath (UCC) & Dr Elyane Ahern (UL) & their research teams will receive support to conduct a SWAR. What is a SWAR? A SWAR is a research study that can help provide evidence to inform decisions about how we plan, […]
