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This year, the 2017 Researchfish submission round launches on Monday 7th August and all PRUK funded researchers will be contacted very soon. The deadline to submit the project information is Friday 13th October. All researchers who have been funded by PRUK are required to submit information against their Researchfish portfolios on an annual basis.   […]

In June this year, the BBC ran a rare feature on pharmacy research and had an excellent short segment documenting the MEMORABLE project led by Dr Ian Maidment. Dr Maidment is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy at Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences, and a former beneficiary of Pharmacy Research UK’s project grants. […]

The 2018 Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice (HSRPP) conference will be hosted by Newcastle University on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th April. The HSRPP conference presents a unique opportunity for researchers within health service and pharmacy practice research to network with each other and also provides a platform for peers to give presentations on […]

We are delighted to announce that PRUK funded research from Dr Wing Man Lau from the University of Reading has been published in the journal Pharmacy 2017, 5(3), 41; doi: 10.3390/pharmacy5030041 The study examines the relationship between community pharmacists’ knowledge, attitudes to information provision and self-reported counselling behaviours in relation to topical corticosteroids and adjunct therapy in […]

Communications and Fundraising Assistant Pharmacy Research UK Contract type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract Salary: £22,000 per annum + excellent benefits Location: London   Pharmacy Research UK is the principal research charity supporting pharmacists and pharmacy to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients and the public.  The PRUK organisation is hosted by the Royal […]

PRUK July e-newsletter is published today, with details of HSRPP 2018, being profiled in the AMRC Charity Impact report, published research by PRUK researchers, a pharmacy research project on BBC Breakfast, the expansion of our SAP, research news and events and an inspiring blog by Dr Frances Notman on her journey to getting her PhD.

We are delighted that Romana has joined the PRUK team to take on this challenging role within the research team. As Research Coordinator, Romana will be the first port of call for any queries for PRUK as well as being responsible for managing correspondences for the annual Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice (HSRPP) Conference. […]

The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) has just published their annual report on research impact and PRUK are delighted to be one of the featured charities, highlighting the important work that the charity does. The AMRC is a membership organisation of the leading medical and health research charities in the UK. The AMRC has […]

Congratulations to Funke Adeniji from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who has just had her research published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. The research seeks to analyse the effectiveness of key policies and strategies in tackling antimicrobial resistance globally, and identify where there are gaps. Funke’s work was funded by […]

My interest in research was sparked during my Master’s degree at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in 2001. I discovered I really enjoyed collecting and analysing data and learning something new from the information I had collected – at the beginning it was as simple as that. In 2011 I was given the opportunity to carry out […]