Blog and News

ACRC members feature in new video.

Two ACRC PDRAs have been awarded the Innovation Award from CMVM for their Co-design workshop.

Multimorbidity PhD Programme open for applications.

For three days in mid-march, the ACRC hosted several researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

New briefing paper describes use of PPI to improve pathways of care for people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) in Scotland

Imagine, speculate and explore future technologies which could become the healthcare solutions of the future in this creative hands-on workshop in partnership with the Scottish AI Summit.

Read the results from our recent survey on PPIE activities within the ACRC.

Partnership and Communications Manager Janice Murray tells us about her visit to the V&A in Dundee.

First in a video series first published by our colleagues at ARC NENC

A member of the 2022 Academy cohort has won a coveted award.

PPIE member Stella Findlay reflects on her presentation to the ACRC Symposium

The Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) Academy for Training and Leadership has opened PhD applications for their 2023 cohort.

On Wednesday night, the ALLIANCE hosted an event at the Scottish Parliament, launching the ‘Effecting Change’ report.

In our latest blog, Dr Clare MacRae takes data science to grass roots.

Find out more about the 2022 cohort for the Academy.

The second cohort of students to the ACRC Academy have arrived.

Lucy McCloughan tells us about a week spent with colleagues developing understanding around co-design and engagement with a rural community.

Work package 4.5 of the ACRC is asking the question “What does care in later life look like?”

The Wellcome PhD Programme in Multimorbidity for health professionals is now open for applications for an August 2023 start.

Earlier this month, our Public Involvement Network reached a milestone by celebrating its first birthday.

“Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow, don't stop, it'll soon be here.”

The ACRC Academy will welcome additional students, with new funding announced.

ACRC’s Jenny Robertson is part of a successful bid to establish a new Community of Practice (CoP) for Patient and Public Involvement (PPI).

Professor Bruce Guthrie has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

For almost two weeks at the end of April, staff and researchers at the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) held a photography exhibition as part of Edinburgh Science Festival.

Part of the Edinburgh Science Festival, the ‘Worlds of Care’ photography exhibition aims to explore how care is commonly portrayed, perceived and experienced. 

Students within the ACRC Academy will benefit from additional experience and leadership with confirmation of the Advisory Board. 

On Tuesday 14th March, the students from the Academy presented on their projects at a mini-conference. Lucy McCloughan, ACRC Programme Manager, was there.

In our latest blog, Research Fellow Caroline Pearce discusses challenges around bereavement, as she relaunches the Bereavement Journal.

Three first-year PhD students at the ACRC Academy have been invited to present findings from a group project to the Edinburgh Clinical Frailty Network and the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership.

We provided the following blog, on our response to the National Care Service Consultation, to ALLIANCE Scotland as part of their series on the Future of Social Care.

In our latest blog, we sought insight into what it's like to be one of our Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Network members.

Design Informatics designed the CareTree Cultural Probe study to explore how participants perceive the informal networks of care which support them in everyday life. Cultural probes are physical toolkits or packages sent to participants in their homes or communities, enabling contextual reflection through physical artefacts and a variety of prompts.

On 7th Feb, the Usher Institute is hosting an event looking at methodical challenges around multimorbidity research.

ACRC Research Fellow Caroline Pearce is the editor-in-chief of a new open-access journal which is relaunched, decades after initial publication.

Earlier this month, the Alliance asked the ACRC to submit a blog looking at our response to the National Care Service Consultation.

Multimorbidity is the presence of two or more long-term health conditions in a person, and is a major global public health problem of increasing prevalence.

In our latest blog, Rob Mackie looks back at the ACRC Launch event.

Briefing paper 4: Quality of care in later life in Low and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Briefing Paper 3: Multimorbidities