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ACRC Researcher Sue Lewis is part of a choir performing songs about later life.

PPI Workshop explores the use of healthcare data in research.

Last month, Multimorbidity PhD student Rose Penfold hosted a PPI group call to help her with her delirium research.

Read our latest blog from WP4 researcher Nichole Fernandez.

ACRC and AIM-CISC researcher Imane Guellil tells us about her recent visit to the University of Barcelona.

Earlier this year, students at the ACRC Academy secured funding to establish their own lecture series.

See our students with their posters from the 2023 Spring Symposium.

Students, researchers and public contributors across the ACRC had the opportunity to share learning and experience with colleagues at the ACRC Spring Symposium earlier this week.

Do you live with more than one long term condition and care for someone (family member, relative, friend) also living with multiple long term conditions?

Dr Stella Arakelyan leads on a seed project funded by the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network which seeks to co-develop need-based support strategies and/or assistive technologies to help older caregivers of people with multiple long-term conditions to live well.

A national framework for care home data should be developed in order to benefit residents and inform Scotland’s health and social care services, according to a new report.

Join us to share your local knowledge and discuss how newspaper articles could help explain the health of people living in different parts of Edinburgh.

Members of the ACRC presented their research to Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, on a recent visit.

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.