Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP)
Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
By Sofie French, Nurse Consultant at Antimicrobial Resistance & Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI) Scotland Hand hygiene and infection prevention and control go together like pineapple on pizza, a natural fit that cannot be argued. Joking aside, this remains a critically important measure in preventing the onward transmission of infection. Despite marketing…
Each year, on the 5th of May we celebrate the World Hand Hygiene Day. This initiative is led by the World Health Organization, as part of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign and aims to bring people together from around the world to improve hand hygiene in health care and prevent healthcare-associated infections. This…
This year’s Glasgow Science Festival’s Glasgow Connects is taking place between 1st and 30th September in a hybrid format, involving a wide range of live events held at a variety of venues across Glasgow and online “Science on the Sofa” activities. The SHIP team has once again participated in this exciting event by delivering an…
By Janice Burns (originally published on the GCU website) GCU’s Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) research group has risen to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by finding new and inventive ways to reach out to our communities. To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) from November 18-24, the researchers have been blogging and…
By Lucyna Gozdzielewska Every year from 18-24 November we celebrate the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW). This initiative began in 2015, after the World Health Organization recognised the problem of antimicrobial resistance as a priority and subsequently identified it as an urgent global health threat. That same year the WHO endorsed a global action plan…
In this blog we share tips from Alicia Ware (SHIP PhD Student) on how to carry out public engagement activities to communicate research. We also showcase some of the SHIP team’s past public engagement activities. Public engagement can seem like a daunting thing for many. How do you get up in front of school children,…
This year the Glasgow Science Festival (GSF) is back and taking place ‘on the sofa’. The digital programme commenced on the 9th of September 2020 and is available until the 9th of November 2020, while live events were broadcasted in the past week. The SHIP team has contributed to this year’s programme by delivering an…
Tuesday 5th May 2020- World Hand Hygiene Day, is the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual global call to action for health workers. This year’s message is “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. Nurses and Midwives, clean care is in your hands” and there has never been a better time to promote this message and to celebrate…
It’s the Glasgow Science Festival again and this year the SHIP team have been in Cadder inspiring young people to imagine the difference they could make to the world through science. On Friday and Saturday members of the SHIP team set up their stall in Cadder Community Centre amongst lots of other GCU researchers and…
In June the SHIP team were involved in three events to help raise awareness of hand hygiene and antimicrobial resistance. This time we also had some nursing students help out too. On Friday 15th June there was a Meet the Researcher day and then on the Saturday there was a Community Science Day. These were…