Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP)
Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
Every year Glasgow Caledonian University Students’ Association runs its annual Teaching Awards campaign to recognise outstanding university staff and to celebrate their hard work in providing the best learning experience and support to GCU students. This year’s winners have been announced in 10 categories at the virtual ceremony on the 28th May 2020. We are…
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…
When a teacher from Barsail primary school in Erskine asked the SHIP Research Group to help with their health week we jumped at the chance. She had heard about the Guinness World Record breaking attempt that the SHIP research group had been involved in two years ago, when student nurses taught the world’s largest simultaneous…
