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Glasgow Science Festival 2024: Hand Hygiene and Antimicrobial Awareness!

August 17, 2024SHIPGCUAntimicrobial awareness / hand hygiene / public engagementLeave a comment
Glasgow Science Festival 2024: Hand Hygiene and Antimicrobial Awareness!

By Helen Laking This year’s Glasgow Science Festival ran between 6th–16th June and hosted a range of events at multiple venues across the city. The theme for 2024 was “Glasgow‘s Transforming”. The Glasgow Science Festival is supported and funded by the Scottish Government and the University of Glasgow. The programme of events brings representatives from…

World Hand Hygiene Day 2024: SHIP team shares knowledge about hand hygiene

May 3, 2024SHIPGCU5th of May / hand hygiene / public engagementLeave a comment
World Hand Hygiene Day 2024: SHIP team shares knowledge about hand hygiene

By Dr Lucyna Gozdzielewska Each year, on the 5th of May we celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day, which is led by the World Health Organization, as part of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign to promote good hand hygiene practices in healthcare and prevent healthcare-associated infections. This year’s campaign focuses on the importance of…

The SHIP Group at Explorathon 2023

December 11, 2023February 2, 2024SHIPGCUhand hygiene / Microbiology / public engagementLeave a comment

By Pranitha Murali Research student, SHIP Group In the vibrant landscape of public engagement events, Explorathon 2023 emerged as a platform where the SHIP group showcased their commitment to making research accessible and engaging for all. With innovative events such as bacterial modelling using play dough and demonstrations on hand hygiene utilizing glow boxes and…

World Hand Hygiene Day: Not just rinse and repeat!

May 4, 2023May 5, 2023SHIPGCUhand hygiene / public engagementLeave a comment

        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…

SHIP team unites for safety and celebrates World Hand Hygiene Day 2022

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022SHIPGCU5th of May / hand hygiene / public engagementLeave a comment
SHIP team unites for safety and celebrates World Hand Hygiene Day 2022

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…

Glasgow Science Festival: “How DOUGH they do it?”

September 7, 2021September 8, 2021SHIPGCUhand hygiene / public engagementLeave a comment
Glasgow Science Festival: “How DOUGH they do it?”

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…

SHIP team sails across new horizons to reach out to communities during the pandemic

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020SHIPGCUPress release / public engagementLeave a comment
SHIP team sails across new horizons to reach out to communities during the pandemic

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…

The SHIP team marks World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020

November 18, 2020April 28, 2021SHIPGCUpublic engagement / World Antimicrobial Awareness WeekLeave a comment
The SHIP team marks World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020

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…

Public Engagement with the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention Research Group at GCU

October 23, 2020October 26, 2020SHIPGCUhand hygiene / public engagementLeave a comment
Public Engagement with the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention Research Group at GCU

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,…

Glasgow Science Festival: Science on the Sofa!

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020SHIPGCUhand hygiene / public engagementLeave a comment
Glasgow Science Festival: Science on the Sofa!

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…

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