Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP)
Stemming the tide of infection through applied infection prevention research at Glasgow Caledonian University
Our latest blog is by Laura Fregonese, a final year PhD student with the SHIP research group. In this piece, she reflects on the process of data collection for her PhD June 2022 marks the anniversary of my first interview for my research project. I remember that day like it was yesterday, as an emotional…
By Dr Claire Crossan With a Covid19 vaccine program ahead of schedule and falling ICU figures, I am sure many of us were hopeful that the worst of the pandemic had passed. But should our optimism be crushed by recent headlines focusing on the emergence of the Indian variant within the UK’s current Covid19 ‘hotspots’?…
By Annelysse Jorgenson and Sally Stewart Last week was a huge week for SIREN participant recruitment in Scotland, with a number of the participating NHS health boards reaching new heights. As recruitment is coming to an end on the 31st March, all the SIREN sites have been making extra efforts to grow their recruitment before…
In a recently published systematic review by SHIP team PhD Student, Ayodeji Matuluko, interventions to improve the review of antibiotic therapy in acute care hospitals have been found to have positive clinical impact in the short to medium term, although there is insufficient evidence of their sustainability in the long-term. The timely review of antibiotic…
In celebration of International Microorganism Day, the 17th of September, Dr Ryan Kean a Lecturer in Biological and Biomedical Sciences and a member of the SHIP team, shares this interesting piece on his favourite bug Candida auris. My interests in Candida auris began in the summer of 2016 whilst doing my Ph.D. and involved a…
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…
This week’s piece provides insights into students’ experiences of a Masters module led by researchers from the SHIP team. The Infection Prevention and Control in a Global Context (IPCGC) module is offered to students in Trimester B of the Masters of Public Health (MPH) programme at Glasgow Caledonian University. Students are given the choice of…
This week’s piece is by Sally Stewart, Research Project Manager ECONI study and SHIP team member/PhD student. The Evaluation of Cost of Nosocomial Infection (ECONI) investigated the cost and impact of Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) or Nosocomial Infection (NI) to patients, the health service and the wider community. To meet this aim, the team developed…
By Lucyna Gozdzielewska In a recently published SHIP team paper—co-authored with colleagues from Health Protection Scotland and the University of Strathclyde—the findings of a scoping review of approaches for improving antimicrobial stewardship in livestock farmers and veterinarians are reported. This is an important topic, because microorganisms’ ability to defeat antimicrobials, known as antimicrobial resistance, is…
This week’s blog is by Laura Fregonese, a second year PhD student within the SHIP team. Laura describes her piece as “a personal reflection of a nurse, with over two decades of perioperative practice, who ventured into uncharted territory and transferred her clinical skills into building a compass from which to navigate the complex landscape…