Anne Skeldon visited the University of Umea last week (Thursday-Friday 20-21 February) for a collaborative research visit. Joining her from Surrey was Derk-Jan Dijk (Director Surrey Sleep Research Centre), and her host at Umea was Associate Professor Katharina Wulff, of the Department of Molecular Biology. In addition to research interaction, Anne and Derk-Jan gave back-to-back […]
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In response to the rapidly increasing demand for GP consultations, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) awarded a grant of around £900,000 to examine the impact of First Contact Physiotherapy (FCP) in alleviating the pressure on appointments with GPs. This was driven by the fact that approximately one third of GP consultations are related […]
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Camilla Nobili has been awarded a Research in Pairs grant (Award date 14 February) by the London Mathematical Society. This grant awards £1200 to Camilla to host a visitor at the University of Surrey in order to engage in a joint research project. The project is on “Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations” and the visitor is Prof Giuseppe Coclite […]
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Congratulations to Lewis Napper for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place on Thursday 20 February. The title of Lewis’ thesis is “Geometric Techniques in PDE Theory, Fluid Dynamics, and Relativity“. The external examiner was Prof Jan Slovak (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), and the internal examiner was Dr James Grant. Lewis‘ primary supervisor was Martin […]
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Polina Vytnova has been awarded a Research in Pairs grant (Award date 14 February) by the London Mathematical Society. This grant awards £1200 to Polina to host a visitor at the University of Surrey in order to engage in a joint research project. The project is on the “Arithmetic of Cantor sets” and the visitor […]
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A paper of Peter Williams has been voted #2 in the top ten papers published in the British Journal of General Practice in 2024 (announcement here). The paper is “First contact physiotherapy: an evaluation of clinical effectiveness and costs“. It is available open access (link here). The paper has an interdisciplinary team of 14 authors […]
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