From Steve Following the theme from Teresa’s recent post, I too have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Systematic Reviews. But one of the small pleasures I take from the interminable task of screening thousands and thousands of titles is finding those weird and bizarre studies. Ones that either; a) I wish I’d thought [...]

With such a concentration of the great and good of LBP research at the Forum, we thought it’d be good to do some PR and introduce ourselves to the big names. We despatched Chris Williams (aka Big Willy Style) to do the job and found the Profs in good humour and more than willing to [...]

*may not be actually true  From Steve A couple of weeks ago we posted a little piece about how research is set up in many universities and how this has an impact on opportunities for early career researchers, see here. It seems that we are not the only ones thinking about this, recently two separate [...]

  From Steve I had a win the other week. I received an early career researcher award from the organisers of a conference I will be going to later in the year. Obviously I was well-pleased with this, especially as it comes with some money to pay for the trip – nice!   The point [...]

From Steve Last week I was at a small workshop that involved discussion about career prospects for health researchers. Not surprisingly most of the focus of the discussion revolved around PhD students and postdocs. If I were to take a depressing view it seems a bit as if the early career researchers of today are [...]