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The first OSOP event of the new term is unmissable for anyone interested in a career in paediatrics! Consultant Dr Alison Shefler and trainee Dr Peter Sidgwick will be sharing their varied experiences in this exciting speciality, and will be giving advice on how to build your career from medical school onwards!
Research shows comforting babies eases parental stress in painful procedures
Neuroimaging Parents & Carers Research
8 March 2024
The Neuroimaging Group, at the Department of Paediatrics, in collaboration with Bliss, the charity for babies born premature or sick, has launched a new suite of information resources for parents of neo-nates, designed to make them feel more confident about being involved in the care of their babies.
New animation series to support parents of premature infants
Children's Health Department Neuroimaging Parents & Carers Public Engagement Research
27 February 2024
Professor Caroline Hartley, Principal Investigator, and Dr Marianne van der Vaart Postdoctoral Researcher, in the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group at the Department of Paediatrics, have today launched a series of animations aimed at improving parental understanding of brain development in premature infants, and the effect it has on breathing and apnoeas (the cessation of breathing).
There is now clear data on Covid-19 and children: it should be safe to reopen English schools
Parents & Carers Vaccinology
18 August 2020
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Professor Matthew Snape discusses the initial results of his team's antibody study in the context of coronavirus risk to school children.
Coronavirus: is it safe for children to return to school?
COVID-19 Children's Health General Parents & Carers
1 June 2020
Stéphane Paulus and Else Bijker explore the topic in their article for The Conversation.
Sharing the benefits
Athena Swan Neuroimaging Parents & Carers University
20 March 2020
At the beginning of the year our family leave policies were updated. Employees can now take up most of our family leave schemes from the first day of employment, meaning that more parents can now enjoy the benefits of our generous provisions. Hayriye Cagnan from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and husband Eugene Duff from the Department of Paediatrics, discuss their experience of shared parental leave following baby Ida’s arrival ten months ago.
Pregnant women invited to take part in pioneering diabetes prevention research
Clinical Trials Parents & Carers Recruitment Research
16 July 2018
Dr Matthew Snape leads a study investigating if giving small amounts of oral insulin to babies can prevent type 1 diabetes, thus allowing mothers to protect their children from injecting insulin.