📢 ⭐️work w/ me in the fab Leicester Lifestyle & Health Research Group 3 yr B6 role designing & testing an intervention for ppl living w/ #frailty and #Multiplelongterm conditions & their carers. Happy to consider part time & secondments. Perfect for PT/OT/CEP. Option to do a fully funded MRes or PhD. Link ⬇️

Come and work for a great multi-disciplinary team on a fasinating project - jobs.ac.uk/job/DGK831/res… - a collaboration with Leah and Jane at Bangor.

📢Do you have a paper on exercise/physical activity/sport in solid organ transplant recipients that needs a home?

🤸scope: prehab-rehab-getting active-performance sport

✅Physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, rehab, injury, physical activity, psychology, sociology (quant&qual)

🔬 Happy International Women's Day to all the brilliant minds shaping the future of science! Your dedication to kidney health and patient care is unmatched. Let's continue breaking boundaries, advancing research, and promoting kidney health equity worldwide🌟💼

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨

1/4 Second study from my PhD exploring the influence of modifiable physical factors [cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength, physical activity & sedentary behaviour] on #PhysicalFunction for people receiving #PeritonealDialysis

doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir…

Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership and colleagues Maddy Warren and all. Please can you help us and share with any women with kidney disease. We would love to welcome people on the 11th March. :-) xx

Want to join the conversation about health research taking place here in #Leicester ? Come along to a Public Involvement in Health Research Event 🗓️ Saturday 23 March, 10am – 1pm, George Davies Centre, Lancaster Road #NIHRLeicesterBRC #WhatsonLeicester 👉: leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/23-march-event/

Colleagues please can you share. We have an exciting face-to-face meeting in Leicester. We are keen to promote to women with kidney disease who may want to attend. Get in touch for more information Popham Kidney Support National Kidney Foundation Kidney Research UK PKD Foundation Kidney Wales Kidney Care UK

Are you a woman living with kidney disease? Do you have children, are you planning to have children, or are you yet to decide? This is for you!

Contact Leah : [email protected]

Please share widely, we are so looking forward to meeting you!

Interested in learning about how to use ethnography for healthcare improvement research? I cannot recommend the SAPPHIRE research summer school enough. Also relevant to those conducting research in non-NHS settings such as care homes and hospices.

Our popular Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School is back for 2024, 11-12 July! Experienced and budding ethnographers, join us for 2 days of intense learning, reflecting, networking and deep thinking on ethnographic practice. Bookings open: shop.le.ac.uk/product-catalo…

Do you know what poor #HealthLiteracy looks like? Patient Information Forum (PIF) have a really useful poster about #HealthLiteracy and why it matters.
If you would like to know more sign up for our #HealthLiteracy training. Free to Leicester's Hospitals & Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust staff. Book on HELM or KnowledgeShare

🤷‍♀️ Sadly, most don’t give their #Kidneys a thought unless something goes wrong with them. However, our kidneys are so essential & play a vital role in keeping us healthy. They're not very big but they are VERY important!

🤔 Find more #KidneyFacts here: kidneycareuk.org/kidney-disease…

🚨📢 NEW PAPER :
Feasibility and acceptability of a virtually run RCT testing My Kidneys & Me digital self-management intervention for people with CKD Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team Dr Thomas Wilkinson Noémi Vadászy Matt Graham-Brown Melanie @ProfTomYates Alice C Smith UoL Population Health Sciences doi.org/10.1111/jorc.1…

📣 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 📣

Make the most of early bird discounts & special offers for UK Kidney Week 2024 & register now ⬇️
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Read the #UKKW2024 Programme at a Glance:
📖 bit.ly/42cmTou

📢GREX Webinar 2024 is on YouTube now!

A huge thanks to Heitor Ribeiro 🇧🇷 for the moderation of a fantastic panel Maddy Warren, Brett Tarca and Dr. Naushad Junglee on 'Exercise in Kidney Disease: Let’s start the conversation'.

🔗Check it out here: youtu.be/s1-1LzuUacM?si…

🚨GREX Webinar LIVE: 'Time is the most important thing to have health care providers encourage patients to exercise - find dedicated time to discuss exercise - start the conversation' Dr. Naushad Junglee on what should change in order for exercise to reach people living with CKD

'I really encourage patients to self-advocate, but exercise is a typically a sum gain. You put a little bit of effort in your get a little bit out. Do something that you love to do, walking and getting some fresh air for example.'

🚨GREX Webinar LIVE: 'Exercise has to be a part of the management of CKD. It comes back to education, it comes back to information and talking about the safety and the benefits.' Brett Tarca on talking about how health providers can encourage PA. 👟

🚨GREX Webinar LIVE: 'Health is not a linear journey, there may be things that get in the way of your fitness, but any type of movement or exercise will make us feel better.' Maddy Warren Speaking on the keeping active with CKD 👏👟