Publications by authors named "Laurel Edmunds"
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- - The study investigates gender equity in scientific authorship within biomedical research at the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, analyzing 2409 publications from 2012 to 2017 to understand the representation of male and female authors.
- - Results reveal that female representation is significantly lower in key authorship roles: first authors (41% female), first corresponding authors (34% female), and last authors (23% female) compared to their male counterparts (p<0.001).
- - Additionally, among joint authorship categories, women made up only 15% of joint first authors, 29% of joint corresponding authors, and 10% of joint last authors, indicating a persistent gender disparity in multiple authorship roles (p
Background: Over the last 10 years HENRY has been working to reduce and prevent child obesity by training health and early years professionals to deliver its evidence-based programme to parents. The aim and unique contribution of this study was to evaluate whether training volunteers to deliver this programme on a one-to-one basis was feasible.
Methods: Mixed-methods service evaluation with parent-reported pre- and post-programme outcomes and focus groups conducted with parents and volunteer facilitators.
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- The "Promoting Responsible Research and Innovation" (RRI) initiative, part of the EU Horizon 2020 program, aligns research with societal values through public engagement, open access, and ethics, involving 6 European and 6 international institutions.
- The STARBIOS2 project aims to foster structural change in RRI at participating institutions by implementing action plans and creating guidelines for biosciences research.
- The project is structured around 6 core and 5 supporting work packages, focusing on institutional changes, technical assistance, and monitoring, and will run for four years with funding from Horizon 2020.
Background: While the European Union is striving to become the 'Innovation Union', there remains a lack of quantifiable indicators to compare and benchmark regional innovation clusters. To address this issue, a HealthTIES (Healthcare, Technology and Innovation for Economic Success) consortium was funded by the European Union's Regions of Knowledge initiative, research and innovation funding programme FP7. HealthTIES examined whether the health technology innovation cycle was functioning differently in five European regional innovation clusters and proposed regional and joint actions to improve their performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: While in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, higher education and research institutions are widely engaged with the Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science to advance gender equality, empirical research on this process and its impact is rare. This study combined two data sets (free- text comments from a survey and qualitative interviews) to explore the range of experiences and perceptions of participation in Athena SWAN in medical science departments of a research-intensive university in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Methods: The study is based on the secondary analysis of data from two projects: 59 respondents to an anonymous online survey (42 women, 17 men) provided relevant free-text comments and, separately, 37 women participated in face-to-face narrative interviews.
Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades, reaching approximately a quarter of a trillion US dollars in 2010. However, not all of this investment is distributed evenly by gender. It follows, arguably, that scarce research resources may not be optimally invested (by either not supporting the best science or by failing to investigate topics that benefit women and men equitably).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWomen are under-represented in academic medicine. We reviewed the empirical evidence focusing on the reasons for women's choice or rejection of careers in academic medicine. Using a systematic search, we identified 52 studies published between 1985, and 2015.
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- * This study evaluates gender equity support in the NIHR Biomedical Research Centres in Oxford and London, using a specially designed framework and metrics to measure progress over two funding periods (2007-2012 and 2012-2017).
- * Findings will inform strategies to boost women's advancement in leadership roles and will be shared with academics and practitioners via conferences and peer-reviewed articles.
Background: Acute ischemic strokes involving occlusion of large vessels usually recanalize poorly following treatment with intravenous thrombolysis. Recent studies have shown higher recanalization and higher good outcome rates with endovascular therapy compared with best medical management alone. A systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the benefits of all randomized controlled trials of endovascular thrombectomy where at least 25% of patients were treated with a thrombectomy device for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke compared with best medical treatment have yet to be performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To elucidate some of the social impacts that overweight and obesity in children has on families. Healthcare practitioners may be unaware of these impacts if not similarly affected.
Design: Qualitative semistructured, interview-based study.