Mobilizing knowledge about urban change for equity and sustainability: developing 'Change Stories', a multi-country transdisciplinary study.

Background: Health-focused research funders increasingly support multi-country research partnerships that study health, urban development and equity in global settings. To develop new knowledge that benefits society, these grants require researchers to integrate diverse knowledges and data, and to manage research-related aspects of coloniality, such as power imbalances and epistemic injustices. We conducted research to develop a transdisciplinary study proposal with partners in multiple middle and high income countries, aiming to embed equity into the methodology and funding model.

Exposure of plastic surgery and urology registrars in the United Kingdom to gender affirming care of transgender patients: A cross-sectional survey of training programme directors.

Objectives: To assess the expected duration of exposure of United Kingdom urology and plastic surgery trainees to the provision of gender affirming healthcare to transgender patients. This observational, cross-sectional survey asked UK training programme directors (TPDs) to report the volume of training in gender affirming care of transgender patients that urology and plastic surgery trainees are expected to receive.

Methods: A Google Form online questionnaire was distributed to each regional TPD in the UK both for plastic surgery and urology.

Protocol for the development of guidance for collaborator and partner engagement in health care evidence syntheses.

Background: Involving collaborators and partners in research may increase relevance and uptake, while reducing health and social inequities. Collaborators and partners include people and groups interested in health research: health care providers, patients and caregivers, payers of health research, payers of health services, publishers, policymakers, researchers, product makers, program managers, and the public. Evidence syntheses inform decisions about health care services, treatments, and practice, which ultimately affect health outcomes.

Design, implementation and assessment of a novel, introductory curriculum into female, neurological and urodynamic urology: a 7-year experience of urology simulation bootcamp course.

Purpose: To present the seven-year experience of a multi-component and interactive module on female, neurological and urodynamic urology (FNUU) training at the UK National Urology Simulation Bootcamp Course (USBC) and demonstrate trainee satisfaction and competency progression.

Methods: During the week-long USBC, a four-hour module on FNUU was designed which consisted of short interactive presentations with an emphasis on practical stations in urodynamics, intravesical botulinum toxin injection, urethral bulking injection, female pelvic examination and, initially, mid-urethral tapes (subsequently replaced with percutaneous sacral nerve evaluation). The trainee's level of knowledge, operative experience and confidence were assessed pre- and post-course.

Directed differentiation of human hindbrain neuroepithelial stem cells recapitulates cerebellar granule neurogenesis.

Cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs) are the most abundant neurons in the human brain. Dysregulation of their development underlies movement disorders and medulloblastomas. It is suspected that these disorders arise in progenitor states of the CGN lineage, for which human models are lacking.