Deborah Edwards

This month, the Wales Centre For Evidence Based Care celebrates its 20th anniversary! For two decades, we’ve committed to advancing evidence-based practice and we are incredibly proud of the impact we’ve made. A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey. @drdeborahe.bsky.social

The preprint for our Active Travel rapid review for Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre can now be accessed via Research Square www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... @deborahedwards.bsky.social @adriangkedwards.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social @katebutton.bsky.social

That's a wrap! Two successful events, co-producing higher-level findings for our systematic review - with people living with dementia, family members & care partners
@shabanaroscoe.bsky.social @drdeborahe.bsky.social @giam-uwl.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social @wcebc.bsky.social

Great co-production event yesterday at the Nubian Life Centre with 18 African & Caribbean community members with experience of dementia care, helping us group categories for our systematic review. @acestudy.bsky.social @shabanaroscoe.bsky.social @wcebc.bsky.social

We’re currently running our @jbiebhc.bsky.social
comprehensive systematic review training. This week we cover module 1: introduction to EBHC and JBI & module 2: conducting SR’s of quantitative evidence. Next week we cover module 3: evidence generated by qualitative reviews and narrative and text.

Our next JBI
Comprehensive Systematic Review Training programme will be taking place in June/July. Please follow the link for further information and to book your place www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/exp... @jbiebhc.bsky.social @drdeborahe.bsky.social

Training starts 12th May with discounted places available for Cardiff University PhD students and academic staff

Today @wcebc.bsky.social has a stand at the Early Career Researchers Day conference in the Haydn Ellis building. We look forward to chatting to anyone at the conference and hope the event goes well. @drdeborahe.bsky.social

Today we have a stand at the PGR day organised by the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry outside LT1 in the main hospital building UHW and look forward to chatting to those attending #WCEBC @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @drdeborahe.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social

We enjoyed presenting the first morning of the JBI Scoping Review Training today with part two taking place tomorrow. We had participants as far afield as Saudi Arabia, Trinidad & Belgium and look forward to continuing our discussions tomorrow
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I had the privilege of giving the first seminar in the series today at the School of Pharmacy, discussing the WCEBC and all aspects of evidence synthesis.
@wcebc.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social

Ouch!

Celebrating 25 years of service at Cardiff university. @cardiffuni.bsky.social

Today is the first morning of our @jbiebhc.bsky.social
Scoping Review training and we are joined by participants from the USA, Kuwait and Norway as well as all over the UK @drdeborahe.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social

Wales first in UK to implement licensing for special procedures like tattoos | GOV.WALES In a UK-first, Wales now has mandatory licensing rules in place to help protect the public's health when getting acupuncture, body piercings, electrolysis, or tattoos including semi-permanent make up.

Our rapid review looking at the risks associated with special procedures such as body piercing has directly informed a new Welsh Government licensing bill detailed in todays press release www.gov.wales/wales-first-...