@picklestim.bsky.social reflects on his journey through a Doctoral Fellowship and Next Steps Awardβand how it's shaped his research career.
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Research Fellow in Statistics and Deputy Director of Statistics | Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University | Patient Reported Outcome Measures | Psychometrics | Rasch measurement theory | Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity
@picklestim.bsky.social reflects on his journey through a Doctoral Fellowship and Next Steps Awardβand how it's shaped his research career.
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@researchwales.bsky.social
@ukcrc-ctu.org.uk ππ§
This is just the start. There is more refinement to come and more research I need to do.
30.07.2025 18:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. What is the current evidence for skin cancer prevention and how to best use sunscreens?
Read the full guidance or check out this visual summary #BMJInfographic
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Fantastic way to sign off my PhD @cardiffuni.bsky.social in the @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social, and lovely to graduate with my friend and colleague Mandy Lau #CardiffGrad
17.07.2025 01:11 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Front cover of European Burn Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2025, showing a hand on skin that is recovering after a burn
Front cover of European Burn Journal for CARe Burn Scales! Congratulations Catrin Griffiths Ella Guest @dianaharcourt.bsky.social π₯³
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doi.org/10.3390/ebj6...
Great to have this published in @painreports.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1097/PR9....
Congratulation Stephanie Smith and team. I was happy to provide further CAP-RA data for analyses as part of the SOCRATES data collection funded by
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Dr Tim Pickles reflects on his Health and Care Research Wales awards + next steps at a free webinar on Tues 15 July 2025. π―π¨βπ«
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Thank you to my excellent supervisors, clinical colleagues and PPI contributors Mike Horton, Karl Bang Christensen, Rhiannon Phillips, David Gillespie, Neil Mo, Janice Davies, Susan Campbell and Ernest Choy. And thank you to my colleagues at @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social
09.06.2025 07:28 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0- Adding to the result from my systematic review doi.org/10.1136/rmdo... no legacy RA DA PROMs have evidence of good measurement properties.
09.06.2025 07:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I found:
- the construct of RA Disease Activity can be measured using items from the Pain, Tenderness and swelling, Physical functioning, Disease Activity and Stiffness domains;
- General health and Disease activity items are not interchangeable within the Patient Global Assessment domain;
Excited to share the second published article from my PhD funded by @researchwales.bsky.social on Patient Reported Outcome Measures for Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity.
doi.org/10.1093/rheu...