By Guest Author
12 October 2020
The loss of a baby at any stage of pregnancy can have a devastating impact on a woman, her partner, and their family. If this loss occurs several times, the experience can often be intensified and prolonged. In this blog, Marita Hennessy, Rebecca Dennehy & Rachel Rice discuss the work and research that is being carried out to evaluate services for those who experience recurrent miscarriage in the Republic of Ireland.
By Jack Nash
24 September 2020
In our second blog post for Peer Review Week, the Peer Review Team talk about how we build trust between our authors, reviewers and the wider research community, discussing our author-led process, which means no editorial bias, and going through the revision and response process here at HRB Open Research.
By Jack Nash
22 September 2020
As this week (21st-25th September) marks Peer Review Week, the Peer Review Team delve into the meaning of this year’s theme of ‘Trust in Peer Review’ and explore how our transparent peer review process is ideally suited to building trust.
By Guest Author
10 September 2020
Today marks the launch of the new TILDA gateway highlighting HRB-funded outputs that have been published on HRB Open Research, either from TILDA researchers or based on analysis of TILDA data. In this blog, Gateway Advisors Rose Anne Kenny and Paul O’Mahoney of TILDA discuss the uniqueness of these longitudinal studies and TILDA’s commitment to open access.
By Guest Author
07 August 2020
In this blog, Nerilee Ceatha, an alternate funded SPHeRE scholar with University College Dublin (UCD), discusses the teams’ Study Protocol, published by HRB Open Research, for a scoping review with the potential to inform research, policy and practice with relevance for LGBTI+ youth, their families, communities and the professionals who work with them.
By Guest Author
02 July 2020
Lisa Corrigan, an HRB funded SPHeRE PhD scholar in Trinity College Dublin, is completing research into the effectiveness of pregnancy yoga for maternal health and birth outcomes. Using her own experience as a mother and as a practising yogi, she and a team of researchers from University of Dublin, Ireland, sought to guide the development of pregnancy yoga programmes to optimise and ensure the safety of mother and baby.
By Guest Author
04 June 2020
Here are two Q&As with authors about their timely articles looking at the experiences of vulnerable populations and the changes that need to be made to healthcare to help these groups during the crisis and after.
By Guest Author
07 May 2020
The HRB have created a new Coronavirus collection on their publishing platform. This provides a venue for rapid dissemination of the latest COVID-19 research, by HRB funded researchers and will house research produced from Ireland’s Rapid Response Research and Innovation funding programme.
