As 2020 draws to a close, we thought we would share some of the projects that researchers have been busy working on to help improve people’s health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. So far, we have 19 articles published in the Coronavirus collection, which was set up to highlight research related to coronavirus on our publishing platform, HRB Open Research. Read on for the article highlights, and to hear from the researchers we interviewed to discuss the work they have published as part of this funding call.
As Editorial Assistants, our peer reviewers will often say to us “I won’t review the Study Protocol, but I will review the results”, which made us wonder why Study Protocols are disregarded by some? In this blog post, Charlie Vickers, Senior Editorial Assistant, explains why Study Protocols are important – not only for science in general, but as part of the HRB Open Research model too.
Mental health is a growing public health concern in Ireland, where 18.5% of the Irish population reported having a mental health illness, such as depression,…
The Health Research Board (HRB) has been at the forefront of public and patient involvement (PPI) in health research in Ireland. We are delighted to announce the launch of the PPI Collection on HRB Open Research Platform. In this blog, we hear from the collection advisors, Éidín Ní Shé, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, and Avril Keenan, Health Research Charities Ireland, who tell us why this collection is so important and how they anticipate that these papers will be a source of guidance and inspiration to many others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
