Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research
EQUATOR News
03/08/2020 DPhil position open at the UK EQUATOR CentreThe UK EQUATOR Centre opened a 3-year Dphil (PhD) position at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM), the University of Oxford. This is an exciting opportunity for those interested in investigating methodology and research quality in health research, preferably … Read More
24/09/2018 EQUATOR Network awarded for reducing waste in researchThe Cochrane-REWARD Prize was announced during the gala dinner at the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh The EQUATOR Network Education and Training Manager, Caroline Struthers, has just received the Cochrane-REWARD Prize from the hands of Sir Iain Chalmers during … Read More
NEW open access online course on using reporting guidelines
Date: 12 July 2018
Location: https://www.campusvirtualsp.org/?q=en/courses/self-learning
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new open-access online course Reporting guidelines: simple and powerful tools to increase the impact and visibility of your research . The course is the result of a collaboration between the EQUATOR … Read More
From Edinburgh to Bucharest for the EQUATOR “GoodReports” project
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Report from Caroline Struthers, Education and Training Manager, UK EQUATOR Centre, Oxford In September 2017 I was lucky enough to represent EQUATOR at a round table discussion during the LAVA-ESLAV-ECLAM conference on Reproducibility of Animal Studies in Edinburgh. All attendees … Read More
04/06/2018 Doug Altman, 12 July 1948 – 3 June 2018Doug Altman, founder of the EQUATOR Network and Centre for Statistics in Medicine and driving force behind CONSORT, passed away on Sunday 3 June 2018. He leaves behind an incredible legacy to the world of medical research and statistics and … Read More
06/03/2018 The Nutritools website: promoting quality in dietary assessment data in epidemiological and clinical studiesMeasuring diet is challenging due to the complexity of food intake and the day-to-day variation between and within study participants. Therefore strategies to help researchers select suitable dietary assessment tools (DATs) are required. To address this issue the Nutritools website … Read More
23/02/2018 EQUATOR Network publishes review of reporting guidelines for cancer researchThe UK EQUATOR Centre has published a review of oncology-specific reporting guidelines, including information about the EQUATOR Oncology Project. Members of the EQUATOR team today published an article in the British Journal of Cancer entitled Reporting guidelines for oncology research: … Read More
30/01/2018 Apply for the 2018 Cochrane-REWARD prize for reducing waste in researchNominations for the 2018 Cochrane-REWARD prize are now open. Two prizes will be awarded to local or pilot initiatives with the greatest potential to reduce waste in research if scaled up globally. An estimated $170 billion of research funding is … Read More
24/01/2018 Introducing MERIDIAN, home of reporting guidelines for research involving animalsReporting guidelines for research on animals now has a home! The newly launched Menagerie of Reporting Guidelines Involving Animals – MERIDIAN – is hosted by the Iowa State University and run by Dr Annette O’Connor. Since our inception, the … Read More
12/01/2018 EQUATOR 2017 highlights2017 was another busy year for the UK EQUATOR Centre team! We were honoured to send Iveta Simera to the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting, to accept the CSE’s 2017 Award for Meritorious Achievement on behalf of the … Read More