Keele Clinical Trials Unit

08/09/2025

🌍✨ Today is World Physical Therapy Day!
Physiotherapists change lives every day — helping people recover from injury, manage pain and move with freedom. 💪

A little reminder that moving more, stretching regularly and looking after our bodies can make a huge difference to our everyday wellbeing. 💙

Why not take 5 minutes today to:
✅ Stretch at your desk
✅ Go for a brisk walk
✅ Try a new exercise

💬 Tell us in the comments: How has physiotherapy helped you or someone you know?

05/09/2025

📣 We’re coming to your community!

Come and meet the CTU team at our upcoming engagement events to find out more about health research in your area, what’s coming up, and how you can get involved. 💬✨

📍 Bradwell Hospital
🗓 Thursday 11th September | ⏰ 10:00am – 2:00pm

📍 Newcastle Library
🗓 Monday 15th September | ⏰ 10:00am – 2:00pm

📍 Newcastle Job Centre – Health & Wellbeing Event
🗓 Wednesday 17th September | ⏰ 10:00am – 12:30pm

📍 Keele In Town – iNSPIRE Community Lounge
🗓 Wednesday 24th September | ⏰ 10:00am – 12:00pm

👋 Come and say hello – we’d love to chat with you!

27/08/2025

We are recruiting people who experience heel pain for a research study. Please visit keele.ac.uk/treadon or scan the QR code in the poster for more information, if you or anyone you know may be interested in taking part.

22/08/2025

🚨 iNSPIRE Community Lounge Update

Unfortunately, next week’s iNSPIRE Community Lounge at Keele in Town has been cancelled due to refurbishment works. 😔

But don’t worry – we’ll be back in September ready to welcome you all again! 💛

Thank you for your understanding, and we can’t wait to see you soon.

22/08/2025

🤔 Ever wondered what a health research term or acronym really means?

We’ve got you covered! 🙌

This Glossary produced by the Health Research Authority is a handy resource packed with clear definitions and explanations to help make sense of all those tricky terms. 🔍

👉 Take a look here: https://www.hra.nhs.uk/approvals-amendments/glossary/

Find the meaning of terms and acronyms used by the HRA.

20/08/2025

🩺 Would you like us to attend your PPG (Patient Participation Group) meeting to talk about a health research-related topic? It could be finding out more about health research data to what research is happening locally.

If so, we’d love to hear from you! Please get in touch and we can arrange to attend an upcoming meeting at your practice.

📩 Send us a message or comment below to find out more.

04/08/2025

🗞️ Say hello to the new Keele CTU Newsletter! 🎉

We’re excited to share our brand new newsletter – packed with updates, stories and news from Keele Clinical Trials Unit.

Want to know what we’ve been working on, meet some of our team, or find out how clinical trials are helping improve health and care? This newsletter is for you!

We’ll keep you in the loop with:
🔹CTU highlights
🔹Staff updates
🔹Latest trial news
🔹Community Engagement
🔹And lots more!

30/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to our iNSPIRE Community Lounge today! Our next one is Wednesday 27th August.. see you there! ✨

28/07/2025

Join us on Wednesday 30th July for our iNSPIRE Community Lounge!

18/07/2025

📢 Call for Papers!
Keele CTU Director Dr Ivonne Solis-Trapala is co-editing a BMC collection on decentralised clinical trials and digital health systems. Researchers are invited to submit their work and help advance innovation in this evolving field.
🔗bit.ly/3PQP9rD

10/07/2025

🎥 What is Informed Consent in a Clinical Study? 🤔

Thinking about taking part in a research study? This short video explains what informed consent means and why it’s so important—so you can feel confident and informed every step of the way.

📣 The video is also available in:
🧏 British Sign Language (BSL)
🇵🇰 Panjabi
🇵🇱 Polish
🇷🇴 Romanian

👉 Message us if you’d like a copy in one of these languages.

https://vimeo.com/1072169008/f3b2885a26?ts=0&share=copy
Video created by the EXPLAIN initiative.

This is "Informed Consent English SFX Ethics" by EXPLAIN Initiative on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

20/05/2025

🎉Come on down to Fountain Square in Hanley — the Research Bus is here!
We’re talking all things health research — and we want to hear from YOU. Your voice matters in helping shape the future of healthcare in our community.

📣Whether you've got questions, ideas, or just want to learn more, come say hello.
It’s quick, friendly, and could make a real difference.

🙌🏼Let’s build a healthier future together — one conversation at a time!