By Guest Author
12 May 2021
For Mental Health Awareness Week, we interviewed Denford Gudyanga, University of Zimbabwe, to find out more about the Z factor and a pilot community engagement project that he and his team are working on, as set out in their Study Protocol published on Welcome Open Research. They are investigating whether drama is itself a useful tool to engage communities about mental health, and to learn whether drama can help raise awareness and educate communities about mental health to reduce stigma in Zimbabwe.
By Guest Author
10 May 2021
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week on 10th-16th May, we invited Jocelyn Catty to discuss the impact of the pandemic, including the lockdowns, on adolescent mental health in the UK. In this blog, Jocelyn reflects on the Research Article she wrote during the first lockdown and shares her observations from the past year.
By Guest Author
27 April 2021
The UK is gradually emerging from its third lockdown during the pandemic. As restrictions are lifting, we invited Trystan Leng, a mathematical epidemiologist based at the University of Warwick to discuss his analysis made in the first UK lockdown to model a way that would safely allow individuals to increase their physical social interactions beyond their household while limiting the additional risk of infection.
By Guest Author
11 March 2021
Cinzia Greco, University of Manchester, and Ignacia Arteaga, University of Cambridge, wrote this blog along with their co-authors, about their Open Letter published on Wellcome Open Research. In this piece they share thoughtful insight on the importance of social science for cancer research and care, and remind us to remain critical on what problems already existed in cancer research and care in the UK before Covid-19 and which difficulties have arisen as a direct result.
By Guest Author
20 November 2020
In this Q&A, Robert Smith, University of Sheffield, discusses the study he and his team carried out, published on Wellcome Open Research, investigating possible disparities in participation in parkrun, why they occur, and the opportunities to reduce potential barriers.
By Guest Author
22 October 2020
Muzlifah Haniffa is a co-coordinator of the Developmental Biological Network within the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative. In this blog, she tells us more about this global initiative, requiring multidisciplinary expertise, and how its ambitious effort to map every cell in the human body can improve our understanding of human health, as well as diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.
By Guest Author
15 September 2020
In this blog post, Quentin Leclerc, a PhD student working on antimicrobial resistance, discusses his and his colleagues’ article, published on Wellcome Open Research, and explains why they chose to use not one, but four, open datasets and the benefits of doing so.
By Guest Author
17 July 2020
Roser Vento, Wellcome Sanger Institute, designed CellPhoneDB, a novel repository of cells and their interactions, and applied this computational and genomics tool to study cellular connections from transcriptomics data. In this blog, Roser explains why CellPhoneDB is a unique database and why her team encourages fellow researchers to share their own cell interactions on the database.
