School of Health & Wellbeing

Our Hub Mondays are a chance for groups to come in and see the space. If you’re new to our Hub, or if you’re already familiar with us, come and pop in! There will be tea and coffee, an opportunity to chat to our Hub volunteers and network, and dedicated time to see the Byres Community Hub space and our public spaces in Clarice Pears.

10am: Tour of Byres Hub and Clarice Pears building

10.30am: Refreshments and networking

11am: Topic presented by a researcher or community partner and open discussion/networking

Join us each fortnight:

• Monday 2nd November - Relationships before research - Craig Houston reflects on how prioritising people over projects can transform not only the research process, but also its purpose and impact.
• Monday 16th November - More than "just PMS" - Glasgow Girls Club and Dikshyanta Rana (Mistry Fund Award for PMDD research) discuss their work and exhibition raising awareness of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.
• Monday 30th November -  One Drug Fits All? Ethnic Diversity in Clinical Trials - How do scientists find better ways to treat cancer? Dr Laura Richmond from the School of Cancer Sciences will chat to you about the exciting work being done in the school. In a relaxed, hands-on activity by one of our final year undergraduate students, you’ll find out how new medicines are tested through clinical trials before they reach your local pharmacy or hospital. Using real examples from cancer treatment trials, you’ll explore whether the medicines we take work equally well for everyone, and why who takes part in research matters.
  Everyone is welcome! No science background or previous knowledge of biology or clinical trials is needed.
• Monday 14th December -  From the social to the biological: how our social circumstances ‘get under the skin’ - Senior Research Fellow in Health Inequalities Tony Robertson will highlight research that is trying to shine a light on the complex interplay between biology, behaviour, disease and environment over the life course, and how we might use such evidence to better design interventions that help reduce health inequalities.

In the community consultation to develop what became Byres Community Hub, ‘advice for community organisations undertaking own research’ was one of key things that respondents wanted to see provided through the hub.  Participants in our coproduction workshop wanted to see the space used to facilitate research collaborations between academics and community organisations and the Hub was envisaged as a platform to ‘bring people together with similar interests’ and for ‘mutual skill sharing’.

A focus group participant said:

‘We’re all in these little silos of research in the community, whereas the community should be at the centre. And if it has that kind of ethos, where the community can have their say, they can influence, and are the power then I think that would be the unique selling point.’ 

Hub Mondays are also a means to facilitate networking between community, between university and between community and university.  They help realise the goals within our consultation and bring more skills, knowledge and experience in our research. So if you have something you would like to talk through or make connections, we hope you can join us at one soon. 

 

 

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First published: 23 October 2023