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Dr Victoria Shepherd
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Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University | Exploring inclusivity in trials, including research involving adults with impaired capacity to consent | PI of CONSULT https://www.capacityconsentresearch.com #InclusiveResearch
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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Dec 5
📢Now live📢 CONSULT e-learning on trials involving adults with impaired capacity to consent - 4 core modules, case studies, links to resources, free to access, download a certificate on completion

🔗https://www.capacityconsentresearch.com/training

@kerryhood.bsky.social @ukctunetwork.bsky.social
Flyer for CONSULT training on trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
Join the OPTIMISE launch webinar on 1 Dec 2025, 2–3pm. Learn how to make informed consent more inclusive for people with communication or decision-making needs.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/event/optimi...
OPTIMISE-ing informed consent - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
OPTIMISE launch webinar on inclusive consent in trials. Hear the recommendations and join an expert Q&A. 1 December 2025, 2 to 3pm. Register now.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
📢3 weeks to go

Webinar launching OPTIMISE recommendations for inclusive consent for trials involving people with communication &/or capacity needs

✅why inclusive consent matters
✅introduce OPTIMISE recommendations & resources
✅Q&A experts

📅 1 Dec
🕑 2-3pm
🔗 www.capacityconsentresearch.com/optimise
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
drjoanneeuden.bsky.social
Our very own Director of Infections, Inflammation and Immunity division @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social - Dr David Gillespie, delivering his Ted style talk at the Health and Care Research Wales conference. #ResearchWales25
October 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
📢 Register for OPTIMISE webinar

Introducing OPTIMISE recommendations for designing more inclusive consent processes to ensure trials are accessible for people with communication &/or decision-making needs

📆1st Dec
🕙2-3pm
🔗https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/optimise-webinar-registration
Flyer for OPTIMISE launch webinar on 1st December from 2-3pm
September 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
Involved in palliative care research? Join our workshop to explore issues around mental capacity & consent in palliative care research & build collaborations

📆 17 October, 10:30–3pm
📍 Royal College of Physicians, London
📩 @drcarolinebarry.bsky.social

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Building inclusive practices around mental capacity and consent in palliative care research
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September 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
NIHR will commission up to 10 Application Development Awards for early to mid career health and care professionals including nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professions. Apply by 4th February

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/appl...
Application Development Award for Health & Care Professionals
NIHR invites applications for up to 10 Application Development Awards to support early to mid career HCP researchers preparing future funding proposals.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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nannon-phillips.bsky.social
🔊Fully funded PhD studentships at Cardiff Metropolitan University

We're now accepting applications for the 2026 Wales Graduate School for Social Sciences PhD studentship competition in Psychology, Sport, Education, and Linguistics and Bilingualism.

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September 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
Apply now for a Churchill Fellowship @churchillfship.bsky.social : a once in a lifetime chance to explore global ideas, grow personally and professionally, and create real change in the UK.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/chur...
Churchill Fellowship - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Apply now for a Churchill Fellowship: a once in a lifetime chance to explore global ideas, grow personally and professionally, and create real change in the UK.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
janeeball.bsky.social
So pleased to be launching our research strategy today, at the RCN International Research Conference #RCNResearch2025
rcn.org.uk Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · Sep 8
🚀 Launching: the RCN Research Strategy.

Our mission; to empower you to participate in, lead on, and embed quality nursing research into your practice.

Want to learn more? Download and read the strategy here: https://bit.ly/42iUhv5
Promotional image for the RCN Research Strategy, featuring a person examining an MRI scan on a digital tablet below the logo of the Royal College of Nursing, with text stating 'Maximising outcomes through research.'
September 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
Today is #WorldRadiotherapyAwarenessDay #WRAD. SCC-AFTER is #ClinicalTrial looking at adjuvant #radiotherapy in patients with high-risk primary cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma after surgery with focus on #Inclusvity

ℹ️ www.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-for-t...

@nihr.bsky.social @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
I highly recommend applying to the Churchill Fellowship - one of my most exciting personal & professional opportunities in terms of learning about international perspectives & building long lasting connections & collaborations @churchillfship.bsky.social

www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-expert...
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
New EMPOWER Dementia Network+ Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies and resources to support genuine co-production with people living with dementia.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/the-empower-...
The EMPOWER Dementia Network+ Co-production Toolkit
New EMPOWER Dementia Network+ Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies and resources to support genuine co-production with people living with dementia.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
August 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
🚨New paper🚨 Feasibility stage of CONSULT SWAT evaluating decision aid for families acting as consultee/legal representative in studies involving adults lacking capacity to consent

🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s130...
ℹ️ www.capacityconsentresearch.com/consult-swat

#TrialsMethodologyResearch #InclusiveResearch
Image of a paper from Trials journal which reports the feasibility stage of CONSULT SWAT
September 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
ukcrc-ctu.org.uk
We’re delighted by the interest and engagement with the #UKCTUNetwork Strategy 2025–2030 - nearly 300 downloads & counting.

Get your copy here ukcrc-ctu.org.uk/network-stra...

We look forward to sharing details of our work plan with you over the next few months.

#ResearchStrategy #ClinicalTrials
August 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
marionkcampbell.bsky.social
I agree - there needs to be much more done to improve the inclusivity of trials! There was a useful recent rapid response in the BMJ from @vickylshepherd.bsky.social outlining the importance of this, and some of the work being done in this space. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
August 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
wrightkatharine.bsky.social
Great response by @vickylshepherd.bsky.social highlighting the particular exclusion from research of older adults with impaired capacity - and thank you for flagging the valuable work in this space by @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social chaired by the fabulous Bella Starling!
vickylshepherd.bsky.social Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 18
My rapid response in @bmj.com on research funders' joint statement calling for better inclusion of older people in research highlights the key role of #TrialsMethodology research e.g CONSULT www.capacityconsentresearch.com @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

#InclusiveResearch

www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Screenshot of a rapid response article in The BMJ titled Research must be (re)designed to include older people if it is to meet tomorrow's health and care needs
August 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
My rapid response in @bmj.com on research funders' joint statement calling for better inclusion of older people in research highlights the key role of #TrialsMethodology research e.g CONSULT www.capacityconsentresearch.com @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

#InclusiveResearch

www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Screenshot of a rapid response article in The BMJ titled Research must be (re)designed to include older people if it is to meet tomorrow's health and care needs
August 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
drcarolinebarry.bsky.social
Really looking forward to chairing this workshop alongside @vickylshepherd.bsky.social - keen to reach a wide range of people interested in mental capacity and consent to palliative care research.
August 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
📢Registration now open: Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity & Consent in Palliative Care Research

✅Hear research findings
✅Identify research gaps & priorities
✅Opportunities to collaborate & contribute

📆 17th Oct
📍 RCP, London
🔗 www.capacityconsentresearch.com/palliative-c...

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Flyer for workshop titled Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity and Consent in Palliative Care Research at RCP in London on 17th Oct
August 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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sapc.ac.uk
We are looking forward to welcoming you to SAPC ASM 2025, Cardiff tomorrow.

SAPC_ASM#
July 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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What helps or hinders nurses to lead funded research projects? A survey of UK nurse lead‐investigators onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
What helps or hinders nurses to lead funded research projects? A survey of UK nurse lead‐investigators
Background There have been recurring UK initiatives to increase nurse research capability but little robust evaluation of long-term effectiveness. More nurses undertake doctorates, yet few lead majo...
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July 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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susanmichie.bsky.social
An ontological framework for organising and describing behaviours: The Human Behaviour Ontology, wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-2... - an important new paper for all behavioural scientists, allowing a coherent, extensive, computer-readable representation of behaviour in all its complexities.
wellcomeopenresearch.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
vickylshepherd.bsky.social
📢One week until our OPTIMISE workshop to develop recommendations to help researchers design consent processes to be more inclusive of people with communication and/or decision-making needs @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

Room for 1 or 2 more to join us, contact for more info!

#InclusiveResesrch
vickylshepherd.bsky.social Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · Jun 9
📢 OPTIMISE workshop - developing recommendations for inclusive consent processes for trials

Keen to include researchers working with different populations with communication &/or capacity needs e.g care homes, learning disability, emergency

📅 8th July
📌 Cardiff, in person

Please get in touch!
Flyer for OPTIMISE event in Cardiff 8th July
June 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Reposted by Dr Victoria Shepherd
capacitylaw.bsky.social
Reposting this from last year as this issue keeps coming up: why thinking about capacity in the abstract is usually so unhelpful: www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/capacity-to-...
Capacity to consent to having capacity assessed – and why thinking about capacity in the abstract is usually so unhelpful
In response to a question posed by the excellent Zena Bolwig on LinkedIn, an interesting discussion has broken out about whether you need to have capacity to consent to having your capacity assesse…
www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk
June 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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ukcrc-ctu.org.uk
Diversity and inclusion matter in clinical trials. They help ensure results are meaningful to those most affected.

There’s more to do, but we’re proud of CTU projects like INCLUDED which offer practical guidance to researchers.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/3st5jzke

#ClinicalResearch #EDI #Red4Research
June 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM