IReSH Network – 2024 Round-up & thank you!

We’re currently working on our programme for Spring 2025 – please do watch this space in the New Year for details of upcoming meetings.

In the meantime, we wanted to extend another huge thank you to all of our speakers at 2024 IRESH meetings and events (see list below) – we’re really appreciative of the contribution you have all made to ensuring that IReSH remains a dynamic research-focused space for the SHBBV community to connect and share their work.

Notably, October 2024 marked our first in-person/hybrid event since before the COVID-19 pandemic. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, highlighting a clear appetite for more events of this kind. We are already exploring possibilities for future events in 2025 and considering how to secure funding for a multi-sector, collaborative in-person ‘space’ to support discussions around SHBBV research in Scotland and beyond.

We look forward to seeing you again in 2025!

Ruth, Nicola and Faye (IRESH Co-Chairs)

 

THANKS TO ALL SPEAKERS AT OUR 2024 IRESH MEETINGS & SYMPOSIUM!

• Faye Watson (University of Edinburgh): “From Scotland to Botswana: Understanding what success looks like for equitable sexual health services”
• Kirsten Kernaghan (University of Glasgow and NHS Lothian): “Community Pharmacies and Scotland’s Sexual Health (COMPASS): An interactive workshop exploring community pharmacies’ role in Scotland’s sexual health system”
• Dr. John Reynolds-Wright (University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian): “Developments in male contraception”
• Dr. Colin Morrison (TASC Agency): “Parental engagement with Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) education in Scotland: Insights from The Chat project”
• Ese Johnson (Waverley Care): “Engaging Minority Ethnic Communities with BBV Services through Health MOT Days”
• Alice Tate (Healthy Respect, NHS Lothian): “Developing online sexual health and wellbeing resources for young people with learning disabilities and additional support needs – the “Easier to Understand” Website and National Sexual Wellbeing Image Bank”
• Raquel Boso Perez (University of Glasgow): “What matters for young people’s sexual wellbeing? Insights from a life-history study”
• Billie Turner (University of Glasgow): “Young People’s Sexual Wellbeing: Developing a brief measure using mixed methods”
• Katie Squires (University of the West of Scotland): “Understanding the barriers to the uptake of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine for female adolescents in the UK: a literature review”
• Jess Ryan (NHS Lothian): “BBV screening in police custody: joining the gap between community and prison”
• Christopher Ward (Waverley Care): “Blood Borne Virus pre and post-liberation support for prison settings in Greater Glasgow and Clyde”
• Dr. Chase Ledin (University of Edinburgh): “Using creative workshops to explore sexual health futures in Scotland”
• Julie Riddell (University of Glasgow): “Suicide and self-harm prevention: a research priority for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)”
• Dr. Kristina Saunders (University of Glasgow): “Towards temporal and holistic understandings of Intrauterine Contraceptive pain”
• Dr. Niamh Skelly (University of the West of Scotland): “Online Narratives about Staying in Place when Pregnant, in Crisis and without Legal Access to Abortion”
• Dr. Marie Larsson (University of Edinburgh): “Service Co-Design to Enhance Post-Abortion Contraception Access in Scotland
• Dr. Nicola Boydell and Dr. Marie Larsson (University of Edinburgh) Navigating Tensions: Boundary Work in Interdisciplinary Post-Abortion Contraception Research Collaboration”