We are recruiting
May 2022
We are currently advertising two posts, focussing on the Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme for NICE.
Society for Social Medicine & Population Health 66th Annual Scientific Meeting
March 2022
The Society's next Annual Scientific Meeting will take place 6th-9th September 2022 at the University of Exeter.
Congratulations to Professor G.J. Melendez-Torres
August 2020
Congratulations to Professor G.J. Melendez Torres who has been selected to join the American Academy of Nursing 2020 Class of Fellows.
Forget the Oscars, let’s celebrate the South West Research Award Nominees!
February 2020
In March 2020 the NIHR Clinical Research Network South West Peninsula will be holding its Research Awards to celebrate innovation and excellence in health research across Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
A year of well being
December 2019
Here at St Luke’s Campus, several groups have been set up over the last year or so help try and get the right balance between workload and wellbeing while in the work place.
Promotion Success
December 2019
Congratulations to Joanna Thompson Coon and Martin Pitt
EST is 10 years old!
November 2019
In November, the Evidence Synthesis Team celebrated its 10th birthday – a fantastic accomplishment
The Three Degrees
July 2019
Two PhDs and one Batchelor of Medical Sciences degree, awarded to current or former ESMI staff and students at the University’s summer graduation 2019. [Full story]
Congratulations to Dr Oriana Ciani
June 2019
Fulbright Research Scholarship awarded to Dr Oriana Ciani. [Full story]
PenTAG announces new lead
January 2019
A renowned academic will join the University of Exeter to lead PenTAG. [Full story]
ESMI takeover at Edinburgh Cochrane Colloquium
September 2018
The theme of the Colloquium was ‘Cochrane for all – better evidence for better health decisions’. See which research from ESMI was showcased at this event. [Full story]
Launch of Realist Methods Textbook
August 2018
Congratulations to Rob Anderson and Simon Briscoe for their contributions in the newly published definitive guide to using realist research methods. [Full story]
Exeter HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Centre successfully delivers twice on the same day
March 2018
This month has seen two successful deliveries for Exeter HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Centre within ESMI. [Full story]
New year – New projects!
Jan 2018
2018 has seen the start of two new projects for the Evidence Synthesis Team within ESMI. [Full story]
New ESMI Guest Lecture series launches
Nov 2017
ESMI have launched a series of guest external lectures from world-leading academics and up-and-coming talent in the world of evidence synthesis and modelling for applied health research. [Full story]
ESMI’s Rebecca Abbott headed to Sicily to talk about prioritisation and stakeholder engagement
Oct 2017
Rebecca was invited to give two oral presentations at the 8th International Evidence Based Health Conference. The theme of the conference was ‘The ecosystem of evidence: connecting generation, synthesis and translation’. [Full story]
ESMI land in Cape Town for the Global Evidence Summit
Sept 2017
ESMI had a large presence at the recent Global Evidence Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. [Full story]
Medical School to host an NIHR HS&DR Evidence Synthesis Centre
May 2017
A team within ESMI to become one of three research groups commissioned by the National Institute of Health HS&DR to conduct syntheses of evidence about the organisation and delivery of healthcare. [Full story]
A new professor in our midst
April 2017
Congratulations to Jo Thompson-Coon, Director of the Evidence Synthesis Team, on her recent promotion to Associate Professor. We asked Jo a few questions about her work and how things have changed in the land of evidence synthesis. [Full story]
ESMI heads to Korea
October 2016
ESMI attends the 24th Cochrane Colloquium in Seoul (South Korea) to engage in discussions to advance Cochrane’s work in evidence-informed health care. [Full story]
ESMI is moving on up
19 September 2016
This has been a bumper couple of months for success within ESMI. [Full story]
TEDx Exeter comes to St Lukes and Cake-Off 2016
09 September 2016
TEDx Exeter theme for 2016 'Dreams to Reality' comes to St Lukes and coincides with the Cake-Off 2016. [Full story]
EST and IS meet US: Systematic Review Training Stateside
01 September 2016
Alison Bethel and Becca Abbott visited a whole range of informationists and health science librarians from across US and Canada to learn about their flipped classroom model. [Full story]
Patrick Bossuyt visits ESMI
16 June, 2016
World renowned expert in medical test evaluation visits ESMI. [Full story]
Exciting times for PenCHORD
10 Dec, 2015
PenCHORD has been engaging in a lot of exciting activity recently, including successful grants, showcasing events and expanding both their training programme and the team. [Full story]
Grant success: Project to assess the effectiveness of mental health interventions for children with long term physical conditions
13 Nov, 2015
Congratulations to the team for being awarded a grant to assess how well treatments aimed at improving the mental health of children and young people with long term conditions work. [Full story]
New PenTAG director
01 Oct, 2015
Congratulations to Martin Hoyle on becoming the new PenTAG director. [Full story]
ESMI researchers publish systematic review of school-based ADHD interventions
09 Sept, 2015
Congratulations to the ESMI researchers who published a systematic review of school-based ADHD interventions in the journal Health Technology Assessment. [Full Story]
PhD celebrations in ESMI
26 Aug, 2015
Congratulations to Mary Bond, Marcela Haasova, Jo Varley-Campbell, and Bogdan Grigore. [Full Story]
Awards recognise ESMI researcher among UK's best
26 June, 2015
ESMI researcher Professor Rod Taylor has been recognised by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) as being among the most outstanding health researchers in the UK. [Full Story]
Molecular Music at the Eden Project
03 July, 2015
ESMI researcher Dr Linda Long was interviewed by the BBC about her collaboration with an artist and composer on an installation at the new permanent exhibition at The Eden Project. [Full Story]
ESMI researchers contribute their knowledge at the HTAi
25 June, 2015
ESMI researchers deliver three well received sessions at the HTAi (Health Technology Assessment international) in Oslo. [Full Story]
PenTAG’s collaboration with infectious disease researchers in Brazil takes off
12 June, 2015
PenTAG researchers have linked with Fiocruz (the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) in Brazil, and taken part in the first collaborative workshop at the Fiocruz research campus in Rio de Janeiro. [Full Story]
ESMI hosts the Colossal Cloisters Cake-off Challenge to raise £175 for the Devon Air Ambulance Trust
31 May, 2015
Colleagues from across the Institute of Health Research were invited to dust off their aprons to bake up a storm for the inaugural event. A phenomenal array of cakes were brought to the judging table, but who won the prestigious awards? [Full Story]
ESMI moves to St Luke's campus. Come and visit
01 May, 2015
ESMI researchers relocate to their new offices in South Cloisters on St Luke’s campus to finally bring together all the Medical School researchers onto one campus. [Full Story]
ESMI IS-team paper chosen as Editor’s Pick
07 May, 2015
A mapping review of the literature on UK-focused health and social care databases compiled by the Information Specialist team at ESMI has recently been chosen by the Editor of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) quarterly newsletter as their ‘pick’ of the current literature. [Full Story]
ESMI researcher speaks at inaugural patient conference for hereditary cancer syndrome
27 April, 2015
Tristan Snowsill from the technology assessment group (PenTAG) within ESMI appeared as an invited speaker at the inaugural Lynch Syndrome UK conference in Birmingham on April 18th, to speak about research into the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of systematic testing for Lynch syndrome in young bowel cancer patients. [Full Story]
ESMI magpies devour the Delicious Dart Trail to raise over £500 for charity
13 April, 2015
Eight ESMI researchers, plus Murphy the dog, took part in the Delicious Dart Trail as a tiding of magpies to raise money for the charity, CHICKS. [Full Story]
ESMI researcher and University Senator gives a quick guide of Senate
02 April, 2015
Congratulations to Felix Gradinger for being elected as Senator to represent the academic staff of the Medical School. Felix gives us a quick guide about how the Senate and the University Management Structures work. [Full Story]
Congratulations to Harriet Hunt
09 March, 2015
ESMIs very own Harriet Hunt was one of the winners of the recent Evidence Live 2015 competition. [Full Story]
Fourth Plymouth Dementia Conference 2015
25 February, 2015
Jo Thompson Coon and Alison Bethel from the Evidence Synthesis Team were recently invited to be part of the Fourth Plymouth Dementia Conference, held at the Plymouth Guidhall on the 6th February. [Full Story]
More news
PenTAG hosts the 1st InterTASC ISSG Conference
23 July, 2014
The University of Exeter Forum building played host to 132 delegates who met on July 9th to explore the role of information, and information specialists, in health technology assessments (HTA). [Full Story]
Three prizes in one week for Evidence Synthesis Team!
16 June, 2014
Research prizes seem to be like buses; you wait ages for one, and then three come at once! [Full Story]
Spreading the science of information science: teaching at the German Cochrane Centre
29 April, 2014
Chris Cooper, lead of the information specialist work stream at PenTAG, was recently invited to teach at the German Cochrane Centre. [Full Story]
PenTAG researcher chosen as one of University's inspirational women of 2014
17 March, 2014
Rebecca Hardwick, an Associate Research Fellow in PenTAG and PenCLAHRC since 2012, is one of 31 women – one for every day in March – who have been chosen by the University of Exeter to celebrate International Women’s Day 2014. [Full Story]
Undeterred by the floods PenTAG researchers make a splash at the SW Public Health Science Conference
17 February, 2014
Attendance at the South West Public Health Science Conference 2014 in Weston-Super-Mare was high, despite the onslaught of poor weather that had disrupted so many homes, roads and railways in the region. [Full story]
Second year of success in Researcher-led Initiative grants
05 February 2014
In the second round of awards for the Researcher-led initiative grants, two PenTAG researchers have gained an award to increase research capacity in diagnostic accuracy research. [Full story]
Double whammy: Two awards for Research Impact
13 December 2014
PenTAG researchers Dr Tom Monks and Oriana Ciani (a PhD student) scooped two of the eight 2013 Exeter Impact Awards, at the glittering ceremony on Tuesday 10 December, 2013. [Full story]
PenTAG researchers take the Cochrane Colloquium by storm
21 October, 2013
In late September 2013, five PenTAG researchers went to Quebec City and gave five presentations and were involved in delivering two methods workshops, many on methodological developments in evidence synthesis. [Full story]
Information Specialist even more specialised
15 October, 2013
Just before Christmas, Morwenna Rogers who works as an Information Specialist in the PenCLAHRC Evidence Synthesis Team, completed the Society of Indexers distance learning course, which means that she has been awarded the status of Accredited Indexer and is now a Professional Member of the Society of Indexers (MSocInd) [Full story]
PenTAG researchers gain two of four university awards for Early Career Researchers
01 February 2013
In the most recent round of awards for the Researcher-led initiative grants, three PenTAG researchers scooped two of the awards. These grants support the development and cascade of personal, professional and career management skills by and for early career researchers across the University of Exeter. [Full story]
Visit marks start of international collaboration with Estonian HTA group
23 January, 2013
From the 22nd to 23rd January PenTAG hosted a visit by Prof Raul-Allan Kiivet, who leads the only health technology assessment group in Estonia, at the University of Tartu. The visit was to finalise plans for a two-year collaborative relationship between our two HTA research groups, including a programme of exchange visits. [Full story]
