Endocrine Abstracts

Engaging with the public is becoming a key part of any research career and enables us to share our passion for endocrine research with the world, show how charity and government funding for endocrinology leads to new treatments and encourages the next generation of endocrine researchers. Whilst as researchers we are used to presenting our research at conferences and networking with our peers, engaging with the public about our research can be a daunting prospect. This talk wil...

Lay summary uses are multitudinous with their overall purpose being to engage the average person’s interest and thereafter increase their understanding of a subject unfamiliar to them. In medicine, there is rightly an emphasis on ensuring that a patient fully understands what is happening to them in order that they may become an effective participatory member in their own care. However, literacy levels are surprisingly low, even in developed nations, and it therefore foll...

The last decade has seen an explosion in scientific breakthroughs as technology drives new discoveries. It is an exciting time to be a scientist! So why are the numbers of young people studying science declining?To arrest this slide there are innumerable initiatives to encourage researchers to engage with young people directly. But, for all that it is exciting to be a scientist, are scientists exciting? Can social skills learnt by breeding zebrafish trul...

Funding and publication in biomedical research has become highly competitive and to succeed, it has become increasingly important to include statements that have broad appeal, i.e., impact, especially in the summaries of grant applications and manuscripts. The key elements in these statements are to keep them short, simple and ‘sweet’ (i.e. appealing to a wider audience). Consider the three following statements:i) We’ve got no money, so we...

Recruitment to research studies to meet sample quality, size, and power requirements may be challenging, with underrepresentation of specific gender, age or ethnic groups being a common source of bias within research. Social media are defined as web-based applications that enable creation and exchange of user generated content. Facebook, one of the most renowned social networking interfaces currently has 1.44 billion users worldwide, and cross-sectional studies of user demogra...

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