How to get started with pain research?! A story from Nepal!

PhD candidate Saurab Sharma writes for us this month about the challenges of starting in pain research!! Saurab is a PhD candidate at University of Otago, NZ studying musculoskeletal pain. He is also an Assistant Professor at Department of Physiotherapy at Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Nepal. He is the editor of the blog linkphysio.com,...

Mar 2018

Interested in pain and neuroplasticity? This may be the opportunity for you!

Interested in pain and neuroplasticity? This may be the opportunity for you! The Center for Neuroplasticity And Pain (CNAP) at Aalborg University (Denmark) is a Center of Excellence funded in 2017 by the Danish National Research Foundation. It is led by principal investigators of international reputation within the pain field and with longstanding...

Mar 2018

Why and how to stay in research after your PhD?!

From Alessandro Why and how to stay in research after your PhD?! You may be facing your PhD journey, you may have published your first paper(s) and you may start wondering whether to stay in academia (or not). So, you may be looking for some good reasons to stay and/or some good reasons to leave before or after you have obtained your PhD. This post...

Feb 2018

SPRiNG 2017 – Wrap Up

Sydney Pain Researchers: the Next Generation (SPRiNG) 2017 The SPRiNG 2017 was held last week at the University of Sydney. The idea of the event was to bring together research students and early career researchers in the musculoskeletal pain field in Sydney and Newcastle. The organising committee (myself, Tie, James, Steve, Chris, Hopin and Claire)...

Dec 2017

Sydney Pain Researchers: the Next Generation | SPRING 2017

  Hello ICECReamers! The SPRiNG 2017 will be held next Monday on November 20th. The idea is to bring together pain researchers and students from Sydney and Newcastle to a one-day symposium. We want to promote collaboration and networking among different research groups that study similar topics. Students are invited to bring a poster as a way to start...

Nov 2017

Hindsight is just that

Aidan Cashin shares his experience at the International Back and Neck Pain Forum in this brilliant post! Aidan is in the first year of his PhD Candidature at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). His research involves investigating the mechanisms of treatments for chronic low back pain. In particular, using mediation analysis to better understand...

Oct 2017

IT IS TIME TO IMPROVE YOUR GIVE-INDEX

From Bruno It is time to improve your Give-Index! Are you a Giver or a Taker? The answer to this question may reveal a lot about your career success. What are Givers and Takers? To explain you this I’ll use the framework from Professor Adam Grant from the University of Pennsylvania. Prof Grant defines a giver as the kind of person who like helping...

Sep 2017

Reproducible research practice in health and medical research

Joanna Diong writes for us this month. Jo is a faculty member at Sydney University where she investigates muscle activity (EMG) in motor control. She is passionate about good science and regularly co-authors the blog scientificallysound.org as a resource for people interested in doing research well. If you don’t know her blog yet please check it out....

Aug 2017

Experience with trials of complex health interventions?? We need your help!!

Help researchers learn more about intervention fidelity to improve transparency in clinical trials! Researchers at the National University of Ireland Galway are currently conducting an international survey of knowledge, practice and attitudes towards intervention fidelity practices (e.g. methods to enhance, assess and report fidelity) amongst researchers,...

Aug 2017

What do Early Career Researchers think about collaboration?

Hello ICECReamers, Two weeks ago, we organised the networking session for early career researchers (ECRs) at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The broad aim of the session was to get ECRs together to discuss research collaboration, providing opportunities for networking and starting new collaborations....

Jul 2017