📢 We are delighted to announce this year’s workshop session with Jeni Smith, founder of NetKno - Networking Agency! 🎤 Jeni’s workshop will discuss all things networking, and will include various interactive elements

🚶 Help researchers understand how your medication affects your mobility and whether digital tools could support you. Fill out the survey today 👉 prksn.uk/452vtGl #ParkinsonsResearch #ResearchOpportunity

📢 Our international survey exploring the use of wearable technology and medication in people with #parkinsons is closing on September 30th! So far we have 300 respondents from 🇧🇪🇮🇪🇮🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇦🇺🇺🇬 🔗 Survey: newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/pd-med-tools Heloise Debelle Lisa Alcock Silvia Del Din

Delivered my goodbye presentatiom to the BAM Research Group group this morning. Such a lovely team of researchers who I will miss very dearly ❤️

📢 Registration for this year's NEPG Conference is closing soon! NEPG is the largest UK-based, student-led conference for medical, health, and bioscience postgraduate students. Don't miss your chance to attend! 🔗Register: ne-pg.co.uk/registration/ ⌚️Deadline: 18th October

📢 Registration is closing soon! NEPG is the largest UK-based, student-led conference for medical, health, and bioscience postgraduate students! Don't miss your chance to attend this exciting event! 🔗Register at ne-pg.co.uk/registration/ ⌚️Deadline: 18th October

⭐️ NEPG would not be possible without the generous support from our sponsors and special guests!

📢We are actively looking for research participants! 📢 If your child has dyspraxia - or you think they may have dyspraxia - get in touch with us to participate in an exciting research project which aims at preventing falls! ➡️✉️[email protected] Please RT & share 🙏

📢 NEPG 2023, Careers Panel ⭐️ We are looking forward to hosting this year’s careers panel. Join to discuss potential careers following your PhD!

Setting up for NEPG tomorrow! Looking forward to it 🖤🤍

That’s a wrap! Thank you all so much for coming. We really hope you enjoyed the conference. Our committee are off for a well deserved drink 🍻

Very accurate depiction of planning a conference with no experience and dealing with the feedback. Organising a conference with no experience and doing a full-time PhD was a massive challenge, and we achieved a lot. Victoria Burge Proud of you 🤍

Organising and running NEPG Conference 2024 2023 was very challenging but rewarding. It was lovely to see everyone engage throughout the day, and see what other PhD students are researching. Feedback was mixed, but focusing on the positives - all our hard work paid off 🥳

🚨 New blog post! PhD student Emma Packer is finding out how the timings of mediation in people living with #Parkinsons can impact mobility using body worn sensors, smart phones & smart watches. Follow the link to find out more 👉parkinsonsnec-rig.org/blog/https/par… BAM Research Group Silvia Del Din

Next up Emma Packer with a fantastic talk on her PhD on dopaminergic effect on mobility Silvia Del Din Lisa Alcock NIHR Newcastle BRC BAM Research Group at our 3 Rivers #parkinsons meeting Naomi Warren

Fascinating talk from Emma Packer at Three Rivers Parkinson’s Disease Meeting 2024! After PD medication intake: ⬆️ Walking speed ⬆️Step length ⬇️ Step count Important research, very well presented! Well done Emma! BAM Research Group

Great presentation by Chloe Hinchliffe at the Rosetrees Trust and ART of Healthy Ageing Network Interdisciplinary Workshop today 🎉 Digital wearables are the future!

An innovative free smartphone app, Parkinson’s ON, developed by More Than a Tremor has received funding for its second phase from Parkinson’s UK. Find out more about the app 👉 parkinsonson.com

I had the pleasure of presenting at #ICAMPAM2024 🇫🇷 It was great to hear lots of fascinating research, and discuss how medication influences people with Parkinson’s 🧠

Frank’s wife, Ann, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2018. She sadly passed away in April 2023, and to honour Ann’s memory and her wonderful spirit, Frank wrote the song “My Lovely Ann.” To date he has raised over £2,000 for us.