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Rachel Abudu

@abudur.bsky.social
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PhD student @LSHTM studying research impact, impact assessment, funders and research priorities

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Kathryn Oliver @oliver-kathryn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
@transformevidence.bsky.social has put out a new report on how to optimise the value of the UK's clinical research system , commissioned by CRUK, accompanying @crukpolicy.bsky.social summary below transforming-evidence.org/projects/opt... With @abudur.bsky.social and @annetteboaz.bsky.social
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Optimising the value of clinical research for the UK
A CRUK commissioned project assessing the challenges and opportunities for clinical research in the UK, with an international comparisons approach
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2025
“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵
Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Rachel Abudu @abudur.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Very excited to share that our new article is out! One key idea we have put forward is a standardized reporting framework for funders to use when reporting RIA, to improve the transparency of methods and data used in impact assessments and get better value out of RIAs.
Table taken from publication which lists a standardized reporting checklist for research impact assessments.
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Kathryn Oliver @oliver-kathryn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Lovely to have a second PhD article out from @abudur.bsky.social - just in time for the hols. How do funders do and report their impact assessments? What data and methods do they use? Read more here £0 academic.oup.com/rev/article/...
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Improving the reporting of research impact assessments: a systematic review of biomedical funder research impact assessments
Abstract. The field of research impact assessment (RIA) has seen remarkable growth over the past three decades. Increasing numbers of RIA frameworks have b
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