Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention

The Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) research group is led by Professors Jacqui Reilly and Gordon Ramage who have established a strong relationship between research and its application to infection prevention in the National Health Service (NHS).

As a multidisciplinary team of researchers, including nurses, microbiologists and health psychologists we are committed to developing clinical practice while working in partnership with patients, clinical staff and service management, to safeguard against infection and enhance the quality of patient care. Infection prevention research has been undertaken at GCU for 20 years with outputs of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and a very successful result in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

We provide evidence of effective measures to prevent infections nationally and internationally through our partnership with Public Health Scotland and by collaborations with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization.

The current work streams and lead researcher for each stream are as follows:

  • Antimicrobial Stewardship - Dr Valerie Ness
  • Applied Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Interventions - Dr Lucyna Gozdzielewska
  • Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI) Epidemiology and Economics - Professor Jacqui Reilly
  • Microbiology of HAI and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - Professor Gordon Ramage

Contact information

Research Group Leads

Professor Gordon Ramage

Email: Gordon.Ramage@gcu.ac.uk

Professor Jacqui Reilly

Email: jacqui.reilly@gcu.ac.uk

Follow us on twitter @SHIPGCU and read all about our activities and publications via our blog.

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SHIP turns GCU blue

The SHIP Research Group pulled out all the stops to mark World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week

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Study reinforces need for COVID-19 booster jabs

Professor Lesley Price, leader of the Scottish arm of the SIREN study, speaks on findings that show the importance of booster jabs.


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