by Upshot | Monday, January 22, 2024 | Uncategorised
Hello I’m Liz and I’m working with the Public Health Team at Thurrock Council on a baby feeding research project, with this phase focusing on improving the information and support on offer to parents who want to breastfeed. This follows research across... 
by Upshot | Thursday, August 18, 2022 | Uncategorised
Fascinating to watch the BBC documentary ‘Unvaccinated’ on iplayer, which explored COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, especially because we had conducted insight into this very subject and our findings (published in June 2021) resonated so very much with the... 
by Upshot | Sunday, February 23, 2020 | Uncategorised
The University of Oxford’s Million Women Study is a fantastic resource. Started in 1996, it was originally created to provide robust information on the impact of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) on breast cancer in women, but it now examines the impact of other... 
by Upshot | Friday, July 5, 2019 | Comment
In 2013 the UK Government launched its ‘digital by default’ strategy and now, central and local government mostly operate a self-service online model. In the context of austerity, this makes sense completely, especially as 9 out of 10 households have... 
by Upshot | Tuesday, June 18, 2019 | Blog, Comment
We’ve just completed a piece of insight around infant feeding and I wanted to share this video from spoken word poet Holly McNish, that expresses how crazy it is that the biggest barrier to breastfeeding in this particular locality was feeling uncomfortable...