The latest edition of Synergy is now available for SoR members.
The July 2025 edition of Synergy features an account from a Diagnostic Radiographer about their breast cancer journey, and how becoming a patient was the most difficult experience of their life.
Read the full edition of Synergy July here.
Members can also read a recap of UKIO 2025, which showcases the highlights of one of the busiest conferences in the radiography events calendar. As well as this, this month’s Synergy gives a voice to the UKIO special correspondents - student radiographers who reported back on their experience at the conference.
We also hear from Richard Griffin, professor of healthcare management, King’s Business School, King’s College London who writes about the SoR’s newest online hub dedicated to the needs of radiography clinical support workers and assistant practitioners.
Elsewhere, members can dive into a recap of the latest Radiotherapy Pre-Treatment SIG annual meeting. The meeting - which took place in May - saw close to 100 attendees hear presentations from experts from up and down the field of pre-treatment radiotherapy.
Professor Theophilus Akudjedu, an associate professor at Bournemouth University, associate editor for the SoR’s international scientific journal and course lead for the Medical Imaging with Management programme, chats to Synergy about the evolution of his teaching responsibilities over the last two years.
On the subject of evolving career journeys, Synergy features a Q&A with Jennifer Wood, an advanced practitioner in plain film reporting at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Before becoming a radiographer however, Ms Wood had a 20-year career as an archeologist.
Highlights this month:
From practitioner to patient: lessons in compassionate radiography
Adventures in ultrasound – Julie Burnage on the business world, learning from mistakes and Lillie the ‘phantom’ dog
Revisiting UKIO 2025
Society of Radiographers launches ‘one stop’ hub for clinical support workers and assistant practitioners
From digs to diagnostics: how Jennifer Wood went from archaeologist to radiographer
Click here, or on the image above, to read the full magazine.