Events
Becoming a Health and Care Research Investigator – practical solutions to grow your research career
This event is for anyone in the West Midlands seeking to build a research career and aiming to become a Principal Investigator.
- Keynote speaker: Professor Katie Morris, Director Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, National Clinical Academic Lead for the NIHR Research Support Service, Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Health (Honorary Consultant Birmingham Women’s Hospital)
- Research insights: Experienced researchers from different backgrounds will share their career journeys, including challenges and how they overcame them
- Local support: A panel discussion with representatives from R&D departments and other support services will highlight local development opportunities and resources available to you
- Networking and collaboration with colleagues
- CPD points available
Past events
Rapid Reviews of Service Innovations in Primary Care: An Introduction & Step-by-Step Guide
Join us for an engaging lunchtime session to explore how rapid evaluation methods can support innovation in primary care. This session is ideal for clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals interested in applying evidence-based approaches to primary care innovation.
What to expect: A practical introduction to rapid evidence reviews and literature synthesis drawing on real-world examples (e.g. Remote Patient Monitoring, AI-based Triage Systems). You will hear a step-by-step overview of the rapid review process and live demonstrations of database searching using e.g. EMBASE and Web of Science. You will have the opportunity to ask questions of experienced systematic reviewers and information specialists.
Presenters: Iestyn Williams, Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham and Rachel Posaner, Library & Information Services Manager, University of Birmingham
Getting started in research: making it happen
Are you a medical or dental clinician with an interest in exploring how to get started in research?
If so, you are invited to an exciting free online event featuring talks from some senior leaders from across the Birmingham Health Partners group, with national and international reputations in research. There is also a talk from the Academy of Medical Sciences about grants and career development opportunities within AMS.
BHP Lecture Series – Professor Mary Dixon Woods
This lecture will briefly outline challenges in quality and safety in healthcare, will identify the patchy history of attempts to make improvements, will emphasise the need to build and evidence base for improvement, and will outline some of the challenges and opportunities in evidence generation.
Mary Dixon-Woods is Director of THIS Institute and The Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge.
Future strategic directions for NIHR: a BHP seminar by Professor Lucy Chappell
The Department of Health and Social Care’s Chief Scientific Adviser joins BHP to reflect on maximising the impact of health and care research in the UK, as well as her personal journey at DHSC – including taking up her role in the midst of the pandemic.
Professor Chappell has overall responsibility for DHSC research and development, including the NIHR, and supporting the department’s analysis function.
Narrowing the health inequalities gap post-pandemic: a BHP seminar by Dr Bola Owolabi
Dr Bola Owolabi, Director of Healthcare Inequalities, will deliver a seminar focusing on the work being done in NHS England and NHS Improvement to narrow the health inequalities gap and will discuss what individual practitioners can do to contribute.
Dr Owolabi will field questions about the policy landscape and programme of work as well as her own career journey.