Events
R&D Reloaded – Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Research Showcase 2
Speakers from the Women’s and Children’s sites will share their experiences of designing and taking part in national and international groundbreaking research.
The day will be hosted by Professor Jeremy Kirk and will include presentations from key departments and prominent clinical and advanced research scholars.
Time for networking and lunch provided.
📍 Birmingham Children’s Hospital, lecture theatre/children’s cinema
BHP 3rd Annual Meeting 2026
This year’s Annual Meeting will feature a keynote speech by Lord James O’Shaughnessy, author of “Commercial clinical trials in the UK: the Lord O’Shaughnessy review” in 2023.
The event will also feature a review by Professors Neil Hanley and Lorraine Harper, plus breakout discussions.
Further information coming soon!
📍 Lloyd Suite, Edgbaston Park Hotel, 53 Edgbaston Park Road, B15 2RS
Past events
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.