NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

Involving Patients and the Public in Research
2025-09-18 12:30 - 14:00 (Europe/London)
Are you a researcher who wants to know more about Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)?

Are you a researcher who is looking for reliable online resources to help get you started with PPI?

Are you a PPI lead or responsible for PPI in your team or theme looking for support and information?

If so, the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre together with the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences are pleased to invite you to a training session on how to involve patients and the public in your research work.

Join us online via Teams.

For further information please contact:

Angeli.Vaid@ouh.nhs.uk or Polly.Kerr@phc.ox.ac.uk

Lunch and Learn: Equality Impact Assessment and Inclusive Research Design
2025-09-23 12:00 - 13:00
With Stephanie Perrin, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Agile InitiativeAn Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is a way to identify the possible impacts of a research project or decision. Researchers can use this tool to understand the effects of their work on trial participants or members of the research team, based on their protected characteristics, and mitigate potential negative impacts and promote positive ones.

Completing an EIA helps ensure that research processes are fair and do not present barriers to participation. It is a great way for researchers to embed equality, diversity and inclusion through all stages of their projects, be it research design, engagement or participant selection.

In this talk, Stephanie will explain why EIAs are important, how to use them and how you can apply them to your research to demonstrate how you have considered inclusion. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

REGISTER HERE

Stephanie Perrin joined the Oxford Martin School in January 2023 as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Officer for the Agile Initiative. She plays a key role in shaping and delivering plans to strengthen EDI across Agile’s research, capacity development, outreach and communications. This is the latest Oxford BRC EDI Lunch and Learn, informal one-hour sessions where you can take away top tips from EDI experts on strengthening EDI initiatives and capabilities in your teams, processes and research pathways.

NIHR Oxford BRC three-day writing retreat for NMAHPPS (30 Sep, 2 Oct, 3 Oct 2025)
2025-09-30 10:00 - 2025-10-02 16:00 | Said Business School, Egrove Park, Oxford, OX1 5NY
This three-day writing retreat is open to all nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, psychologists, pharmacists and healthcare scientists at any career stage, working at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust or the University of Oxford.

It offers time and space to focus on writing without interruption. It will also help you to become more aware of your writing processes and use this to help you write more productively.

The retreat will take place from Tuesday 30 September to Thursday 2 October 2025 at the Saïd Business School, Egrove Park, Oxford, OX1 5NY.

Attendees are expected to attend all 3 days.

The core days will run from 10am-4pm, however you can arrive anytime from 8.30am to start writing and stay until 5.30pm.

Writing projects that could be worked on during the retreat include:

Doctoral thesis chapter(s)

Master’s dissertation chapter(s)

Paper for a peer-reviewed journal from a completed piece of research, service evaluation, quality improvement, audit, or literature review

Development of a research proposal for future application

Analysing data that will form part of a report or publication

We will provide a mentor to guide you with your writing. The workshop will be structured to include regular review and feedback slots. To get the most out of the event it is important that you come ready to write from the very start of day one. Therefore, you will need to send your mentor an outline of what you plan to write, up to 3 SMART goals and the outcomes you aim to achieve by the end of the writing retreat.

Attendees are expected to commit to submitting the output from the workshop within three to six months of the writing retreat.

If you have attended this retreat previously, you are welcome to apply. However priority will be given to those who have not attended before.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided. There is plenty of parking at Egrove Park and bus number 35 stops outside. Egrove Park is easily cyclable from Oxford.

The deadline for application has been extended to 12pm on Wednesday 3 September 2025.

Apply through Microsoft Forms

The writing retreat is sponsored by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

If you have any questions, please contact Dr Clair Merriman at clair.merriman@ouh.nhs.uk.

Applications will be assessed on:

Whether the line manager has given approval to attend

Whether the writing project goal is appropriate for the three-day retreat

Whether the stated objectives are achievable in the three days

Whether the applicant can commit to all three days
