Obtaining Ethical & HRA Approvals: Navigating your way through the system

Seminar Meeting Room, Boundary Brook House Churchill Drive, Oxford

So, you’ve got a great idea for a research study - but what approvals do you need before you can start? Who do you apply to? And how do you go about doing this? To book a place, please contact Mark Crossley: mark.crossley@admin.ox.ac.uk

Introduction to Grant Applications Workshop

George Pickering Education Centre John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

The aims of the workshop are: to introduce new Chief Investigators, or those working with new CIs, or researchers in general supporting CIs to the process of completing a grant application and will include tips and advice on the SoECAT (Schedule of Events Costing Attribution Tool). To request a place: please email training.crnthamesvalley@nihr.ac.uk

ARC Oxford AHP PechaKucha

Oxford Brookes University

Join us for ARC Oxford’s last event of the year – our AHP PechaKucha where Allied-Health Professionals from across Oxfordshire will present 20 picture slides (each slide with 20 seconds of speech) about their profession and how/what research is changing their practice. We’re inviting one person from each AHP profession. The audience will judge the... READ MORE

Getting your research funded: working with patients and public

Theology Department, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Gibson Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford

Register to attend our workshop on 10 December 2019! Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is an important element of most research funding applications, but how can you get it right from the start and develop PPI activities that are valuable for you and your contributors? This workshop brings together PPI contributors from three NIHR organisations... READ MORE

Patient and Public Involvement in Research Workshop: Service user-led research

The King's Centre Osney Mead, Oxford

This is one of a series of Patient and Public Involvement Workshops we are running for patients and members of the public. Places are free but limited and you must register to attend. About this workshop User-led research means that users make decisions about research, for example what is researched and how the study is... READ MORE

Free

Alcohol and cardiovascular disease risk: Evidence from epidemiology

Rewley House Department for Continuing Education, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford

A lunchtime lecture by Dr Iona Millwood focusing on evidence from conventional and genetic epidemiology in relation to alcohol and cardiovascular disease risk. MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION ON EVENTBRITE

Equator Lightning Workshop: Communications and Social Media

Botnar Research Centre: Main Seminar Room Old Rd, Oxford

Jo Silva Extend the life and reach of your article after publication by working with your communications team and engaging with potential readers through social media. EQUATOR’s accessible, practical, interactive and indispensable monthly one-hour “Lightning Workshops” cover all the essential aspects of writing and publishing your academic research. Lightning Workshops take place at the Botnar... READ MORE

Free

Informing health policy through realist research

Mawby Pavillion OUDCE, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford

Professor Bruno Marchal will illustrate the principles of realist evaluation using the case of the development of a new Tuberculosis control policy in Georgia. MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION ON EVENTBRITE

Valid Informed Consent

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Windmill Rd, Oxford, United Kingdom

This half-day workshop is designed to provide the opportunity to explore the consent process in more depth and covering the requirements for NIHR portfolio studies and clinical trials conducted within the NHS. https://local.nihr.ac.uk/events/thames-valley-and-south-midlands-valid-informed-consent/14136

NIHR CRN: Thames Valley & South Midlands Continuous Improvement Event

Jurys Inn Oxford Godstow Road, Oxford

This event is to celebrate and raise the profile of continuous improvement work across the LCRN region. We are looking for attendees who are interested in engaging more with improvement and innovation in their workplace. More information

Ten years to eliminate Hepatitis B: can it be done?

George Pickering Education Centre John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Hepatitis B is estimated to infect close to 300 million people globally, and a third of the world's population has been exposed to the virus. International sustainable development goals have set ambitious targets for the elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by the year 2030. With a safe, effective vaccine and widely... READ MORE