NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

Introduction to epidemiology
2023-04-24 - 2023-04-28, 2023-09-04 - 2023-09-08 | Online
This introductory course in epidemiology is intended for those who have little or no prior epidemiological training, but have moved into a student or staff role that requires an understanding of these epidemiological principles for their work.
The course will take you from the basic principles of epidemiology, to the design, interpretation, and appraisal of epidemiological research. No prior knowledge is required, although a background in biological sciences or medicine may help understand the topics in health.
£90 for OU students, £250 for OU staff/external students, £350 for external academics.
For more details and to register: ndph.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/introduction-to-epidemiology

EQUATOR Lightning Workshop: Perfect your elevator pitch
2023-04-24 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Online
This online workshop is with Jen de Beyer.
Whether standing by your conference poster, at a professional networking event, or in the pub, the question is the same: “So, what is it that you do?” With that crucial 2-minute elevator pitch answer ready, you’ll never say “ummmm” again!
Open to all staff and students of the University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes, and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. To book a session, please email us (equator@csm.ox.ac.uk) and we’ll send you the meeting link.
For more details: ndorms.ox.ac.uk/graduate-courses/courses/equator-network-short-training-sessions

Integrating Economic Evaluation into Clinical Trials
2023-04-25 - 2023-04-26
Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) ONLINE course
This course, for those working in clinical trials, will give participants an understanding of what is required to design and conduct an economic evaluation alongside a clinical trial. No previous knowledge of economics is required.
For full information on HERC courses, including pricing, please visit: www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses or contact herc@ndph.ox.ac.uk
Discounted rates are available for booking on more than one course. Early bird deadline – noon on 17 March 2023.

CNMHSCR Seminars 2022-23: The CoDAQ study: Featuring: Deborah Moll (OH NHS FT, Anna Robinson, Jemima Littlejohns, Zoe Collett:
2023-04-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
The Centre for Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care is one of three OxINMAHR Research Centres. The Centre hosts seminars with speakers presenting on a range of topics related to research in nursing, midwifery, health and social care. Speakers include a mix of external and internal speakers as well as PhD students, early career and senior researchers. This provides a great opportunity for research students to practice their presentation skills, receive feedback on their work and learn from others. Come with an open mind and enjoy a variety of topics and methodological approaches.
The CoDAQ Study: Do speech and language therapy services to support communication meet the quality of life needs of people with dementia and their caregivers?
To be added to the calendar invitations please use okozlowska@brookes.ac.uk

Practical statistics for epidemiology using R
2023-05-09 - 2023-05-12 | Green Templeton College, 43 Woodstock Rd,, Oxford, OX2 6HG
Practical statistics for epidemiology using R is intended for those who have been exposed to the field of epidemiology. Prior knowledge of epidemiological measures of association such as prevalence, odds, risks, rates and their ratios is required. This is the companion and follow-on course from our Introduction to epidemiology short course. It is aimed at researchers who use epidemiological data and work alongside statisticians. No prior experience with statistics or statistical software is required, although some experience in a numerate discipline may help participants understand the topics presented.
£250 for OU students, £500 for OU staff/external students, £750 for external academics.
For more details: ndph.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/practical-statistics-for-epidemiology-using-r

Open Day: Exploring Healthcare Research
2023-05-10 10:00 - 15:30 | Leiden Square, Oxford, Leiden Square, Westgate Centre, Oxford, OX1 1TR, United Kingdom
Come and join us for our Open Day at the Westgate Centre in Oxford between 10am and 3.30pm on Wednesday 10th May.
The event – held jointly with Oxford Health BRC – will allow members of the public to visit interactive stands showcasing some of the amazing research that takes place in Oxford for the benefit of NHS patients.
You can find out about the latest developments in how we diagnose and treat heart disease, mental health issues, diabetes, dementia and many other conditions, as well as being able to find out about how you can get involved in our research.
The Open Day will be officially opened at 10am by Oxford BRC Director Prof Helen McShane and Oxford Health BRC Director Prof John Geddes.

Obtaining Ethical and HRA Approvals
2023-05-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
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?
Join an online presentation through Microsoft Teams. To book a place contact: rgea.training@admin.ox.ac.uk
For more information, click here.

Oxford Academic paper writing retreat for nurses and AHPs
2023-05-17 09:00 - 2023-05-19 17:00 | John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP
This three-day academic paper writing retreat is open to all nurse, AHP and healthcare researchers at any career stage, working or studying at Oxford Health Trust, OXINMAHR or Oxford Brookes University, who have a paper to write up for submission to an academic journal and need time and space to focus on this without interruption.
Click here to complete the application form or contact writingretreat@psych.ox.ac.uk for more information.
Deadline for applications 12:00, 31 March.
https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/event/oxford-academic-paper-writing-retreat-for-nurses-and-ahps/

EQUATOR Lightning Workshop: Authorship and Acknowledgement Guidelines
2023-05-17 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
This workshop is with Patricia Logullo. Learn about the rules for authorship, and practise negotiating authorship rights and responsibilities.
Open to all staff and students of the University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes, and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. To book a session, please email us (equator@csm.ox.ac.uk) and we’ll send you the meeting link.
For more information, click here.

NDORMS Patient and Public Involvement Open Day
2023-05-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Botnar Institue for Musculoskeletal Sciences, Windmill Road, Oxford, OX3 7LD, United Kingdom
Our first ever open day will offer a great opportunity to hear about how you can become involved in health research in our department.

About the event
You will be able to listen to researchers’ updates on their current research projects, and have a tour of our laboratories to see the science in action. Over lunch and refreshments (included), you will be able to chat with and get to know other patient and public involvement contributors, researchers in the department and the OPEN ARMS team. All welcome.
How do I register?
Places will be limited and booking is necessary to allow us to plan catering – to book a place please click here

Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation
2023-05-23 - 2023-05-24 | Online
The course is the starting point for anyone involved in the healthcare sector or in health services who needs to be introduced to the language of economics and economic evaluation. It explains how economists evaluate the costs and benefits of health interventions, and how health economics is used by decision makers in the health services and in the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries.
For more information, click here.

Involving patients and the public in research
2023-05-23 12:30 - 14:00 | Teams
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, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Resource Centre together with Oxford University’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:

23rd May 2023, 12.30 – 2pm

You can sign up here:
https://forms.microsoft.com/r/dpew0R4gE9
For further information please email:
Angeli.Vaid@ouh.nhs.uk or Polly.Kerr@phc.ox.ac.uk

Research Ideas Launchpad: Get your Research Ideas off the Ground
2023-05-25 | Online
The Research Design Service South Central would like to discuss your research ideas with you. These sessions are for those who are starting out (or thinking about starting out) in research in an NHS setting. You can book a session lasting 40 minutes to meet with an RDS adviser to have a friendly chat about your research idea and help you to think about your next steps,
Contact phillip.saunders@ndph.ox.ac.uk to book your slot between 9.30 and 15.40 online. He will ask you to fill out a brief research ideas form to help our advisers prepare for the meeting.

CNMHSCR Seminars 2022-23: Featuring: Elaine Strachan-Hall: Robots in Nursing: False Rhetoric or Feared Reality
2023-05-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
The Centre for Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care is one of three OxINMAHR Research Centres. The Centre hosts seminars with speakers presenting on a range of topics related to research in nursing, midwifery, health and social care. Speakers include a mix of external and internal speakers as well as PhD students, early career and senior researchers. This provides a great opportunity for research students to practice their presentation skills, receive feedback on their work and learn from others. Come with an open mind and enjoy a variety of topics and methodological approaches.
To be added to the calendar invitations please use okozlowska@brookes.ac.uk

CNMHSCR Seminars 2022-23: Featuring: Karen Lascelles
2023-06-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
The Centre for Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care is one of three OxINMAHR Research Centres. The Centre hosts seminars with speakers presenting on a range of topics related to research in nursing, midwifery, health and social care. Speakers include a mix of external and internal speakers as well as PhD students, early career and senior researchers. This provides a great opportunity for research students to practice their presentation skills, receive feedback on their work and learn from others. Come with an open mind and enjoy a variety of topics and methodological approaches.
Experiences and needs of adults who provide informal care to adult family members or friends they consider to be at risk of suicide
To be added to the calendar invitations please use okozlowska@brookes.ac.uk

Q&A for Prospective AHP NIHR Fellowship Applicants
2023-06-08 20:00 - 21:00 | Online
Attendees will be sent pre-recorded talks from national experts before the event. They will then be able to ask questions and gain valuable insights that will help with their NIHR fellowship applications. Our panel all have substantial expertise in securing NIHR awards and supporting AHPs through the application process.
For more information on this webinar, and to register: https://cahpr.csp.org.uk/event/qa-prospective-ahp-nihr-fellowship-applicants

How to involve men in service design, delivery, and research
2023-06-14 11:30 - 13:00 | Online
Ensuring that health services, research and education meet the needs of people from all walks of life is vital. To achieve this, patients, their families and carers, alongside health and care staff, all need to work together.
This webinar is the second of our two-part series focusing on men’s health. It will explore how health and care providers can involve men with physical ill health, and their families, in the design and delivery of service and research.
We will hear from three speakers who will each share their thoughts and experiences – from lived experience, to professional experience of coproduction work with men around their physical health.
Come along and find out what works and what doesn’t work and how to put coproduction into practice.
Guests will have the opportunity to make comments and ask questions during this 90-minute webinar.
If you are unable to make this date, but would like to receive a link to the webinar recording when it is available, please press the register button and select the ‘Recording of webinar only’ option.
Who is this webinar for?
The webinar is for patients, carers and the public, as well as health and care staff who provide services, carry out research or are involved in education.
Register here

Funding Your Postdoctoral Research: Clinical Academic Opportunities
2023-06-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
Registration is open for this OUCAGS-NMAHPPS (Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School–Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professionals, Healthcare Scientists, Pharmacy Staff and Psychologists) research event, comprising an NIHR presentation about funding schemes for postdoctoral clinical academics (including doctors, nurses, midwives and AHPs), networking sessions and careers surgeries. This event is aimed at clinicians undertaking a doctorate; those who are postdoctoral are also welcome to attend. Register by 12:00 on 19 June (or 14 June, if requesting a career surgery) via OUCAGS www.oucags.ox.ac.uk/postdoc-funding-Jun23

Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in Health and Care Research: Summer School
2023-06-28 - 2023-06-30 | Streatham Campus, University of Exeter
Building Partnerships with Creativity and Justice: Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health care and research
Are you connected to Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) and keen to know more and build partnerships? You are invited to join experts at Exeter University for a 3-day in-person summer school.
About the course
The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated the vital links between research, communities and public engagement as the new vaccines and their rollout progressed. Unprecedented levels of media coverage included a wide spectrum of public opinion, which ranged from scepticism and misinformation through to support and gratitude. Over half a million members of the public joined the Covid research registry and many are still taking part in trials.
This timely hybrid course is an opportunity to explore beyond the numbers and the rhetoric. We will examine innovative and honest ways of generating and spreading knowledge. We will also explore how to foster the uptake of this knowledge through partnerships with care sectors, the public and communities. Partnerships that reflect creativity and justice.
Dr Kristin Liabo (PPIE Team Lead) has brought together a team with a wide range of expertise which includes members of the College of Medicine and Health and its patient and public partners. This group will deliver an informative and thought-provoking experience for researchers and others with an interest in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).
Who is it for?
This interdisciplinary course is relevant to researchers undertaking health and care research, including PhD students, and people in PPIE co-ordinator/facilitator roles. Linking research and practice, it will be tailored to those who are working across different disciplines in healthcare, social care, and public health.
What will you learn?

Why PPIE matters and how it works – and sometimes doesn’t work!
Putting Justice at the heart of partnerships between patients, communities, and researchers
The role of creativity in PPIE and how we achieve equality in co-creation
Capturing and measuring PPIE – ticking boxes or bringing it to life?

For more information and to book, follow this link, or contact Angela King.

Research Networking Event
2023-07-03 09:30 - 14:00 | Tingewick Hall, John Radcliffe
Do you have a clinical issue or problem that you would like to investigate? We’re looking for nurses, midwives, allied health practitioners, pharmacists and clinical scientists at any level of experience to present their ideas at a research networking event. The aim is to provide an opportunity for clinicians to engage and form partnerships with research groups from Oxford Brookes University to increase clinically relevant and impactful research and innovation. Please complete this expression of interest form on Microsoft Forms by Thursday 1 June.
Contact OUH.Divisionalresearchleads@ouh.nhs.uk for more info

Involving patients and the public in research
2023-07-10 13:00 - 14:30
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, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Resource Centre together with Oxford University’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:

10 July 2023, 1 – 2.30pm
21 September, 10–11.30am
14 November, 12–1.30pm

You can sign up here:
https://forms.microsoft.com/r/dpew0R4gE9
For further information please email:
Angeli.Vaid@ouh.nhs.uk or Polly.Kerr@phc.ox.ac.uk

The NIHR INSIGHT: Inspiring Students into Research Scheme
2023-07-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This is a new scheme that aims to attract students in registered healthcare, social work and public health professions (not including doctors and dentists) into the full range of research careers. The INSIGHT scheme will fund institutionally led programmes across 12 regions in England. Institutions will be able to apply for three years of funding to deliver innovative engagement programmes and research masters studentships.
They are holding a webinar that will provide an introduction to the INSIGHT: Inspiring Students into Research scheme. Please register here to attend.

OUCAGS Forum
2023-07-12 14:00 - 17:00 | Online
Oxford University Clinical Graduate Publishing School (OUCAGS) Plenary talks:

‘Clinical Medicine Publishing at OUP’ by Elizabeth Reeve and Caroline Smith from OUP
‘Highlighting Academic Opportunities in Medical publishing – An introduction to the new Oxford DM’ – by Chris Pugh, OUCAGS Director

Followed by Trainee presentations.
Register here.

Patient and Public Involvement in Oxfordshire Lunchtime Workshop
2023-07-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join us for this workshop, run by the Council for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR), that gives a flavour of working with patients and public in research in Oxfordshire. As well as defining patient and public involvement in research, two public contributors from Oxfordshire will outline their experiences of working with various clinical research projects across the county, and we’ll share some training and resources.
Please click this link for more details and a QR code to gain access to the Zoom meeting.

Equator Network Short Training Session: Writing a journal abstract
2023-07-19 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
This training is led by Patricia Logullo.
An article abstract needs to be an accurate well-structured summary and entice your readers to read further. As many readers only have access to the abstract, and it is often used by journal editors and scientific committees to decide whether to send the article for peer review, you need to get it spot on. We also talk about selecting key words to complement the language in your abstract and maximise the chance of readers finding your abstract.
For more details and to book, follow this link.

Equator Network Short Training Session: Writing a Journal Article Title
2023-08-16 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
This training is led by Patricia Logullo.
Your article title is the first – and possibly only – thing that most people will read. A great title grabs your readers’ attention and gives them the full picture about your article. Bring along your latest project to practise writing declarative, descriptive, and question titles.
For more details and to book, follow this link.

Online Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation
2023-09-12 - 2023-09-13 | Online
This Health and Economics Research Centre (HERC) short course is for health professionals and health researchers who would like to understand the basics of health economics and its relevance to the health service. No previous knowledge of economics is required.
For more information, including pricing and discounted rates for booking on more than one online course (applicable to certain courses only), please visit: www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses or contact us via e-mail at herc@ndph.ox.ac.uk
Early bird deadline – Noon on Friday 28 July 2023

Research Ideas Launchpad: Get Your Research Ideas Off the Ground
2023-09-12 09:30 - 15:40 | Online
The Research Design Service South Central would like to discuss your research ideas with you. These sessions are for those who are starting out (or thinking about starting out) in research. You can book a session lasting 40 minutes to meet with an RDS adviser to have a friendly chat about your research idea. They will help you to think about your next steps.
Contact phillip.saunders@ndph.ox.ac.uk to book your slot. He will ask you to fill out a brief research ideas form to help our advisers prepare for the meeting.

Obtaining Ethical and HRA Approvals
2023-09-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
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?
Join us for this online overview of clinical research governance and ethical review requirements.
For more details, follow this link.
