NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

Ethnicity Inclusion in Research Training
2025-06-04 12:30 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Do you want to make your research more inclusive? These online training sessions are collaborations between Cambridge, Oxford and Oxford Health BRCs and provide an opportunity to enhance your approach to ethnicity inclusion in health research.

Who is this for?

Researchers at Oxford, Oxford Health, and Cambridge Biomedical Research Centres.

What to expect

Training for researchers on how to include ethnic diversity in clinical trials using the NIHR INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, with Professor Shaun Treweek.

A researcher will share their experiences with inclusive research.

An informative session on practical tools for ethnicity inclusion in health research.

There will be a live question-and-answer session with the key speakers.

Ready to enrol? Limited spaces are available so reserve your spot now!

Link to register: https://forms.office.com/e/VwcXTzKPrR

When will I get my calendar invite and meeting link?

All attendees will receive a calendar invite with an online Teams meeting link soon after they register.

Who is my Oxford BRC contact for further information or queries?

Rachel Taylor (Public and Community Involvement, Engagement and Participation Lead)

Mili Kalia(Oxford BRC, Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion Manager)

Ensuring public contributors' voices are heard
2025-06-17 12:30 - 14:00
Are you a researcher, PPIE lead, or coordinator supporting public involvement in research? This practical online ‘train the trainer’ session is designed to equip you with the tools, tips, and ready-to-use materials to help public contributors speak up with confidence in meetings.

Originally co-produced with experienced public contributors for two patient groups in the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, this training has received excellent feedback — and now we’re sharing it more widely so you can adapt and deliver it in your own setting.

What you’ll gain:

Practical strategies to support meaningful participation

Insights into how the training was developed with public partners

A flexible, editable slide deck to reuse or tailor as needed

Meet the speakers:

Angeli Vaid, Training and Inclusion Manager in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

Jenny Gould, Member of Oxford Trauma PPI Group and Patient and Public Advisory Group.

Paul Deusen, Member of Patient and Public Advisory Group.

Come along to learn useful tips and take away resources you can use in your own work!

Register here

Involving Patients and the Public in Research
2025-09-18 12:30 - 14:00, 2025-12-09 12:30 - 14:00, 2026-03-18 12:30 - 14:00, 2026-06-17 12:30 - 14:00
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

FREE Public Talk - Why are more younger people having strokes?
2025-11-04 18:00 - 19:15 | Rewley House, Department for Continuing Education, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. It is often thought of as something that happens only at older ages. But more and more, we see young adults in their 20s, 30s, 40s suffering from stroke.

Why is this happening? Are strokes really becoming more common at younger ages, or are we just getting better at detecting them? More importantly, what can we do to reduce the risk and improve prevention?

In this talk, Linxin Li, a Clinical Research Fellow in the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, will explore the recent increase in strokes at younger ages, discuss what might be driving it and assess if there is any easy solution in primary care.

FREE entry, no booking required.

Refreshments from 5.40pm, for a 6pm start.

Webinar series - Inclusivity Training Part 1/3: Reaching Beyond the Usual. Inclusive approaches to research with a focus on intersectionality
2025-11-17 10:00 - 11:30
with Cherish Boxall.

This is one of a three-part series of online inclusivity training sessions for health and care researchers organised by six NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health, with the aim of helping you embed inclusion in your research.

This webinar is an interactive online event and has been created to help researchers optimise research accessibility and consider a variety of approaches that take into account the interconnected nature of individuals and groups to enhance equity.

During this first session we will discuss practical tools to help researchers plan and deliver inclusive health research including asking, how well do you really know your target population?

Limited spaces available.

For any questions about this session, please contact: Andreia Costa, Project Manager, NIHR Oxford Health BRC training.ohbrc@psych.ox.ac.uk

About the speakers:

Cherish Boxall, Founder & Director of Engage Intelligently, draws on behavioural science and 14 years of experience setting up and delivering clinical trials and securing competitive research funding, including two NIHR fellowships. She specialises in turning evidence on inclusion and participant behaviour into practical strategies that work. Expect real-world examples, actionable tools, and time throughout the session for your questions.

Lizzie Carline, Project Manager, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Oxford Health BRC

Research Inclusivity Training Webinar Series:

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health.

2nd Webinar: 10.30am on 24th November: Ethnicity Inclusion Training – More details and Register here

3rd Webinar: 10am on 8th December: Socio-disadvantage Inclusion Training – More details, Register here

To open full poster, click here: Inclusivity Training for Health and Care Researchers, Nov-Dec 2025.

Privacy Notice:

We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018- https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services. Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

Webinar - Ethnicity Inclusion for health and care researchers
2025-11-24 10:30 - 12:30
with Prof. Shaun Treweek

This is the second in a three-part series of online inclusivity training sessions for health and care researchers organised by six NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health, with the aim of helping you to help embed inclusion in your research.

An informative and interactive session on the practical tools needed for ethnicity inclusion in health research. Covering the NIHR INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, useful resources and researcher case study.

For any questions about this session, please contact: Mili Kalia, EDI Manager, NIHR Oxford BRC: Mili.Kalia@ouh.nhs.uk

Limited spaces available.

About the speakers:

Professor Shaun Treweek, Chair in Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen, is active in the field of efficient trial design, particularly pragmatic trial design, improved recruitment and retention interventions for trials, the design of complex interventions and the effective presentation of research evidence.

Dr. Louise Silver (Research Coordinator, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford) Title: Inclusive Recruitment for Clinical Observational Studies (Stroke and Dementia sub-theme)

Dr Haleema Aslam (Community Liaison Manager, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford) Title: Community Engagement with Disadvantaged Communities in Cancer Research. (Cancer Theme)

Dr Robert Shaw (Honorary Consultant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Physician, Clinical vaccinologist & Principal Investigator, Oxford Vaccine Group) Title: Ethnic diversity and inclusion- Experiences delivering policy-relevant studies during a pandemic (Vaccine Theme)

Research Inclusivity Training- webinar series:

For details of all three webinars in the series with the 3rd webinar in 2025 being held on 8th December, please visit: Inclusivity Training for Health and Care Researchers, Nov-Dec 2025. Please note, these will be repeated in 2026.

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018- https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

Webinar - Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion Training
2025-12-08 10:00 - 11:30
with Dr Heidi R Green.

This is the final webinar in a 3-part series of online inclusivity training sessions for health and care researchers organised by six NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health, with the aim of helping you to help embed inclusion in your research. (Note, these sessions will be repeated in 2026).

This webinar will provide strategies to reduce barriers in health inequalities and understand challenges faced by disadvantaged communities. Session includes a case study and the NIHR INCLUDE Socio-economic Disadvantage Framework.

For any questions about this session, please contact: Georgina Norris, PPIE Coordinator, NIHR Cambridge BRC: georgina.norris3@nhs.net

Limited spaces available.

About the speaker:

Dr Heidi R Green is a Health Equity and Patient Involvement Specialist and a Creative Qualitative Researcher who co-developed the NIHR INCLUDE Socio-economic disadvantage framework which has been designed to aid researchers who are designing clinical trials to consider barriers to including patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds in their trial. The framework can also help researchers to develop strategies to attempt to address such barriers in order to improve the design and conduct of clinical research.

With over a decade of experience leading the design and delivery of innovative and award-winning projects, Heidi is an experienced health equity specialist, creative qualitative researcher, and lived experience advocate. Her mission is to embed accessibility and inclusivity into all of the projects she’s involved in, driving change for those that stand to benefit most.

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health.

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018- https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

Webinar - Reviewing lay summaries as a public partner (online training)
2026-01-22 12:00 - 13:30
This informative and practical online training session will discuss the importance of lay summaries (or plain English summaries) in medical research and what’s involved in a lay reviewer role.

Who’s it for?

It’s aimed at members of the public who would like to contribute to the research process. This session will give you the skills and confidence to be a lay reviewer when the opportunity arises.

You will get practical advice from a public partner and researchers who work in patient and public involvement and research. You can have a go at reviewing a lay summary as part of a supportive team and also receive a checklist of what to do if you are asked to be a reviewer.

Limited spaces – register below:

Speakers:

Sue Duncombe: Patient and Public Advisory Group member, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

Cassy Fiford: Public Engagement Officer and infectious disease researcher, University of Oxford

Polly Kerr: Patient and Public Involvement Manager, Medical Sciences Division, Department of Primary Health Care Research, University of Oxford

Angeli Vaid: Training and Inclusion Manager, Patient and Public Involvement, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

Hosted by Oxford BRC and the University of Oxford. If you have any questions about the training or require adjustments to make this training accessible, please email: Angeli.Vaid@ouh.nhs.uk

Online Training- Reviewing Lay Summaries as a Public Partner.

Online Webinar: Ethnicity Inclusion Training with Prof. Shaun Treweek.
2026-01-27 10:30 - 12:00
An informative session on the practical tools needed for ethnicity inclusion in health research. Covering the NIHR INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, useful resources and researcher(s) case study.

ONLINE EVENT Hosted by Moorfields BRC. For any questions about this session, please contact:

Helen Baker, PPIE Lead, h.baker@ucl.ac.uk

About the speaker:

Professor Shaun Treweek, Chair in Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen, is active in the field of efficient trial design, particularly pragmatic trial design, improved recruitment and retention interventions for trials, the design of complex interventions and the effective presentation of research evidence.

This is part of our Spring online series of Inclusivity training for Health and Care Researchers.

We’re collaborating with five other NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Oxford Health, Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, to bring you a series of engaging online training sessions with experts and researchers to help embed inclusion in your research

Please find dates for your diary and info. below for our two further training sessions:

3rd Feb 2026: Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion training with Dr. Heidi R Green:Register here.

5th March 2026: Online Workshop: Why People Say Yes (or No): The Psychology of Trial ParticipationRegister here.

Online Inclusivity in Research Training

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018-https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

Online Webinar: Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion Training with Dr. Heidi R Green.
2026-02-03 13:30 - 15:00
Providing strategies to reduce barriers in health inequalities and understand challenges faced by disadvantaged communities. The session includes a case study and the NIHR INCLUDE Socio-economic Disadvantage Framework.

ONLINE EVENT Hosted by Barts BRC. For any questions about this session, please contact:

Abida Firdaws, PPIE & ACD Administrator, a.firdaws@qmul.ac.uk

About the speaker:

Dr Heidi R Green is a Health Equity and Patient Involvement Specialist and a Creative Qualitative Researcher who co-developed the NIHR INCLUDE Socio-economic disadvantage framework which has been designed to aid researchers who are designing clinical trials to consider barriers to including patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds in their trial. The framework can also help researchers to develop strategies to attempt to address such barriers in order to improve the design and conduct of clinical research.

With over a decade of experience leading the design and delivery of innovative and award-winning projects, Heidi is an experienced health equity specialist, creative qualitative researcher, and lived experience advocate. Her mission is to embed accessibility and inclusivity into all of the projects she’s involved in, driving change for those that stand to benefit most.

This is part of our Spring online series of Inclusivity training for Health and Care Researchers.

We’re collaborating with five other NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Oxford Health, Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, to bring you a series of engaging online training sessions with experts and researchers to help embed inclusion in your research

Please find dates for your diary and info. below for our third training session this Spring. We’re also repeating this series in the Summer Term.

5th March 2026: Online Workshop: Why People Say Yes (or No): The Psychology of Trial ParticipationRegister here.

Online Inclusivity in Research Training

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018-https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

FREE Public Talk – Can electrodes in the brain treat chronic pain?
2026-02-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Rewley House, Department for Continuing Education, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a recognised way of tackling tremors in people with Parkinson’s disease. Now this technique – delivering an electrical pulse into the brain – is being explored as a potential treatment for other neurological conditions.A new study is looking at whether DBS can help to treat chronic pain in people who have suffered a stroke. Central post-stroke pain (CPSP) is a disabling – and currently untreatable – condition which affects areas of the brain and central nervous system that process pain signals.In this public talk, Alex Green, Professor of Neurosurgery, and Ben Seymour, Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, will discuss the EPIONE study, which is investigating whether DBS could be used to treat CPSP, and if this technique might be a way of tackling other brain-related conditions.The EPIONE study (Effective Pain Interventions with Neural Engineering) is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford and Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centres (BRC), who are jointly organising this talk.

FREE entry, no booking required.

Refreshments from 5.40pm, for a 6pm start.

Leadership Workshop: Research ideation & funding pathways beyond the obvious
2026-02-24 09:00 - 13:00
The ASCEND Network, a research leadership group open to staff who identify as women or gender non-conforming, is hosting a leadership workshop on ‘Research Ideation – Finding the White Space’ and ‘Funding Pathways Beyond the Obvious’.

Date: Tuesday 24th FebruaryTime: 9:00-13:00 (lunch will be provided)

Venue: Rosemary Rue Meeting Room 2 in the Richard Doll Building

Registrations for this event have now closed. You can join the ASCEND Network to receive information on any future events and opportunities below.

We hope that by the end of the workshop, participants will have new ideas or directions for their research and a new list of funding options, with one of those options having been explored in more depth.

This event is only open to members of the ASCEND Network and is aimed at principal investigators, group leaders and those looking to grow as independent researchers.

If the workshop is oversubscribed, information provided in the registration form may be used to allocate places to those who would benefit most from the workshop, so please ensure it is completed in full.

Please note, you must be a member of the network to attend the workshop

Join the network

Online Workshop: Why People Say Yes (or No): The Psychology of Trial Participation, with Cherish Boxall.
2026-03-05 10:00 - 23:30
About the workshop

This online workshop applies behavioural science to the real-world decisions people make about taking part in research. You’ll be introduced to fast, automatic thinking (System 1) and slow, deliberate thinking (System 2) and use them to map key decision points across the recruitment journey. You’ll identify what can drive early awareness and interest in research, and what supports a confident, well-informed decision at consent, so the recruitment pathway can be designed to be both effective and ethically robust.

The workshop includes short reflective exercises to increase awareness of how unconscious bias, assumptions, and “snap judgements” can influence the behaviour of research staff. You will leave with practical actions to help move unconscious bias into conscious awareness to help support informed, inclusive research design.

Limited spaces, register below:

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

Identify common cognitive biases and where they can show up in recruitment and consent pathways.

Recognise how cultural and social influences can affect decision-making.

Explore your own decision-making defaults and use simple techniques to bring fast judgments into awareness.

Apply behavioural science to design clearer, more motivating participant communications (e.g., recruitment adverts).

Preparation and what to expect

Most activities are individual reflection and applied work guided by our resource pack, with optional chat sharing.

Before you join (5–10 minutes):

Have the pack open or printed (sent by email).

Please come with a current or recent study in mind (including your target population and a high-level recruitment approach) to anchor the activities

What you will leave with

2–3 behaviour-based strategies to test in your study

Bias “pause points” to strengthen inclusive decision-making

A map of System 1 vs System 2 moments in your recruitment pathway

About the trainer:

Cherish Boxall, founder of Engage Intelligently, and recipient of two consecutive NIHR Fellowships, brings a behavioural-science lens to over 15 years of experience securing competitive research funding and delivering clinical trials. She specialises in translating evidence on inclusion and participant behaviour into practical, effective strategies. Expect real-world examples, actionable takeaways, and plenty of time throughout the session for your questions.

Who should attend?

Research and staff affiliated with Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford, and Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centres who want to strengthen inclusive recruitment and retention.

If you have any questions with regards to this training, please contact: Mili Kalia (Oxford BRC’s EDI Manager), Email: Mili.Kalia@ouh.nhs.uk

This is the third session in our Spring online series of Inclusivity Training for Health and Care Researchers. Please note, we are repeating this series in the Summer Term.

We’ve collaborating with five other NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Oxford Health, Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, to bring you a series of engaging online training sessions with experts and researchers to help embed inclusion in your research

Full Spring Series poster below – more to follow in Summer Term.

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018-https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

NIHR Oxford BRC Statistics Hub webinar
2026-04-15 13:00 - 14:30
Estimation methods for treatment policy strategies in clinical trials with missing data: introducing retrieved dropout reference-base centred multiple imputation

Schedule: The talk will be approx. 1 hour, with discussion/Q&A 30 minutes

Location: Hybrid – Online via Teams / or in person at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ND08

(please note: the speaker will be online)

Speaker: Dr Suzie Cro (Imperial), Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Head of Trial Methodology and co-Head of the Statistics section at Imperial Clinical Trials Unit

Abstract: A treatment policy strategy if often used to handle intercurrent events such as treatment withdrawal in clinical trials. Such an approach seeks to estimate the effect of a treatment, regardless of whether patients withdraw from the treatment schedule early. This requires the collection of outcome data following treatment withdrawal, however data is often missing after treatment withdrawal complicating the analysis.

In this setting, retrieved dropout multiple imputation has been proposed as a useful method for estimation. This approach imputes off-treatment data based only on observed off-treatment data. But this may be impractical with limited observed data post-treatment withdrawal. Alternatively, reference-based multiple imputation can be used which assumes treatment withdrawals behave like those observed in a specified reference group. But this makes strong assumptions and disregards observed off-treatment outcomes.

This presentation will review these two different methods of imputation followed by an introduction to a novel approach, referred to as retrieved dropout reference-base centred multiple imputation, that draws its influences from the two aforementioned methods. The expected bias and root mean square error (RMSE) for this new method will be analytically explored, followed by application to an anti-depression trial.

No registration required – if joining online please join the session here via Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39849641209505?p=y2MDEjtwbfCI0V2A4j

Please note the talk will be recorded. The recording will end before the discussion/ Q&A.

If you should have any queries, please contact the session organisers: Chris Mwema christopher.mwema@ndorms.ox.ac.uk & Dr Daphne Kounali daphne.kounali@ndorms.ox.ac.uk

NIHR BRC Oxford three-day writing retreat (6, 7 and 8 May 2026)
2026-05-06 08:00 - 2026-05-08 16:00
This three-day writing retreat is open to all healthcare professions (nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, clinical psychologists, pharmacists, healthcare scientists and medical practitioners) at any career stage, working at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust or the University of Oxford. Priority will however be given to underrepresented professions as defined by NIHR. If you have attended this retreat previously, you are welcome to apply however, priority will be given to those who have not attended before.

This retreat 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.

Dates: Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 and Friday 8 May 2026

Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD.

Attendees are required to attend all three days.

Core hours will be 10:00 to 16:00. However, on days 1 and 2 you are welcome to arrive any time from 8am to begin writing and remain on site until 6pm. On day 3, the space will be available from 8am to 4pm.

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. A librarian will be available to provide advice and support related to referencing and literature searching. 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.

You need to have your line manager’s support and permission to attend.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

There is no parking at Wolfson College. The closest park and ride to Wolfson College, Oxford, is Oxford Parkway (OX2 8HA). From there, or from the city centre, the number 2 or 2A bus (operated by Oxford Bus Company) travels to the Linton Road stop, which is a 5-minute walk from the college.

The deadline for application is Sunday 29 March 2026. Please put a hold in your diary until you are informed of your application outcome, which will be on Tuesday 7 April.

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

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

Applications will be assessed on whether:

you fall within the underrepresented professions as defined by the NIHR.

the line manager has given approval to attend

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

the stated objectives are achievable in the three days

the applicant can commit to all three days

you have previously attended Writing Retreat

Online Training: Ethnicity Inclusion with Prof. Shaun Treweek
2026-05-13 10:30 - 12:00
An informative session on the practical tools needed for ethnicity inclusion in health research. Covering the NIHR INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, useful resources and researcher(s) case study.

ONLINE EVENT Hosted by Birmingham BRC. For any questions about this session, please contact:

Any queries, please contact: Rebecca Moyles: r.l.moyles@bham.ac.uk

About the speakers:

Professor Shaun Treweek, Chair in Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen, is active in the field of efficient trial design, particularly pragmatic trial design, improved recruitment and retention interventions for trials, the design of complex interventions and the effective presentation of research evidence.

Ameeta Retzer, is a mixed methods researcher with expertise in outcome methodology, applied health, health inequalities and public health, and research equity. She is based at the Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science (University of Birmingham), leading the Methods and Policy group. Funded by the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, Ameeta led the development of a toolkit for capturing a representative and equitable sample in health research. Subsequently, Ameeta leads a research programme exploring use of the toolkit in a range of settings. Ameeta co-led the development of the University of Birmingham Inclusive Research Guide.

This is part of our Summer online series of Inclusivity training for Health and Care Researchers.

We’re collaborating with five other NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Oxford Health, Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, to bring you a series of engaging online training sessions with experts and researchers to help embed inclusion in your research

Please find dates for your diary and info. below for our two further training sessions:

21st May 2026: Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion training with Dr. Heidi R Green:Register here.

11th June 2026: Partnerships, Planning and Service Provision: Case Studies in Inclusive Research with Cherish Boxall:Register here.

Online Inclusivity in Research Training

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018-https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion Training
2026-05-21 10:30 - 12:00
Online Training: Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion Training with Dr. Heidi R. Green

An informative session (online) on practical tools for socio-economic disadvantage inclusion in health research. This event is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your approach to including people and communities from diverse ethnicities in your research.

Register to reserve your place

Speakers:

Dr Heidi Green is a Health Equity and Patient Involvement Specialist and a Creative Qualitative Researcher who co-developed the NIHR INCLUDE Socio-economic disadvantage framework, which has been designed to aid researchers, who are designing clinical trials, to consider barriers to including patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds in their trial. There will be lots of opportunities for you to ask questions from experienced and knowledgeable speakers to support your research.

ONLINE EVENT Hosted by BRC: Oxford Health. For any questions about this session, please contact:

Any queries, please contact: Andreia Costa, Project Manager: training.ohbrc@psych.ox.ac.uk

This is part of our Summer online series of Inclusivity training for Health and Care Researchers.

We’re collaborating with five other NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Oxford Health, Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, to bring you a series of engaging online training sessions with experts and researchers to help embed inclusion in your research

Please add the following date to your diary and info. below for the last training session this summer:

11th June 2026: Partnerships, Planning and Service Provision: Case Studies in Inclusive Research with Cherish Boxall:Register here.

Online Inclusivity in Research Training

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018-https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy

Webinar – Reviewing Plain English Summaries (or Lay Summaries) as a Public Partner (Online Training)
2026-05-21 13:00 - 14:30
This informative and practical online training session will discuss the importance of Plain English Summaries in medical research and what’s involved in a lay reviewer role.

Who’s it for?

It’s aimed at members of the public who would like to contribute to the research process.

This session will give you the skills and confidence to be a public partner reviewer when the opportunity arises.

You will get practical advice from a public partner and researchers who work in patient and public involvement and research. You can have a go at reviewing a lay summary as part of a supportive team and also receive a checklist of what to do if you are asked to be a reviewer.

Limited spaces – register below:

Speakers:

Sue Duncombe: Patient and Public Advisory Group member, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Oxford

Cassy Fiford: Patient and Public Involvement Manager and infectious disease researcher, University of Oxford

Polly Kerr: Patient and Public Involvement Manager, Medical Sciences Division, Department of Primary Health Care Research, University of Oxford

Angeli Vaid: Training and Inclusion Manager, Patient and Public Involvement, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Oxford.

Hosted by BRC Oxford and the University of Oxford. If you have any questions about the training or require adjustments to make this training accessible, please email: Angeli.Vaid@ouh.nhs.uk

Health Research Showcase Public Event 2026
2026-05-28 10:00 - 15:30
Step into the future of healthcare at our Health Research Showcase event 2026 🌟

Experience interactive stands showcasing the ground-breaking research that is driving change for NHS patients. Learn more about new diagnostics and revolutionary treatments – from cancer to depression, neurology to better sleep. And discover how YOU can play a part in shaping the future of medicine by participating in our research.

Join us at the Westgate Centre in Oxford on Thursday 28 May. The event opens to the public from 10am. See you there!

This is a joint event with Oxford Health BRC to showcase the exciting medical innovation that’s taking place in Oxford.

BRC Oxford Career Development Symposium 2026
2026-06-08 09:00 - 17:00 | St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS
< Please note the new date of Monday 8th June for this exciting event. >

BRC Awardees and supporters are invited to the BRC Oxford Career Development Symposium 2026.

This is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate our researchers’ achievements. There will be opportunities to network across the Themes and the potential to explore new research collaborations. We value your expertise and support for our current BRC awardees. The event is free and will include:

inspirational key note speakers,

research presentations

career talks

poster displays by BRC awardees

opportunity to network with researchers from across the BRC.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and an afternoon prize ceremony will celebrate the very best presentations.

Register to secure your place by April 30th:

BRC Oxford Career Development Symposium – 8th June 2026 – Registration – Fill in form

Location: St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford

Date: Monday 8th June 2026

Time: 9.30am – 5pm | 9am registration and refreshments

We will be holding a Prize ceremony for presentations and posters, so please do share this email with your BRC Awardees so they can register to attend the conference and are also invited to submit an abstract.

Submit your Abstract:

We will accept abstracts for an oral or poster presentation from current or past recipients of a BRC Oxford career development award (internship, pre-doctoral fellowship, doctoral fellowship, post-doctoral fellowship) as well as NIHR Academy Members supported within Themes (someone undertaking a formal training or career development award that was competitively awarded and receives at least 25% of funding from the BRC over the lifetime of the individual’s award).

To submit your abstract for review, please complete this form by Thursday 30th April:

BRC Awardee – Submit Abstract for BRC Oxford Career Development Symposium, 8th June ’06 – Fill in form

If you have any queries, please contact our Academic Career Development Manager: aderonke.lagoke@ouh.nhs.uk.

Partnerships, Planning and Service Provision: Case Studies in Inclusive Research
2026-06-11 10:00 - 11:30
Online Training: Partnerships, planning and service provision with Cherish Boxall

This webinar features separate case reflections from researchers and service partners, each sharing real-world examples of inclusive research delivery. Speakers will discuss not only what worked, but also what proved challenging, what required compromise, and where unintended barriers emerged during implementation.

Register to reserve your place

Speaker:Cherish Boxall, founder of Engage Intelligently, and recipient of two consecutive NIHR Fellowships, brings a behavioural-science lens to over 15 years of experience securing competitive research funding and delivering clinical trials. She specialises in translating evidence on inclusion and participant behaviour into practical, effective strategies. Expect real-world examples, actionable takeaways, and plenty of time at the end of the session for questions.

Details of the webinar:

This session focuses on operational reality:

How partnerships were formed and where friction occurred

If/ when to start thinking about external service provision

What teams would do differently next time

The aim is to provide an honest view of how inclusion has been enabled in practice.

What We Will Explore:

The role of early planning in shaping recruitment pathways

Tensions between research timelines and the delivery of high-quality, inclusive research.

Practical ways that improved representativeness

Lessons learned from challenges and missed opportunities

Format:Case presentations from invited contributors followed by Q&A.Speakers will reflect candidly on both successes and constraints.Final contributors will be confirmed closer to the event.

ONLINE EVENT Hosted by BRC: Barts. For any questions about this session, please contact:

Any queries, please contact: Helen Baker, PPI Lead: h.baker@ucl.ac.uk

This is the final session in our Summer online series of Inclusivity training for Health and Care Researchers.

We’ve collaborated with five other NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Oxford Health, Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, to bring you a series of engaging online training sessions with experts and researchers to help embed inclusion in your research

Online Inclusivity in Research Training

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Privacy Notice: We adhere to the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018-https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/. Any data collected is used to improve services.

Privacy Statement NIHR – https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-privacy-policy
