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Oxford BRC to be given Freedom of Oxford

25 January 2023 · Listed under Other News

The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is to be given the Freedom of the City of Oxford. The award is the highest honour Oxford City Council can bestow and has previously been given to dignitaries including Oxfam, Nelson Mandela, authors Philip Pullman and Colin Dexter, and Sir Roger ... READ MORE

BRC sponsors Black History Month talk by anti-apartheid veteran

14 October 2022 · Listed under Other News

The Oxford Biomedical Research Centre has sponsored a talk organised a talk by Oxford University Hospitals BAME network as part of Black History Month. The talk on Wednesday 12 October was by Chris Lubbe, anti-apartheid activist and former bodyguard of the late South African President Nelson ... READ MORE

Oxford BRC gets £86.6m funding for healthcare research

14 October 2022 · Listed under Other News

Professor MacLaren at NIHR Oxford BRC

Health and care research in Oxford is to receive £122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients. The funding was awarded to the city’s two National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres ... READ MORE

Next generation of research leaders complete BRC programme

20 September 2022 · Listed under Other News

Aspiring healthcare research leaders have successfully completed the latest Oxford BRC Next Generation Leaders Programme, with the 16 course participants presenting the quality improvement projects they had been working on. This is the third edition of the Next Generation Leaders Programme, ... READ MORE

OUH clinical staff awarded funding for research skills training

7 September 2022 · Listed under Other News

OUH clinical staff awarded funding for research skills training Thirteen Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and research practitioners have received funding to develop skills that will support them to research new and improved ways of delivering ... READ MORE

Open Day showcases healthcare research

7 July 2022 · Listed under Other News

Hundreds of members of the public came to Oxford Town Hall on 5 July to find out about the latest healthcare research taking place in Oxford. The NIHR Oxford and Oxford Health BRCs held a joint Open Day to showcase the research they support, how it benefits NHS patients and how patients and ... READ MORE

BRC study outlines researchers training needs and barriers

20 May 2022 · Listed under Other News

A study by NIHR Oxford BRC researchers has revealed that a lack of time, work and clinical commitments, and family and childcare responsibilities are common barriers to training and development for doctors, dentists and nurses. “Continuing professional development of researchers is vital for ... READ MORE

Oxford’s medical, health and life sciences research excellence recognised

12 May 2022 · Listed under Other News

Oxford’s reputation as a thriving powerhouse for medical, health and life sciences research has been highlighted today with the publication of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, a UK-wide assessment of university research. The results of the REF 2021 exercise demonstrate that the ... READ MORE

Louise Strickland – profile of OUH’s first clinical academic nurse researcher

12 May 2022 · Listed under Musculoskeletal, Other News

Dr Louise Strickland is a clinical academic nurse researcher at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford. She is the first nurse to hold this exciting post in ... READ MORE

Expansion of the Oxford Joint Research Office

8 April 2022 · Listed under Other News

Oxford’s Joint Research Office (JRO) has expanded to include teams from Oxford Health (OH) NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford Brookes University (OBU), joining the clinical research support teams from the University of Oxford (OU) and Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust. The ... READ MORE

BRC launches first senior leadership training programme

8 March 2022 · Listed under Other News

The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) launched its first dedicated senior leadership training programme on 28 February. Fourteen senior leaders affiliated to the BRC attended the first workshop on the topic Senior Leadership Practices. Those attending came from a diverse range of ... READ MORE

Funding boost for early-stage clinical research

28 February 2022 · Listed under Musculoskeletal, Other News

Oxford is one of 28 sites that will benefit from over £160 million awarded over five years to expand early phase clinical research for the benefit of NHS patients. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) announced the funding for its Clinical Research Facilities on Monday (28 ... READ MORE

Senior Fellows attend first EDI workshop

15 February 2022 · Listed under Other News

Eight researchers supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) have attended the first dedicated training session on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for BRC Senior Research Fellows. The NIHR Oxford Senior Research Fellowship, an initiative run jointly by the Oxford ... READ MORE

Study shows extent of BRC’s publications and collaborations

7 December 2021 · Listed under Other News

An analysis of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s (BRC) publications between 2012 and 2017 has revealed not only the large number of research publications by its researchers, but also the huge network of collaborations in which they were involved. The study, published in the Journal ... READ MORE

Black History Month talk explores health inequalities

19 October 2021 · Listed under Other News

To mark Black History Month, the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) sponsored an online talk by the health activist, social commentator and cultural historian, Patrick Vernon OBE on the subject of Inequalities in Healthcare and Research. In the University of Oxford Medical ... READ MORE

Your Path in Research – Colin Forde

15 October 2021 · Listed under Other News

The NIHR’s Your Path in Research campaign aims to encourage healthcare professionals to get involved in research or to further their career in research. Colin Forde is a physiotherapist at Oxford University Hospitals’ orthopaedic trauma outpatient department. He is completing a NIHR Doctoral ... READ MORE

Your Path in Research – Sheera Sutherland

8 October 2021 · Listed under Other News

The NIHR’s Your Path in Research campaign aims to encourage healthcare professionals to get involved in research or to further their career in research. Sheera Sutherland is a research nurse manager in the Oxford Kidney Unit. She completed an Oxford BRC preparatory fellowship in 2018 and is about to ... READ MORE

Your Path in Research – Joanna Snowball

4 October 2021 · Listed under Other News

The NIHR’s Your Path in Research campaign aims to encourage healthcare professionals to get involved in research or to further their career in research. Joanna Snowball has worked as a dietitian at Oxford University Hospitals since 2005, and for most of that time at the Oxford Adult Cystic Fibrosis ... READ MORE

Next generation of healthcare leaders showcase projects

8 September 2021 · Listed under Other News

The second edition of the NIHR Oxford BRC’s Next Generation Leaders Programme came to a successful close on 6 September with course participants presenting the healthcare research quality improvement projects that had been working on. The Next Generation Leaders Programme has been commissioned ... READ MORE

Oxford BRC takes part in NIHR initiative to promote race equality in health research

9 August 2021 · Listed under Other News

The Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is to take part in a three-month reflective assessment of its delivery of race equality in health research, starting this month. The initiative, led by the NIHR, involved 13 organisations delivering health research in higher education, local ... READ MORE

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