NIHR GOSH BRC Academic Training Weekend 2024

There will be four sessions in the programme featuring talks and facilitated breakout groups. There will also be plenty of networking opportunities during coffee breaks, lunches and dinner on Saturday evening. Confirmed speakers include:

• Professor Dame Lyn Chitty, Deputy Director of the NIHR GOSH BRC, Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, and NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus
• Dr Louise Oni, Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Nephrology at the University of Liverpool and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at Alder Hey Children's NHS
• Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu, Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at the UCL School of Pharmacy and Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics Ltd
• Dr Iain Hennessey, Consultant Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Clinical Director and Co-Founder of the Alder Hey Innovation Centre
• Professor Sir Terence Stephenson, Professor of Child Health at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Chair of the Health Research Authority for England and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician
• Dr Conor McCann, Principal Investigator Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicinw UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
• Dr Gwyneth Davies - UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Professor Annie Topping, Professor of Nursing at University of Birmingham in partnership with University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Dame Pamela Shaw, Professor of Neurology at The University of Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), Director NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre

Each session will be focused on a different step along the research journey. Information about some of the topic areas these sessions will cover are given below.

Session 1: Establishing your research group

• Securing funding for your research
• Building a team and developing into a leader
• Building collaborations and networking

Session 2: Maximising the potential of your research

• How to be an inclusive researcher
• Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE)
• Innovation and commercialisation of your research

Session 3: Navigating the challenges of a research career

• Resilience - How to fail well
• The benefits of a support network
• Balancing commitments

Session 4: Communicating and disseminating your research

• Publishing your research
• Talking to the media
• Creative ways to communicate your research

Following the sessions there will be workshops where delegates can focus on specific skills. The workshops will be focused on:

• Presentation skills
• Careers talks
• PPIE
• Grant writing
• Collaborative research

We hope you are interested in attending the event. To apply, please complete a short Expression of Interest (EOI) Form and submit to brc@gosh.nhs.uk by Monday 9 September 2024, 23:59.

For anyone who is interested in attending but circumstances make it challenging to access, please contact us to discuss.

The Event Steering Committee will review the EOI forms with the following selection criteria:

• Likelihood the attendee will benefit from the event programme.
• Balanced representation of delegates with regard to profession, career stage and location.
• Attendee’s interest in research and evidence of their plans to carry out research for the benefit of patients.

We will contact all researchers who have expressed an interest in attending the event by the end of September to confirm whether they have a place.

Please contact brc@gosh.nhs.uk if you have any questions.