The Department aims to provide a forum for departmental staff to share and learn about current research developments
Current Seminars
We run Departmental seminars to:
- To provide an opportunity for speakers (internal and external) to present work to the department.
- To provide a space for staff to present research work in progress.
- To generate and facilitate discussion and sharing of ideas about research substantive topics and methodologies.
- To critique and develop research in an informal and supportive environment.
Timetable for 2022/23 Seminars
Past Seminars
- PRIMENT Seminars
- PhD Upgrade Seminars
None pending
- GP Tutors Annual Conference 2020
'Teaching and Learning with Patients'
Date: Friday 12th March 2021
Venue: Royal College of Physicians, 11 Saint Andrews Place Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE
Please visit our conference website or contact pcphmeded@ucl.ac.uk
- Seminars 2016-17
Timetable for 2016/2017 Seminars
Date Unit Responsible Title Day 19th September 2016 Teaching Patient and public engagement in UK medical education (or the rocky road to a Doctorate in Education) Monday 20th October 2016 CAPS The aftermath of the Liverpool Care Pathway - developing heuristics (rules-of-thumb) for practitioners making end of life decisions for people with dementia Thursday 21st November 2016 BRHS Physical activity: patterns and promotion across the lifespan Monday 16th January 2017 Infection Sexual health promotion research at Public Health England Monday 6th March 2017 PhD Upgrade Missed opportunities for the diagnosis of malaria in Primary Care Monday 15th March 2017 PhD Upgrade The public health potential of currently available mobile health applications for increasing physical activity Wednesday 4th May 2017 Clinical Epidemiology and Electronic Health Records Research Communicating risks and evidence to patients in a clear and balanced way Thursday 20th June 2017 External speaker Facilitating sexual health discussions in primary care with older Australians: Health practitioner perspectives Tuesday 3rd July 2017 External speaker Open access compliance Monday 21st July 2017 CAPS Challenges in delivering Innovative interventions for dementia Friday 31st July 2017 Health Improvement TBC Monday 16th August 2017 E-Health Development of a model of service delivery to standardise anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation in the NHS and testing the feasibility of an E-Health intervention to support delivery of this model Wednesday - Seminars 17-18
Aim:To provide a forum for departmental staff to share and learn about current research developments.
Objectives:
- To provide an opportunity for speakers (internal and external) to present work to the department.
- To provide a space for staff to present research work in progress.
- To generate and facilitate discussion and sharing of ideas about research substantive topics and methodologies.
- To critique and develop research in an informal and supportive environment.
Timetable for 2017/2018 Seminars
- Seminars 18/19
Aim:To provide a forum for departmental staff to share and learn about current research developments.
Objectives:
To provide an opportunity for speakers (internal and external) to present work to the department. To provide a space for staff to present research work in progress. To generate and facilitate discussion and sharing of ideas about research substantive topics and methodologies. To critique and develop research in an informal and supportive environment.Timetable for 2018/2019 Seminars
Date Unit Responsible Title Day 19th November 2018 Infection What is the impact of offering financial incentives to give long acting reversible contraception (LARC) advice in general practice? An interrupted time series study using electronic health records Monday 26th March 2019 External The HVP vaccination crisis in Denmark Tuesday 22nd May 2019 CAPS How can we better support nutrition in frail older people? Exploring the views and practices of older people at risk of malnutrition, carers, primary care and community health professionals. Wednesday 1st July 2019 Health Improvement On-line consulting in general practicel policy, practice and evidence Monday - Seminars 19/20
Aim: To provide a forum for departmental staff to share and learn about current research developments.
Objectives:
To provide an opportunity for speakers (internal and external) to present work to the department. To provide a space for staff to present research work in progress. To generate and facilitate discussion and sharing of ideas about research substantive topics and methodologies. To critique and develop research in an informal and supportive environment.Timetable for 2019/20 Seminars
Date Unit Responsible Title Day 30th September 2019
Teaching Research Group
Monday
21st November 2019 Clinical Epidemiology Handling Missing Data in Interrupted Time Series Analysis and Time Trends in Incidence and Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes in the UK in the Past Decade: A Retrospective Cohort Study Thursday 10th January 2020 PCPH Madingley 2020 Rehearsals - An opportunity to practice your timed presentations and receive constructive colleague feedback
Friday 14th January 2020
Guest Speaker -- Tony Dowell Complexity and Implementation Science, and their application to healthcare problems and health service delivery Tuesday 11th February 2020 Infections - Guest Speaker -- Dr Natalie Edelmen Derivation of a Clinical Prediction Rule to target sexual health inveventions to women attending General Practice Tuesday 9th March 2020 RDS Monday 23rd March 2020 Guest Speaker - Sarah Thomas SPCR Impact Seminar - POSTPONED Monday 11th May 2020 Holly Smith - PhD Upgrade The care and mental health of women after child birth Monday 19th May 2020 Guest Speaker - Christina McMahon UCL Research Data Repository: Archiving data and other research outputs at UCL
Tuesday 27th May HEART Group - Caroline Clarke Costing implementation of major system change: case study using reconfigurations of specialist cancer surgery in London, in the RESPECT-21 mixed-methods study (including basic health economics primer) Wednesday 3rd June Amy Kerin, Angela Gichane, Louise Marston, Sara Thompson A Step Change From Walking to Running Wednesday 12th June Dr Ping-Jen Chen PhD Upgrade Friday 30th June Kayla Beare and Kingshuk Pal South African womxn’s constructions of sexual consent and Diabetes and pre-diabetes: trends in diagnosis in the UK in the last decade, a retrospective cohort study Tuesday 8th July Ayesha Ahmed and Brendan Hallam Cardiovascular health and stroke in older British men: prospective findings from the British Regional Heart Study and How are people with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Subjective Memory complaints managed in primary care? A systematic review Wednesday 24th July Melvyn Jones and Paula Gomes Alves The chest xray for diagnosing covid pneumonia - a very old tool for a very new disease and From a qualitative study to a cartoon: a co-production project to disseminate research findings Friday - Seminars 20/21
Aim: To provide a forum for departmental staff to share and learn about current research developments.
Objectives:
- To provide an opportunity for speakers (internal and external) to present work to the department.
- To provide a space for staff to present research work in progress.
- To generate and facilitate discussion and sharing of ideas about research substantive topics and methodologies.
- To critique and develop research in an informal and supportive environment.
Timetable for 20/21 seminars
Date Unit responsible Title Day 22nd September Anne Broe Screening of links between prescription drug use in pregnancy and congenital malformations Tuesday 30th September Rachael Hunter A case study of an economic evaluation of a prison based intervention to address common mental health problems, Engager, compared to usual care Wednesday 2 November 2020
Ellie Jones and Bethan Lapwood (MSc students) Ellie - "‘Emergency contraception – understanding women's experiences, views and concerns"
Bethan - To explore how and why fertility tracking apps are used for contraception
Monday 10 November 2020 John Barber Facilitators and barriers to teaching undergraduate medical students in general practice: Presentation of research and discussion regarding implications for the virtual teaching environment. Tuesday 18 November 2020 Lene Wulf Krogsgaard & Olaoluwa Oyawoye HPV vaccination and suspected adverse events. The role of infection in close proximity to vaccination. Wednesday 26 November 2020 Harry Goodfellow Supported remote rehabilitation post Covid-19: development, deployment and evaluation of a digitally enabled rehabilitation programme for patients with long covid. Thursday 7 December 2020 Rini Veeravalli (PhD upgrade) Developing EHR-based phenotype risk scores to identify undiagnosed rare genetic diseases Monday 11 December 2020 Ayesha Ahmed (PHD upgrade) Primary Prevention of Stroke: Risk Factor Associations and Stroke Risk Assessment in Older Adults and Ethnic Minorities Friday 15 December 2020 Annabelle South Primary Prevention of Stroke: Risk Factor Associations and Stroke Risk Assessment in Older Adults and Ethnic Minorities Tuesday 8 January 2021 Alaa Alghamdi (PhD upgrade) Primary Healthcare in Saudi Arabia – Improving Appropriate Engagement Friday 12 January 2021 Brendan Hallam (PhD upgrade) STAND & PREVENT – Dementia: Using electronic health records to underSTAND and optimise PREVENTion strategies for DEMENTIA in UK primary care Tuesday 20 January 2021 Dan Lewer "COVID-19 among people experiencing homelessness - research and policy" Wednesday 2 February 2021 Sadie Lawes Wickwar & Irene Peterson COVID Mass testing Tuesday 10 February 2021 Manuj Sharma An overview of Public Health and Specialty Public Health Training in the UK : perspectives from a registrar in training Wednesday 18 February 2021 Saffanah Alturkistani (PhD upgrade) Providing Arabic online health information to consumers in Saudi Arabia Thursday 1st March 2021 Nur Adbul Rahman Clinical reasoning teaching and learning in the undergraduate to primary care medical education Monday 9th March 2021 Mary Chen Xiaorong My experience of engaging and developing theory/theoretical concepts in research Tuesday 17th March Laura Horsfall Nur Wednesday 25th March Cini Bhanu (PhD upgrade) Understanding hypotensive burden: use & safety of medications with blood pressure lowering effects in older people Thursday 12th April Karan Mehta Development and validation of risk prediction algorithms for all-cause mortality in Type 2 Diabetes. Monday 28th April Roaa Al-Bedaery Protocol: A realist evaluation of undergraduate medical teaching with remote (telephone and video) consultations in primary care Passcode: V6Z*F.?8 Wednesday 17 May Jane Wilcock Forward with dementia: a co-produced personalised resource with a focus on the first 12 months following a dementia diagnosis for people living with dementia, informal carers and health & social care professionals Passcode: H1ahS%=d Monday 25 May Melissa Cabecinha Identifying the PrEP Gap: An exploration of health equity in the HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Care Continuum Passcode: 7K4e@*41
Tuesday 2 June Jessica Rees (TBC) Dementia rarely travels alone- physical health care planning for people with dementia Passcode: @X+L5?28 Wednesday 9 June Laura Horsfall & Noura Identifying causal relationships between routine blood tests and lung cancer Passcode: 7A0jRD!* Wednesday 28 June Julia Bailey Creative Assignments for Learning: Sexual Health Posters Passcode: +hfp6@g7 Monday 6 July Danielle Nimmons & Caitlin Bawn Danielle Nimmons - Developing Educational Leadership Skills as an Early Career Academic. Caitlin Bawn - eHealth for family planning in Botswana: acceptability and feasibility. Tuesday 14 July Remco Tuijt Findings from HEARD: health care experiences of people living with dementia and their carers during COVID-19 Wednesday - Seminars 21/22
Aim: To provide a forum for departmental staff to share and learn about current research developments.
Objectives:
- To provide an opportunity for speakers (internal and external) to present work to the department.
- To provide a space for staff to present research work in progress.
- To generate and facilitate discussion and sharing of ideas about research substantive topics and methodologies.
- To critique and develop research in an informal and supportive environment.
Timetable for 21/22 seminars
Date Unit
responsible
Title Day 13 September Megan Armstrong The development and implementation of a facilitated self-management toolkit for people with Parkinson’s Passcode: bB@XR7e Monday 21st September Cini Bhanu Policy Engagement & Impaction Fellowship: getting research to policymakers Passcode: 4?EL8th^ Tuesday 29th September 2021 Juan Carlos Bazo Alvarez Defining common mental health conditions within primary care data: a validation study with a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach Passcode: 9i.WKy=m Wednesday 7th October 2021 Clare Murphy The WRISK Project: understanding and improving the communication of risk relating to pregnancy Thursday 18th October 2021 Iris Van Der Scheer Discussion of mental health concerns in GP consultations: a qualitative study Monday 26th October 2021 Shelley Campbell & Tasmin Rookes Remote Research with Older Participants Tuesday 30th November 2021 Amrit Sanghera & Abhinav Kumar Do people with diabetes get less chest pain during a myocardial infarction: a systematic review Tuesday 15th December 2021 Kara Smythe Wednesday 18th January 2022 Julia Bailey What can qualitative research bring to the table? Passcode: p?FLK@3c Tuesday 26th January 2022 Rachael Frost Green Fronts: Urban front gardening for public health Wednesday 3rd February 2022 Shoba Poduval Diverse voices: increasing ethnic minority representation in health research at UCL Passcode: g&5zLGy! Thursday 8th February 2022 James Wilson UCL's new Electronic Research Notebook service Passcode: vn!q1&7y Tuesday 14th February 2022 Sarah Armstrong 'Students' and tutors' experiences of remote 'student-led' consultations'. Passcode: 5u#AB+0@ Monday 28th February 2022 Nikki & Agalya Exploring UK medical students’ experiences of participation in undergraduate medical education activities during the crisis of COVID-19: Lessons to inform future inclusivity based on responses to an online survey. Passcode: 8T&Z^Eu3 Monday 21st March 2022 Joe Rosanthal Innovations in GP teaching Monday 29th March 2022 Thomas Whitney "It's not a big deal" Reframing same-sex serodiscordant intimacy in the era of treatment as prevention Passcode: XKR9p5.j Tuesday 21st April 2022 Jennifer Jones ARAPAHO – Work in Progress Thursday 24th May 2022 Rafael Gafoor & Elaine Hunter CBT for Derealisation-Depersonalisation Disorder – Results of a non-randomised crossover longitudinal study Passcode: Vu#L^rz7 Presentation slides Tuesday 1st June 2022 Juan Carlos Bazo Alvarez Depression and anxiety diagnosis and symptoms associated with falls, fragility fractures and all-cause mortality in the older population: results from a cohort study with UK primary care data. Passcode: QaM=7rR1 Wednesday 13th June 2022 Julia Bailey, Mayra Salazar Volkmann & Haoyue Guo Moving towards decolonising a curriculum: the UCL Gender, Sexuality and Sexual Health module Passcode: S6+9qPCp Presentation slides Monday 21st June 2022 Shyam Gokani Systematic review of economic evaluations of diagnostic modalities and interventions in childhood obstructive sleep disordered breathing Passcode: wUu8Xv^$ Tuesday 29th June 2022 Emily Owen Community Pharmacy and General Practice collaborative and integrated working: a realist review. Passcode: 5kDN..AE Wednesday 19th July 2022 Melissa Cabecinha A brief introduction to medical science policy- experiences from a 3 month internship at the Academy of Medical Sciences. Tuesday 27th July 2022 Takahiro Itaya Association between pre-diagnostic prescription patterns of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and the incidence of PD in primary care. Passcode: IzQa#J65 Wednesday - Seminars 22/23
Aim: To provide a forum for departmental staff to share and learn about current research developments.
Objectives:
- To provide an opportunity for speakers (internal and external) to present work to the department.
- To provide a space for staff to present research work in progress.
- To generate and facilitate discussion and sharing of ideas about research substantive topics and methodologies.
- To critique and develop research in an informal and supportive environment.
Date Unit responsible Title Day 5th October Alice Guo Understanding the role of telemedicine in primary care access by older Chinese migrants in the UK. Passcode: 4T?^M1J* Wednesday 17th October Annabelle South Show RESPECT: Sharing results with participants in a clinical trial Monday 14th November Luisa Pettigrew What impact have inspections had on the quality of general practice? Monday