NIHR Academy Insight Day
Join us on Tuesday 18 June (online or in person) for a day of valuable insights and tips on how to advance your career in clinical education research with the NIHR Academy.
NIHR Academy Insight Day
18 Jun 2024, 09:15 – 14:30
Boost your clinical education research career at the NIHR Academy Insight Day.
This event is aimed at researchers keen on pursuing clinical education research as a career path, particularly non-clinicians & non-medical health care professionals. It is designed to equip you with the insights, tools, and connections you need to strengthen your application to NIHR Fellowship schemes.
Speakers include:
- Professor Dame Jane Dacre, Emeritus Professor of Medical Education, UCL Medical School and Past President of the Royal College of Physicians
- Professor Paul Tiffin, University of York & the Hull York Medical School (HYMS), Former NIHR Career Development Fellow
- Professor Katherine Woolf, UCL Medical School, current NIHR Academy member
- Ryan Wolstenholme, NIHR Academy
- Cecily Henry and Professor Sophie Park, University of Oxford, NIHR Clinical Education Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) leads
- Professor Gillian Vance, Newcastle University, NIHR Clinical Education Incubator lead
- Bakita Kasadha, Doctoral researcher, University of Oxford. Current NIHR doctoral fellowship, former NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship holder
- Yohanna Sallberg, Second Clerk to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee
For in-person delegates there will be networking opportunities with potential supervisors, placement hosts, and fellow applicants during a networking lunch (45 places, 20 reserved for people from professional groups that are under-represented in NIHR fellowships i.e. those from non-clinical OR non-medical/non-dental healthcare professional backgrounds).
We are committed to ensuring that this event is inclusive and accessible to all attendees. The venue is wheelchair-accessible, and we will provide British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters and live captioning by palantypists.
This event is funded by the NIHR. The information presented is that of the organisers and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
The event begins at 09:15 for in-person delegates and 09:45 for online delegates.
Dame Jane Dacre is the former Director of UCL Medical School and an honorary consultant rheumatologist at Whittington Health. A physician and educator by background, Jane is currently special advisor and Chair of the Expert Panel for the Health and Social Care Committee. She is the past president of the Royal College of Physicians (the third woman to be elected) and was also vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, medical director of MRCPUK examination, academic vice president of the RCP and a GMC council member. Her research is in medical education focusing on assessment and equality.
Paul is a Professor of Health Services and Workforce Research and a member of the Mental Health and Addictions Research Group (MHARG) in the Department of Health Sciences, and holds a joint appointment with the Hull York Medical School (HYMS). His academic work is focussed on eliciting and measuring psychological phenomena (psychometrics) and linking these to outcomes. Paul has a Medical Doctorate (MD) for his work developing and validating the Family Perceptions Scale - a tool designed to explore and measure subjective family functioning in adolescents.
Katherine Woolf is Professor of Medical Education Research, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her background is in psychology and education, including a PhD in Medical Education and Psychology from UCL. She has been seconded to UK Parliament as a Parliamentary Academic Fellow, working with the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee's Independent Expert Panel to evaluate the Government's progress on delivering its pledges.
Further information
Ticketing
Ticketed and Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes
