Overcome imposter phenomenon
2025-11-04 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Online
This 1-hour webinar explores practical tips for managing imposter phenomenon, from both an individual and wider lens.
In this webinar, you will:
➡️ uncover what imposter phenomenon looks like and the impact it has on wellbeing and performance
➡️ explore 3 techniques to challenge negative self-talk and leverage strengths to overcome these situations and own your potential
➡️ learn practical tools to bring the techniques to life and make imposter phenomenon a thing of the past
You will also have the chance to ask questions afterwards
Webinar Registration – Zoom

Inequality in Health and Health Care: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
2025-11-05 - 2025-11-07
Covering theoretical concepts on inequity and inequality in health as well as its measurement. This course will also provide an overview of selected available (longitudinal) household survey data and cohort studies that combine socio-economic and demographic variables along with various health measures – these datasets provide good sources for empirical inequality in health research.
Inequality in Health and Health Care: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations — Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)

Introduction to NIHR Clinical Future Leaders Fellowships
2025-11-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
NIHR is partnering with the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to grow clinical research capacity and improve career paths through the aligned Clinical Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF).
Clinical FLFs will help clinicians across nursing, midwifery, the AHP professions, pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, and healthcare science to establish their own research teams.
The 7 year programme also provides protected research time and leadership development opportunities to enable fellows to transition from postdoctoral researchers to research leadership roles.
Eligible institutions are invited to nominate a maximum of 3 eligible applicants to each NIHR Clinical Future Leaders Fellowship funding opportunity. This 1 hour webinar will give an overview of the scheme and process for applying along with details of the eligibility.
Webinar Registration – Zoom

ISAD London 2025: Mapping the Future of Affective Disorder Treatments
2025-11-07 - 2025-11-08 | ORTUS Conferencing and Events Venue, 82-96 Grove Lane, London, SE5 8SN
We are delighted to welcome you to the ISAD 2025 Regional Meeting, hosted by the Centre for Affective Disorders (CfAD). ISAD Events are amongst the foremost mood disorders meetings, gathering the Affective Disorders community to share latest research, clinical expertise and discuss future directions.
The Scientific Programme will include stimulating talks and interactive sessions by leading experts and early career researchers, reflecting the wide spectrum of research in affective disorders, with a focus on optimisation, innovation, and personalisation of treatments.
Join us for an exciting meeting filled with cutting-edge scientific discussion and excellent networking opportunities.
Provisional programme and more information on the Eventbrite page.

Essentials of Research Sponsorship
2025-11-12 | Online
This course is designed to provide the essentials to become and/or improve the management of clinical research as a sponsor. A one day course that will provide an opportunity to develop skills and gain knowledge in the underlying principles of sponsorship. The course covers widely accepted concepts that not only directly apply to sponsorship but are transferable to other areas of the research industry.
The course is not a replication of Good Clinical Practice, a deep dive into regulatory compliance or a “how to” guide to being a sponsor, but is designed to support organisations in developing tools to become effect and efficient sponsors in the research landscape.
Content Covers: Sponsor Oversight, Financing, Risk Assessments, Quality Management Systems and Transparency
Who is the Course for?
The course is designed for anyone working in research sponsorship from non-commercial organisations or even small companies wishing to develop their own sponsorship portfolio. If your organisation is new to research sponsorship or would like to build on your current processes this course will provide the information to support that development.
More information and registration.

North East London NHS Foundation Trust - Research and Development Conference
2025-11-12 09:15 - 16:00 | Online
This year’s conference will highlight emerging results from North London NHS Foundation Trust – sponsored research and feature a choice of engaging workshops designed to inspire and inform healthcare professionals, researchers, and community partners.
Highlights include:

Presentations on dementia care, digital interventions, and smart technology in communication.
Workshops on inclusive research practices, AI in healthcare, and community-based research.
A wellbeing session and closing reflections from leading voices in the field.

Programme: Click here to view the full programme
Poster: Click here to view

How to Set Up and Manage a Clinical Trial
2025-11-12 09:30 - 14:30 | Online
Ready to take your clinical trial from idea to initiation?
Join the University of Sheffield CTRU for a brand-new, interactive online course designed to guide you through the essential steps of setting up a clinical trial.
You’ll explore key topics including:
Project management
Governance & approvals
Contracts
Data management
Site initiation
Bring your own project idea (funded or not) and apply your learning through practical, hands-on activities throughout the course.
Dates: 12th, 19th & 26th November 2025
Format: Live online sessions
Time: Three half-day sessions
Find out more and book your place
Can’t make these dates?
Register your interest and we’ll let you know about future course dates.
If you have any questions, please contact Sonia at s.t.rizzo@sheffield.ac.uk

Local Capacity and Capability for Research
2025-11-14 | Online
A one-day course designed to provide an understanding of the requirements of an NHS organisation when determining whether to take part in a particular research study as a host. It explains the principles of good study set up, the information required by the R&D office and where it can be obtained. It introduces delegates to the various systems and documents associated with research and also provides some guidance on developing relationships with key support departments and stakeholders within an NHS organisation.
Course Structure
The first half of the day concentrates on making delegates familiar with process. The second half is spent putting everything into practice working through an example study. The course is a mixture of traditional trainer presentation with interactive activities and discussions.
Who is the Course for?
All staff working in R&D offices, who are responsible for assessing, arranging and confirming local capacity and capability when taking part in research
Sponsors of health research, particularly those from outside the NHS, who will get a better insight into the requirements of NHS R&D to ensure that their study and documentation facilitate the process
Researchers designing studies that will involve the NHS, particularly those new to NHS research and/or from outside the NHS, who can get a better insight into the requirements of NHS R&D and ensure that their study and documentation facilitate the process.
More information and registration.

Reaching Beyond the Usual: Inclusive Approaches to Recruitment and Retention
2025-11-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Details
As part of our three-part webinar series Reaching Beyond the Usual: Inclusive Approaches to Recruitment and Retention, we’re delighted to invite you to a live, interactive online session on practical tools to plan and deliver inclusive health research.
Title: How well do you really know your target population?
Speaker
Cherish Boxall, founder 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.
What to expect
In health research, understanding your target population is critical. This online training session will show you how to:

Understand the concept of intersectionality
Recognise how multiple characteristics intersect to create unique experiences and potential barriers for research participants
Apply segmentation principles to define and reach key population groups
Identify various segmentation variables relevant to research (e.g., demographic, geographic, psychographic, behavioural)
Translate these insights into practical recruitment and retention strategies.

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

Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Course
2025-11-24 - 2025-11-28 | Online
This course is for health economists and health professionals with some knowledge of health economics who wish to learn about the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis as applied in health care.
Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Course | University of Oxford

Coffee, Cake & Films about Dementia
2025-11-27 11:00 - 13:30 | POWIC Building, Warneford Hospital, Warneford Lane, Oxford, OX3 7JX
Join us for a coffee morning where we are showing 3 short films about dementia research with an opportunity to ask researchers
questions.
We will also have stalls from NHS research teams, dementia charities and local health services.
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Resilience online workshop
2025-11-27 13:30 - 15:30 | Online
This workshop offers an overview of resilience, plus some hints and tips to manage your own resilience.
Date: 27 November,
Time: 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Location: Google Meet
*NIHR login required* Identity Gateway

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis In Stata Using Participant-Level Data
2025-12-02 - 2025-12-04 | Online
Designed for health economists and health professionals with a background in health economics who want to learn how to conduct cost-effectiveness analysis using the statistical software for data science Stata. Aimed at those who have participated in our Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis course (or similar).
Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Stata Using Participant-level Data — Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)

Principal Investigator Essentials face to face and virtual workshops
2025-12-03 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
A programme to support new, potential and experienced principal investigators.
3 December, 9am to midday via Zoom.
*NIHR login required* Identity Gateway

GCP Consolidation online workshop
2025-12-05 09:30 - 13:00 | Online
Interactive workshop to consolidate the key learnings from the Introduction to GCP e-learning. 15 January, 9:30am to 1pm via Zoom
*NIHR log-in required*

Socio-economic disadvantage inclusion training
2025-12-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
We’re delighted to invite you to 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.
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. 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.
A Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre researcher (TBC) will present on how they have included socially disadvantaged communities in their research.
There will be lots of opportunities for you to ask questions from experienced and knowledgeable speakers to support your research.
These sessions are for:

Research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health

Introduction to public involvement with research training
2025-12-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Online
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, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre together with Oxford University’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 email: Angeli.Vaid@ouh.nhs.uk or Polly.Kerr@phc.ox.ac.uk

Next Steps in Delivering Clinical Research: 2 day course
2025-12-15 09:00 - 16:30 | Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
This 2 day course is aimed at research delivery staff that have contact with research participants.
Dates: 15 December and 8 January
Times: 9am to 4.30pm
Location: The Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
*NIHR login required* Identity Gateway

Christmas Carol Concert
2025-12-22 16:30 - 17:30 | Warneford Hospital, Warneford Lane, Oxford, OX3 7JX
Join Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility colleagues on Monday 22 December from 4.30pm, outside of the main Warneford Hospital reception for a festive Christmas Carol Concert.
All are welcome to attend and there will be a collection for Oxford Health Charity.

Christmas Choir Concert

AcoRD
2026-01-14 10:00 - 12:30 | Oxford Science Park, Conference room 2, Sherrington Building, Magdalen Centre, Robert Robinson Avenue, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4GA
This workshop covers the principles of the AcoRD guidance, discusses the main costing categories and uses examples and activities to increase understanding.
14 January 10am to 12.30pm face-to-face RRDN Office, Oxford Science Park

Clinical Trials Legislation and GCP update webinars
2026-01-16 09:30 - 10:30 | Online
Introduction to the updates in Good Clinical Practice and the UK Clinical Trial Regulations (The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 2025).
16 January, 9:30am to 10:30am via Zoom and 29 January, 1pm to 2pm via Zoom.
Please email sc.rrdn@nihr.ac.uk to book

Integrating Economic Evaluation into Clinical Trials: Mental Health Module
2026-01-20 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
The session is suited to anyone involved in designing, running, or managing brain and mental health trials who wants to incorporate a health economic perspective: clinical investigators, trial managers, research nurses, and other professionals seeking introductory guidance. The material is accessible without an economics background, although very basic familiarity with core concepts is helpful. If you are completely new to health economics, we recommend attending the 1-hour “An introduction to Health Economics” session first.
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Save the Date: NMAHPPs Research Career Showcase
2026-01-21 10:00 - 13:00 | Online
Save the date for this upcoming career showcase!
Calling all nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, pharmacists, and psychologists (NMAHPPs).
We are excited to announce the upcoming NMAHPPs Research Careers Showcase being hosted by the NIHR Oxford Health BRC and taking place online on Wednesday, 21 January 2026, from 10:00 to 13:00.
This inspiring event will bring together clinicians and researchers to explore how engaging in research can shape the future of healthcare and open new opportunities for career development.
The aim of the showcase is to:

Inspire you to see how research can be part of your professional journey
Connect you with colleagues and role models who are already making an impact
Explore the skills, support, and pathways available to get started

We have secured the attendance of Professor Anne- Maree Keenan, currently Chair of Applied Health Research, University of Leeds and Academic Capacity Development Lead for the NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Anne -Maree’s involvement as an Associate Dean of the NIHR Academy has led to her willingness to deliver our keynote address. In this she aims to convey the significant rise of healthcare professionals undertaking research, why this is important both for healthcare and the career development of the workforce and what we need to do to embed research in roles.

Ethnicity Inclusion in Health and Care Research
2026-01-27 10:30 - 12:00 | Online
We’re delighted to invite you to an informative online session on practical tools for ethnicity inclusion in health research. As a researcher or research clinician, this event is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your approach to including people and communities from diverse ethnicities in your research.
These sessions are for:

Research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford HealthMore information and registration: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

Informed Consent
2026-01-28 09:00 - 13:00
This half-day workshop explores the informed consent process.
*NIHR login required*
More information.

OH BRC Lunch & Learn Managing a research career and a family (hybrid)
2026-02-10 12:30 - 14:00 | Hybrid
This is a hybrid session, taking place in person at the Department of Psychiatry, Common Room and on Teams.
Balancing a research career with family life can be rewarding but also very challenging. This “Lunch & Learn” is designed for anyone who is juggling—or considering juggling—research and family responsibilities.
We will explore key principles, practical tips, and lived realities around this topic, including funding eligibility and opportunities for carers, basic parental leave and related rights, and the support you can get at work and at home. The session will also address how to use clear boundaries and communication in your professional and private life, alongside ‘hacks’ to for time and energy management particularly relevant to researchers who are parents.
Lunch will be provided to those attending in-person.
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FREE Public Talk – Can electrodes in the brain treat chronic pain?
2026-02-12 17:30 - 19:00 | Rewley House, 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 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 discuss whether DBS 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.

GCP Consolidation Session
2026-02-25 09:00 - 12:00 | Oxford Science Park, Conference room 2, Sherrington Building, Magdalen Centre, Robert Robinson Avenue, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4GA
The GCP consolidation course is a practical half a day workshop (either face to face
or virtual). You must have completed the online Introduction to GCP eLearning. This
course is not mandatory and does not count towards your GCP refresher.
Why attend?

strengthen your understanding of GCP principles
apply knowledge to real-world scenarios
ensure compliance and confidence in clinical research
ideal for nurses, coordinators, investigators and support
staff
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Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation
2026-03-03 - 2026-03-04 | Online
This course provides a starting point for anyone involved in the healthcare sector who needs an introduction to the language of economics and economic evaluation. It explains how economists evaluate the costs and benefits of health interventions, and how health economics is used by decision makers in the health services and in the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries.
More information and registration.

CHiMES Unplugged: Past, Present & Future
2026-03-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Join us for an engaging showcase of research, successes, and what’s next!
Project Spotlight: Co-Pact, Co-Pics and ATTUNE
The CHiMES Collaborative advances interdisciplinary research, policy, and practice to promote and protect mental health through investigations of cultural psychiatry, health inequalities and eco-social frameworks, advancing inclusive research methods.

Open to the public and the CHiMES community
Insights into how research helps shape better health and wellbeing
An opportunity for you to ask questions and share your thoughts
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