School of Health Sciences Research and Knowledge Exchange Festival 2022
Tuesday June 21 to Thursday June 23 2022
Making New Connections - Programme Aims:
- To help researchers at the School of Health Sciences to reconnect.
- To share, showcase and celebrate research excellence.
- To support and inspire staff and students at different stages of research career development.
- To provide an opportunity for students and staff to provide input to the School’s research strategy.
Programme overview (scroll down for full details)
Day 1: Tuesday 21 June
In-Person Event (Theme - Connecting)
| Time | Topic/Activity | Speakers |
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| 9-9.30am |
Registration, coffee, catch up and poster viewing
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| 9.30-9.50am |
School Research Strategy
|
Professor Sarah Goldberg, Director of Research
|
| 9.50-10am |
Knowledge Exchange |
Dr Catrin Evans, Director of Knowledge Exchange |
| 10-10.15am |
Post Graduate Research |
Dr Fiona Moffatt, Director of Postgraduate Research |
| 10.15-10.30am |
Clinical Academic Careers |
Dr Sarah Redsell, Director of Clinical Academic Careers |
| 10.30-10.45am |
Early Career Research |
Dr Elli Wilson Concordat Officer and Co-lead of the Early Career Researchers Group |
| 10.45-11am |
Questions & Discussions |
All |
| 11-11.30am |
Coffee, catch up and poster viewing |
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| 11.30am- 12noon |
EDI and Research Culture |
Dr Maria Arruda, Head of Researcher Development |
| 12-12.30pm |
Knowledge Exchange Case Study [1] Setting Up a Spin Out Company |
Stacy Johnson, Associate Professor |
| 12.30-12.50pm |
Speed Dating (Research Networking) |
All |
| 12.50-1.45pm |
Lunch, catch up and poster viewing |
|
| 1.45-2.05pm |
Knowledge Exchange Case Study [2] Creating Impact with Women’s Childbirth Choices
|
Dr Georgia Clancy |
| 2.05-2.25pm |
Knowledge Exchange Case Study [3] Citizen science as a transformative approach to mental health research and knowledge exchange
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Professor Mike Slade & Professor Doreen Boyd |
| 2.25-2.30pm |
Awarding of Poster Prizes and Closing Remarks
|
Professor Sarah Goldberg |
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Day 2: Wednesday 22 June
Theme - Inspiring
| Time | Topic/Activity | Speakers |
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| 1.30-2.30pm |
Mobilising academic knowledge to drive research impact: An implementation science perspective
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Professor Roman Kislov
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Dr Roman Kislov is a Reader in Organisation Studies and Director of Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation, University of Manchester and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Queensland University of Technology.
Roman conducts qualitative research on the processes and practices of knowledge mobilisation, with a particular interest in communities of practice, intermediary roles, organisational learning and implementation of change. His work crosses disciplinary boundaries between organisation studies, public administration and health services research.
Roman is currently a Deputy Theme Lead for Implementation Science in the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration (NIHR ARC) Greater Manchester—a large-scale partnership between universities, NHS providers and third-sector organisations aiming to produce research that responds to the needs of local health and care system across the region.
Before joining MMU, Roman was a senior researcher at Alliance Manchester Business School, where he led research projects on knowledge brokering, leadership for knowledge mobilisation and co-production of research in multiprofessional project teams. In 2016-2018, he was a country lead investigator for FLAME (Facilitators and Leaders Actively Mobilising Evidence)—a comparative case study of evidence-based practice in nursing across Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK.
Prior to pursuing an academic career, Roman worked as a doctor for a gold mining company in Central Asia, combining clinical work with a managerial post. Roman’s work has recently appeared in Public Administration Review, Organization Studies, Public Administration, Public Management Review, Implementation Science and BMJ Quality and Safety.
Day 3: Thursday 23 June
Theme - Challenging
| Time | Topic/Activity | Speakers |
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| 12noon-1.00pm |
A Bridgerton Too Far? - The interplay of race-blindness, race-sensitivity and racism in health research
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Dr Tanvi Rai
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Dr Rai is a mixed methods researcher with a PhD in public health. She is a co-applicant and researcher on an ESRC-funded project exploring the experiences of people and families affected by Covid-19, with a focus on how the pandemic has worsened existing social and health inequalities. Since April 2021, she is also leading a NIHR RfPB-funded project (NOURISH-UK) exploring decision-making about infant feeding among mothers and birthing parents living with HIV in the UK. She is also a tutor on the Oxford Qualitative Courses.
Tanvi joined the department in 2018 to help develop an intervention to enable people who have experienced a stroke or TIA to measure their blood pressure at home (The BP:Together study). Being keen to reflect UK stroke demographics in our sample, she used multiple community-based approaches (in addition to recruitment through primary care) to recruit participants who were ethnically and socioeconomically diverse (with success). In 2019, Tanvi conducted a qualitative interview study with chief investigators of large, multi-site RCTs funded by the NIHR exploring how they choose their research sites. This work was commissioned by the NIHR to explore ways to enable more research to be conducted in areas of greatest patient need.
Previously, Dr Rai was a post-doctoral researcher at the Patient Experience Research Group at Imperial College London studying the experiences of people living with HIV in London, in light of changing guidelines for HIV care and the clinical transformation of HIV from a degenerative and fatal infection to a chronic condition. Dr Rai continues to hold an honorary Visiting Researcher position at Imperial.
Dr Rai completed her PhD in 2013 at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London. Her thesis investigated the relationship between labour migration and HIV in India and how it changes over the life course of migrant families, using qualitative and quantitative methods.