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Training
opportunities
Accessibility of training opportunities across Wessex region.
Training Courses*
Grant writing
Course: Essential Guide to Grant Applications; Fellowship Application Day; Preparing a research proposal for NIHR RfPB programme; Grant Development and Writing Retreat
Name of organisation: RDS
Target audience: UK-based health care profs, social care and public health practitioners, health researchers and SMEs; All researchers at any career stages aiming for NIHR Fellowship application; Researchers from across the South-Central Region who are intending to apply to the RfPB prog; Individuals or teams of 2 or 3 people, at least one of whom must be a health or social care professional working in England.
Website: https://www.rds-sc.nihr.ac.uk/workshops-events/essential-guide-grant-applications/
Course: Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) and Career Development Research Fellowship (CDRF) workshops
Name of organisation: SoAR
Target audience: Health and social care professionals (excluding doctors and dentists)
Introduction to research – general/specific
Course: Next steps in delivering Clinical Research; CRIC; Introduction to the Clinical Research Network; Introduction to Research
Name of organisation: CRN
Target audience: Research practitioners who are new (in post for more than 6 months); refresher for all research practitioners; people working in research delivery and management roles.
Website: https://local.nihr.ac.uk/lcrn/events/?custom_in_lcrn=22641
Course: Cancer research introductory course; Neurology research course; Informed consent training-In house
Name of organisation: HHFT
Target audience: Research staff
Website: https://hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/get-involved/research-department
Course: Introduction to Systematic Reviews; Introduction to Health Economics.
Name of organisation: SHTAC
Target audience: Student/public/academic sector
Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/shtac/training/systematic-reviews-training.page
Primary Care training and resources
Course: Primary Care Commercial Research Confidentiality Disclosure Agreement
Name of organisation: CRN
Target audience: Researchers working at Primary Care settings
Website: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/crn-confidential-disclosure-agreement-process-summary/11451
Course: NIHR School for Primary Care Research PhD; Wellcome PhD; GP apprenticeship
Name of organisation: Pry care research centre
Target audience: Non-Clinical researchers
Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/primarycare/working-with-us/index.page
Research delivery
Course: Site file management; The research conversation; Practical laboratory skills for research delivery staff
Name of organisation: CRN
Target audience: Research delivery staff
Website: tbc
Course: Archiving Masterclass
Name of organisation: NHS R&D
Target audience: Individuals and small groups (including sponsors and R&D office staff, Universities, non-commercial funders, finance teams, facilitators or grant advisors, Research management team, Project Managers, monitors, investigators, Sponsor representatives)
Website: https://rdforum.nhs.uk/open-course-details/?id=44644
Course: How to do meaningful and effective PPI – bitesize skills-based sessions for researchers: 5 sessions
Name of organisation: Wessex PIN
Target audience: Anyone looking to develop practical PPI skills
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/wessexpin/shared-learning-event
Course: PPI training course
Name of organisation: SoAR
Target audience: Staff
Website: https://www.southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/patient-and-public-involvement
Course: Research Development workshops; Research and Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF); Clinical Research-documentation and filing
Name of organisation: BU
Target audience: Staff/students/RKEDF Academics and researchers
Course: PPI training
Name of organisation: ARC
Target audience: NIHR Wessex Academy members
Website: https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/get-involved-in-our-research-ppi/
Course: Specific elements of delivering research-consent, data management, recruitment, safety reporting, confidentiality, maintaining files; Human tissue authority research requirement
Name of organisation: UHD
Target audience: Postgraduate researchers, Bournemouth University staff, Dorchester Hospital staff.
Course: Global Health MSc module - Critical Issues in Global Health: Concepts and Case Studies; Medical Terminology Training
Name of organisation: Wessex Institute
Target audience: Global Health Team & other relevant stakeholders within the WI; admin staff, health care workers, managers, allied health professionals
Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wessex-institute/index.page
Course: MOOC on Digital Tools for recruitment and retention Clinical trials; Development and Skills Enhancement Fellowships in Clinical Trials
Name of organisation: CTU
Target audience: Anyone with an interest in clinical research; NIHR Academy member
Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/ctu/index.page
Course: Research seminar series
Name of organisation: PCRC
Target audience: All
Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/primarycare/news/events/latest.page
Research management & governance
Course: AcoRD Practitioner/ AcoRD Masterclass; Essentials of Research Sponsorship; Local Capacity and Capability for Research; Regulatory Inspection Ready; Essentials of NHS Research
Name of organisation: NHS R&D
Target audience: Individuals and small groups (including sponsors and R&D office staff, Universities, non-commercial funders, finance teams, facilitators or grant advisors, Research management team, Project Managers, monitors, investigators, Sponsor representatives)
Website: https://rdforum.nhs.uk/open-course-details/?id=44644
Course: UHS Research Leaders’ Programme
Name of organisation: SoAR
Target audience: UHS employees
Website: https://www.soar-southampton.org/events/uhs-research-leaders-programme-(rlp)-fellowships
Course: Research Ethics; NHS site set up of research and overview of approval process; Overview of NIHR, CRNs and NIHR portfolio
Name of organisation: BU
Target audience: Staff/students/researchers
Course: IRAS workshop
Name of organisation: UHD
Target audience: Postgraduate researchers
Course: NIHR Research Impact Assessment Programme
Name of organisation: Wessex Institute
Target audience: NIHR Coordinating Centre, Research Design Service and DHSC staff
Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wessex-institute/index.page
Good Clinical Practice
Course: Good Clinical Practice (GCP)-Introduction, refresher; informed consent training
Name of organisation: CRN
Target audience: Individuals involved in the conduct of studies at research sites
Website: https://local.nihr.ac.uk/lcrn/events/?custom_in_lcrn=22641
Course: GCP-Introduction or refresher
Name of organisation: Dorset County Hospital
Target audience: NHS researcher, University staff working with NHS, Volunteer patient researcher
Website: tbc
Course: Good clinical practice ‘lite’
Name of organisation: BU
Target audience: Staff/students/researchers
Course: Adhoc GCP training
Name of organisation: UHD
Target audience: Postgraduate researchers, Bournemouth University staff, Dorchester Hospital staff.
Principal Investigator courses – general/specific
Course: Anaesthesia-specific; Gastroenterology and Hepatology-specific PI training day; PI Workshop
Name of organisation: CRN
Target audience: Particularly suited to PIs who have been working in this role for less than 6 months
Website: https://local.nihr.ac.uk/lcrn/wessex/training.htm
Course: Investigator workshop
Name of organisation: UHD
Target audience: Staff
Course: Associate PI Scheme
Name of organisation: CTU
Target audience: Healthcare professionals
Website: tbc
Programme event
Course: NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme event; Supporting Social Care Research in South Central
Name of organisation: RDS
Target audience: UK-based researchers and practitioners interested in improving the health of the public or reduce inequalities; social care researcher, practitioner, or a user, commissioner or provider of social care services
Website: https://www.rds-sc.nihr.ac.uk/workshops-events/phr-event/
https://www.rds-sc.nihr.ac.uk/workshops-events/social-care-event/
Internship
Course: Spring and Autumn Researcher Schools: Managing a research career; Achieving a work-life balance; Strategies for connecting and working with others
Name of organisation: SoAR
Target audience: ECRs across Wessex
Website: https://www.soar-southampton.org/events/autumn-school
Course: Research student placement (8-12 wks)
Name of organisation: HHFT
Target audience: Winchester University student
Website: tbc
Course: Pre and post-doc
Name of organisation: ARC
Target audience: NIHR Wessex Academy members
Website: https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/our-academy-old/fellowships-and-internships/internships-cohort-5-2022/
Course: Summer placement; ACF placement
Name of organisation: PCRC
Target audience: UoS medical students; Academic clinical fellows linked to UoS
Website: tbc
Methodology
Course: Qualitative research methods; implementation science through bitesize presentations
Name of organisation: ARC
Target audience: NIHR Wessex Academy members
Website: https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/events/categories/events-seminars-and-courses/
*training courses on offer as at the time of data collection
Acronyms
CRN - Clinical Research Network, Wessex
NHS R&D - NHS Research and Development
RDS - Research Design Service: South-Central
University of Portsmouth - University of Portsmouth (Portsmouth Hospital Trust)
South-central ambulance - South-central ambulance service
Wessex PIN - Wessex Public Involvement Network
SoAR - Southampton Academy of Research
HHFT - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dorset County Hospital - Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dorset Healthcare - Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
BU - Bournemouth University
SHTAC - Southampton Health Technology Assessment Centre, University of Southampton
ARC - NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, Wessex
UHD - University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trusts
Wessex Institute - Wessex Institute (School of Healthcare Enterprise & Innovation), University of Southampton
CTU - Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton
PCRC - Primary Care Research Centre, University of Southampton
Solent - Solent NHS Trust
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