Technology Enhanced Learning: A Medical Student Conference, Belfast, 3rd October 2014

Abstract submissions are open for the Technology Enhanced Learning: A Medical Student Conference being held on Friday 3^rd October in Riddel Hall, Queen’s University, Stranmillis, Belfast. The team welcome abstracts reporting on innovations in technology enhanced learning within medical education. This could include the development of electronic materials as well as medical education research. Further details on abstract submissions including the categories and the types of presentation opportunities can be found on the QUB website.

Deadline for receipt of abstract submissions: Wednesday 17^th September.

Bookings are also open for this event through the Higher Education Academy’s website for students and educators to join the team in Belfast for a celebration of student engagement in the area of technology enhanced learning within medical education. The day will showcase student presentation poster presentations and demonstrations. In addition there will be a keynote from Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies and a group discussion on the future of technology enhanced learning in medical education. Prizes will be awarded for best poster and best presentation.

For further information about the event please go to the QUB event page or contact Karen Murphy from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences.

Global Research Nurses competition: win attendance to UK research nursing conference

The Global Research Nurses’ network is pleased to announce the second competition for nurses working in clinical research …

THE WINNER WILL BE INVITED TO ATTEND THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING INTERNATIONAL NURSING RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN NOTTINGHAM, UK, 20th – 22nd APRIL 2015, ALL EXPENSES PAID.

SECOND PRIZE – ONE YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION TO 2 ONLINE JOURNALS:

THE JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING & THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING

To enter, research nurses should write a 1,000-1,500 word article to discuss the role of the research nurse: “Using examples from research projects that you have worked on discuss what skills nurses contribute to a clinical research team.”

Full information and criteria, as well as information on how to upload your entry, can be found at https://globalresearchnurses.tghn.org/extra/competition-2015/

Entries must be received by 31st October 2014. Please share this opportunity widely!

Thanks and kind regards
Tamzin

Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager
The Global Health Network

HIFA profile (and source): Tamzin Furtado is Project Manager of Global Health Trials, UK. Professional interests: Global health, clinical trials. tamzin.furtado AT ndm.ox.ac.uk

NW England: Greater Manchester AHSN Hackathon 'Young Carers'

Date: Thursday 31st July

Time: 8.30 – 17.00

Lunch and refreshments will be provided


On the 31st July GM AHSN invite you to an all-day hackathon focussed on developing solutions that can make a difference to the lives of young carers.

There are currently over 700,000 carers in the UK. In the addition to the difficulties of caring for a sick relative, many are placed at a disadvantage in terms of their academic and social lives. The hackathon is your opportunity to make an impact, test your skills and work collaboratively to help develop solutions to this often overlooked social problem. The event is open to everybody, regardless of experience, though we’re particularly looking for:

• Carers and anybody with experience of the challenges faced
• Software developers
• Web developers
• Designers/ UX experts
• Health and social care professionals
• Marketers
• Project managers
• Researcher
• Coders

The GM AHSN has worked with young carers to identify key challenge areas in:

• Support for epilepsy
• Alert systems for schools and offices
• Time management for young carers
• Social Networking for young carers

(Click here for more info on challenges)
The hackathon will bring together all the right people to help develop your idea in super quick time: You can meet and work with people with skills and experience from the healthcare and technology industries, all with the common goal of wanting to make a difference. The event will be attended by a group of young carers from the Manchester based charity Family Action, who will be acting as mentors and contributing to the development of your concepts.

Prizes

As a prize, the winning team will be rewarded with a day of free consultancy from Inventya, to help develop and commercialise your idea. Inventya is a science and technology commercialisation consultancy with an 80% success rate in helping early stage companies win funding for R&D and technology product development.


If you’d like more information, please contact sarah.dougan AT gmahsn.org

My source: @Stefan
 
[ I can't make it :( ]

Competition: Win attendance at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting in Oxford, UK - Deadline June 30

In order to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day, Global Health Trials is running a competition. The first prize is attendance of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) Meeting in Oxford, UK, on 25-27 September 2014, covering transport, accommodation, conference registration and living expenses. The winner and two runners-up will also win one-year fellowships with the RSTMH. Please note that the deadline for entries is June 30, 2014.

In order to enter this competition, you must be working in a research role (for example, as an investigator, nurse, field worker, lab technician or data manager, etc) and currently be working in a low or low-middle income country as defined by the world bank.
To enter, you can send us either a two-minute video you have made (you can use your smartphone) OR a photo-board (up to fifteen photos) on one of the following three topics:

1. A day in the life of our clinical trial(s)
2. How we are building research capacity in our health facility
3. My health research career

An important aim of this competition is to celebrate and recognise the quantity and diversity of clinical trials that are being conducted around the Globe. Tell the Global Health Network community about the trial that you are working on!
Again, please note that the deadline for entries is June 30, 2014.

Please refer to the following link for more information:
https://globalhealthtrials.tghn.org/community/blogs/post/383/2014/05/global-health-trials-international-clinical-tr/

With best regards,
Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager

www.globalhealthtrials.org
info AT globalhealthtrials.org

The Global Health Clinical Trials ( www.globalhealthtrials.org) is an open collaboration aiming to support clinical trials in resource-limited settings by providing guidance, training, resources and career development. Please do visit and let us know what you think.

HIFA profile: Tamzin Furtado is Project Manager of Global Health Trials, UK. Professional interests: Global health, clinical trials. tamzin.furtado AT ndm.ox.ac.uk

My source: HIFA2015

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink: Book

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

group - population

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink: The Indepedent - Review

Image source: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/five-days-at-memorial-sheri-fink/1114975091?ean=9780804128094

'Pictures to Share' book titles for people with later stage dementia

Hi

I am contacting you as one of our LinkedIn colleagues working in the field of dementia. One of our 'Pictures to Share' book titles for people with later stage dementia has been shortlisted for the UK 'People's Book Prize'

By winning this award we can help to to raise awareness of the needs of people with dementia, so it would be great if you could take a look at the People's Book Prize website, and consider voting for our book 'Proverbs and Sayings'.

The link is below:

http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/book.php?id=982

Many thanks for your help

Helen Bate and Michelle Forster
http://www.picturestoshare.co.uk/

[I will register and vote Michelle - good luck PJ ]

£150k NHS Innovation Challenge Prize for Dementia in collaboration with Janssen Healthcare Innovation

We would like to draw your attention to the following information. Please circulate as appropriate. Thank you.

 

NHS Innovation Challenge Prize for Dementia in collaboration with Janssen Healthcare Innovation

 

Prize fund: up to £150k

 

If you are working in partnership to deliver integrated care that’s making a difference to the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families – then enter the challenge and share your best practice.

 

Closing date: 4 September 2013

 

For more details please see: http://www.nhschallengeprizes.org/

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Regards,

Irina Johnston

CHAIN Administrative Assistant

 

If you wish to publicise information on the CHAIN Network please email your request to: enquiries@chain-network.org.uk

 

CHAIN - Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network – is an online international network for people working in health and social care. For more information on CHAIN and joining the network please visit website: http://chain.ulcc.ac.uk/chain/index.html

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences & the scope of innovation

A prize that furthers progress in the life sciences is to be welcomed and the winners certainly lauded. Logic would dictate that The Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize and the funding behind it targets the hard sciences: biology, physics and chemistry and the vast and growing number of associated specialist disciplines.

'Life', however, as in living is more than a binary operation - as the FT Weekend editorial notes:

Those eureka ideas

... It would be good to see more daring choices in the future: those outside the well-trodden circuit of university departments and research institutions in the industrialised world.
Breakthroughs in life science go beyond the laboratory to interactions with patients, doctors, public health officials, drug companies and regulators. They should also tap into advances in information technology. ...

(Financial Times - FT Weekend, page 10, 9th - 10th March 2013)