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| 22nd April 2024 |
09.30-16.00 |
ECR Workshop |
Researcher-led Initiative Workshop: Fostering Cross - Discipline Early and Mid-Career Collaboration
Join us for a 2-day in-person event (Monday 22nd April 2024 and Monday 20th May 2024) aiming to help Early and Mid-Career Researchers across the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences collaborate, prepare and submit funding applications. The workshops will involve discussion of ideas, talks around patient and public involvement, funding sources, processes and timelines to consider before submission, and group work. You will preferably have a research idea to work on during the workshops, however, the event also offers an ideal opportunity to network, develop ideas, discuss plans and collaborate with other attendees.
Read more and Register
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Reed Hall, Streatham campus |
| 24th April 2024 |
12.00-13.00 |
PenARC Implementation Science Forum |
The PenARC Implementation Science Team runs a monthly implementation science forum on the last Wednesday of the month. The next one is on 24th April, 12.00-13.00pm. If you would like a Teams link and calendar invite please contact Charlotte Hewlett: c.hewlett@exeter.ac.uk. Each one is a standalone session, so just come to any that you like the sound of.
The format is a one-hour online meeting for researchers and others interested in implementation issues. Each meeting focuses on a topical issue in implementation science and involves discussion based around a relevant article. There is no expectation to read the article beforehand, although it is circulated in good time for those who are interested.
Upcoming topics include intervention adaptation, service user engagement, spread/scale-up and implementation support practitioners. There will also be an opportunity to share information about other implementation science resources and events.
The article we will be discussing at the next (April 2024) meeting is:
Santos, W.J., Graham, I.D., Lalonde, M. et al. The effectiveness of champions in implementing innovations in health care: a systematic review. Implement Sci Commun 3, 80 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-022-00315-0
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Online event |
| 29th April 2024 |
12.00-12.45pm |
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A Framework for the Fair Pricing of Medicines
Mike Paulden
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
As high-cost medicines put increasing pressure on public health care budgets, the need to identify ‘fair’ prices for medicines has never been greater. This paper proposes a framework, built upon fundamental economic principles, that allows for the consideration of ‘fair’ prices for medicines. The framework incorporates key considerations from conventional supply-side and demand-side approaches for specifying a cost-effectiveness ‘threshold’, including the health opportunity cost borne by other patients (k) and society’s willingness to pay for marginal improvements in population health (v). The costs incurred by manufacturers in developing and supplying new medicines are also considered, as are the incentives for manufacturers to strategically price up to any common price per unit of benefit (cost-effectiveness ‘threshold’) specified by the payer. The framework finds that, at any ‘fair’ price, a medicine’s dynamically calculated incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) lies below k. When pricing medicines collectively, the framework finds that a common price below k is required to maximize population health (consumer surplus) or to maximize total welfare (consumer and producer surplus). This framework has important policy implications for payers who wish to improve population health outcomes from constrained health care budgets. In particular, existing approaches to ‘value-based pricing’ should be reconsidered to ensure that patients receive a ‘fair’ share of the resulting economic surplus. (DOI: 10.1007/s40273-023-01325-z)
Please register your attendance at http://ex.ac.uk/dNv
For further information please contact l.k.watson@exeter.ac.uk
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This event will be held as a hybrid event from St Lukes Campus. |
| 8th May 2024 |
15.00-16.30 |
CBS & BRC joint Seminar |
Investigating the impact of schizophrenia risk genes on learning and plasticity
Jeremy Hall
We are pleased to invite you to this joint BRC and CBS Seminar with Jeremy Hall, the Hodge Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Cardiff University.
A drinks reception with alcoholic drinks and nibbles will also be provided at the seminar. Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues and networks.
For more details on previous CBS seminars please see the CBS Seminars SharePoint https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/sites/DepartmentofClinicalandBiomedicalSciencesHLS/SitePages/Seminar-series.aspx
Bio: Jeremy is the Hodge Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Cardiff University. His overarching interest is in the role of genetic and environmental risk factors in the development of serious mental illness. In his work he employs a translational approach spanning human and laboratory studies. He is particularly interested in how identified genetic risk factors affect learning processes in the brain; abnormalities in which underlie key symptoms.Overall he believes that understanding how genetic risk factors influence the brain and how these responses are modulated by environmental stimuli is crucial to the development of new treatments for psychiatric symptoms. In addition to his research work he is also clinically active and conduct clinics in neuropsychiatry. In addition to his pre-clinical work he also conducts clinical work and research in the fields of adult neurodevelopmental disorders and early psychosis.
Abstract: Ever since it was first described by Bleuler, schizophrenia has been considered to potentially be a condition defined by altered associative learning. Recent years have seen major advances in psychiatric genetics which have highlighted genes involved in learning and plasticity, as well as immune pathways, as being implicated in psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia. In this talk I will review evidence of altered association formation in schizophrenia and examine the effect of specific genes, especially voltage gated calcium channels, on plasticity and risk for psychosis. Finally, I will present recent data suggesting unexpected convergence between different pathways of risk for schizophrenia.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94743259107?pwd=QUpEUzA4YUszc2pRRXR1MThvbWVXZz09
Meeting ID: 947 4325 9107
Password: 536081
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South Cloisters room 3.06, St Luke's and online |
| 10th May 2024 |
09.00-15.00 |
CYP Wellbeing @Exeter Research Network Annual Symposium |
Please note the deadline for the poster competition has been extended until Friday 26th April.
We are pleased to inform you that registration is now open for the third Annual Symposium of the Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Research Network. The event is open to everyone with an interest in research into children and young people’s wellbeing, so please share it with your departments, forum’s, classes and networks. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
It is a great opportunity to network with other researchers with different backgrounds and methodologies but the same central interest and many interdisciplinary collaborations have started here. The programme includes progress and discussion on our key Themes: meaningful involvement of children and young people in research, bio-psycho-social-cultural mechanisms of mental health, mental health and education and adverse childhood experiences and hear more about work funded directly by Network. Please register to attend via EventBrite
NEW THIS YEAR is our ECR Poster competition and there are prizes available!
This is a chance to display your work relating to CYP’s wellbeing and for discussion with other researchers and people interested in this field. The Network will cover the cost of poster printing and there are £50 Love2shop vouchers available for the top two posters. Posters will be displayed and prizes awarded during the day.
To enter please complete THIS form and email your poster design to cypwellbeing@exeter.ac.uk. There are limited places available and these will be awarded on a first come first served basis. The deadline for applications and receipt of posters is Friday 26th April.
Please spread the word through your networks and forum.
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Reed Hall, Streatham Campus |
| 13th May 2024 |
12.00-13.00 |
CYP Wellbeing seminar series |
Supporting Autistic people through pregnancy and the fourth trimester. What does the evidence say?
Dr Aimee Grant -
The CYP Wellbeing @Exeter Research Network are pleased to invite you to the next seminar in our seminar series with Dr Aimee Grant, Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Swansea University & Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. This will be an online presentation which will be live streamed to locations on Penryn, Streatham and St Luke’s Campuses. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available at all three venues.
Bio: Aimee Grant is a Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at Swansea University Centre for Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translation. She has researched marginalised pregnancy and early motherhood for the past decade, including those living in poverty, stigmatised locations and Disabled women. Aimee's current research is an 8 year Wellcome Trust funded longitudinal study using visual methods to understand Autistic experiences "from menstruation to menopause". She is the author of two Documentary Analysis texts (Routledge, 2019; Policy Press, 2022), and is currently writing The Autism Friendly Guide to Pregnancy (and the fourth trimester), Managing Your Research Project, with Pat Thompson, Helen Kara and Inger Mewburn (Routledge), and is editing Using Documents in Research, with Helen Kara (Policy Press).
Abstract: Autism is a normal part of cognitive diversity, and around 1 in 125 of births in the UK are to those with a diagnosis of Autism. In this presentation, I will discuss my research on Autistic people’s experiences of maternity care, and the entirely Autistic-developed resources “Autistic pregnancy, birth and beyond: your questions answered.” I will end by arguing that good maternity care for Autistic people follows the principles of universal design, and would benefit all service users.
Please register to attend here or email cypwellbeing@exeter.ac.uk for more information. Please feel free to forward this to your colleagues and networks. Please note these events are open to all students as well as staff. Thank you.
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Livestreamed to Streatham Campus Washington Singer 234 and St Luke’s Exeter Medical School Building, room S11 |
| 20th May 2024 |
09.30-16.00 |
ECR Workshop |
Researcher-led Initiative Workshop: Fostering Cross - Discipline Early and Mid-Career Collaboration
Join us for a 2-day in-person event (Monday 22nd April 2024 and Monday 20th May 2024) aiming to help Early and Mid-Career Researchers across the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences collaborate, prepare and submit funding applications. The workshops will involve discussion of ideas, talks around patient and public involvement, funding sources, processes and timelines to consider before submission, and group work. You will preferably have a research idea to work on during the workshops, however, the event also offers an ideal opportunity to network, develop ideas, discuss plans and collaborate with other attendees.
Read more and Register
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Reed Hall, Streatham campus |
| 12th June 2024 |
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Decolonising Medicine and Health Conference 2024 |
The organising committee in HLS is pleased to invite you to the first Decolonising Medicine and Health Conference 2024, on the 12th of June at the RILD Building, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. This full day conference will be an opportunity for staff, students and healthcare professionals from the faculty to discuss decolonising healthcare and chart a bold path forward.
The website includes details of speakers, panels and workshops taking place during the day and details of the organising committee. Please register your attendance and select your preferred workshop on the registration form via this link:
https://sites.google.com/exeter.ac.uk/dmhc?usp=sharing
There is also an opportunity for staff and students to submit an abstract for poster presentations on their EDI work within Medicine and Healthcare.
The conference is open to both the faculty and external academics/practitioners within the fields.
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RILD Building, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital |
