Monthly meeting 2019
Wednesday 16 January 2019 Lauren Milden, Public Health Policy
Coordinator, Cambridge Institute of Public Health
‘Policy – how can I get involved?’
Wednesday 20 February Prof Julie Sanders BSc (Hon), RGN, MSc, PhD Director Clinical Research, Quality and Innovation, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Professor Cardiovascular Nursing, William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL. Professor Sanders will speak about the work she has been doing increasing resarch capacity and capability at St Barts Hospital.
Wednesday 20 March Prof Maria Ela Atienza, Departmental Chair, Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman in Manila "The State of Health in the Philippines: Problems of the Health System, Health Workers' Migration and Health Security of the People".
Wednesday 19th June CNiR Annual Meeting
Wednesday 17th July Angela Thompson MBE, Director of Nursing and Deputy Regional Chief Nurse for NHS Improvement
The role of NHS Improvement and evidence based practice.
Monthly Meetings 2018
12.30 - 13.30 - 3rd Wednesday of each month
Seminar Room Hershel Smith Building
(see link to left for map)
Wednesday 17 January
Frances Early , Research and Evaluation Lead,
Centre for Self-Management Support, Addenbrooke's
Learning to Manage Breathlessness: will it be hard work?
Wednesday 21 February
N.B. different venue: Small seminar room
Cambridge Institute of Public Health (also on the Forvie Site)
Peter Hartley, physiotherapist and PhD student
Hospital associated functional decline - pilot studies of
physical activity measurement towards doctoral research
Wednesday 14 March
N.B. different week: 2nd not 3rd Wednesday, but usual venue
Wednesday 18 April
N.B. different venue: Small seminar room
Cambridge Institute of Public Health (also on the Forvie Site)
Jane Fleming, The Public Health of Ageing Research Unit,
Cambridge Institute of Public Health
Case-finding for dementia during acute hospital
admissions: impacts on care after discharge
Wednesday 16 May
Maria Martin-Saez, Lead Occupational Therapist, Stroke and Neuro Rehab
Using a software application to support patients and clinicians in the discharge planning process
Wednesday 20 June
Ben Bowers, Clinical Resarch Nurse, IPH Fellow
Anticipatory prescribing in community end of life care- investigating current practice and patient, family carer and healthcare professionals' perspectives
Wednesday 18 July
Faye Forsyth, Clinical Research Development Nurse
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: What should be the focus of nurse research in a controversial condition that lacks an evidence base for managememt?
........................ August
No meeting
Wednesday 19 September
Professor Andree Le-May
Writing for Publication
Wednesday 17 October
Wednesday 21 November Sue Boase
Where an interest in qualitative research can lead.
Sue will talk about her recent involvement in the writing of a newly published book: ‘Nursing through the years: Care and compassion at The Royal London Hospital’, an oral history, by Loretta Bellman, Sue Boase, Sarah Rogers and Barbara Stuchfield.
........................ December
No meeting
Monthly meetings 2017
January 11 Peter Hartley, Addenbrooke's Dept. of Medicine for the Elderly
lead physiotherapist and Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust/
Biomedical Research Centre funded fellow (ACT/BRC fellowships
for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals):
Hospital associated functional decline
February 8 Dr Giles Yeo, Director of Genomics/Transcriptomics
Metabolic Research Laboratories and
MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge
Public Engagement with Research
March 15 Dr Ian Wellwood, Clinical Nursing Research Group
Workshop Preparing a Poster
April 19 N.B. VENUE CHANGE: Cambridge Institute of Public Health,
Large Seminar Room - Forvie Site, Robinson Way, CB2 0SR
Diana Day, Stroke consultant nurse, Addenbrooke's Hospital:
Fluid intake in hyperacute stroke - plans for a PhD study
Dr Ian Wellwood, Senior Research Associate, Clinical Nursing
Research Group: Preparing an abstract for a conference
May 17 Anna Ellis, Addenbrooke's Patient Panel Coordinator and
Joann Leeding, Cambridge University Health Partners
Communications and PPI Strategic Lead
Patient and Public Involvement in Research
June 21 Lynsey Spillman, Hepatology Dietician, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Developing a healthy lifestyle intervention for people after liver
transplant and
Dr Fotini Kalogiron, The effects of a computer assisted intervention on the quality of life and self care of patients with heart failure.
July 19 Rocio Fernandez Mendez, RN,PhD,Neurosciences
GlyCon Study: Glycaemic control of stress hyperglycaemia in
intensive care units
August ... ... ... summer break
September 20 Claire Adams, Severe insulin resistance and diabetes nurse.
and Senior research nurse, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Developing an intervention to reduce appearance-related
distress for people living with lipodystrophy or
segmental overgrowth disorder
October 18 Dr Sarah Chaney, RCN Audience Engagement Manager, RCN &
Sharon Weldon, UCL
From Time Travelling Operating Theatres to the Krypton Factor:
How to engage new audiences with nursing & AHP research
November 15 Professor Patricia Schofield, Anglia Ruskin University
Centre for Future Ageing, and Deputy Dean for Research,
From pain nurse specialist to research group leader
December ... ... winter break
February 24th Gillian Gatiss
Improving the clinical assessment of factors influencing
nutritional status in patients with liver cirrhosis
to allow nutritional treatment to be individualised
March 16th Andrea Edwards
The Impact of Noise in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Ian Wellwood
Cambridge University Clinical Nursing Research Group update
April 20th Biljana Brezina
IMMUNO-LUPUS pilot study” – proposed PhD project plans
May 18th Guest speaker: Nicky Lambert
Associate Professor, University of Middlesex
Mental Health Research
June 15th Applying for research funding
Several CNiR group members and other local nurses and AHPs have recently applied for funding through various channels – National Institute of Health Research and charity funding schemes for personal research fellowships, research project grants and smaller-scale evaluations. Are you wondering where to begin and what is involved?
Come and hear Frances Early, Gillian Gatiss, Alex Malyon and others sharing their experiences of the process and a few lessons learnt along the way. No questions too basic!
July 20th Opportunities for research projects linked to clinical roles
Communication in Intensive Care -
Petra Polgarova outlines how an internship through the
National Insitute of Health Research/Health Education England
Clinical Academic Internship was an opportunity to
work on a research project "My ICU Voice"
Evidence based approach to inpatient diabetes management
Andrea Lake, Diabetes Specialist Nurse / Lead Diabetes
Research Nurse, outlines her Masters research project
August 17th * summer break *
September 21st Dementia Care in the Hospital
Guest Speaker: Dr Helen Courtney- Pratt
University of Tasmania, Australia
Helen's research focus on self-management of chronic diseases
by community nurses and dementia care provision
within acute healthcare settings. She will be talking to us about
her work with people living with dementia in hospital.
October 19th Nurse Led Chronic Disease Management
Guest speaker: Dr Gerry Lee
Senior Lecturer, King’s College London
Gerry’s research focuses on cardiovascular disease, chronic
disease management and nurse-led care, and she is currently
advanced practice programme lead at KCL
November 16th Jane Elliott, Clinical Project Manager, Papworth Hospital:
Research Training Opportunities at Papworth
Annika Bratt, NCCU research nurse, Addenbrooke’s, will outline
a study she worked on in Sweden:Further development of a generic
postoperative recovery profile instrument, specifically targeting
recovery after coronary artery bypass grafting
December 21st * Christmas break *