Archived Events

  • Initial and Continuing Training in Research Ethics

    Event starts:
    22 Oct 2007 at 10.00am
    Event ends:
    24 Oct 2007 at 4.00pm
    Venue:
    Keele University, Staffordshire
    Type:
    3-day course. For further info and booking please contact ethics@keele.ac.uk
    Target audience:
    New and experienced LREC or MREC committee members who have not attended many training courses before.

    Introduction to Research Ethics; Research Ethics Case Studies; Information Giving and Valid Consent; Voluntariness and Consent; Competence and Consent; Equipoise; Harm and Risk; Preserving Confidentiality and Breaching Confidentiality.

  • Introducing the Research Passport System

    Event starts:
    30 Oct 2007
    Event ends:
    30 Oct 2007
    Venue:
    London
    Type:
    Launch event, places are free and limited so please register with name, position and employer details by 15th October by email to Hannah.brown@ukcrc.org
    Target audience:
    University Research Managers, Heads of HR offices in universities and NHS, NHS R&D Managers

    An event to mark the start of UK-wide roll-out.

  • WORKSHOP: Ethics behind closed doors?

    Event starts:
    31 Oct 2007 at 9.30am
    Event ends:
    31 Oct 2007 at 4.30pm
    Venue:
    The Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS
    Type:
    Workshop, registration required, please contact Stephanie.Kraus@nationalres.org.uk
    Target audience:
    Interested parties

    NRES workshop to debate about open and fair ethical deliberations, for informing NRES policy.

  • The future of service user involvement in research: funding and support

    Event starts:
    29 Nov 2007
    Event ends:
    29 Nov 2007
    Venue:
    Woodland Grange Conference Centre, Leamington Spa
    Type:
    NHS R&D Forum workshop
    Target audience:
    Researchers, funders, service users and carers

    Workshop run by volunteers, planned by a team of service users, carers and professionals, to clarify expectations and discuss problems for researchers in achieving user/carer involvement.

  • NRES Researcher Training Day

    Event starts:
    18 Jun 2009
    Event ends:
    18 Jun 2009
    Venue:
    Bristol

    Intended audience funders, researchers, research managers

  • NRES Adults lacking capacity - 1 day

    Event starts:
    19 Jun 2009
    Event ends:
    19 Jun 2009
    Venue:
    Novotel Bristol City

    Intended audience - REC members, coordinators, researchers

  • IRAS E-learning module

    Event starts:
    1 Jul 2009
    Event ends:
    31 Dec 2009
    Venue:
    online training
    Target audience:
    Suitable for anyone doing health and community care research

    The IRAS e-learning module should take approximately one hour to complete and is available from the IRAS website. This module was developed by the MRC Regulatory Support Centre on behalf of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration and the IRAS Partners.

  • Centre for Stem Cell Biology International Symposium – Human Embryonic Stem Cells – Progress towards Cell Therapy

    Event starts:
    14 Jul 2009
    Event ends:
    14 Jul 2009
    Venue:
    The University of Sheffield, Student Union Auditorium

    The Centre for Stem Cell Biology (CSCB) at the University of Sheffield will host it's 8th annual one day international symposium on ‘Human Embryonic Stem Cells - Progress Towards Cell Therapy’. For more information and to register please see the CSCB website (link above).

  • Human Tissue Authority (HTA) Review of the Year Event

    Event starts:
    14 Jul 2009
    Event ends:
    14 Jul 2009
    Venue:
    BMA House, London

    This is the HTA's main event of the year, during which they launch their Annual Review, and report back on key activities during 2008/09. The event will also provide an opportunity for a lively and informative discussion entitled ‘Cord blood: benefits, risks and options for the next 10 years'. There are a few places remaining, please see the HTA website for more details.

  • NRES Roadshow - 1 day

    Event starts:
    15 Jul 2009
    Event ends:
    15 Jul 2009
    Venue:
    Birmingham

    Intended audience - REC members, coordinators and researchers.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) event: Human Tissue Act – 1 day

    Event starts:
    16 Jul 2009
    Event ends:
    16 Jul 2009
    Venue:
    London
    Target audience:
    REC members and Researchers

    Please see the NRES website (link above) for more details.

  • General Medical Council (GMC) revised guidance to doctors on research, and making and using audio and visual recordings of patients

    Event starts:
    3 Aug 2009
    Event ends:
    25 Sep 2009
    Type:
    Consultation

    Deadline for comments: 25 September 2009. The GMC has published three pieces of guidance for doctors for consultation: Good practice in research; Consent to research and; Making and using visual and audio recordings.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) event: Childrens Research Ethics – 1 day

    Event starts:
    5 Oct 2009
    Event ends:
    5 Oct 2009
    Venue:
    Liverpool
    Target audience:
    Researchers applying to NHS RECs, REC members, Trial Research Managers and R&D managers.

    Please see the NRES website (link above) for more details.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) Roadshow – 1 day

    Event starts:
    12 Oct 2009
    Event ends:
    12 Oct 2009
    Venue:
    London
    Target audience:
    REC members, Coordinators and Researchers

    Please see the NRES website (link above) for more details.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) Researcher Training Day - Oxford

    Event starts:
    14 Oct 2009
    Event ends:
    14 Oct 2009
    Venue:
    Oxford
    Target audience:
    Funders, Researchers and R&D Managers

    Please see the NRES website (link above) for more details.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) event: Research in Emergency Situations

    Event starts:
    15 Oct 2009
    Event ends:
    15 Oct 2009
    Venue:
    Manchester
    Target audience:
    REC members, Coordinators, Researchers and R&D Managers.

    Please see the NRES website (link above) for more details.

  • British Association of Research Quality and Assurance (BARQA) Annual Conference

    Event starts:
    28 Oct 2009
    Event ends:
    30 Oct 2009
    Venue:
    Grand Hotel, Brighton.

    Details available on the BARQA website.

  • Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Conference 2009

    Event starts:
    10 Nov 2009
    Event ends:
    10 Nov 2009
    Venue:
    Royal College of Physicians, London

    The one-day conference will focus on the latest developments in the HTA programme, offer advice on making successful funding applications, and provide insights on how you can work with us. Further information is available on the HTA website.

  • The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, Disclosure of identifying information for research regulations

    Event starts:
    16 Nov 2009
    Event ends:
    2 Dec 2009
    Venue:
    Consultation

    The regulations establish a procedure for authorising the disclosure of identifying information held by the HFEA, for research purposes, where it is not practicable to obtain consent to the disclosure from the persons to whom the information relates. The HTA welcome views on the amendments made to the draft regulations as a result of the responses received to the first consultation exercise.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) event: Childrens Participation in Research – 1 day

    Event starts:
    23 Nov 2009
    Event ends:
    23 Nov 2009
    Venue:
    London
    Target audience:
    REC members, Researchers, Pharmaceutical organisation representatives or reps from other relevant organisations.

    Please see the NRES website (link above) for more details.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) event: Adults Lacking Capacity – 1 day

    Event starts:
    3 Dec 2009
    Event ends:
    3 Dec 2009
    Venue:
    Newcastle
    Target audience:
    REC members, Coordinators and Researchers

    Please see the NRES website (link above) for more details.

  • National Research Ethics Service (NRES) Researcher Training Day - London

    Event starts:
    15 Dec 2009
    Event ends:
    15 Dec 2009
    Venue:
    London
    Target audience:
    Funders, Researchers and R&D Managers

    Please see the NRES website for more details.

  • NRES Roadshow

    Event starts:
    28 Jan 2010
    Event ends:
    28 Jan 2010
    Venue:
    Manchester
    Target audience:
    Audience: REC Members, Co-ordinators, Researchers

    An opportunity for RECs and wider the research community to hear of recent development and future plans for the research ethics service and ethical review (challenges and opportunities). More information is available on the NRES website.

  • NRES Researcher Training Day

    Event starts:
    3 Feb 2010
    Event ends:
    3 Feb 2010
    Venue:
    Manchester
    Target audience:
    Funders, Researchers, Research Managers

    NRES is committed to facilitating and promoting ethical research and is rolling out, the very successful Researcher Training Day which gives researchers applying to NHS Research Ethics Committees (RECs) an opportunity to learn from REC members and NRES staff, about the process of ethical review and what RECs look for when reviewing research ethics applications.

  • NRES Adults Lacking Capacity

    Event starts:
    16 Feb 2010
    Event ends:
    16 Feb 2010
    Venue:
    Leeds
    Target audience:
    Research Ethics Committee Members, Coordinators, Researchers

    This training day aims to introduce REC members to the statutory provisions relating to research involving adults unable to consent for themselves, both under the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and the Clinical Trials Regulations; and to facilitate understanding of the implications for ethical review.

  • NRES Researcher Training Day

    Event starts:
    10 Mar 2010
    Event ends:
    10 Mar 2010
    Venue:
    Scotland – venue TBC
    Type:
    Training
    Target audience:
    Funders, Researchers, Research Managers

    The Researcher Training Day gives researchers applying to NHS Research Ethics Committees (RECs) an opportunity to learn from REC members and NRES staff, about the process of ethical review and what RECs look for when reviewing research ethics applications.

  • Ethical Principles Relating to Consent for Use of Anonymised Samples in Research

    Event starts:
    16 Mar 2010
    Event ends:
    16 Mar 2010
    Venue:
    London – venue TBC
    Type:
    Workshop
    Target audience:
    REC Members and Co-ordinators, Researchers, R&D officers/managers

    The workshop aims to provide information that will clarify the ethical principles relating to when consent is or is not required for use of anonymised biological samples in research.

  • NHS R&D Forum Annual Conference 2010

    Event starts:
    24 May 2010
    Event ends:
    25 May 2010
    Venue:
    Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, near Manchester
    Type:
    Conference

    The next NHS R&D Forum Annual Conference will be held on 24 and 25 May 2010 at the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, near Manchester. More information will be made available via the Forum website and newsletter as details are finalised but in the meantime be sure to save the date in your diary.

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