poster talks
   
   
  Day 1: Tuesday 16 November 2010
3.15pm - 4.15pm
   
   
  Session 1 - Inclusion
 

Involving seldom heard groups in health care and social research
Jo Ellins, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

FACTOR: Involving carers in mental health research
Geraldine Mason, Coordinator, FACTOR, NIHR Mental Health Research Network

Rights and responsibilities: Involving children and young people in research
Louca-Mai Brady, Senior Research Officer, NCB Research Centre

The contribution of young people as co-researchers
Lorna Fern, Research and Development Coordinator, National Cancer Research Institute Teenage and Young Adult Clinical Studies Group

   
   
  Session 2 - Supporting User and Community Involvement
 

Step this way for user involvement: How can charities help facilitate lay involvement in research?
Margaret Rawnsley, Research Administration Officer, Epilepsy Action
Monica Cooper, Epolepsy Services Manager, Epilepsy Action
Olech Kostiuk, Member, Epilepsy Action

Peer-to-peer community research: Evaluation of Older Persons Rural Community Development Project
David Day, Research Coordinator, Age Concern Northwest Cumbria

Service user involvement: A route map for those responsible for prioritising, commissioning and overseeing research
Kristina Staley, Co-Director, TwoCan Associates
Bec Hanley, Co-Director, TwoCan Associates

User involvement in health research: A user perspective
Nancy Preston, CECo Research Fellow, Lancaster University

   
   
  Session 3 - Partnerships
 

Research in the field of osteoporosis and joint replacement: What do patients think?
Angela Rogers, Research Programme Manager, Bone Biomedical Research Unit

Establishing a forum for people interested in tissue donation for research
Caroline Magee, Communications Lead, onCore UK

Lay involvement in healthcare associated infection research: How far have we come?
Alison Tingle, Principal Research Programme Officer, Thames Valley University

How to involve service users in researching impact of policy: Developing and evaluating a way to do this
Angela Evans, Research Officer, Swansea University

   
   
  Session 4 - Innovation
 

Service user and carer involvement in mental health training, education and research in West Yorkshire
Virginia Minogue, Regional Lead, Department of Health

Case study: Evaluation of interactive videos for enhancing benefit of hearing aid users
Melanie Ferguson, Consultant Clinical Scientist, (Audiology), National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing

Innovative ways of following up early breast cancer patients: The experience of the ibreast trial development group
Janet Dunn, Professor of Clinical Trials and Head of Cancer Trials, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit

The role of a research user support worker: Innovation and impact
Pam Carter, Research Fellow, Keele University

   
   
  Session 5 - Practice: Biomedical/Clinical
 

Establishing a patient and public involvement strategy at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford
Sue Beatty, Clinical Research Manager, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford

Establishing a research interest group: The experience of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford
Sue Beatty, Clinical Research Manager, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford

A survey of consumer involvement in studies at the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit: What can we learn?
Claire Vale, Research Scientist, Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit

Evaluation of patient research partners' involvement in a meta-analysis of treatments for cervical cancer
Claire Vale, Research Scientist, Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit