National RDSU Conference Draft Programme

Research and Development Support Unit (RDSU) Network

National Conference Programme

Building – Strengthening –Sustaining Research Across England

Thursday June 14^th 2007

London House, Goodenough College, London

Plenary Session

Introduction to the conference and to the RDSU National Network (Presentation)

Tara Dean National RDSU Network Steering Committee Chair

RDSU involvement in the Research for Patient Benefit Funding Scheme (Presentation)

Professor Celia Davies, Director of RfPB, CCF

A view from a Strategic Health Authority (Presentation)
Quentin Sandifer, Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, South East Coast SHA

Parallel Workshops

Building the NIHR Comprehensive Research Network (Presentation)

John Sitzia, Lead for South East Coast, UK Clinical Research Network

Getting Research into Practice – the role of RDSUs (Presentation)

Dr Sara Mallinson, Associate Director, Health R&D Now

Parallel Workshops

How can the NHS get a share of EU funding for research? (Presentation)

David Crook PhD, Principal Adviser, SE RDSU (Sussex) and Gillian Vass, Manager, Kent & Medway NHS Health & Europe Centre

Good Practice in providing research consultations (Presentation)

Dr Helen Elsey, Deputy Director, Southampton and N&W Hampshire RDSU and Dr Colin Pritchard, Coordinator, Peninsula RDSU (Cornwall)

Good practice in obtaining user involvement in research (Presentation)

Dr Sara Morris, Manager for User Involvement in Research, R&D NoW, Professor Valerie Hall, Head, SE RDSU (Sussex) and Natalie Lambert, Research Advisor, SE RDSU (Sussex)