NMAHP Doctoral Student Group
This group provides peer support and encouragement to Nurse, Midwife or Allied Health Professionals (NMAHPs) during their doctoral journey.
It meets on the first Wednesday every other month 8.00am to 9.00am in the George Pickering Education Centre (GPEC) at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
For more information please email Dr Louise Strickland: louise.strickland@ouh.nhs.uk
Statistics Advice Clinic
Clear, tailored advice for OUH staff who need support with quantitative data analysis, are facing tricky analyses, or need to make sense of their data, including:
Nurses
Midwives
AHPs
Clinical Psychologists
Pharmacists
Healthcare Scientists.
One-to-one guidance for up to one hour with a statistician from the University of Oxford.
(This clinic is not available to staff preparing for or completing a Quality Improvement (QI) project, or a project that is part of an academic award - please contact your Trust QI Team or academic tutor for support.)
To book please visit: Statistics Advice Clinic
For further information please email: clair.merriman@ouh.nhs.uk
Narrative CVs
Research award programmes may request a narrative CV as part of the application process - please find resources at the links below.
Funding uses Résumé Resources Library: narrative CV templates - UKRI
Narrative CV Guide (pdf) - NIHR Applied Resarch Collaboration (ARC) East Midlands
Exploring the use of narrative CVs in the NIHR - NIHR Open Research
NIHR BRC: Oxford - statistics seminar videos
For seminar videos on statistics please browse the list at the link below:
Video Library | NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Oxford
Sample topics covered include:
Trial designs for late phase trials
Trial designs for early phase trials
Multilevel modelling in clinical trials
Survival analysis techniques in clinical trials
NIHR-funded Incubator Programmes
NIHR-funded Incubator Programmes support research career capacity and encourage networking and career development for healthcare professionals.
The ten programmes include:
Pharmacy
Community Rehabilitation
Paediatric Critical Care
Digital Healthcare.
Incubators to support research capacity | NIHR
Research methodology
NIHR Research Learning Lectures
A series of lectures for anyone in Health and Social Care interested in learning more about research:
Associate Principal Investigator Scheme - Research Learning Lectures
The Research Whisperer
Blog about building your academic research career and finding suitable funding:
Clinical Academic Training and Careers Hub (CATCH)
Information on career options for clinical academics and how to take the first steps towards a clinical academic role:
Clinical Academic Training and Careers Hub (CATCH)
Publication webinars
NIHR Nursing & Midwifery have recorded a series of webinars specifically to support writing publications and addressing some of the challenges associated with writing.
These are free on the Future NHS website and are part of a larger set of Masterclasses developed through the NIHR Nursing & Midwifery Incubator.
Search for Module E: Writing Skills for Clinical Research Nurses, Midwives and research delivery staff - set up an account to access them.
From critical appraisal to risk of bias assessment
If you are appraising literature, please watch this JBI video clarifying some of the terminology used in evaluating studies:
From critical appraisal to risk of bias assessment - YouTube
Narrative analysis explained
A simple explanation of narrative analysis:
Narrative Analysis Explained in Simple Terms - Delve YouTube
Grounded Theory
Grounded Theory - Core Elements. Part 1 - Graham R Gibbs YouTube
Coding Qualitative Data
Beginners guide to coding qualitative data - Quirkos YouTube
How to prepare for a scientific poster
Join Lung Cancer Nursing UK and create an account to view this webinar:
Log in - Lung Cancer Nursing UK
Research delivery support
Your Path In Research
Add research to your role, build your research career and gain new skills. Links to free events and simple steps to a career in research delivery:
NIHR Career Development for Nurse and Midwives
Get involved in research delivery within your clinical area and learn more about the opportunities available:
Research made simple
A collection of papers on a variety of clinical research topics, including cohort studies, sensitivity and specificity, foundations of a good PhD, and appraising quantitative and qualitative research:
Research made simple | Evidence Based Nursing
Guide to clinical academic careers
The NIHR ARC Wessex have produced a series of videos on clinical academic career pathways:
A guide to starting out in clinical academic research - Vimeo
