Symposia and workshops

Details of symposia and workshops will appear here immediately after the conference

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Symposium 1.  Facilitating the implementation of research evidence (FIRE)
Symposium leader: Professor Jo Rycroft-Malone, Bangor University, UK

Symposium 2.  Realist evaluation - promise, problems and practicalities
Symposium leader: Dr Peter O’Halloran, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Symposium 3.  Psychological therapies and or as transformational research?
Symposium leader: Professor Dawn Freshwater, University of Leeds, UK

Symposium 4.  Understanding patient experience: challenges, opportunities and new methodologies for working with vulnerable and marginalised patients and their families.
Symposium leader: Professor Debra Jackson, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Symposium 5.  Nursing, safeguarding, and the importance of research
Symposium leader: Professor Ruth Northway, University of Glamorgan, UK

Symposium 6:  Inclusive methodologies for conceptualising and implementing selfmanagement. Empowered users or abandoned patients?
Symposium leader: Professor Sue Latter, University of Southampton, UK

Symposium 7.  Organisation and delegation of care:  competencies for safe performance
Symposium leader: Dr Carin Magnusson, University of Surrey, UK

Symposium 8.  Territorial army nursing research professoriate
Symposium leader: Dr Alan Finnegan, University of Chester, UK

Workshop 1.  Smoking cessation and nursing intervention
Mitra Rangarajan, Private Practice, USA

Workshop 2.  Cardiovascular effects of obstructive sleep apnoea: implications for care
Dr Brenda Hutchins, Belmont University, USA

Thursday 21 March 2013

Workshop 3.  Randomised controlled trials in developmental group psychotherapy with adolescents who repeatedly self harm
Gemma Trainor, Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust, UK

Workshop 4.  Putting the cart before the horse
Professor Brian Williams, University of Stirling, UK

Workshop 5Keeping a research log
Dr Camille Cronin, University of Essex, UK

Friday 22 March 2013

Symposium 9.  Translating knowledge into action: learning from implementation projects undertaken by the NIHR CLAHRC South Yorkshire
Symposium leader: Professor Kate Gerrish, University of Sheffield/Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Symposium 10.  Evaluating healthcare programmes in the real world: can we embrace the mess?
Symposium leader: Dr Helen Cheyne, University of Stirling, UK

Symposium 11.  Generating clinically relevant, impactful evidence in practice
Symposium leader: Dr Chih Hoong Sin, OPM, London, UK

Symposium 12.  Organisational wrongdoing in health care: implications for patient outcomes and nursing leadership
Symposium leader: Dr Marie Hutchinson, Southern Cross University, Australia

Symposium 13.  Advancements in clinical leadership: leading better care
Symposium leader: Dr Kathleen Stoddart, University of Stirling, UK

Symposium 14A symposium to debate issues of empowerment, ethics and cultural difference and their impact in participatory research among socially excluded groups
Symposium leader: Professor Debra Salmon, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Symposium 15.  Complexities of research in critical care nursing
Symposium leader: Dr Sheila Rodgers, University of Edinburgh/NHS Lothian, UK

Symposium 16Sustaining and managing the delivery of student nurse mentorship
Symposium leader: Dr Jocelyn Cornish, King’s College London, UK

Symposium 17.  Brightlight: a lesson in collaboration
Symposium leader: Dr Rachel Taylor, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & London South Bank University, UK

Workshop 6.  Tackling the implementation challenge: bridging the gap between research and practice
Irene Ilott, CLAHRC for South Yorkshire, UK