Pre-conference workshop for phd students and early career researchers
MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2022
9.30 - 3.30pm
University of Birmingham, UK
What?
· This workshop will take place prior to the OBHC conference, which is a flagship event of the Society for Studies in Organising Health Care (SHOC).
· The workshop will be designed around participants’ needs and include:
- Research speed-dating
- Writing a fellowship application
- Keynote speaker: Dr. Charlotte Croft, Associate Professor, Warwick Business School, UK
- Working on your research: interactive sessions in small groups with a senior academic
Who?
· The workshop is open to those PhDs/ECRs who have registered for the conference.
· There are only 32 spaces so book quickly.
· As in previous years, the workshop will be facilitated by Professor Catherine Pope, University of Oxford, who is also PhD/ECR Development Officer for SHOC.
How much?
· Thanks to a grant from SAMS (http://www.socadms.org.uk/) and SHOC, we can make the workshop free of charge.
· All bursaries have now been allocated.
Next?
· Register for the conference: http://shoc.org.uk/
- To register for the pre-conference workshop, please email the Events Team and title the email "OBHC Pre-conference Workshop".
- We will send you further details (including bursaries)
OBHC Pre-Conference Workshop Programme 2022
| 09:00 | Registration, coffee and tea / welcome |
| 09:30 | Research speed-dating (networking exercise whole group) Facilitator: Catherine Pope. This highly popular exercise will serve both as an ice-breaker and as a powerful networking tool, enabling junior scholars to talk about their research interests and projects both with each other and with established/more senior academics. Please note this activity can be noisy and we move around the room so if you have hearing impairment or mobility needs please let me know in advance. |
| 11:00 | Writing a fellowship application (interactive group work). Facilitator: Catherine Pope. Drawing on insights from NIHR Fellowship panel deliberations, and support for successful grant and fellowship applications to NIHR, ESRC and charity funders this session will provide tips and ideas to support research and career development. |
| 12:00 | Guest speaker Charlotte Croft. “Building a career in organisation and management studies as a healthcare researcher (and rebuilding post pandemic)”. Charlotte will reflect on her experience in developing a career in the field of management and organisational studies, with a particular interest in healthcare and leadership, and she will also share insights from working during and post-pandemic. Delegates will be invited to ask questions over lunch and use this talk to inspire further networking. |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Working on your work (small group). Themed groups, max of 4 will work with a senior academic adviser on a paper or output from their own research (Thesis or other project). This will include presentation of a rapid ‘pitch’ summarising the idea /arguments followed by group discussion. Participants will be asked to submit a 500 word maximum outline of the problem/question/idea and these will be shared with the group members. |
| 14:45 | Final questions / wrap up |
| 15:00 | Refreshments (with main conference delegates) tea/coffee |
| 15:30 | Main Conference Starts |
Contact us
Alan Walters Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TT
E: academic.conferences@contacts.bham.ac.uk