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Applied Statisticians as Principal Investigators Webinar

Event information

Location: Online

Date: 27 April 2021

Working group: Career development

There is a recording of this webinar available to view, and a Word file of some additional questions and answers from Ianina Conte.docx.

This webinar was aimed at applied statisticians interested in becoming principal investigators on grants. There were sessions on funding opportunities available, personal experience of securing funding as an applied statistician and public involvement and patient benefit in statistician led research.

Programme

10:00-10:10 Brief introduction to NIHR Statistics Group and the NIHR Methodology Incubator

Professor Dawn Teare and Dr Catey Bunce, NIHR Statistics Group Leads

Session 1: Opportunities available to be a principal investigator

chaired by Dr Sam Leary (Lead of Career Development Group) on behalf of

the NIHR Statistics Group

10:10-10:25 Opportunities for leading grant applications – RfPB 

Dr Ianina Conte (Research for Patient Benefit, National Institute for Health Research)

10:25-10:40 Opportunities for leading grant applications – Better Methods, Better Research

Dr Rosalind Roberts (Better Methods, Better Research, Medical Research Council)

10:40-11:05 Personal experience of successfully securing methodology funding as a PI

Professor Richard Emsley, King’s College London

11:05-11:30 Personal experience of successfully securing methodology funding as a PI

Dr Jonathan Bartlett, University of Bath

Session 2: Public involvement and patient benefit in statistician led research

chaired by Dr Mona Kanaan (Statistics Workstream Lead) on behalf of the NIHR Methodology Incubator

11:45-12:10 Patient and public Involvement in Numerical aspects of Trials 

Dr Beatriz Goulao, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

12:15-12:35 Developing a Framework for Public Involvement in Mathematical and Economic Modelling: Bringing New Dynamism to Vaccination Policy Recommendations

Professor Sophie Staniszewska and Dr Edward Hill, University of Warwick

12:35-13:00 Demonstrating patient benefit in methodological research 

Professor Gordon Taylor, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter