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Round table discussions

Sometimes the ability to advance our practice and influence others requires good old-fashioned discussion. The Forum is all about community relationships, connecting members to work together and virtual discussion forums are great for this purpose.

Round table discussions can be based around new or emerging hot topics, tricky areas of practice or just facilitated ‘group thinking time. We can also arrange for discussions to be with policy makers, experts and regulators in some cases. Of course we hope that all meetings will result in groups to take forward outputs or resources to share with the wider community but this is not the first purpose.

Joint ARMA & NHS R&D Forum Event – Getting Ready For The New HRA Student Research Policy

29th June – 10.00-13.00

Over 120 people signed up to our joint roundtable with ARMA on Tuesday 29th June. “Getting ready for the new HRA student research policy“ it was a great thought -provoking event with presentations from Professor Matthew Westmore (CEO HRA) and Janet Messer (Director of Approvals, HRA) followed by some quick fire case study examples and in-depth discussions on the way forward. The event was a great opportunity for members of both HEI and NHS organisations to come together and discuss shared challenges and opportunities.

Read the report here
Watch the recording here

Summaries of Previous Roundtables

3 February 2021: ‘The Importance of Team Science and Systems Leadership in Biomedical and Health Research’. Joint round table discussion with ARMA
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The speakers at this joint R&D Forum/ARMA round table discussion included Angela Topping, Head of the Newcastle Joint Research Office who spoke about her experience as Head of a Joint R&D Office and how this allowed Newcastle to be a pioneer in Medical Research and be one of the best research performing Trusts nationally; Chris Duncan, a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellow and Honorary Consultant about his experience as the Newcastle PI for the Oxford Vaccine Study and the importance of Team Science; Simon Denegri, Executive Director of the Academy of Medical Sciences about the science of team science, next steps in relation to their January 2020 report and how we can support the agenda and Catherine Adams from the Health Research Authority about lessons learned during the COVID pandemic and how, as a regulator of health Research, they can work closer with the research community to reduce bureaucracy and truly embed research into everyday clinical practice. Click here to access a recording of the webinar through the ARMA website.

12 March 2021: Discussion on the mCTA, CRO mCTA and mNCA model agreements
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Updates have been made to model agreements. 
 
January 2021 versions of the mCTA, CRO mCTA  and a UK-wide mNCA are now available in IRAS with guidance notes. 
 
The Forum contracts group held a roundtable Q&A on the 12th March 11-12 to discuss these  agreements and more with the 4 nations contract leads.  The slides are available here. 

29 June 2021: Joint ARMA & NHS R&D Forum Event – Getting Ready For The New HRA Student Research Policy
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Over 120 people signed up to our joint roundtable with ARMA on Tuesday 29th June. “Getting ready for the new HRA student research policy“ it was a great thought -provoking event with presentations from Professor Matthew Westmore (CEO HRA) and Janet Messer (Director of Approvals, HRA) followed by some quick fire case study examples and in-depth discussions on the way forward. The event was a great opportunity for members of both HEI and NHS organisations to come together and discuss shared challenges and opportunities.

A recording and notes will be made available shortly along with confirmation of next steps.

R&D Manager Hive Mind Discussion

This will be a monthly “R&D Manager Hive Mind Discussion”, which will held on the first Thursday of each month for 60 mins. 

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