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Postgraduate Researchers in Science Medicine Conference 2005
Wednesday 6th July 2005, Greenbank Buildings, UCLan, Preston
The event attracted around 65 PGRs, academics and sector professionals from 8 of 13 of the region’s HEIs.
Photographs of the day are available here.
See the full programme for the day.
Prof Peter Aggett, Director of the Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine at UCLan introduced the keynote presentation from Prof John Goodacre, Director of Clinical Research at UCLan.
Prof Goodacre used the statement “Why postgraduate programmes must be good for our health” to look at the value of postgraduate training to an individual, the wider community and the NHS.
The conference continued with a selection of talks given by postgraduate researchers from across the region.
The talks were streamed into 3 groups: science and technology, medical and clinical practice, and professional experience and the development of patient services. Talk lists and abstracts available to view online.
Conference attendees were asked to vote on who they felt provided the best presentation in each group and those with the highest vote were awarded £50 in book vouchers.
Winners of the £50 book vouchers were:
Science & technology
Ruth Dowling (University of Central Lancashire)
Biofilm formation in clinical and lab strains of E.coli
Medical & clinical practice
Gwenllian Wynne-Jones (The University of Manchester)
Predictors of widespread pain following a road traffic accident
Professional experience & the development of patient services
Marianne Johnson (The University of Manchester)
Developing alternative communication strategies to facilitate communication with Somali asthma patients with limited English
Over lunch posters were viewed, with the PRISM poster prize being awarded to James Prior, with a poster entitled Method Development for Acoustic Emission Analysis of Healthy Knee Joints.
Poster abstracts are also available to view online
After lunch there was a selection of workshops offered by academics and professionals from UCLan, The University of Liverpool, TrusTECH and Elsevier Publishing. The workshops are available to download below in Adobe PDF format.
- Workshop A: Presenting for the terrified
- Workshop B: Getting published – insights from the publisher’s perspective
- Workshop C: Optimising the web for research
- Workshop D: Managing your PhD supervisor
- Workshop E: Protecting your research ideas – an introduction to intellectual property
- Workshop F: Structuring writing for your reader
The conference concluded with a drinks reception and awarding of the oral and poster presentation prizes.
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