Communicating and connecting beyond your sector - Career Development Event

This event will be inspirational to early career researchers wanting to learn more about how to effectively communicate and connect with people across sectors.

It will provide an opportunity to delve into discussions focusing on how you can communicate your ideas to people with different skills sets or knowledge, bringing a range of people on board with you to achieve a shared goal and connecting with people from diverse backgrounds. We look forward to seeing you there.

The event will include:

• Inspiring talks from three diverse speakers.
• Career development training from a professional facilitator.
• Interactive discussions with other researchers at a similar stage of their career.

Agenda:

A detailed agenda can be found under the 'Downloads' section on the right-hand-side of the page.

About our speakers:

Dr Amit Pujari

Amit is a practicing Biomedical Engineer and a Neuroscientist and researches on Medical device development and Neurophysiology. Since receiving a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2016, from the University of Aberdeen, Amit has worked at the School of Engineering and Technology (as a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering) at the University of Hertfordshire, England, UK and holds an honorary position (as a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering) at the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

Amit's particular research interests are in the area of Neurorehabilitation (neuromuscular physiology, motor control/impairment and rehabilitation); with the focus on (a) gaining an improved understanding of the control processes that support mobility in healthy people and specifically those with disabilities and (b) developing technology/engineering solutions to tackle the physiological disorders/conditions through devices and device based exercises.

Amit is really passionate about communicating science outside academia and has been an active speaker, presenter and STEM ambassador for a number of years.

Dr Helen Surana

Helen Surana is a medical doctor who’s had a varied portfolio career - mainly in medical publishing and digital education. She started as a junior doctor working in the NHS, specialising in anaesthetics, and after a fun year in Australia moved to the BMJ as clinical editor, via the Imperial College Science Communications MSc programme and a role as health advisor in the House of Commons Library.

At the BMJ she’s been responsible for multimedia, online learning and digital content strategy development, as well as leading on content for the events team. She led a BMJ project in Washington DC for 18 months to support the implementation of US health reforms. She’s held leadership roles at BMJ and Macmillan Cancer Support, and is currently combining a consultancy career with being the Associate Editor at BMJ Innovations.

Alongside work, she enjoys cricket, comedy, swimming and chatting.

Professor Philip Bejon FMedSci

Professor Philip Bejon is the Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a collaborative Programme formed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Wellcome and University of Oxford.

He is a clinician with specialist training in infectious disease.  Philip has an interest in the evaluation of malaria vaccines in the field. He is interested in determining the impact of heterogeneity of malaria transmission on vaccine efficacy, in examining correlates of protection, and the duration of efficacy.

Professor Bejon has a major interest in vaccine trials, working on Ebola, Yellow Fever and Malaria vaccines, and working on a human challenge model for falciparum malaria to study naturally acquired protective immunity.

Further information:

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This event is open to all and free to attend. Please follow the link below to register your place. 

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