NIAA Update: August 2014
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Funding Opportunities
NIAA Grants Round 2 2014
Round 2 2014 is now open and nine awards are available. The deadline for applications is noon on Friday 26 September and further information about how to apply can be found by clicking here.
All NIAA grants are reviewed by a lay member of the grant panel and this review does have a bearing on the outcome of applications. As Patient & Public Involvement in Research is increasingly becoming a mandatory part of major grant applications, the NIAA's Health Services Research Centre has formed a Patient & Public Involvement Working Group to ensure that researchers can easily access informed and constructive feedback on their proposals. If you don't have any input from a lay person, you may wish to apply for support from the group. You can find out more on our PPI pages.
NIAA Grants Round 1 2014
Please click here to read about the projects funded in Round 1 2014.
Events
Introduction to Academic Anaesthesia: 1-2 September 2014
Following the success of the Introduction to Academic Anaesthesia course last year, this event will be run again and hosted at the London Deanery on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd September 2014.
Sessions will be held on: innovative research in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine; quality improvement and audit; randomised controlled trials; systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Please click here to view the full programme and to register.
NAP5 Professional Launch: 10 September 2014
The results of the NAP5 project on Accidental Awareness during General Anaesthesia will be presented at the Professional Launch on Wednesday 10th September 2014 at the Royal Society of Medicine. NAP5 will kindly support the registration fee for Local Coordinators in recognition of their contribution to the project, providing their Trust is unable to reimburse them. For more information and to register, please click here.
BJA/NIAA Research Methodology Workshop: 29 September 2014
Meeting cost: £150
Venue: Royal College of Anaesthetists, 35 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4SG
CPD points anticipated: 5
Overview
A joint workshop with the British Journal of Anaesthesia and the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia to introduce participants to the way in which good research should be conducted and presented.
The workshop will be useful for anaesthetists of any grade who are already involved in research or those who are about to embark on a research project. Post FRCA Specialist Registrars and Lecturers will find this meeting to be particularly appropriate to their needs since knowledge of research methodology is one of the non-clinical topics which form an important part of Post FRCA training. Even if actual research is not undertaken it is considered essential for trainees to acquire an understanding of research methodology so that they are able to critically appraise research reports in the literature.
Teaching sessions will address: developing a research idea; study design; project management; analysis; presentation and interpretation of data; dissemination of results.
Group sessions will allow participants to: provide criticism of a published research paper; design a clinical trial; detect common pitfalls in analysis and interpretation of data.
Please click here to view the full programme and to register.
Anaesthesia and BJA Peer Reviewers' Workshop: 30 September 2014
Meeting cost: Free
Venue: Royal College of Anaesthetists, 35 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4SG
CPD points anticipated: 5
Topics will include:
- The editorial process
- Why should I be a reviewer
- What makes it a good publication
- Future of Publishing
- Meta-analyses/ systematic reviews and common statistical pitfalls
- Should I care about bibliometrics
- Publication ethics and misconduct
- Open Forum/ Question Time
Keynote speech from Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief, BMJ.
Please click here to view the full programme and to register.
ARS Winter Meeting: 1 - 2 October 2014
The event will include:
- Research
- Presidents Prize Presentations by research students
- Invited Lecture; The future of lung imaging
- John Snow iBSc student presentations
- Lecture by the President of the Chinese Association of Anaesthetists
- AGM, including election to Council vacancies
- Dinner at Chancery restaurant (£55 per head). Walking distance from the College
Call for Abstracts
Abstract submission deadline 11.59 pm on 22nd August 2014
For further information please see the ARS website.
NIAA Promotional Materials
Please contact the NIAA Administrator if you are running a meeting with a research focus and would like any NIAA leaflets or posters to promote research in academic anaesthesia.