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Monday Morning Messages
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16th September 2024
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| Baroness Nicola Blackwood joins OHC advisory council |
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| Baroness Nicola Blackwood, Chair of both Genomics England and Oxford University Innovation, has joined the advisory council for the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre (OHC), a partnership between the University of Oxford and Harrington Discovery Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. In her new position, Baroness Blackwood will contribute to advancing OHC’s mission to drive life-changing discoveries in rare disease, with a particular focus on addressing critical unmet needs in the UK. |
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| Peakon survey tool rolled out across Paediatrics |
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From hire to retire, staff and students are the central to the successful running of the Department of Paediatrics and your opinion matters. As a result, the senior leadership team is launching a fortnightly survey of everyone in the department, to ensure their voice is heard. Questions will be emailed directly to staff every two weeks and can be accessed via a secure link. Topics include engagement, diversity, wellbeing and change amongst others, and all answers and comments are anonymous. Responses will be reviewed by Charlotte Walber, HR Manager, and Shaka Obhiozele, Head of Administration and Finance, and will enable the team to identify trends and specific areas for improvement across the department.
Peakon was successfully trialed by the Oxford Vaccine Group in 2023 and results from the trial have already been fed into the Athena Swan action plan for 2024 and beyond.
If you have any questions or concerns about the survey, please email the HR team via the link below. |
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Notices
Sign up for your free flu vaccination
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As part of our commitment to staff well-being, the Department of Paediatrics is offering staff a free seasonal flu vaccination at sites across the Old Road Campus and the JR Hospital from 07 until 17 October 2024. This offer is intended to complement existing opportunities to get vaccinated against flu. Many staff members will already be eligible via OUH for those with a clinical contract or through the NHS if you are over 65, have specific health conditions or are pregnant (more information is available on the NHS website). Staff members who are pregnant or anyone over 65 should make use of the NHS offer rather than booking this occupational health service.
As per last year, we have commissioned an external supplier (Flu Xpress) to provide this service. Dates, times and locations for the flu vaccination clinics are available to book via this link. Slots will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and bookings will close 8 days before each clinic date, to ensure that sufficient vaccine doses are dispatched. You are able to book a slot at any site, even if not your primary place of work. Please take up the offer and make sure to book a slot. |
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Sign up for 10 days of professional development training
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The Department of Paediatrics is committed to supporting and developing its staff and as part of this commitment, it offers ten days (pro rated) of training for professional development to all. This could take the form or a training course, study leave or similar. The deadline for applications is 1 November. Please email the HR team with the completed application form or click on the link below for more information and to download the policy. |
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| Nine in 10 would take part in a another health study survey finds
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About nine in 10 Thames Valley health research participants questioned said they would take part in another study, a survey found. A total 1,222 people completed a questionnaire on taking part in NHS and other health studies in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire in the 12 months from 1 April 2023. It found about nine in 10 would take part in another study along with comments praising staff and wanting to help others. Issues including communication and receiving study results were cited as areas for improvement. Read the report and access local results at tinyurl.com/prestvsm. Learn more about research and search for studies by clicking the link below. |
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| Why digital health and care interventions fail and what we can do
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23 September 2024 | Rewley House | 4.45pm
Many digital health interventions fail to realise their potential. Although there is no recipe for success, there are ways in which developers, implementers and adopters can help to maximize success during development and early use. These include establishing a need for an innovation, involving end-users, and mapping existing processes for example.
To join this hybrid event, please email: ths@conted.ox.ac.uk
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Theo Murphy meeting on anti-infective drugs
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2 & 3 December 2024 | Midland Hotel, London | All day
This free two-day meeting will compare the pharmacometric approaches and methodologies used across major infectious diseases to inform the development and rapid assessment of interventions for future pandemics. Organised by NDM’s Dr James Watson, Dr William Schilling, and Professor Nicholas White. |
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NIHR Online media and social media training
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| Thames Valley research organisations including the NHS, NIHR and Oxford universities are offering free online training for healthcare staff in media and social media. The two-and-a-half hour interactive session, held every two months, will help researchers engage the public in their work with topics including what makes a good story, the process of working with the media, interviews and different social media services. Click on the link below to express an interest in attending a future session. |
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Personal and Career Development Review
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| The Department of Paediatrics continues to focus internal efforts on increasing the uptake of PDRs (Personal Development Reviews) and CDRs (Career Development Reviews), and this year the two have been combined into one PCDR (Personal Career Development Review).
The conversation is designed to help staff identify career goals and training objectives, agreeing a schedule and process with their line manager for the coming year, and establishing specific goals and a timeline for completion. All staff are strongly encouraged to undertake their PCDR in September and October and the HR Team will be touring all research groups to showcase why the review is important and how to conduct it. The team will also give some advice and guidance on using Simitive (the program used to record PCDRs).
Below are links to some useful resources:
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| Come and join colleagues from across the Churchill site for fun, free, fitness sessions with Jim's Fitness every Wednesday at 12pm. Designed to push you to your limits in a friendly and encouraging environment, the sessions last one hour and are tailored for all fitness levels: from athletes keeping fit and mixing-up their training, to those who wish to start or returning to exercise. Jim uses equipment such as tyres, sand bags, cargo nets and more. Meeting point is outside the IDRM reception at midday. |
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24 to 26 September 2024 | In person | Trinity College Oxford
The Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre (OHC) Symposium is the UK’s leading academic-industry rare disease conference, bringing together in-person delegates from both areas as well as key stakeholders in rare disease therapeutics development. Over three days, from 24-26 September 2024, presentations and panel discussions will be delivered by international leaders in the field.
The Symposium’s theme, Therapeutics Development for Rare Diseases, will explore how pioneering research, innovative treatment approaches, and collaborative efforts across biotech, pharma, academic institutions, funders, patient organisations, and regulators can enhance and accelerate the delivery of effective therapies for rare diseases. Limited spaces are available.
View the full programme. |
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| Why are so many of us burnt out, and what we can do about it? |
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26 September 2024 | Online only | Seminar 11-12; Workshop 13.30 to 15.00
Why do ever more of us find it so hard to find a good balance between life and work? The dramatic rise of work-related suffering is clearly not the problem of just a handful of people who are bad at time management.
This seminar will explore some of the deeper cultural reasons for why we are all so burnt out and offer some practical, actionable advice on what we can do about our exhaustion and how we can re-learn how to thrive.
Sign up for the Seminar here: https://forms.office.com/e/0cyFgdacJp
The workshop is now full but please email iris.hofmann@idrm.ox.ac.uk if you would like to join the waiting list. |
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| Reflecting on who we are in the research environment |
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| 16 October 2024 | Hybrid | Seminar 11-12pm; Workshop 13.30 to 15.00
Inclusion, Intersectionality and Impact Specialist Dr Arun Verma, will be sharing his story and experiences as a queer person of colour, who has moved between and beyond categories and characteristics. He will be hosting both a seminar and a workshop at the IDRM on 16 October.
The Seminar will:
- Build confidence with what intersectionality is and how it applies to your everyday work
- Understand how equality issues are interconnected
- Develop small acts of kindness that can transform daily interactions
The workshop will explore intersectionality in more depth and focus on the following:
- Reflecting on where intersectionality comes from and why it matters
- Space to explore your own characteristics and stories
- Co-creating the big picture of an optimal research culture
We have 15 spaces available and registration is open now. There will also be a networking lunch in the IDRM Cafe after the seminar to which all are invited. Please reserve your place at lunch here. |
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| Staff Scientist Network Social |
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23 October 2024 | In Person | 12pm
The Department of Paediatrics is pleased to support Staff Scientists (anyone interested in staying in academia without aiming to become a ‘Head of Lab’) through the recent formation of the Staff Scientist Network. The Network aims to provide networking opportunities, peer-to-peer support and to hear your voice on how the Department can better support you. Please join us for lunch and networking if you feel you fall into this role, you are considering whether you might want to follow this career route, or you are interested in hearing more.
For further details please contact luke.baxter@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk |
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Can you help these trials?
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| Oxford Vaccine Group would like to invite you to take part in a study investigating how two common respiratory germs alter the environment in your nose and impact human health. The knowledge gathered in this project could be used to help develop new interventions such as anti-virus agents and drugs targeting the host body response. If you are 18 to 55 years old, you may be eligible to take part. We will provide reimbursement for your time, inconvenience and travel. The study duration is approximately 10 weeks. If you would like to find out more, please read the Participant Information Sheet. If you are interested in joining the study, please visit the Pre-screening Questionnaire via the link below. |
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| We need volunteers for a new vaccine against Marburg virus |
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| If you are aged 18 to 55 years old and in good health, then you may be eligible to take part in a study investigating a new vaccine against Marburg virus. All participants will be reimbursed up to £1470 for their time, inconvenience, and travel. For further information please click on the link below. Here is a link to pre-screening questionnaire: Pre-screening Questionnaire or contact Oxford Vaccine Group with any questions: Email: info@ovg.ox.ac.uk Tel: 01865611400. |
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| Oxford Vaccine Group would like to invite you to take part in a study in a challenge study to find a vaccine against malaria. The total study participation time is 18 months. If you would like any further information regarding the study please contact info@ovg.ox.ac.uk, or call 01865 611400 |
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| Oxford Vaccine Group is looking for volunteers to help us understand how our immune systems respond to repeated infection with malaria. By taking part in this challenge study, you could help the research aimed at preventing hundreds of thousands of child deaths. If you are aged 18 to 45 years old, in good health and live in the Thames Valley, then you may be eligible to take part in the BIO-004 study. All participants will be reimbursed for their time, inconvenience and travel up to £9,100. |
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