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Training Course Directory – Find The Training You Need

We have launched a new training and educational course directory on Futures – so you can find the learning you need.

Anyone signed up to Futures can access the directory from the homepage and browse the training and educational courses offered by HDR UK and other organisations in the health data space.

It’s easy to use and you can apply filters like type, location and topic, and search using key terms to find the courses you are most interested in.

• If your organisation provides health data training and educational courses, and you would like HDR UK to signpost to your course via the Futures platform, just complete this form.

New on HDR UK Futures

Health Data Research Futures is a free and flexible online learning platform. We are adding new bitesize videos all the time featuring subject matter experts working at the forefront of health data science.

New on Futures right now:

• Publishing code and software - Dr Heidi Seibold, Open Science Freelancers
• Disease Modeling and Target Discovery Pathway – Insilico Medicine
• Introduction to Machine Learning in a Healthcare Setting - Dr Alan Davies & Dr Iliada Eleftheriou, University of Manchester
• Identifying Socio-technical Barriers to Machine Learning in Practice - Dr Alan Davies & Dr Iliada Eleftheriou, University of Manchester
• The scientific method in health research - Dr Ben McCanna, University of Birmingham,

Other videos coming soon:

• What is data standardisation – Joe Heffer, University of Sheffield

Apply Now for A Fully Funded Big Data PhD

Applications are open for a new PhD opportunity as part of our programme to use the power of large-scale data to address some of healthcare’s most pressing challenges.

The research project, hosted by the University of Swansea, involves modelling the Impact of diagnostic pathways in cancer and cardiovascular disease.

The results will help deliver the objectives of HDR UK’s Big Data for Complex Diseases (BDCD) Driver Programme.

Benefits include:

• Tax-free stipends based on?UKRI rates
• Fully-paid tuition fees (international fee waivers not normally available)
• Research costs
• Expenses and travel.

Once completed the graduate will be well placed for a career at the forefront of health data research.

• Find out more here.

Reproducible Analytical Pipelines Webinar

Join HDR UK on 10 October 2023 for a free webinar on reproducible analytical pipelines. The UK has world-leading health data infrastructure and in 2022, the government and NHS published information about new ways of working with it to advance health services and knowledge of disease.

Reports, including the Goldacre Report, point to the need for large datasets containing people’s health information to be held in Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and for data to be analysed using Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs) with software, analysis plans and outputs which are standardised.

Reproducible research means getting the same results consistently. This webinar will discuss the practical steps you can take to make your research reproducible.

Topics include:

• Reproducible research and why we want it?
• Getting files and folders in order
• Naming
• Publish research outputs.

To find out more click here.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research Platform Launch

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading case of death and disability in people under 40 in the UK. A new platform led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with HDR UK aims to boost the use of data to advance treatment and care for people with TBI.

• Read more about TBI-REPORTER here.

Researchers - Tell Us Your Data Discovery Needs

The Heath Data Research Innovation Gateway was established in 2020 to provide a common entry point for researchers to search, discover and request access to health datasets and other sharable resources in the UK. It is an integral part of HDR UK’s mission to bring together the UK’s health data to enable discoveries that save people’s lives.

Help to support this with our short survey aimed at researchers currently using or interested in using health-related datasets for their work. We strongly welcome your feedback to help prioritise feature and service developments for the Gateway. You do not need prior experience of the Gateway to participate.

• Learn more here.

Cambridge Spark Expands Further Into AI

Adding to their existing upskilling programmes, Cambridge Spark will be expanding to offer organisations the opportunity to excel in the upcoming age of artificial intelligence by introducing three Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Data & AI, Cloud & Software, and Digital Transformation.

• For information and enquiries, please visit here.