The Latest Health Data Science Learning for You
Learn from the pioneers working to reverse human ageing
Finding ways to slow, halt or even reverse ageing could prove more effective in extending healthy life expectancy than the treatment of individual diseases.
HDR UK is working with longevity medicine pioneers?Dr Alexander Zhavoronkov?founder of Insilico Medicine and?Professor Evelyne Bischof?of The Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, to provide training in this fast-moving new field.
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.?
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Invitation to Tender: Freelance Trainers and Educators
HDR UK is recruiting freelance trainers and educators to help it train the UK’s current and future health data scientists to ensure that the UK has a large, vibrant and representative health data science workforce. This is a rare opportunity to deliver high impact training at a national level.
You will have full support of the HDR UK Capacity Building team including access to expert learning designers, videographers and event managers to enable you to develop a highly professional and effective learning experience.
Apply Now for Fully Funded Big Data PhDs
Three HDR UK funded PhD opportunities are available at leading universities which will use the power of large-scale data to address some of healthcare’s most pressing challenges.
The research will help deliver the objectives of HDR UK’s Big Data for Complex Diseases (BDCD) Driver Programme. The projects are:
Each project has been selected for its scientific excellence, importance and originality.?Benefits include:
Graduates will be well placed for a career at the forefront of health data research.
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.
Reproducible research means getting the same results consistently. This webinar will discuss the practical steps you can take to make your research reproducible.
Master’s Funding Opportunity with DHI
The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) and the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is offering full-time equivalent master’s scholarships in digital health and care for student starting courses in the 2023-24 academic year.?
The scholarships will support the development of future talent in the digital health and care sector.?
Data Linkage Short Course
University College London is running a short course on Introduction to Data Linkage on 13-14 September. It offers a practical introduction to data linkage and is aimed at analysts intending to link data themselves and researchers who want to understand more about the linkage process and its implications.
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Transformative Research Technologies Funding Opportunity
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBS) are offering funding of up to ￡225,000 to support the development of cutting-edge technologies that can sustain the vibrancy of bioscience discovery research.
Black Internship Programme Opening Ceremony
An inspiring?opening ceremony?has taken place to launch this year’s HDR UK Black Internship Programme. It featured a performance by The Black Voices Quintet, led by Carol Pemberton MBE,??and a talk by Jason Arday, renowned sociologist and the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge.
The event, at Birmingham City University, acted as a welcome for the interns whose eight-week placements, across 54 host organisations, have just begun.
The programme aims to tackle the underrepresentation of black people within STEM careers by providing opportunities for them to work within the sector.
Unifying Health Data in the UK – Call for Evidence
Professor Cathie Sudlow, Deputy Director and Chief Scientist of HDR UK has been commissioned to write an independent review of health data in the UK.?
It has been commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer for England and UK Government’s Chief Medical Adviser, Professor Sir Chris Whitty, NHS England’s National Director of Transformation, Dr Timothy Ferris, and the UK’s National Statistician Professor Sir Ian Diamond.
As part of the review there is a call for input from stakeholders.?
Cambridge Spark Webinars
Join our training partners Cambridge Spark for two webinars.
The first is Introducing The Digital Product Manager Apprenticeship?and takes place on 26 July, 12pm to 12.45pm.
The launch of the Digital Product Manager Apprenticeship Standard offers comprehensive training for those who are interested in a career in digital product management. The webinar takes a deep dive into the standard and explores how it will benefit you and your teams.
The second webinar is The Data Citizen Apprenticeship with People Analytics Pathway?and takes place on 25 July, 12pm to 12.45pm.
Data skills have become increasingly important across many workforces as technology continues to advance. HR departments in particular are responsible for managing the workforce and making strategic decisions that affect the organisation as a whole.
Join to webinar to find out about Cambridge Spark's People Analytics Pathway and data citizen apprenticeship.
Get Involved with Community Initiatives
Community Health Analytics in Open-Source Software has launched the CHAOSS Scientific Software Working Group to focus on improving insights on the health and sustainability of scientific open-source communities.?
Science Apprentice Conference
The Science Apprenticeship Forum has teamed up with MI Talent, University of Nottingham, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Science Council to organise a national conference open to all science apprentices.
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