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Faculty member development schedule 2025 - 2026

If you missed a webinar the recording can be found in events

July 2025

2 July - Webinar: Forthcoming changes to clinical trial legislation and approvals processes with Cat Johnston and Gurmel Bhachu

3 July - Resilience workshop

15 July - Webinar: Reflections on my Doctoral Fellowship and Next Steps Award journey with Dr Tim Pickles

17 July - Communication for researchers – Drop-in session: Please email research-faculty@wales.nhs.uk if you would like to attend

24 July - R4RI journalling workshop - This is an interactive workshop on how to prepare for grant and personal award applications through journalling.

25 July - Shut Up and Write workshop - These sessions are structured and focused and held in an online environment where you can come together with fellow Faculty members, set aside distractions and achieve your writing goals.

August 2025

20 August - General surgery - These are general drop-in surgeries to answer queries about applying for personal awards. These will be monthly, one-hour online sessions with no need to pre-book.

September 2025

8 Sept - Resourcing your study workshop - A practical session aimed at building your knowledge and ability to effectively manage your research projects.

8 Sept - Advancing researcher scheme surgery - Join our Researcher Development Advisors at an award surgery for the opportunity to ask any questions about the Advancing Researcher Scheme. Complete the registration form to book your place at the surgery.

11 Sept - General Surgery - A general drop-in surgery to answer queries about applying for personal awards. These are monthly, one-hour online sessions with no need to pre-book.

12 Sept - Advancing researcher scheme surgery - Join our Researcher Development Advisors at an award surgery for the opportunity to ask any questions about the Advancing Researcher Scheme. Complete the registration form to book your place at the surgery.

15 - 19 Sept - Fellowship week - Register now.

Join Health and Care Research Wales Faculty Researcher Development Advisors, Dr Martin Elliott and Dr Claire O’Neill for a week of online lunchtime sessions (12:00 – 13:00) exploring the 5Ps of fellowship success: Person, Place, Project, Plan and Public and Patient Involvement (PPI). Each day will focus on one key element of a competitive fellowship application, helping you develop your confidence and readiness to apply for funding.

15 Sept - Day 1: Person

16 Sept - Day 2: Place

17 Sept - Day 3: Project

18 Sept - Day 4: Plan

19 Sept - Day 5: PPI

18 Sept - Webinar: NIHR Application Development Award – what, why, where, when, who, how? with Dr Emma Rees

24 Sept - Communications Development Day - The day will involve a Q&A session with one of Wales’s leading journalists and an opportunity to learn about Health and Care Research Wales’s strategic communications approach to help support your research. The session will also look at ways of getting on your organisation’s radar and influencing internally, tips for facilitating a panel, as well as a chance to unpick any specific challenging comms issues you may be facing!

Special guest: Rob Osborne, ITV Wales National Correspondent

An opportunity to learn how the media works, share top tips for effective communication and also to tell us what specific support you need, this is the first communications development session dedicated to Faculty members that will:

provide an overview of Health and Care Research Wales’ communications, engagement and involvement strategic approach and national activity
suggest tools and methods to maximise the impact of your research both internally within your organisation, as well as with external stakeholders
give you an opportunity to bring a comms-related issue or ask a comms question related to your own work
contribute to the development of a wider Faculty communications development programme such as developing panel facilitation skills, preparing for media interviews or developing presentations to target audiences

If you have any questions about communication skills for researchers or would like to learn more about this, we encourage you to attend this session. Register your place

24 Sept - Advancing researcher scheme surgery - Join our Researcher Development Advisors at an award surgery for the opportunity to ask any questions about the Advancing Researcher Scheme. Complete the registration form to book your place at the surgery.

25 Sept - Mentoring orientation session - the Faculty mentoring programme opens in June every year, if you're interested in taking part in the next cohort please submit a mentee or mentor form

October 2025

1 Oct - Coaching conversations masterclass

2 Oct - Leadership development programme launch - please submit an expression of interest form

6 - 10 Oct - Introductory analysis of linked data course

9 Oct - R4RI journalling workshop - This is an interactive workshop on how to prepare for grant and personal award applications through journalling.

13 Oct - General Surgery - A general drop-in surgery to answer queries about applying for personal awards. These are monthly, one-hour online sessions with no need to pre-book.

14 Oct - Webinar: Reflections on my Emerging Researcher Award and the journey as a co-Principal Investigator with Dr Savita Shanbhag

16 Oct - Health and Care Research Wales conference - Today’s research; tomorrow’s care: celebrating 10 years of impact

21 - 23 Oct - Residential Writing retreat, Bangor - Submissions for expressions of interest is now closed

31 Oct - Shut Up and Write workshop - These sessions are structured and focused and held in an online environment where you can come together with fellow Faculty members, set aside distractions and achieve your writing goals.

November 2025

5 Nov - Webinar: Forthcoming changes to clinical trial legislation and approvals processes -update with Cat Johnston and Gurmel Bhachu

14 Nov - General Surgery - A general drop-in surgery to answer queries about applying for personal awards. These are monthly, one-hour online sessions with no need to pre-book.

28 Nov - Shut Up and Write workshop - These sessions are structured and focused and held in an online environment where you can come together with fellow Faculty members, set aside distractions and achieve your writing goals.

December 2025

3 Dec - Webinar: Doing research with community groups and unpaid carers with Maria Cheshire-Allen - further details coming soon

9 Dec - General Surgery - A general drop-in surgery to answer queries about applying for personal awards. These are monthly, one-hour online sessions with no need to pre-book.

19 Dec - Shut Up and Write workshop - These sessions are structured and focused and held in an online environment where you can come together with fellow Faculty members, set aside distractions and achieve your writing goals.

January 2026

6 Jan - New Year's research resolutions - save the date

22 January - Faculty webinar: Logic models: the what, how and why with Dr Hayley Reed

February 2026

4 Feb - Webinar: Researching sensitive topics with Zoe Abbott - further details coming soon

March 2026

26 Mar - Faculty in-person event

April 2026

3 Apr - Resourcing your study workshop - A practical session aimed at building your knowledge and ability to effectively manage your research projects.