Look through upcoming research and innovation events in Hampshire and Isle of Wight and beyond.
If you have an event you would like us to add please contact hiowicb-hsi.clinicaleffectiveness@nhs.net with the title 'Research Event'.
Upcoming Events
We are hosting an in-person Research Collaborative on 23rd January 2025.
The Research Collaborative is part of Raising Voices in Research (RViR), a project funded under the NHS England’s Accelerated Access Collaborative (REND), which aims to increase diversity of participation in health and social care research (broadly defined) in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS region. The Research Collaborative brings together organisations across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to map research activities, share best practice, work together to increase participation, to enable more engagement and outreach from academics to underserved communities, and to promote RViR outputs to researchers to drive local system change to improve diversity in health and social care research.
Webinars and Training
These links take you to the events, webinars and some training opportunities at research organisations across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. To explore the training opportunities such as internships, fellowships and courses explore organisation websites here.
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex Events and Webinars
A wide range of webinars, talks and meeting to explore the themes under the NIHR ARC Wessex.
The Academy of Research and Improvement Training, Workshops + Events
Throughout the year they host and deliver a schedule of training, workshops and events that are aimed at providing opportunities for personal and professional development, as well as enabling the sharing of experiences and improvement.
The Health Foundation Events and Webinars
The Health Foundation holds a variety of events and webinars bringing practitioners and policymakers together to discuss topics and issues impacting on health and health care.
Conferences
NHS R&D Forum 2025 [18-20 May]
Following the record-breaking successes of RDF23 in Newcastle and RDF24, which saw over 870 participants, RDF25 promises to be even more impactful. Spanning two full days, plus pre-event professional development sessions and evening networking opportunities, the conference draws a diverse range of delegates from across the UK.
IHI/BMJ Group International Forum 2025 [21-23 May]
From 300 people meeting in London in 1996 to over 5000 improvers attending the International Forum events every year, the conference is the place to hear and meet some of the world’s brightest minds and forge relationships that drive improvement and innovation in health and care across the world.
The International Forum in Utrecht will focus on the key themes in health and care in Europe, while bringing in perspectives and knowledge from around the world.
NHS ConfedExpo 2025 [11-12 June]
The event, which NHS Confederation and NHS England deliver in partnership, will once again bring together health and care leaders and their teams. You’ll have the opportunity to network with leaders and managers with the ability to lead and drive change in health and social care, as well as attend a plethora of theatre sessions and learning theatres.
Health Services Research Conference 2025 [2-3 July]
More details to be announced.
Raising Voices in Research - Shaping the Conversation Showcase
What is Shaping the Conversation? The Raising Voices in Research partnership (Action Hampshire, Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, University of Winchester, University Hospital Southampton) was funded by NIHR CRN to address the issue that much research activity originates with researchers and research organisations, who set the priorities for research. This means that communities are often less likely to get involved and can be disempowered, as the research direction and leadership often belongs to the research organisations. Research can have such a big impact on health and social care services, and we believe that hearing from communities about the research they think is important is key to greater involvement. We funded 12 VCSE organisations to work with their communities to identify their research priorities, hosted a sandpit event so they could develop these further with researchers, and then designed a process for communities to have the research priorities that matter to them heard.
The Shaping the Conversation Showcase Event took place on Thursday 24th October 10:00 – 13:30 at Portsmouth Guildhall.
Throughout the event you will hear from VCSEs and researchers about their experiences of the project, the Raising Voices in Research team about next steps and opportunities, as well as guest speakers. The event will conclude with a networking lunch.