• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education)
• Organising department: Department for Continuing Education

Thursday 26 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Storytelling in diabetes: a mixed-methods study
  Prof. Trish Greenhalgh

Monday 16 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - EBM - What it is, what it isn't, how might you contribute?
  Professor Carl Heneghan (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)

Thursday 19 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - The Campaign for Real EBM by Professor Trish Greenhalgh
  Prof. Trish Greenhalgh

Monday 23 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Research impact: the new jargon for knowledge to action
  Prof. Trish Greenhalgh

Wednesday 29 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Managing large scale international clinical trials’
  Barbara Farrell (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Tamiflu: An update on 6 years of evidence gathering
  Professor Carl Heneghan (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)

Monday 1 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - ‘Fat or sugar: What does the evidence tell us about the priorities for weight control?’
  Prof Susan jebb (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The Multiple Evidential Roles of Clinical Case Reports
  TBA

Thursday 2 July 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above the ontological desert of ‘behaviour change’ research
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How can young people be helped to become good BS detectives?
  Professor Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Initiative)

Monday 11 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - 10 Top tips for doing applied healthcare research: How to get started
  Spaces limited
  Professor Carl Heneghan (Nuffield Department of primary Care Health Sciences)

Monday 25 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Breathalysers, babies and bumps on the road: delving into diagnostic studies
  Dr Helen Ashdown (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - 'Trying to Communicate Risk'
  Richard Lehman (UK Cochrane Centre)

Monday 11 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help
  Professor Shaun Treweek (University of Aberdeen)

Monday 18 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities
  TBA

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases)
  TBA

Monday 16 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Better decisions require better evidence
  Prof Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:30 - The point of qualitative research
  Professor Aksel Tjora (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - 'Better evidence for better health care'
  Professor Carl Heneghan (Nuffield Department of primary Care Health Sciences)

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'Are you an insider or an outsider? Using your own experience as data'
  Rosamund Snow (University of Oxford/British Medical Journal)

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Trials and Tribulations
  Dr Merlin Wilcox (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - ‘Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Policy: The world’s most perfectly developed method & the 79-pound weakling?’
  Professor Ray Pawson (University of Leeds)

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Resuscitating poor quality research
  Professor Carl Heneghan (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis
  Professor Carl Heneghan (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)

Monday 20 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Better Evidence for Better Healthcare Manifesto
  Prof Carl Heneghan (CEBM Oxford University)

Monday 27 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Debate: Are mechanisms required to establish treatment effects?
  Dr Jeremy Howick (Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.)

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities
  Dr Felicity Bishop (University of Southampton)

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Who’s listening? Communicating research in a noisy world
  Dan Richards-Doran (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Sensible answers to strange questions: generating evidence in special circumstances
  Professor Richard Stevens (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help
  Professor Shaun Treweek (Health Services Unit, University of Aberdeen)

Monday 11 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:15 - Evidence and policymaking
  Nick Fahy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Learning EBM: 20 years of the good, the bad and the outright difficult to teach
  Prof Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)

Wednesday 13 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The power of pictures: a case study of using pictures to change clinical practice on managing CVD risk
  Professor Rod Jackson (Professor of Epidemiology, University of Auckland)

Thursday 14 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Healthcare value: A third revolution
  Professor Sir Muir Gray (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World
  Prof Carl Heneghan (CEBM Oxford University)

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - A little known law of numbers
  Professor Jeffrey Aronson

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Working ‘up’ and ‘out’: how qualitative researchers approach analysis
  Dr John MacArtney (Health Experiences Research Group, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:15 - And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic?
  Dr Andrew Booth (University of Sheffield)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised trials and other research
  Professor Paul Aveyard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 January 2018 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Mixed methods research in the real world: a messy business?
  TBA

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based
  Professor Sir Muir Gray (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests
  Dr Phil Turner (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health-economics?
  Sir Muir Gray (Better Value Healthcare), Lucy Abel (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Blogs & digital media can reach parts that other media cannot reach: the story of the Mental Elf
  André Tomlin (Minervation Ltd)

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Fake surgeries & dummy pills - control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain
  Karolina Wartolowska (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality’
  Dr Annalise Weckesser (Birmingham City University)

Monday 9 July 2018 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The jugglers and the black cat
  TBA

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare
  Prof Carl Heneghan (CEBM Oxford University)

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'Adults’ experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses'
  Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - How imperfect can a study be?
  Professor Alan Silman (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford)

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future
  Professor Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Initiative), Prof Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine), Dr Kamal Mahtani (Nuffield Department of primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems
  Prof Carl Heneghan (CEBM Oxford University)

Thursday 4 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research?
  Dr Cassandra Phoenix (University of Bath)

Monday 24 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Big data in heart failure - opprotunities and realities
  Prof Amitava Banerjee (University College London)

Wednesday 26 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it *really* like doing qualitative observation in operating rooms, ambulances, triage call centres and other health care settings?
  Prof Catherine Pope (University of Southampton)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Safe and effective drugs: the need to use all the available evidence to inform the effectiveness of commonly used medicines
  Prof Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Evidence isn't enough: The politics and practicalities of communicating health research
  Dr Oli Williams (King's College London)

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it's time for a UK Sunshine Act
  Prof Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The importance of a mixed methods approach in primary care research
  Dr Helen Atherton (University of Warwick)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - When meta-analyses of the same question find different things: a case study of systematic reviews of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
  Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening
  Prof Carl Heneghan (CEBM Oxford University)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Challenges for cohort studies in the age of big data
  Dr Ben Cairns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)

Monday 23 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - An international overview on healthcare data science research in a big data era
  Dr Stephen Weng (University of Nottingham)

Thursday 2 April 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Accessing the Actual Use of Personal Health & Wellbeing Devices and Apps in the Wild
  Dr Aisling O'Kane (University of Bristol)