The IDRN is currently working on a programme of events for the next 12-18 months. One of the resources that the IDRN offers is to organise research strategy workshops or training workshops on specific themes, and smaller, more focused protocol development groups. We are now inviting members to approach us with proposals for such events.

We aim to support 1-2 workshops each year, and at least 5 protocol development groups a year, that are led by IDRN members. We will accept suggestions at any time.

Research Strategy Workshops

Details of all our previous larger events can be found on the IDRN website at http://www.idrn.org/researchworkshops.php . The presentations and reports from these events are available in the log-in area of the website.

If you have an idea that could be constructed into a workshop or conference, then please do approach us. The workshops aim to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines around a particular theme to identify research priorities and to foster research collaborations.

The format of our previous workshops has been to have related presentations mixed with small discussion groups that confer on a particular topic, but we are open to your ideas on how best to run them. A post-workshop online survey can show who is interested in being involved in which questions, and the considered importance of each question. The IDRN can then help to develop at least one question, and organise smaller and more specific meetings to generate a feasible research protocol.

The cost of the workshop will be part-subsidised by the IDRN (e.g. venue hire, catering, pay travel expenses to speakers etc).

Example programmes from previous events

Training events

Human Tissue Act...............Methods in Molecular Microbiology

Research Strategy Workshops

Sexual health...............Antibiotic resistance and public health

Protocol Development Groups (PDG)

Details of our previous protocol development groups can be found here: http://www.idrn.org/pdg.php

If you have a specific research question, or small research area, but need the involvement of colleagues in other disciplines, then contact us. We can contact people on your behalf, who have the appropriate knowledge and expertise, book a venue and any catering, and take the minutes of the meeting. We can also help with literature searches, and monitor the websites of the various funding bodies for suitable calls.

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Example topics of previous PDGs

• Relationship between prescribing, AMR & outcomes in neonatal intensive care units
• Hepatitis C transmission in HIV+ patients
• What is the natural history of Mycoplasma genitalum?

Submit your idea to the IDRN by clicking here, and completing the short form.

If you wish to go to the IDRN homepage then click here (site will open up in a new window)

You can also email the IDRN directly.