Events and Open Days
Open Days
We run open days for our undergraduate courses and our graduate-entry Medicine (MB ChB) programme around four times per year, usually in October and June. Booking for these is essential. We'll update this page once we have confirmation of the dates for 2025.
Leading Lights Lectures
Our Leading Lights lectures give our new professors the opportunity to share their career journey and current work with their colleagues, friends, and family, as well as members of the public with an interest in their area of research. These events are open to all. The recordings of our previous lectures can be found here.
BMS Seminar by Professor Timothy Saunders and Dr Harpal Randeva
Deciphering how complex organ form emerges in development
Professor Timothy Saunders
Abstract: Our internal organs have specific three-dimensional morphologies essential for their efficient function. Defects in morphogenesis lead to diseases in adults – for example, over 40% of adult heart disease can be traced to a developmental context. Yet, we know remarkably little about the physical processes underlying internal organ morphogenesis. Here, I present quantitative analysis of early muscle formation in zebrafish. This system is highly accessibly to live imaging and is enabling us to decipher the biophysical mechanisms helping to build the first skeletal muscle structures. In particular, we explore how organogenesis can be so robust in the face of challenges during development.
Engagement to embed research in the NHS
Dr Harpal Randeva
Abstract: Clinical research is good for patients, the NHS and the economy. But in a health service under pressure, it’s often seen as important but not urgent. During this seminar I will explore how NHS staff contribute to research, the factors that enable engagement, the impact of engagement on outcomes, and the implications for future engagement efforts.
WMS Community and Lived Experience in Education Day
You are warmly invited to our WMS Community and Lived Experience in Education Day. Feel free to attend for as much of the day as you can. It is consolidation week!
- Keynote Speaker Jools Symons (Leeds University) on why lived experience is critical for health professionals' education
- Student showcases: Memory Lane café, community resuscitation training, Teddy Bear Hospital, STAR (refugees)
- Community experience in the curriculum - volunteering with underserved communities, pop-up clinics
- Lived experience in the curriculum - hear from our patient group and simulated patients
- Lots of hands-on opportunities including Virtual reality for neurodiversity, breast awareness, resuscitation, try out a pop-up clinic and more…