Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Warwick/UHCW Research Partnership Accelerator Event


The Warwick/UHCW Partnership Accelerator Event will bring together academics and clinicians to celebrate the success of the partnership and to shape its future direction.

The event is designed to...

  • Provide an opportunity to hear from a panel of academics and clinicians to showcase leading successful large-scale joint collaborative research programmes

  • Enable you to network and build new research collaborations

  • Engage with senior colleagues to shape the future of the partnership.


Registration for this event is now closed. Please see the agenda below. For any enquires, please contact Researchstrategydev@warwick.ac.uk or RandDEvents@uhcw.nhs.uk.

Monday 6 March, 2023

08:00 – 14:00

The Slate, University of Warwick

Time

Session

8:00

Session 1: Breakfast & Networking

9:00

Session 2:
Welcome and Overview

Professor Caroline Meyer

Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), University of Warwick

Strategic Overview of the Partnership

Speakers:

Professor Stuart Croft – Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick

Professor Andy Hardy – Chief Executive Officer, UHCW

9:30

Session 3: Current Joint Working

Speakers:

Professor Gavin Perkins

Deputy Dean, Warwick Medical School and Non-Executive Director, UHCW

9:40

Session 4: Learning from Practice: Live Case Studies from the Partnership

Speakers:

  • Professor Emma MacPherson (Physics) & Professor Joseph Hardwicke (UHCW)
  • Professor Nasir Rajpoot (Computer Sciences) & Professor David Snead (UHCW)
  • Professor Andy Metcalfe (WMS/UHCW)
  • Professor Norman Waugh (WMS) & Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam (UHCW)
  • Professor Mark Williams (WMG) & Professor Richard King (UHCW)
  • Professor Jan Brosens (WMS/UHCW)

Followed by Q&A.

11:05

Break

11:20

Session 5: What the future could look like

Speakers:

Professor Andrew McAinsh – Pro-Dean (Research), Warwick Medical School

Professor Kiran Patel – Chief Medical Officer, UHCW

11:50

Session 6: Future Direction: Ideas for the Collaboration

Sharing ideas on how to accelerate research and support the development of future collaborations.

Themes:

(i) Innovation and New Technologies

(ii) Data Driven Research and AI

(iii) Improving access to health care and addressing health inequalities

(iv) Leveraging opportunities in and from the region

 

13:10

Close of Sessions

Professor Caroline Meyer

Pro-Vice Chancellor Research, University of Warwick

13:15

Lunch and Networking

14:00

Close