Date: Tuesday 6 May 2025
Time: 09:30 – 16.30
Location: Dalton Room, Core Technology Facility
Register to attend
We are excited to invite you to the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Northern Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Conference 2025: Pioneering Future Leaders. This full day interactive event is designed to inspire and equip future leaders in research, offering engaging sessions on leadership, decision making and personal influence, alongside networking opportunities with colleagues from across the Northern BRCs including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield.
What to Expect:
• Interactive Leadership Development Sessions – Gain valuable insights into effective leadership in research.
• Panel Discussion – Hear from experienced research leaders about their career journeys and lessons learned.
• Networking Opportunities – Connect with peers, mentors and experts across the NIHR BRC network.
Agenda:
09:30 – 10:00- Coffee and Registration
10:00 – 10:15- Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:15 - 11:35- Interactive session 1: Understanding the nature of leadership in clinical research
By the end of the session attendees will develop:
• A greater understanding of what leadership and management are.
• A deeper awareness of the dynamic demands and responsibilities for leaders of achieving tasks, maintaining and developing teams, and attending to individuals’ needs.
• A deeper understanding of the experience and realities of leading in research.
11:35-11:50- Coffee and Networking
11:50-13:00- Interactive session 2: Making decisions
By the end of the session attendees will:
• Develop a deeper understanding of the importance for leaders of making decisions.
• Have a decision-making framework that they can use as a tool moving forwards.
• Develop a deeper awareness of the types and breadth of decisions they need to make.
13:00 – 14:00- Lunch and Networking
14:00 – 14:30- Interactive Session 3: Understanding what makes leaders good
By the end of the session attendees will:
• Develop a deeper understanding of the attributes of good and poor leaders.
• Develop a deeper awareness of the attributes that get the best and worst out of their own leadership.
14:30 - 15:00- Interactive Session 4: Developing my influence as a leader further
By the end of the session attendees will:
• Reflect on their current influence as a leader now.
• Identify some simple things to experiment with, which will make them more influential as a leader.
Staff College
15:00 - 15:15- Coffee
15:15 – 16:15- Panel Discussion: Inspiring career journeys and lessons learned
Panel Members:
• Prof Anne Barton, Manchester BRC Director
• Prof Rick Body, Innovation and Partnerships Lead, Manchester BRC
• Paul Brown, Head of Research and Innovation, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Michelle Harvie, Programme Lead, Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Theme
16:15 – 16:30- Closing remarks
Don’t miss this opportunity to develop your leadership skills and expand your professional network.
