radiotherapy research seminar series october 2016
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Radiotherapy Research Seminar Series
Why are we offering this and why would you wish to attend? Topic: Radiotherapy career pathways
Speaker: Mark Collins, Amy Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.Date: Friday 7Th October 2016, 8.30 for coffee and cake (F514) 9am startVenue: F518 Robert Winston Building.
Who is this session for?This is relevant to practitioners working in Radiotherapy and Oncology but we welcome attendance from anyone with an
interest in the topic area or an interest in research. If you would like to attend please contact Laura Pattinson
Sessions are outside formal conference attendance, see leading professionals in your field present their research experiences
Ask questions and discuss topics with colleagues, sharing your experiences with staff and students who attend the seminars
Free CPD activity
Staff have previously commented...
“These seminar series are invaluable. It's really informative and useful for radiotherapy students to actually see what trials and studies are being done
currently, and how this may impact on future clinical practice. Also, useful for our own studies”
AND
“Excellent and very interesting and enjoyable. Extremely well explained concepts and insight into related research”
This seminar session will give participants:
An overview of radiotherapy career pathways, insights into the role of a clinical research lead and future directions for the radiotherapy workforce.
Amy Taylor
Amy Taylor is a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. At present she is undertaking a secondment at Weston Park Hospital as the Research Superintendent
As part of her role Amy is involved in a number of research studies and is passionate about developing radiographer lead research at Weston Park Hospital.
Amy’s interests include developing and improving services for cancer patients, focusing on improved patient outcomes. Amy qualified from Sheffield Hallam and commenced employment at Weston Park Hospital, working there until August 2012 as a Senior 1/Team Leader. Amy completed her masters in 2012, her dissertation focused on gaining stakeholder views of breast immobilisation as part of the SuPPORT4All project led by Professor Heidi Probst..Amy has just entered her 3rd year of her PhD which is investigating the meaning of compassion in healthcare, aiming to develop a co-created definition alongside a method of teaching compassion on University healthcare programmes.
Mark Collins
Mark Collins is a Senior Lecturer and the MSc Radiotherapy and Oncology Course Leader at Sheffield Hallam University.
Mark's areas of interest are focused around the implementation and education of new radiotherapy technologies, with a particular interest in Image Guided Radiotherapy. He teaches on both the pre-registration and post-registration programmes.
He is currently writing up a Doctoral project on Clinical Reasoning in Image Guided Radiotherapy.