The 2022 Research Conference is titled Growing Clinical Research Activity.
It is a celebration and showcase event of Research and Evaluation in LPFT.
Date: 22 September 2022
Time: 9am - 4pm
Location: This can be attended face-to-face at The Showroom, Tritton Rd, Lincoln, LN6 7QY or virtually on MS Teams.
(If you are attending virtually, the links you will need to be able to join the conference can be found at the bottom of this page. They will also be sent to you via email prior to the day)
Read full details of the breakout sessions here
The event brochure can be found here
Details of the speakers can be found below, starting with the Chair:
Dr Jaspreet Phull is a Consultant in Forensic & General Adult Psychiatry, Acting Medical Director of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Visiting Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, at the University of Lincoln.Details of the three keynote speakers are:
Dr Joanne Cooper is Head of Nursing Research – Research Transformation at NHS England and Assistant Director of Nursing at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). Joanne is Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham School of Health Sciences. As part of the Policy and Strategy Unit in the CNO Directorate, NHSE, Joanne works in partnership with Professor Alison Richardson developing the CNO England Strategic Plan for Research. Joanne has experience in advancing research in nursing, including clinical academic career development building capacity and capability in research for nurses, midwives and AHPs. She has led the development of a programme of front-line leadership known as Shared Governance and is a founding member of the Nursing and Midwifery Excellence, UK (NAME_UK).
Kate Grafton is Head of the School of Health and Social Care and Professor of Allied Health Professions Education at the University of Lincoln.
research active clinician my work focuses on application of neuromodulation techniques in research and clinical setting and investigate pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders using multimodal neuroimaging techniques.The following speakers will present during showcase one:
Ojali graduated from Kings College London with a Pharmacy Degree, where she developed an interest in infectious diseases. She then completed her foundation training at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College NHS Trust and undertook her postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy diploma at University College London. Later, becoming an HIV and Sexual Health specialist Pharmacist and completed the Independent Prescribing qualification at the University of Manchester.
Sally James’ role is Portfolio Manager (Midlands) Long Term Conditions and Prevention, at Health Education England. She has over 25 years’ NHS experience from the Midlands and North East Scotland, working in primary care development, acute and specialised services commissioning, service improvement, and public health workforce development. A key part of Sally’s role in planning, recruiting, educating and training the public health practitioner workforce is leading the Midlands’ Public Health Practitioner Development Scheme, to facilitate practitioners in gaining professional registration with UKPHR. Her role has a strong focus on embedding behavioural science, Health Literacy and prevention into the skillset of the core and wider public health workforce to support them in addressing health inequalities. Her work includes developing research that can influence undergraduate education programmes and the widening participation agenda, to ensure the workforce of today and tomorrow has the right skills, values and behaviours, in the right numbers, at the right time and in the right place.
Marie is a registered Mental Health Nurse with 20 years of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) experience across various tiers and capacities. I have co-authored an integrated care pathway for the management and treatment of eating disorders within an inpatient setting. 
Dr Emma Rowley is the Knowledge Translation and Training Lead for NIHR ARC East Midlands, where she leads two work programmes:The following speakers will present during showcase two:
Dr Waykar is a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist working in the LPFT for over 10 years. He completed his postgraduate training in Psychiatry in the UK and holds Master’s degree in Clinical Psychiatry. He has an active interest in research and has worked as a Principal Investigator for many LPFT research studies and led on various QI projects within the LPFT. His project on ‘Driving and Dementia’ won the best poster award at ‘International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) Congress’ in South Korea. He is a well-respected clinician by his patients and his colleagues.View Dr Vijayendra and Kelly Moran's SIREN study presentation here
The following speakers will present during showcase three:
Niroshan (Niro) Siriwardena is Professor of Primary and Prehospital Health Care at the University of Lincoln. He is director of the Community and Health Research Unit at the University of Lincoln, a research centre which focusses on quality improvement and implementation research, including studies aimed at development and evaluation of quality measures and health technologies in primary care and ambulance services. He is also director of Lincoln Clinical Trials Unit and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. He trained in medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College London and in general practice in Lincolnshire, followed by research training at Nottingham and De Montfort Universities. He has published over 150 research papers in leading journals including the BMJ, Lancet, Vaccine, Stroke, and Sleep, supported by funding from the National Institute for Health Research, Research Councils UK, the Health Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
Mark is the Global Professor of Rural Health and Social Care at the Lincoln Institute of Health, University of Lincoln. Mark's research and professional activity is about making significant contributions to the research evidence base for health and social care and its interface with general health and wellbeing with particular emphasis on vulnerable and marginalised people. Professor Gussy has experience and academic success that transcends professional boundaries and is now firmly located in transdisciplinary action and rural and community-centred health. Mark has a particular interest and experience of systems of care/treatment services and the people and groups that sit outside the mainstream service and social systems and the health and social inequity that arises from this. Expert in participatory approaches his research interrogates the broader social and structural determinants of participation and challenges entrenched, exclusionary systems that disadvantage the most vulnerable. His work is multidisciplinary and straddles multiple domains including clinical care, health service research, community and participatory research, and equity and inclusion.View Professor Niro's CaHRU presentation here and his LinCTU presentation here
View Professor Gussy's presentation here
Breakout sessions
On top of the speakers we also had six breakout sessions, with attendees able to attend two of these. These included:
TULIPS: a randomised controlled trial of a ward based intervention to improve access to psychologically informed care and psychological therapy for mental health inpatients - presented by Professor Katherine Berry, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Section Lead for Centre for New Treatments and Understanding in Mental Health, Division of Psychology and Mental Health and Helen Wilson, Researcher/Trial Manager, GMMH NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester
Practice, attitudes and outcomes of patients with memory complaints but no dementia diagnosis following memory clinic assessment - presented by Rowan Souray, Research Assistant, Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Uplift: A randomised controlled trial to improve NHS staff wellbeing - presented by Dr Vicky Laker, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Grounded Research Team, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
EQUITY: enhancing the quality of psychological interventions delivered by telephone - a randomised trial of service quality improvement intervention - presented by Dr Judith Gellatly, EQUITy Programme Manager, University of Manchester
Pharmacogenetics in Mental Health - presented by Rosemary Abidoph, Research Project Lead, University College London
Promoting Good Practice in Relation to Alcohol Use in Care Homes - presented by Sarah Wadd, Director of the Substance Misuse and Ageing Research Team, University of Bedfordshire and Michelle McCann, Research Fellow, University of Bedfordshire
Poster Competition
As part of the Research Conference there was a poster competition for all delegates, with prizes for the top three.
The winner was Psychological Therapy for Older Adults: Systemic Challenges (Dr V. Waykar, Dr P. Jog, Dr J.S. Low, Dr D. Ikeji, C.Skuse, CPN- OACMHT, Boston).
You can view the winning entry along with all the other poster entries here
Conference MS Teams links
For additional information please email Sandra.townsend4@nhs.net or the Research Team via lpft.research@nhs.net
