Personal Development
Research experience
Research Associate Chronic Headache Education and Self-management Study (CHESS), Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick. Funded by the National Institute Health Research September 2015 – November 2015
Research Associate The Warwick Dystonia Self Management Study (WADSS), Warwick Clinical Trials Unit. Funded by The Dystonia Society May 2014 - June 2015
Responsibilities
Co-organiser Warwick-Monash Alliance corporation, University of Warwick, Autumn term 2012
Conference presentations
Abstract accepted for an oral presentation in Pecha-Kucha format, Medical Sociology Group 46th Annnual British Sociological Association Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, September 2014
Conference poster presentions
'Investigating healthcare in the construction of patients' experience of physical disability: a case study of dystonia patients and healthcare practitioners in England', Warwick Medical School Research Student Symposium 2014, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, May 2014
Conferences attended
Medical Sociology Group 45th Annnual British Sociological Association Conference, University of York, September 2013
International Association of Critical Realism Conference, University of Nottingham, July 2013
ESRC First Year Student Conference, London School of Economics, February 2013
1st Annual Conference Nottingham-Birmingham-Warwick DTC Student Conference, University of Nottingham, November 2012
Teaching courses
'Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education' workshop, University of Warwick, November 2013
Seminars, training events and Research Student Skills Programme Workshops attended at the University of Warwick
Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) seminars
'The Practice of Social Research’, ‘Philosophies of Social Science Research’ and ‘Qualitative Research Methods' - Autumn 2012 - Spring 2013
Research training events (computer)
'Nvivo 10 - working with data', June 2014
'Nvivo 10- an overview', September 2013
'Organising References Using Endnote', December 2012
Research training
'Introduction to Research at Warwick', June 2014, University of Warwick
Research Student Skills Programme Workshops
'Effective Literature Searching'. May 2014
'Poster Design and Creation', March 2014
'Understanding Academic Writing: grammatical accuracy, morphology and syntax', November 2013
‘Understanding the Upgrade Progress', May 2013
Ethics training
'Research Ethics Training', Warwick Medical School, May 2014
'Good Clinical Practice', Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, May 2014
Professional development
'Internet Profiling/Digital Technologies', July 2014, Warwick Medical School
'Online Writing Workshop' (blogging and making an impact with research), July 2014, University of Warwick
Completed work
Upgraded from MPhil to PhD status, Warwick Medical School, June 2013
Passed assignments in the following DTC training modules: 'The Practice of Social Research’, ‘Philosophies of Social Science Research’ and ‘Qualitative Research Methods', Autumn 2012 - Spring 2013