Transcript Network training - VPH-CaSE

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MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN
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MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN
Training
Training
• PDP – ESR summary document
– Reference for training context
• Provides overview of….
– Aims/context of the network
– Reference skills list
– Network training programme
– Communication and public engagement strategy
– Personal career Development Plan (PDP)
Researcher Skills: Complementary
Research & Project Management
Experience:
Working with senior scientists from Academic /non-Academic organisations. Scientific networking/science communication
to specialists / non-specialists. Enterprise start-up, task co-ordination, organisation of network events.
Management: Effective project and research management. Management techniques; delegation, risk assessment. Team working:
managing roles and expectations. Challenges/benefits of collaborative research. Networking in industry and research. How to become a
more effective researcher through management of the PhD (and the supervisor!).
Governance: Ethical issues, procedures and practice. All ESRs will be confronted with issues surrounding patient data and ethical
approvals. Ethics procedures will be explained, some ESRs will write an ethics application, submitted to the appropriate board.
Career Management
Job Interviews: Career paths/preparing for them. CV skills and maximising performance at interview. Awareness of (non-)academic
recruitment/selection practices.
Career Planning: Career planning/raising research profile/developing relevant experience.. Selling yourself – developing an effective
personal portfolio.
Communication Skills/Personal Effectiveness
Presentation: Public speaking/effective presentations/AV aids,
Communication: Developing/delivering scientific critiques, publication ethics (authorship/copyright)
Grant Writing: Issues surrounding grant writing, definition of research questions, identification of state-of-the-art and requirements for
future research. What makes a successful proposal?
IPR/Commercial Exploitation of Results/ Entrepreneurship
Commercialisation of novel ideas: from vision > business-plan. Understanding IP, raising finance, effective Marketing and Sales.
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Researcher Skills:
Technical
Experimentation and
validation
1. Optical methods for strain measurement
2. Flow visualisation techniques
3. Limitations of clinical imaging of flow
4. Experimental measurement of physiological cardiac
function/effect of mechanical circulatory support
5. Ultrasound methods for strain imaging
6. 3D ultrasound imaging techniques
7. Ultrasound vector motion estimation techniques
8. MRI imaging and signal interpretation (e.g. flow)
Industrial perspectives
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Knowledge of manufacturing materials and methods
CAD for prototype generation
Project planning for industrial task prioritisation
Understanding market needs and requirements
Cost awareness
Modelling
1. CFD of complex flows
2. 3D FE modelling of cardiac function
3. Modelling of cellular level processes
4. Multi-scale modelling of cardiac function
5. Mathematical modelling of arterial disease
6. Modelling of mass-transport (arteries and devices)
7. Surface response techniques to optimise design
parameters for medical device development
8. Generation of numerical models from patient-specific
imaging data and CAD models of devices
9. Imaging tools for patient-specific modelling
Translational methods
1. Clinical study design and the formulation of trials and experiments in
medical research
2. Establishment of studies for retrospective and prospective cohorts
3. Combination of models and patient data into new diagnostic methods
4. Medical devices assessment and efficacy measures
5. Design of clinical trial to assess medical device safety
6. Identifying industrial needs/translation to solutions
7. Regulatory aspects – from bench to market
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ESR skills review
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Are there any skills in the list which are not
clearly defined?
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Are there any key skills missing from the
list?
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Local training
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Local training opportunities identified by you and your
supervisor
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Secondments can be timed to exploit available training
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Opportunities for you to gain from expertise of other centres
Network training
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Delivered through network-wide training programme
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Provides opportunities to enhance collaborations
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Training Event 1: Intro event: preliminary skills, networking
2 day event
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Hosted by USFD (Sheffield, UK)
Nov 2015
Training focus on complementary skills
Provides social interaction to promote network cohesion / interactions
between institutions
Information related to management / reporting requirements of VPH-CaSE
(project management)
1. Leeds Test Objects case study: “What is it like to operate as an SME?”
2. Training in the ethical use of clinical data
3. Interactions with USFD Industrial Knowledge Forge event: local engagement with
Industry
4. Sheffield Healthcare Gateway talk on commercialisation of research outputs /
research IP
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Training Event 2: Modelling techniques, Clinical translation
1 week event
Hosted by POLIMI (Milan, IT)
Jun 2016
• After ESRs have undertaken preliminary research in the area of
their IRP
• Patient-specific modelling approaches including the generation of
patient-specific models from imaging data
• 3D modelling of solid and fluid systems in the framework of
medical device design and development
• Multi-scale and multi-physics modelling for device design
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Training Event 3: Experimental techniques, Clinical translation
1 week event
Hosted by TUe (Eindhoven, NL)
Sep 2016
• Build on event 2, complement simulation with experimental
approaches
• PhysioHeart platform, providing state-of-the-art training in
experimental measurement of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology
• Complementary skills:
Directly through delivery of structured training material
Indirectly, ESRs required to present the results of
experiments
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Training Event 4: Research exploitation, Industrial translation
1 week event
Hosted by CNRS (Lyon, FR)
Jun 2017
• Consolidate collaborative efforts within the network
• Focus on the exploitation of research results including
contributions from industry partners
• Training will include; IPR, Commercialisation, financing, Marketing
and Sales
• Commercial project management; effective project and research
management, risk assessment, the challenges of collaborative
research and the importance of networking
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PDP goals
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YR1/YR2: Annual Training Needs
Analysis: with reference to Researcher
Skills Table, Network-wide training
events and Local training
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IRP: Individual Research Project
NWT: Network-Wide Training
SCD: Secondments
LT: Local Training
OUT: Outreach activities
TNA drives delivery/refinement of training
activities
YR2/YR3: Personal Training Portfolio:
record of training, outreach and
research outputs in CV style
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Delivers CV skills and encourages reflective
approach to training selection (CPD etc.)
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PDP process
Month 2 : Independently complete the TNA (table 1 and table 2)
Month 2 : Meet with your supervisor to discuss the TNA
At training events, you will:
(i) reflect on your skill development
(ii) discuss training opportunities as a group
(iii) Update table 3
Month 13 : Independently complete table 3
Month 13 : Meet with you supervisor to discuss table 3
(i) reflect on your skill development
(ii) consider career planning
COORDINATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN
PDP process
Month 2 : Independently complete the TNA (table 1 and table 2)
Month 2 : Meet with your supervisor to discuss the TNA
At training events, you will:
(i) reflect on your skill development
(ii) discuss training opportunities as a group
(iii) Update table 3
Month 13 : Independently complete table 3
Month 13 : Meet with you supervisor to discuss table 3
(i) reflect on your skill development
(ii) consider career planning
COORDINATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN
PDP process
Month 2 : Independently complete the TNA (table 1 and table 2)
Month 2 : Meet with your supervisor to discuss the TNA
At training events, you will:
(i) reflect on your skill development
(ii) discuss training opportunities as a group
(iii) Update table 3
Month 13 : Independently complete table 3
Month 13 : Meet with you supervisor to discuss table 3
(i) reflect on your skill development
(ii) consider career planning
COORDINATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN