Conference programme
Full programme coming soon!
Keynote 1 - Understanding and Overcoming the Impostor Phenomenon (Dr Kate Atkin)
Keynote 2 - Teams build dreams: the essential role of pharmacy in multi-disciplinary research (Professor Tony Avery)
Keynote 3 - What you do matters: showcasing impact of pharmacy-led research (Professor Rachel Elliott)
Meet Our Conference Keynote Speakers!
Professor Rachel Elliott
Rachel Elliott is Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester; Lead for the Manchester Centre for Health Economics; NIHR Senior Investigator; Visiting Professor, University of Queensland; Fellow of the Royal College of Pharmacy; and a UK registered pharmacist.
She has obtained £60 million funding in health economics research, influencing health policy and practice in the UK and internationally.
She is the economics lead for the NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaboration in Manchester.
She was a NICE technology appraisal committee member from 2006-23. She works closely with patients and service users to expand their role in health economics research codesign and dissemination.
Professor Tony Avery
Professor Tony Avery, OBE, is National Clinical Director for Prescribing for NHS England. He is also a GP in Nottingham and Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Nottingham.
He is passionate about ensuring the safe, effective and appropriate use of medicines and has worked in partnership with healthcare professionals and patients over 30 years to drive forward research and policy development in prescribing and patient safety.
He has led a number of major studies investigating the frequency, nature and causes of prescribing safety problems in the NHS. He has also developed effective methods for tackling hazardous prescribing, most notably the pharmacist-led, IT-based intervention called PINCER, which has now been rolled out nationally to general practices in England.
Dr Kate Atkin
Speaking to audiences about courage, confidence and overcoming the imposter phenomenon (it isn’t really a syndrome), Dr Kate Atkin inspires others to overcome their inner fears. She completed an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology in 2015 and in 2024 Kate received her PhD for research on the imposter phenomenon, coping strategies and psychological courage.
Working with major corporates, universities, charities and the NHS, Kate is on a mission to explain what the imposter phenomenon is, and what it isn't. She is author of The Imposter Phenomenon, The Confident Manager and The Presentation Workout and lives in Cambridgeshire with her husband and their rescue spaniel.
Find out more about Kate and her work on her website: www.kateatkin.com
Meet Our Conference Workshop Speakers!
WORKSHOP : Beyond “Just Tell Them”: A Behavioural Science Approach to Changing Behaviour & Improving Health
Dr Tracy Epton is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology and Behavioural Scientist at The University of Manchester. Her research focuses on developing and applying the science of behaviour change to improve health and address social inequalities. She works in multidisciplinary teams using a range of approaches, including evidence synthesis, intervention development and evaluation, measurement development, and co-design with communities. She was part of the British Psychological Society’s Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention Taskforce and the Health Psychology Exchange and has examined how behavioural science can be applied in healthcare and public health.
WORKSHOP : Who’s missing? Strengthening inclusion in pharmacy and health services research
Rachel L. Cowen (she/her/hers) is Professor of Inclusive Researcher and Academic Development, Faculty Associate Dean for Strategy, People and Research Environment and University Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Gender and Sexual Orientation) at the University of Manchester. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE and has 30 years’ experience as a cancer researcher, organisational developer and equalities champion leading on institutional strategy, policy and practice developments that work towards a culture in which all can thrive.
WORKSHOP : Bridging Practice and Research as a Clinical-Academic
Richard Bourne is a clinical-academic pharmacist specialising in critical care. He is Consultant Pharmacist - Critical Care (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHSFT) and Honorary Professor (Critical Care Pharmacy) (The University of Sheffield). He has held two NIHR post-doctoral fellowships and is currently an NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Researcher. As a Board Member of the NIHR Pharmacy Professionals Incubator and chair the Intensive Care Pharmacy Research Network, he provides leadership in advancing collaborative research and building research capability and capacity amongst pharmacy professionals. His research focuses on medicines optimisation in critically ill patients, with interests in medication safety, the quality and continuity of medicines use, and improving recovery after critical illness through the development and evaluation of innovative medicines-related interventions.
Lynn Elsey is a Consultant Respiratory Pharmacist at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust with a clinical interest in severe asthma. Lynn is currently undertaking a PhD exploring the impact of digital inhaler monitoring on adherence in asthma at the University of Manchester. She is chair of the UK Clinical Pharmacist Association (UKCPA) respiratory pharmacist group, a member of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Respiratory Pharmacist Specialist Advisory Group and represents the BTS on the Taskforce for Lung Health Treatment working group. She has an interest in sustainability and is a co-lead for the Centre for Sustainable Health Respiratory Sustainability Network.
WORKSHOP : Implementation Science (Full title TBC)
Bec Elvey is Research Fellow in the Implementation Science theme at the NIHR Greater Manchester Applied Research Collaboration (ARC-GM). She began her research career in pharmacy practice at The University of Manchester. She has expertise in using qualitative methods to evaluate the implementation of innovations in a range of contexts.
Dr Laura Sheard is a qualitative methodologist, implementation scientist and health sociologist at the University of Manchester, with over twenty years’ experience of leading mixed methods evaluations in applied health research. Her research portfolio lies at the intersection of health inequalities and healthcare improvement and my primary topic interests are: prison healthcare, food insecurity, quality/safety/experience of care. Methodologically, Laura is interested in innovation and novelty in qualitative analytic techniques and the role of interpretative analysis in health research. Laura is associate editor at the journal Implementation Science.
