Here, we invite students and staff from universities across the UK to celebrate success in widening participation, sharing best practice, and explore opportunities in enhancing support available for under-represented groups in higher education.
This conference is themed: Bridging Gaps. We are proud to be delivering protected internships, designed by those that they serve. We aim to break ground by not only building widening access to clinical research with input from those from these backgrounds, but by also sharing best practice to create significant strides in supporting our under-represented future clinical academics. This year’s theme has been identified by last years’ conference’s fantastic expert panel discussion to identify best practice, which we will be running again this year.
Abstracts are now being accepted! Please register and submit by 31/10/2024 to be in for a chance at presenting your work for free at our national conference.
Last year, we were proud to host our first conference at The Scarman, University of Warwick, where we explored the concept ‘Breaking Ground’. We heard from Dr Vassili Crispi on their life as an early career researcher from an LGBTQAI+ background, and Dr Mary Doherty around their experiences as a neurodivergent clinical academic. We hosted a Best Practice session where we explored accessibility, training and pastoral needs of under-represented medical students. These best practice points were then turned into these incredible pieces by our friends at Nifty Fox, to make this an accessible story for all. Finally, below we have our Breaking Ground 2023 conference programme, which we encourage all to review at their leisure.
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