Workshop 12th March 2025

Health Data Research Network (HDRN) workshops are a forum space to advance and promote best and standardised practices in data access, handling, security, analysis and public engagement. Our network is open to universities, governmental bodies, national research initiatives, health professionals, and industry.

Venue: Engineers House, Bristol BS8 3NB ///dent.beyond.bridge

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Agenda

Chair: Pau Erola, Research Software Engineer, Jean Golding Institute, UoB

9:30	Arrival – self-service tea and coffee
10:00	Welcome
10:10	Rachel Denholm, Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School, UoB, and Co-Director of Health Data Research UK South West The rise of new English Secure Data Environments
10:30	Damon Chow, Business Data Analyst, HDR UK The Health Data Research Gateway
10:50	Coffee break
11:10	Fiona Booth, Data integrity & Quality Assurance Programme Director, UoB Commercial vs. academic research approaches to reproducibility
11:30	Richard Welpton, Head of Data Service Infrastructure, Economic and Social Research Council Improving the experience of accessing sensitive data for research
11:50	Ben Elsworth, Lead Data Engineer, Our Future Health Processing and releasing genetic data at Our Future Health
12:10	Break
12:20	Will Chapman, Data Scientist, Jean Golding Institute Routine data for health research
12:40	Q&A and round table Challenges in health data research: aims for the HDRN
13:00	Networking lunch