Workshops
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Please sign up to your choice of workshop and provide a second choice:
Deadline: Wednesday 18 September @ 23:30 (GMT +1)
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Workshop session 1 - Monday 2-3pm
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Workshop 1A: A Dragon’s Den of dangerous research ideas
Main auditorium (available in-person and online) Dr Rosemary Townsend and panel of research experts |
Welcome to the GLOW Dragon's Den for research questions
Do you have a burning research question you are wondering how best to address? A study proposal you believe in but can't get funded? Preliminary data you want feedback on? Are you looking for advice on how to scale up from pilot studies? In this workshop, you can present your idea, question or dilemma to our expert panel of Dragons and get feedback from them and your audience. Our panel will include Professor Hilary Critchley (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Andrew Shennan (St Thomas' Hospital, London). If you would like to be selected to present your idea or question, please send a brief summary of your idea or question to [email protected] by Thursday 19th September. (max 250 words). The selected participants will be given up to 5 minutes to present, with 10 minutes for discussion with our experts and the audience. This does not need to be a finalised project, but can be anything you are working on and want to get feedback on. Presenters will receive a certificate for workshop presentation at GLOW. |
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Workshop 1B: Publication fraud: how do we know which publications not to trust?
Foyer Room 1 (available in-person only) Professor Andrew Weeks & Ms Jo weeks |
With the increased pressure for academics to publish and the arrival of new ‘pay to publish’ academic journals, there are an increasing number of untrustworthy publications. These feed into guidelines and can result in poor quality patient care. In 2023 more than 10,000 research papers were retracted due to demonstrated irregularities. It is estimated that up to 10% of published papers may be unreliable. But how do you spot them?
Jo Weeks is a professional data sleuth, working with Cochrane and advising WHO on the detection of untrustworthy research. She will share a tool that she helped create to do this, now in regular use by both Cochrane and WHO. She will be joined by her brother Andrew Weeks, an obstetrician in Liverpool, to put the issue into context. Together they will introduce you to the problem and provide an opportunity to discuss the issues that arise from this complex and important, but largely ‘hidden’ problem. Attendees will have the opportunity to try out their detective skills on a recent example, whose retraction forced a change in NICE recommendations |
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Workshop 1C: A practical guide to developing AI tools for women’s health
Foyer Room 2 (available to in-person only) Ms Yasmina Al Ghadban & Ms Ankita Sharma |
This interactive workshop will introduce the ethical, practical, and equity challenges around developing and testing AI tools for healthcare in low- and middle-income settings, focusing on large language models. We will draw on our experience developing the SMARThealth GPT tool, a co-developed solution to support frontline health workers provide evidence-based advice to pregnant women in rural India. The workshop is aimed at clinicians and researchers interested in developing and evaluating AI tools into clinical care pathways. No technical experience required.
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Workshop Session 2 - Monday, 3:30-4:30PM
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Workshop 2A: Writing to win research grants
Main auditorium (available in-person and online) Ms Sam Palmer, Medical Research Council |
A summary of the MRC’s funding landscape within Women’s health, including funding opportunities and MRC’s guidance on “what makes a good application?”
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Workshop 2B: Creating Better Research Cultures: the OMAGEMI Discussion Project
Foyer Room 1 (available in-person only) Ms Georgina Sowerby and colleagues |
The creative group behind The GLOW Walk brings the OMAGEMI Discussion Project.
This facilitated session offers a taster of a Wellcome-funded science/arts cross-discipline event. The session will end with a short Q&A exploring some of the challenges and benefits of such collaborations. NB There will be no role play! The scientist/parent-artist team have created stimulating conversation cards, exploring dilemmas relating to medication and pregnancy. These conversations help everyone consider alternative viewpoints, talk across divides, make collective knowledge visible and find ways forward together where there is no perfect outcome. "Questions posed by (semi)chance allowed a different conversation to take place - to be both professional and patient." Dr Steve Killick, Storytelling for Health and Wellbeing Symposium 2024, Cardiff, University of South Wales. The OMAGEMI Discussion Project originated from work with the Co_OPT consortium. What started out as straightforward public engagement around Corticosteroids in pre-term births (the benefits, harms and reducing unnecessary treatment), morphed into an exploration of the underlying attitudes and issues shaping research environments in profound but often unacknowledged ways, especially in the area of pregnancy and birth. Our aim is to contribute to a better research culture leading to better outcomes. |
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Workshop 2C: Translating informed consent: when language barriers exist in maternity services
Foyer Room 2 (available to in-person only) Dr Jenny Patterson & Dr Yvonne Greig |
Informed consent is integral to maternity care. When women have limited proficiency in the native language of the country in which they receive maternity care the giving and receiving of information necessary for consent and decision making can be challenging. Indeed, Language barriers are one of the key factors contributing to poorer outcomes in maternal and neonatal health of families with immigrant, refugee or asylum-seeking status, increasing mortality and morbidity rates both for mothers and babies. Recent research by Prof Şebnem Susam-Saraeva from the University of Edinburgh (language and translation studies) and Dr Jenny Patterson from Edinburgh Napier University (midwifery lecturer) explored this phenomenon in a research project ‘Translating informed consent in Scottish maternity Services', funded by an RSE Research Workshop Grant in 2022 (publication papers in press). Key findings highlight issues with resources, interpreter knowledge and training, power differentials, and cultural awareness. As part of the dissemination of this research, Şebnem and Jenny have been facilitating several workshops for midwives and student midwives across Scotland. This research is being followed by a current project ‘The beginnings: Factoring in interpreting at antenatal care and midwifery education’ which will further explore ways to accentuate language needs of service users and optimal ways to incorporate language and cultural awareness training in midwifery education in Scotland.
This workshop will be facilitated by Jenny and Yvonne Grieg (Edinburgh Napier University, midwifery lecturer). Through discussion and scenario role play, this workshop offers an innovative and powerful way to explore the needs and experiences of the women, those who provide maternity care and those who facilitate interpreting or translation. |
workshop Sesion 3 - TUesday 11-12 noon
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Workshop 3A: Kangaroo mother care for small vulnerable neonates: Implementation & real-world insights
Main auditorium (available in-person and online) Dr Helen Brotherston & Dr Victor Tumukunde |
Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is an important, life-saving intervention for small newborns everywhere, but especially in low-resource settings. Recently updated WHO guidelines recommend starting KMC as soon as possible after birth with clear evidence of mortality reduction for unwell neonates and when >8 h/d of skin-to-skin contact is provided. Achieving high KMC coverage in real-world African contexts is challenging, yet is a priority with high potential impact for newborns and families.
This interactive workshop will provide participants with:
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Workshop 3B: FGM Education – What a frontline worker needs to know
Foyer Room 1 (available in-person only) Dr Victoria Kincaid, Dr Heather Morgan & Miss Vidhi Naik |
Want to learn more about Female Genital Multilation? Want to know how you can teach on FGM more effectively? Come to our workshop on FGM Education!
We are the FGM Education Project, and we are devoted to educating frontline professionals on FGM and their mandatory reporting duties. Through pedagogical research we have discovered what frontline professionals both want and need to know about FGM. We will be educating not just on what FGM is, but how to address it with patients in a sensitive way, for professionals to be able to best look after their patients, and perform their mandatory reporting duty as needed. We will share our insights on what we have learned through our journey in FGM education to help equip you to be able to teach FGM more effectively! In this workshop you will learn
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Workshop 3C: Safer breech birth - facilitating physiological breech birth and use of point of care ultrasound to identify breech presentation
Foyer Room 2 (available in-person only) Dr Jenny Patterson, Dr Yvonne Greig & Dr Rosemary Townsend |
For women who are found to have a fetus presenting in the breech position, planned birth by caesarean section (CS) is common. As a result, these women will be subjected to major surgery and exposed to its incumbent risks, while for some CS may be an unacceptable option. Furthermore, CS impacts significantly on healthcare costs and staff resources. Thus, maternity care providers should be equipped to support women who wish for physiological vaginal breech birth (VBB). To do this they must have a thorough knowledge of the physiology of VBB and understand the optimal maternal positioning for this.
Proposed Activity The session will start with a short introduction discussing how women should be counselled antenatally should they wish a VBB, this will include a discussion around the value of C/S v VBB. Then considering upright or all-fours positions, we will demonstrate the mechanisms of breech birth. Participants will then be able to make use of the pelves and doll models to simulate birth and compare maternal positions for optimal outcomes. Outcomes
Dr Jenny Patterson – Midwifery lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. Jenny has practiced as midwife since 2007, both within the NHS and independently. Jenny is passionate about optimising women’s childbirth experiences especially in reducing psychological birth trauma. Key factors in trauma are not receiving appropriate information and not being involved in decision making, both factors can arise due to care providers being uninformed. |
