Candace is Deputy Director of Dissemination and Knowledge Mobilisation at the NIHR. She oversees the Centre’s dissemination and knowledge mobilisation activity including the production of accessible summaries of important NIHR research. Candace has over thirty years’ experience working in UK healthcare across all parts of the health system, including undertaking health research and developing health …
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Madina Kara
Dr Madina Kara is the Director of Research and Innovation responsible for developing and implementing the charity’s research strategy, delivering scientific grant funding and monitoring impact. Prior to joining Fight for Sight, Madina worked at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), where she held several roles, most recently as the Multiple Long …
Elena Ahmed
Elena joined Diabetes UK as a Research Funding Officer in the Research Funding Team at Diabetes UK in January 2023. Prior to this, she worked at various healthcare charities in roles involving analysis and administration. She has a BSc in Biomedical Science and a Masters in Psychology. The Research Funding Team at Diabetes UK manage …
Jocelyn LeBlanc
Jocelyn is the Research Impact Lead at Diabetes UK. She joined the charity in November 2022 and is responsible for tracking and evaluating the outcomes and impact of Diabetes UK’s research activities and funding. Before joining Diabetes UK, she worked at the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC). Jocelyn has a background in research, having …
Catherine Gilmore
Catherine Gilmore designs and delivers health research funding opportunities for AHRC. She advocates for the role of arts and humanities in interdisciplinary UKRI health research programmes, and is programme manager for the AHRC-led Mobilising Community Assets to tackle Health Inequalities programme.
Pete Osborne
Dr Pete Osborne is the Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, where he plays a leading role in the development of the AMRC‘s technology strategy. Pete has worked at the AMRC for more than 17 years, working on a wide range of industrially focussed research programmes for companies such as Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Siemens Gamesa. In 2013. Pete won …
Helen Surana
Dr Helen Surana is Associate Editor at BMJ Innovations – assessing and managing manuscripts, peer review and commissioning articles for special editions. She trained as an anaesthetist in the NHS and as a science communicator. She’s worked at BMJ in a number of roles since 2007 and loves digital transformation, education ethics and evidence. She …
Chris Holmes
Chris Holmes is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Oxford, with a joint appointment between the Department of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, through the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Innovation and Discovery. Before joining Oxford, Chris was based at Imperial College, …
Emma Doble
Emma Doble joined the BMJ in 2018 and is the patient editor for education. Since 2020 she has also led on the Patient and Public Partnership Strategy. Her work includes managing the ‘What your patient is thinking’ series, developing patient partnership in BMJ events and driving patient partnership in our BMJ cross journals. At the …
Helen Macdonald
Helen Macdonald graduated from Barts and The London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine Dentistry, London (2006). She has worked as an editor at The BMJ since 2008 (beginning as an editorial registrar). Currently, she is the UK research editor, continues to develop The BMJ‘s Rapid Recommendations series, and champions aspects of our campaigns on Better …