Past Events

♦ Dr Nicola Lester, IMPACT Lead for Safeguarding and Ethical Practice

‘Creating vicarious trauma informed research environments’ 

This seminar aims to support clinicians and researchers in developing vicarious trauma–informed environments, drawing on practical insights from research practice. It will explore how working closely with individuals and communities affected by trauma can have emotional and psychological impacts on professionals, and why it is essential that these impacts are recognised and addressed within organisational and research cultures.

Watch Nicola’s seminar here.

♦ Dr Amy Nelson, Academic Clinical Fellow at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and PhD Student at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

‘The Edges of Evidence-Based Medicine: Causal Modelling in Prehospital Critical Care’

Some questions cannot be answered by randomised controlled trials, whether due to practical constraints or lack of equipoise, leaving us to draw conclusions from observational studies that conflate clinical signal with biases. This session will describe how machine learning and doubly robust estimation can be used to estimate the survival effect of prehospital emergency anaesthesia with intubation in risk-stratified major trauma patients. We will consider the strengths and limits of observational causal inference, the importance of targeting treatment to those most likely to benefit, and the implications for prehospital service provision.

You can read Dr Amy Nelson’s latest publication here and listen to her appearance on the Resus Room Podcast here. 

Watch Amy’s seminar here. 

♦ Seema Yalamanchili, General Surgeon and a Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Global Health Innovation’s Centre for Health Policy

‘Bad Data Costs Lives: Rethinking How We Track Road Injuries’

Road collisions remain a leading cause of death globally, and progress in the U.K. has stalled. Yet the data underpinning our understanding is often incomplete, inconsistent, and delayed. Across policy, clinical care, and data science, fragmented systems and definitions limit how evidence is linked, interpreted, and used. Rethinking how road harm is measured – and analysed – is essential to enabling safer, more effective, and equitable systems that reduce preventable deaths and injuries.

Watch Seema’s seminar here.

♦ International Women’s Day 2026 – ‘Give to Gain’ – exploring how generosity, collaboration, and lifting women up drives shared growth and impact.

Tanya Fosdick – ‘Breaking the Pattern: Choosing Support Over Competition in a Male‑Dominated World’

Tanya is the Research Director at Agilysis, Trustee at the Road Safety Trust, and Principal Research Associate at Road Safety Analysis. Beginning her career in road safety within a highly male‑dominated policing environment, Tanya discovered early on how transformative women‑centred support can be.

Dr Claire Baker – ‘From Sensing to Saving Lives: Building Better, Fairer Post-Collision Response, Featuring Personal Reflections’

Claire is a Schmidt AI for Science Research Fellow in Design Engineering at Imperial College London, where she works on using accessible technology and data-driven trauma biomechanics to improve emergency healthcare.

Associate Professor Shweta Gidwani – ‘Reclaiming generosity – lessons from the frontline of global health’

Shweta Gidwani is an emergency medicine physician, an academic & educator in global emergency and injury care. Drawing from her journey as a woman on the frontlines of global health, she’s seen that the most transformative impact comes from radical, purposeful generosity.

Watch Tanya, Claire and Shweta’s seminar here. 

♦ Dr Alex Psirides, Co-director of Wellington ICU & Medical Director of the Wellington Aeromedical Retrieval Service, Wellington, New Zealand

The Ethics of Acute Care.

The void between ethics-as-taught & their practical application within acute care is vast. Ethics committees aren’t coming to save us. A brief foray into Kant, Bentham & Aristotle via Batman will be presented, with a diversion into triage. How do we make ethical decisions when demand exceeds resource?

Dr. Nicola Lester is a registered mental health nurse and EMDR therapist specializing in psychological trauma. As the clinical consultant for Brake’s National Road Victim Service, she collaborates with caseworkers to integrate trauma-informed approaches into their support for families affected by road traffic collisions.  She joins us to talk about trauma informed approaches to research practice.

• • Understanding the impact of trauma and traumatic bereavement
  • The principles of a trauma informed approach in research practice
  • Researcher wellbeing: vicarious trauma and resilience

Watch Nicola’s seminar here.

♦ Professor Jo Røislien, Medical Statistician, University of Stavanger

With their built-in capacity for assessing causality, RCTs have become the gold standard in medical research. However, with RCTs being quantitative experiments, they live in the intersection between the idealized worlds of mathematics and experimentation. Indeed, the phrase “quantitative experiment” turns out to be surprisingly challenging in the field of health research, tapping into less-than-straightforward topics like the meaningfulness of numbers, the fundamental difference between complicated and complex, and high-dimensional mathematical statistics. Sure RCTs are powerful. In theory. But clinical practice is not theory.