18th EViR Funders’ (Virtual) Forum Roundtable Meeting March 2024
We are excited to announce the dates and invite you to the 2025 EViR Spring Round Table (virtual) meeting scheduled for March 27th from 12.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. GMT and March 28th from 12.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. GMT.
Please follow this link: https://forms.office.com/e/qRnXZ2CuQZ to register for the event. (For Members, be sure to contact us at for the link to the members-only day)
Planned topics include:
- The launch of the updated Guiding Principles
- Dissemination & Implementation issues for funders
- Evidence synthesis – identifying research gaps in funding applications
- Reproducibility of peer review
- Reflections on measuring research impact
- Artificial intelligence and when to (not) use it
- Early career in research funding
We are currently putting the detail of the agenda together and will share it at the earliest opportunity. We look forward to your presence and valuable contributions. Should you have any queries or require further information, feel free to reach out to us.
Thank you, and we anticipate an enriching experience together!
EViR Webinar – The MESSAGE Project
This session will underline the need for improved accounting of sex and gender in biomedical, health and care research to enhance scientific rigour and reproducibility, minimise research waste, and ensure patient safety.
Drawing on the expertise established by the UK research sector in the context of the Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity (MESSAGE) project, this session will set out a policy framework and implementation tools for research funders to realise this change within their research communities.
This meeting is for EViR members only, please contact the secretariat if you would like to discuss your membership.
16th EViR Funders’ Forum Roundtable Meeting April 2024
We are excited to announce the 2024 Spring EViR Roundtable meeting, which will take place on April 25 and 26. The detailed agenda is here.
Join us in our virtual event, where we will delve into various subjects, with a special emphasis on advancing transparency in research and exploring the advantages and challenges associated with artificial intelligence. Day 2 is exclusively reserved for EViR members, concentrating on the key areas highlighted in our Strategy Workplan.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage, learn, and contribute to shaping the future!
6th EViR Chatter Session – Greener Conferences Guidance
These informal chatter meetings provide members with the space and opportunity to discuss issues that do not require a formal meeting or agenda. They are designed to allow members to meet with a greater degree of spontaneity and flexibility and without the need to wait until a roundtable meeting to address any topics of interest.
This meeting is for EViR members only, please contact the secretariat if you would like to discuss your membership.
5th EViR Chatter Session – External Reviewing Process
These informal chatter meetings provide members with the space and opportunity to discuss issues that do not require a formal meeting or agenda. They are designed to allow members to meet with a greater degree of spontaneity and flexibility and without the need to wait until a roundtable meeting to address any topics of interest.
This meeting is for EViR members only, please contact the secretariat if you would like to discuss your membership.
4th EViR Chatter Session – Research Transparency
These informal chatter meetings provide members with the space and opportunity to discuss issues that do not require a formal meeting or agenda. They are designed to allow members to meet with a greater degree of spontaneity and flexibility and without the need to wait until a roundtable meeting to address any topics of interest.
This meeting is for EViR members only, please contact the secretariat if you would like to discuss your membership.
EViR – RoR Webinar: Implementing a Threaded Publication Model: a reflection on progress
Please join the Research on Research Hub team for their next chatter session on 17th October 2023 11:00 – 12:00 (BST) with a presentation by Dr Cat Chatfield.
15th EViR Funders’ Forum Roundtable Meeting September 2023
We are excited to announce the 2023 Autumn EViR Roundtable meeting live in The Hague The Netherlands September 27th and 28th 2023. The programme is currently under development and subject to input from the spring meeting but we urge you to save the dates and prepare to join us in the Hague during this time.
We will be hosted by ZonMw, The Netherlands, that this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. In addition to the round table ZonMw will host a symposium on September 26th specifically focussed on 25 years of Implementation Science and Practice to which you are also cordially invited. This is of special interest to EViR member colleagues working in Dissemination and Implementation and we recommend asking those within your organisation to attend. We hope to meet you in good health in September in the Netherlands: Welkom!
Third EViR Chatter Session – Use of AI in funding applications and platform studies
These informal chatter meetings provide members with the space and opportunity to discuss issues that do not require a formal meeting or agenda. They are designed to allow members to meet with a greater degree of spontaneity and flexibility and without the need to wait until a roundtable meeting to address any topics of interest.
EViR Webinar – Core Outcome Sets in Medical Research
Core outcome sets helps researchers to measure a consistent set of outcomes in studies of a health condition. This webinar will allow members to learn more and discussion about the need for core outcome sets.
Presenter – Paula Williamson (MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership, Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, UK)
This meeting is for EViR members only, please contact the secretariat if you would like to discuss your membership.
EViR Webinar on Animal-free Science
Members will have the opportunity to discuss what health funders (can) do to promote animal-free innovations and more human-relevant science, and how funders and regulators can engage as stakeholders to stimulate acceptance and implementation of animal-testing-free innovations.
This meeting is for EViR members only, please contact the secretariat if you would like to discuss your membership.
Second EViR Chatter Session – Interdisciplinarity
These informal EViR chatter meetings provide members with the space and opportunity to discuss issues that do not require a formal meeting or agenda. They are designed to allow members to meet with a greater degree of spontaneity and flexibility and without the need to wait until a roundtable meeting to address any topics of interest.
