# AI for Multiple Long-term Conditions - Research Support Facility
## Informal Lunchtime Early Career Researcher Sessions

**Session: Thursday 17th March 12:15-13:15**
[https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/96759298538?pwd=eFY3a2xWUC9EK1lndzJRRFk1UTRHdz09](https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/96759298538?pwd=eFY3a2xWUC9EK1lndzJRRFk1UTRHdz09)

The AIM RSF is keen to create a regular informal, lively and supportive space for you to meet your fellow early career researchers, e.g. PhD students, postdocs, research fellows, data analysts, data scientists, data wranglers, software engineers and clinical researchers.

The sessions will provide a dedicated space for you to participate in informal lunchtime talks, discussions or ‘just in time’ training sessions to answer questions sent in advance. The intention is for you, as a community of AIM researchers and project staff (and supported by a dedicated RSF Community Manager), to inform your own agendas for these sessions so that they cover areas of interest and value to your work and enable the development of a collaborative and vibrant AIM research network.

*The session will be facilitated by **Mon Fletcher OBE, Honorary Fellow from the University of Edinburgh**.* For further information about ECR community development and training, please contact **Dr Evelina Gabasova** at [e-mail] or the RSF at [e-mail]

## Agenda - Please bring your lunch!

1. Welcome (Mon and Evelina)
2. Intro to Hackmd [Evelina]
3. Getting to know each other [Mon]
4. What is the AIM Research Support Facility [Evelina]
6. Brainstorm and feedback on format, frequency, opportunities and needs

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## Attending

Please put in your name, affiliation and an emoji that sums up your mood today

- Evelina (AIM RSF in the Turing Institute) :t-rex:
- Mon (Edinburgh) and :dog: Missy!
- Rafael (QMUL) :closed_umbrella:
- Guillermo (Edinburgh) :eagle:
- Emilia (Southampton) :+1:

## Apologies

- Elizabeth (AIM RSF) :face_with_cowboy_hat:
- Dave (AIM RSF) :8ball:
- Alisha (QMUL) :slightly_smiling_face:
- Seb (Southampton)
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## Getting to know each other

Mon to facilitate live questions during the session.

## Tell us about yourself

Please put in your name, your research team and what you find most interesting in your project.

- [name=Evelina] I'm leading the open collaboration and training theme in **AIM RSF**. Other than that, I'm a Principal Research Data Scientist in The Alan Turing Institute, part of the Research Engineering group. My background is in AI (probabilistic modelling), computer science and biomedical research. I'd like to find overlaps between the work across the AIM teams and drive creation of open source tools and data standards that would be useful to the wider community.
- [name=Elizabeth] I'm a Research Project Manager (RPM) at The Alan Turing Insitute, currently working alongside Evelina and Mon to help facilitate the delivery of both the **AIM RSF** programme and its research themes. I come from a neuroscience and AI background and enjoy supporting teams.
- [name=Dave] I'm the **AIM RSF** Programme Manager at The Alan Turing Institute and work with Elizabeth, Evelina & Mon (and others!) to support the RSF's work. I can't be at the meeting on 17th, but I'm looking forward to supporting activity across the AIM programme - let me know if I can be of any help!
- [name=Rafael] I'm a PDRA at Queen Mary University of London, working on data engineering and interactive analysis tools for our AI MULTIPLY project. My background is in data visualisation/computer science. Due to my role in the project I'm interested in issues surrounding the data (scale, quality issues, mapping codes).
- [name=Mon ] I am supporting colleagues at Univesity of Edinburgh on several projects including BREATHE HDRUK Respiratory data hub, Asthma UK Centre for Appied Research and the NHSDigital Academy postgraduate Leadership. My work many involves strategic partnerships and sustainability - I am supporting AIM RSF on the Legacy Theme so how to embed our findings into future policy and clinical care to improve practice. Looking forward to meeting everyone today and working with you in the future
- [name=Guillermo] I'm a PDRA at the University of Edinburgh working on patient clustering from a network science perspective. My background is in probabilistic modelling and complex systems applied to different domains. You are outside in the the beauty of Edinburgh
- [name=Emilia] I am a Public Health Registrar based at the University of Southampton. I am the Research Manager for MELD-B and am also carrying out a PhD in the School for Primary Care Research. The initial work for my PhD is qualitative.

Mon - Hi everyone thank you for attending our first ECR network meeting we got a lot of ideas for going forward .

As far as frequency and time - it was agreed monthly and around lunch time - do remember to feel comfortable to eat your lunch next time!

## Keeping in touch

Please add `+` for every technology that you use/would be happy to use to stay in touch.

- Email +++++++
- Slack ++++
- Teams
- Zoom ++
- Gather ++
- Github +++
- Discord
- Discourse
- WhatsApp
- Linkedin closed group
- Other (please write down your suggestion):

What would be the ideal frequency? Again, please add `+` for your preferred choice:

- Weekly
- Fortnightly
- Monthly ++++

## Ideas for future sessions
- Workshops related to the contents in [The Turing Way](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome.html)?

## Useful links

- [Turing AIM RSF website](https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/ai-multiple-long-term-conditions-research-support-facility)
- [AIM RSF monthly seminars](https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/rsf-monthly-seminars)
- [The Turing Way](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome.html)
- [BREATHE website](https://www.breathedatahub.com)