Monday 24 th March 2014
12noon until 3pm (with lunch)
Seminar room G306b, Ground Floor, Jean McFarlane Building, University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
We would like to invite you to come to this event to meet colleagues with different research backgrounds and expertise:
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Free networking event for anyone interested in research in diabetes and obesity.
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Find new research partners, build partnerships and collaborations.
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Meet researchers from a range of disciplines and explore interdisciplinary working.
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Will be of interest to academics, PhD students, policy makers, healthcare practitioners, voluntary sector organisations.
Format
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Participants chat for 5 minutes until a bell rings, signalling time to move on to the next person
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About 10 'chats' over 60 minutes
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Follow up conversations over drinks and refreshments
Places limited to 36 so please book early
Booking:
All are welcome and booking is essential.
To book your FREE place at this event, please contact: Jane.Mann@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 306
7900
About the Diabetes and Obesity Research Network
( DORN) is a multidisciplinary, multiorganisational network of over 150 active researchers and lay members based in the NW England founded in 2004. ( www.ihs.manchester.ac.uk/ResearchNetworks/diabetesandobesity/ ). DORN works in close collaboration with the NIHR North West Diabetes Local Research Network (NW DLRN). The
NW DLRN covers the Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cumbria and is made up of a multidisciplinary team that supports diabetes research across the region. ( www.ukdrn.org/lrn_nw.html
).
To join the network: contact Rebecca Jones, Co-ordinator - Health Sciences, University of
Manchester, Research Deanery, Faculty Medical and Human Sciences, rebecca.l.jones@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 275 7657
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