Date
Tuesday 4th February 2025, 10:45
Location
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford

Personalised prevention aims to tailor preventative health strategies to individual characteristics, for example, genetic, lifestyle or environmental factors. The aim is to prevent or delay the onset of disease more effectively than a one-size-fits all approach. Whilst this holds much promise for improving healthcare outcomes, this promise can only be realised if we also consider some of the challenges to successful integration. 

This year, the Centre for Personalised Medicine Research Showcase brings together researchers and stakeholders from a range of disciplines to explore the latest thinking on personalised prevention, in its broadest sense. 

In this showcase, we will explore both how the potential may be realised and the challenges overcome, by discussing research underway at the University of Oxford, along with the wider political and social context within which these ambitions are situated. 

This event is open to anyone interested in personalised prevention, including researchers, clinicians, students, policymakers, patient advocates, and industry professionals. 

The event will take place in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford on Tuesday 4th February 2025. 

We do hope you will be able to join us for this thought-provoking day. 

The Research Showcase will include an opportunity to build your presentation skills by participating in our 2nd PechaKucha, held during the afternoon session.

PechaKucha is a type of lightning talk using image-based slides: everyone presenting prepares 20 slides, and has 20 seconds to present each slide (so just under 7 minutes to present in total). It’s a great way to develop your presentation and storytelling skills in a supportive environment, and made for a really fun and enjoyable session at our research showcase last year:

“I’d not even heard of PechaKucha before I saw the invitation to the CPM Research Showcase. It sounded fun and a bit different from most research presentations, so I thought I’d give it a go. It was surprisingly challenging to create such a succinct talk. However, it made for an engaging set of presentations to listen to and I found the whole day really enjoyable.”  

Will Cooke (2024 winner) 

This year’s theme is ‘Personalised Prevention’, broadly interpreted. Graduate students and early career researchers from all disciplines interested in health and medicine are welcome to apply – we would love to hear about your research and how it relates to personalised prevention. We hope all participants find the PechaKucha session a rewarding experience. The audience choice winner will receive a certificate and a Blackwell’s voucher. 

 

To participate in the PechaKucha, please register your interest by emailing cpm@well.ox.ac.uk and providing your suggested title and a brief summary of your topic (max. one paragraph) by no later than Wednesday 15 January. We will aim to inform you whether your topic has been accepted by Friday 17 January. Invited participants will need to provide their PowerPoint file to cpm@well.ox.ac.uk by Thursday 31 January. 

You can register for the Research Showcase here.

PechaKucha is a fun and creative short-form, image-driven, timed presentation. The aim is to provide a summary of your chosen topic using compelling images in exactly 20 slides, with each slide timed to automatically advance every 20 seconds. Your talk on the day must keep up with this timing, challenging you to share your ideas concisely!  

Each slide needs an intriguing image to support your talk. What compelling images could you use to convey your research? Photographs, drawings, cartoons, graphics are commonly used. You can be really creative with this and/or you can use visualisations of data (i.e., charts, diagrams, etc.), but remember you will only have 20 seconds to explain each image. 

Using text on slides in a traditional PechaKucha is very much discouraged, unless it is integral to your image. See the resource links below for helpful guidance and ideas and please do consider copyright for image usage.

Resources: 

  • Creative Commons (this search portal helps you search CC licensed works across multiple platforms, so could be a useful starting point if you’re looking for the perfect pictures to illustrate your research): https://search.creativecommons.org/?beta=1&q=      
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