NIHR Innovation Observatory

📄 New Article Published

Our latest article, “Development of the Kunonga framework for operationalising approaches to health inequality and/or inequity evidence syntheses”, is now published in BMC journals.

📄 Read the article: ow.ly/eXeo50XZwgp

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📘 New report published: Emerging applications of quantum computing technology in healthcare

✍️ Authors: Ross Fairbairn, Oshin Sharma, Imogen Forsythe, Oleta Williams, Elizabeth Green, Andrew Mkwashi
Read full report: ow.ly/pf5F50XVvNU
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🗣️Keynote Speaker Announcement 🗣️

We’re pleased to announce Dr Miriam Albers as a keynote speaker at the CORE Information Retrieval Forum 2026.

🎤 Keynote title: OLSPub: An update on the OLSPub initiative (an alternative to PubMed)

✍️ Keynote synopsis: In this keynote, Miriam will challenge how we think about resilience in research infrastructure. Rather than focusing on fear, scale or dominance, she will explore how open, collaborative alternatives such as OLSPub can strengthen discovery, safeguard access to knowledge and offer credible new models for the future.

📅 Thursday 29 January 2026 | 📍 Newcastle upon Tyne | 🎟️ Free to attend

Register now 👉 core2026.oa-event.com

@UniofNewcastle @NIHR

🗣️Keynote Speaker Announcement 🗣️

🎤 Keynote title: Developing searches to identify research evidence – what is the role of AI?

✍️Keynote synopsis: With AI tools for evidence identification evolving at pace, Julie will explore what the current research evidence tells us about using AI for search strategy development, search planning and study identification. From an evidence synthesis perspective, she’ll also address how we can evaluate AI tools and, crucially, how information specialists can keep up to date in this rapidly changing space.

📅 Thursday 29 January 2026 | 📍 Newcastle upon Tyne | 🎟️ Free to attend

Register now 👉 core2026.oa-event.com

@UniofNewcastle @NIHR

💡New Year. New Skills. 💡

🎓 Newcastle University CPD: Horizon Scanning for Medicinal Products – March 2026

Across 3 online sessions, participants will develop practical skills to:

💡Understand core concepts & influencing factors in horizon scanning
💡Identify credible sources for medicinal-product horizon scans
💡Translate findings into actionable outputs (e.g. data tables, briefings)
💡Complete a horizon scan tailored to their own professional area

Ideal for professionals in health research, policy, regulation & life sciences who want to anticipate future medicines & their impact.

More info👉 ow.ly/O0Rc50XxouR @UniofNewcastle @NIHR