The Greater Manchester Care Record sandpit is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 3rd and Friday 5th November at 14.00 – 16.00. Please note that this is one event across two days: participants are expected to attend both days.

The Greater Manchester Care Record (GMCR) research platform provides authorised GM researchers and clinicians trustworthy, safely governed access to a wealth of deidentified data to support world-leading research.

The first studies launched using the GMCR have supported GM’s response to COVID-19, including understanding trends and risks to public health and those communities at highest risk, how the disease affects those with other health conditions, and preventing and controlling its spread.

We are now looking to develop ideas beyond Covid-19 with and for our GM community by holding this research idea gathering sandpit event. We invite researchers, clinicians, engineers, data analysts, health and care workers and citizens to come together to define and work up ideas together across the sandpit sessions.

We will be funding a number of six-month feasibility studies which develop from these sandpits (~£10-15k per successful proposal). Please note that due to the nature of this funding, each funded project must be led by a researcher from The University of Manchester.

Intellectual Property rights will be subject to terms and conditions as agreed between the Alan Turing Institute and The University of Manchester.

Please share this invitation with any suitable collaborators.

For any queries please contact gmcr-ops@manchester.ac.uk

Background:

Through a partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, The University of Manchester’s Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) is hosting a number of ‘sandpit’ events in Autumn-Winter 2021-22, with input from the related Turing Institute programmes.

IDSAI is one of the The University of Manchester’s Digital Futures network themes.