SCYPHeR Grand Round with Professor Toni Schwarz and Professor Neil Bricklebank

We are happy to invite you to the next session in our SCYPHeR Grand Round series. The Education and Skills Centre at Sheffield Children's Hospital  is accessible via the Damer Street entrance. You can also join on Microsoft Teams via the link below.

Lunch will be provided to attendees.

Working across boundaries: the value of working collaboratively

Professor Toni Schwarz - Dean for the College of Health Wellbeing and Life Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University 

In her presentation Toni will discuss the values of working collaboratively as an organisation and describe opportunities for research in children's health across Sheffield Hallam University.

Toni’s background is as a nurse and educator, and she has worked across a range of clinical environments across the NHS and private sector. As a clinical leader, Toni has set up a number of new services, particularly across the community health care setting. She also has regional and national connections to professional organisations who regulate many of our courses. Her move into Higher Education began as a lecturer practitioner and was prompted by her work supporting students in clinical practice and her desire to ensure that maximising student opportunities for learning was kept at the forefront of their educational experience. Toni remains closely linked to clinical practice to ensure that research projects and educational programmes running out of the college remain relevant to the real world and work towards improving people’s overall health outcomes.
 

Challenges and opportunities as an interdisciplinary researcher

Professor Neil Bricklebank - Associate Dean for Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at Sheffield Hallam University

Collaborative, interdisciplinary, research can be immensely rewarding and incredibly frustrating in equal measure! In this presentation Neil will use example from his own research to discuss the challenges and opportunities that result from working across traditional boundaries.

Neil had a non-traditional route into higher education and then followed a standard academic pathway from lecturer to professor. In 2021 he was appointed Head of School of Biosciences and Chemistry and in June 2024 he was promoted to the role of Associate Dean in the College of Health, Wellbeing and Lifesciences. Neil’s personal research expertise is in chemistry – a discipline that is a long way from children’s health. However, as a member of staff in a university with a focus on applied research, in a college of Health and Wellbeing, he has worked with colleagues from different academic backgrounds to solve problems at the interface of chemistry with life science and health.