Race, Equity & Diversity in Careers
Led by Professor Yemisi Takwoingi and Professor Mahendra Patel, this NIHR-supported Incubator aims to address barriers faced by racially minoritised people. It supports them to access and develop careers in health and care research. The Incubator’s work is driven by the themes of the NIHR Research Inclusion Strategy. This includes the ambition to increase the diversity of NIHR researchers, award holders and panel members. It supports racially minoritised researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students irrespective of protected characteristics, discipline, specialism, and background.
The Incubator has four workstreams:
Training and Career Development
Our programmes work to co-design, co-produce and evaluate a programme of training and professional development events.
Communication and Engagement
Our aim and purpose is to publicise REDiC Incubator's work and engage with stakeholders, collaborators and the target community.
Talent Pipeline
Focused on talent, we search for people to work with the NIHR, other funders and organisations aiming to widen participation to increase the diversity of researchers
Advocacy and Policy
We develop programmes to collaborate with NIHR and others to call for positive change within the REDiC framework to ensure opportunities for all.
The Incubator engages with a diverse range of stakeholders. This is to ensure a cohesive approach to national research capacity building, shared learning and dissemination of best practice. This includes funders, NIHR infrastructure, not-for-profit organisations and professional bodies.
Our leaders
Professor Yemisi Takwoingi
Head of the Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of Test Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis
Professor Yemisi Takwoingi
Yemisi Takwoingi is Professor of Test Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis and Head of Department of Applied Health Sciences in the College of Medicine and Health at the University of Birmingham.
Her main research interest is evaluating medical tests. She collaborates as a biostatistician/methodologist on research awards spanning early phase evaluation of diagnostics through to clinical studies and evidence synthesis to inform guideline development across a range of clinical areas. She is passionate about ‘People and Culture’.
She is the Capacity Development Lead for the NIHR West Midlands Evidence Synthesis Group and the Warwick-Birmingham Screening Evidence Synthesis Group. She also has an interest in research equity and is the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead for the NIHR Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration.
Professor Mahendra Patel
Director for the Centre for Research Equity at the University of Oxford
Professor Mahendra Patel OBE
Mahendra Patel is a nationally and internationally recognised pharmacist, academic, and healthcare leader committed to supporting research delivery and advancing inclusive research to improve health outcomes.
He holds professorial roles in UK and overseas universities and is a founding member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, where he has served as a board member, assembly member, and treasurer.
With a long-standing role as Pharmacy Research Lead within NIHR local community networks, Mahendra has worked to increase research participation and engagement across diverse communities. As a national lead and co-applicant at the University of Oxford for the PANORAMIC trial, he has helped ensure inclusive and representative recruitment.
As a Professional Advisor to the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer NHS England and a board member of the Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board, he helps shape national pharmacy leadership and inclusive practice strategies.
He has developed historic partnerships with the Department of Health, Health and Care Research Wales, and Health and Social Care Northern Ireland, collaborating with government organisations and regulators to embed inclusive research and tackle health inequalities.
As Director of the Centre for Research Equity, he continues through the Centre to help shape national policies, expand access to clinical research, and drive healthcare reforms.
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A team fully committed to the future of inclusive research
The REDiC Incubator is a national network hub connecting individuals, communities, professional and support networks and organisations, and stakeholders to maximise reach and impact of initiatives to improve the pipeline and support the career development of people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Our multidisciplinary Steering Group includes researchers at different career stages and are from a range of disciplines and the NIHR Research Schools.
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