Closing remarks - NIHR SafetyNet Symposium 2025 - Prof Rebecca Lawton

This closing remarks was delivered on 17 October 2025 at the NIHR SafetyNet Symposium 2025, which took place in Manchester, England, UK.

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About the speaker:

Professor Rebecca Lawton is Professor, Psychology of Healthcare at the University of Leeds and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She is a behavioural scientist and patient safety researcher. Rebecca is Director of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration and leads the NIHR SafetyNet, which brings together all six of the PSRCs in England to coordinate shared learning, PPIE/EDI, safety equity research, impact and dissemination. She also leads on Improvement Science in the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration, the Safety stream within the national Policy Research Unit for Quality, Safety and Outcomes and is academic lead for the Improvement Academy.

As Director of the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group of over 45 researchers and
PhD students, Rebecca leads a research group that focus on ‘delivering research that makes
care safer’. Rebecca is a leading patient safety academic whose track record of patient safety solutions informed by theory and evidence has generated significant international impact. She has over 250 publications in leading journals, successful doctoral and post-doctoral supervision of 23 early career researchers and external funding as PI of over £25million.

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SafetyNet is the network of the six NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs) in England, working to enhance patient safety through research.

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