
Tips for Submitting an IASP World Congress on Pain Topical Workshop
Includes a Live Web Event on 08/13/2025 at 6:00 AM (EDT)
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13 August 2025 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
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The purpose of this webinar is to help educate ECN members on how to submit a Topical Workshop for the 2026 IASP World Congress on Pain.
Information about helping early career researchers understand what selection committees are looking for, how to start preparing a workshop, and how to refine, polish, and make proposals stand out will be provided.
After both talks, a question and answer session will be provided.
Speakers:
Kirsty Bannister, BSc, MRes, PhD, Imperial College London
Nadia Soliman, BSc, MRes, MSc, PhD, University College London
Moderator:
Josephine Ampiah, BSc, MSc, PhD, London South Bank University

Kirsty Bannister BSc, MRes, PhD
Associate Professor / Principal Investigator
Imperial College London
Kirsty is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Imperial College London. Her research bridges preclinical and clinical approaches to investigate descending pain modulation in chronic pain. She has held academic positions at UCL and King’s College London, and received the EFIC IBSA Prize (2017), IASP Patrick D. Wall Award (2022), and British Pain Society Wall Award (2023). Kirsty is the current IASP World Congress on Pain Scientific Program Chair. She also serves on editorial boards including Pain and British Journal of Pharmacology, and holds leadership roles within the British Pain Society, and EFIC.

Nadia Soliman, BSc, MRes, MSc, PhD
Research Fellow
University College London
Nadia is a Research Fellow at the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information Centre (EPPI Centre) within the Social Science Research Unit. Her research interests focus on automation tools and methods for evidence synthesis and systematic reviewing. She has a background in pharmacology and experience conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses to narrow the translation gap between preclinical and clinical research of chronic pain.

Josephine Ampiah, BSc, MSc, PhD (Moderator)
Lecturer in Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy, Sports Rehab & Chiropractic
London South Bank University
Josephine is a Musculoskeletal physiotherapist and chronic pain researcher. She joined LSBU in 2021, as a lecturer in physiotherapy within the Institute of Health and Social Care. She completed her MSc in Physiotherapy from Sheffield Hallam University in 2014 and completed her PhD titled; “Chronic Low Back Pain: A Representation of Liminality in Illness Identity and Professional Identity” at the University of Nottingham in 2022.
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