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Attributing the costs of health research (AcoRD guidance)

Research should be viewed as a core function of the NHS and the NHS throughout the UK is committed to promoting and conducting research to improve current and future health & social wellbeing and to improve NHS patient care services. While the NHS must play its full part in supporting research it is important that the cost of that research is identified and properly funded. Scotland follows the UK–wide

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Chief Scientist Office (CSO) - Supporting Patient and Public Involvement

Changing culture isn’t always easy but in the last couple of years, the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) have increased the patient and public involvement (PPI) expectations placed upon researchers applying to CSO for funding, while also increasing the emphasis on PPI within funding committees and their decision making. One year on from the launch of the Shared Commitment to public involvement...

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Resources

Working with the SDRN FAQs - Professionals. Reports and Strategies Scottish Government Diabetes Improvement Plan. Useful Links Diabetes UK

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National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Associate Principal Investigator Scheme

The Associate Principal Investigator (API) Scheme aims to develop health and care professionals to become the Principal Investigators (PIs) of the future. It is a six month in-work training opportunity, providing practical experience for healthcare professionals starting their research career. People who would not normally have the opportunity to take part in clinical research in their day-to-day role have the chance to experience what it means to work on and deliver an NIHR portfolio...

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Ageing

The NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Ageing Specialty Group's role is to support the delivery of high quality clinical research relevant to the care of older people. We help to manage participant recruitment to time and target, both for studies which are led from Scotland, and studies led from other nations which Scottish sites are participating in. We provide support in the following areas: Managing the study portfolio record Monitoring the attainment of rec...

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Our Staff

Coordinating Centre Professor Jürgen SchwarzeResearch Championjurgen.schwarze@ed.ac.uk   Dr Pamela DicksManager/ PPI Leadp.dicks@abdn.ac.uk Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Craig Research Unit  Maggie ConnonLead Paediatric Resea...

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Get Involved

The Stroke Network believes that active patient and public involvement is needed if it is to encourage research which directly benefits and reflects the needs and views of patients and the public. The Network is committed to: Including patients, carers and the public's perspectives within all stroke research activity Facilitating patients, carers and the public to be involved at all stages of the research process, from inception to reporting through to implementat...

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Mental Health Data Science Scotland

Mental Health Data Science Scotland conference Bringing together the outputs of two MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder projects under the banner of ‘Mental Health Data Science Scotland’, this free online conference on mental health data science is a collaboration between University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh.   The full programme is below and the login details for the conference are: Webinar link: ...

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Health Data Research UK and Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research Webinar

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Scotland and the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), part of ADR Scotland, are hosting a joint webinar to showcase two of their research projects Agenda: 11.00: Introduction (Honghan Wu, HDR UK Scotland Co-Director) 11.05: Overview of ADR Scotland (Speaker TBC) 11.10: Nursing and midwifery workforces: Opportunities to understand dynamics using linked census and administrative data (Iain Atherton, SC...

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Electronic Signature

NRS welcomes efficient methods of document transfer in the research approvals and study set-up process. Applications for RECs and HRA Approval are made electronically from IRAS, and applications to CAG should be made by email. Applications in IRAS have electronic authorisation. Other documents may include electronic signatures. NRS does not require ink signatures on any re...

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