Who is the course for?

This course is aimed at Investigators and research staff new to commercial research. The NIHR GCP course is a prerequisite for this course.

Course objective

To provide a foundation of knowledge around the process of getting involved in commercially sponsored and funded research to enable you to develop your site to get involved in commercial research. It offers the opportunity to gain an understanding of the process from finding your first study, through to getting selected, gaining the necessary approvals, recruitment and close down. You will be able to apply relevant knowledge and skills gained from the course to your working environment and you will be able to build on your experience.

This CRN course is free to NHS staff

* These courses, for those that are interested, will take place before the other industry offered training session

“Commercial Costing Template Training” to provide a full day, 10am-3pm, of industry processes training.

Checking Dates

A list of all the East midlands workforce Development Face to Face sessions is available on the main NIHR website and can be found here:

https://local.nihr.ac.uk/lcrn/events/?custom_in_LCRN=14500

You can check details such as dates, times and locations on these pages but booking must be made through the NIHR Learn system. More details on how to do this are below.

Booking

Booking for this course is now done on CRN's new learning platform, NIHR Learn (formerly known as CRN Learn).

To book on click on the blue button below. You will need a NIHR Learn account but, if you haven't got one, it is easy to set up.

Note that the system requires that you use a reasonably up to date web-browser – or Google Chrome – or Firefox – or Safari if using a mobile device.