The NIHR Academy Executive manages the NIHR Academy and is responsible for development and coordination of NIHR academic training, career development and research capacity development.
The Academy Executive is hosted by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) and is based in Leeds.
Which areas of the NIHR are managed by the Academy Executive?
The Academy Executive manages the following programmes:
Other key activities that the Academy Executive leads on, or manages, on behalf of the NIHR are:
Who's who
Academy Executive Leadership Team
Contact the Academy Executive
Email: academy@nihr.ac.uk
Telephone: 0113 532 8444
The NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) manages five NIHR research programmes, the Research Design Service and several NIHR infrastructure schemes, as well as the Senior Investigator scheme. It also supports the NIHR by providing information on recruitment to clinical trials, and ensuring patients and the public are involved in the research we manage.
CCF is hosted by LGC's Grant Management Group and is based in Twickenham.
Which areas of the NIHR are managed by CCF?
CCF manages the following research programmes:
CCF also manages the Research Design Service (RDS), to support researchers preparing applications for NIHR research programmes, and the following research schools, centres and units:
For the NIHR infrastructure, CCF manages the following NIHR schemes:
Other key activities that CCF leads on, or manages, on behalf of the NIHR are:
Who's who
Central Commissioning Facility Leadership Team
Contact CCF
Email: ccf@nihr.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 8843 8000
The NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre (CRNCC) is the headquarters of the NIHR Clinical Research Network, providing executive and operational leadership, management, and governance of the network.
The CRNCC is hosted by the University of Leeds and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in partnership and has offices in Leeds, London, Liverpool, Newcastle and Preston.
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Which areas of the NIHR are managed by CRNCC?
CRNCC manages the NIHR Clinical Research Network, which funds and coordinates some 14,000 research support staff in every single NHS Trust in England, in thousands of GP practices, and in numerous other research sites including care homes, hospices, local authorities, dental surgeries, schools, and prisons.
The NIHR Clinical Research Network comprises:
- 15 Local Clinical Research Networks (LCRNs), each covering a region of England
- 30 Clinical Research Specialties
- National Specialty Leads, who act for the individual specialty on behalf of the NIHR CRN as a whole.
Who's who
Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre Leadership Team
Contact CRNCC
Email: crn@nihr.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 3328 6700
INVOLVE was established in 1996 to support active public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research.
Funded by the NIHR since 2006, INVOLVE is one of the few government funded functions of its kind in the world, and is considered an international authority on involvement and engagement of patients and the public in health and care research.
INVOLVE brings together expertise, insight and experience in the field of public involvement and engagement in research, to advance it as an essential part of the process by which research is identified, prioritised, designed, conducted and disseminated.
INVOLVE works with regionally, nationally and internationally with patients and the public, NIHR units and centres, industry, charities, regulators and others to raise aspirations, drive up standards, provide guidance and facilitate partnerships.
INVOLVE is hosted by the Wessex Institute at the University of Southampton.
Which areas of the NIHR are managed by INVOLVE?
INVOLVE plays a key role in delivering NIHR’s patient and public involvement strategy Going the Extra Mile. INVOLVE leads on public shaped, collaborative programmes of work with other NIHR coordinating centres and national stakeholders.
Who's who
INVOLVE Leadership Team
Contact INVOLVE
Email: involve@nihr.ac.uk
Telephone: 023 8059 5628
The NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) manages identification, prioritising, funding, delivery, publication and dissemination of high quality research for five NIHR research programmes. It also leads on a number of other NIHR initiatives to meet the needs of the public, patients, the NHS and wider care system.
NETSCC is hosted by the Wessex Institute at the University of Southampton.
Which areas of the NIHR are managed by NETSCC?
NETSCC manages the following research programmes:
Other key activities that NETSCC leads on, or manages, on behalf of the NIHR are:
Who's who
NETSCC Leadership Team
Contact NETSCC
Email: netscomms@nihr.ac.uk
Telephone: 023 8059 5586
The NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI) helps charities, industry and other research funders work in partnership with NIHR and the experts and clinicians it supports.
It also ensures that NIHR-supported centres, units, facilities and networks can work together to help drive the flow of innovative research to improve patient benefit.
NOCRI is a unique resource for the global life sciences industry - improving the quality, efficiency and success of translational research.
NOCRI is hosted by LGC's Grant Management Group and is based in London Bridge and Twickenham.
Which areas of the NIHR are managed by NOCRI?
NOCRI helps life sciences companies work with the right people within the NIHR infrastructure and makes it easy for infrastructure and industry, charities and other partners to work together.
For early-phase clinical research, NOCRI provides connections to the country's experimental medicine experts, who can help companies understand the potential of their developmental drugs, devices and diagnostics.
In later-phase research, NOCRI provides rapid links to the NIHR Clinical Research Network, which ensures efficient and effective delivery of larger and multi-centre clinical studies.
NOCRI also supports the establishment of themed national collaborations within the NIHR infrastructure and wider ecosystem, in areas including:
Who's who
NOCRI Leadership Team
Contact NOCRI
Email: nocri@nihr.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 3794 7380
The NIHR Dissemination Centre helps clinicians, commissioners and patients to make evidence-based decisions about which treatments and practices are most effective and offer the best use of resources.
The centre critically appraises the latest health research, from both within the NIHR and other research organisations, to identify the most reliable, relevant and significant findings.
The NIHR Dissemination Centre is based at the Wessex Institute at the University of Southampton.
Which areas of the NIHR are managed by the NIHR Dissemination Centre?
The NIHR Dissemination Centre disseminates health research as actionable, accessible, and trustworthy information in the form of:
The NIHR Dissemination Centre also manages the Discover Portal, which provides decision makers with a searchable selection of all Signals and other sources of evidence.
Who's who
Dissemination Centre Leadership Team
Contact the NIHR Dissemination Centre
Email: disseminationcentre@nihr.ac.uk
Telephone: 023 8059 4315
