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NHS Research Scotland Pain/SPaRC 16th Annual Scientific Meeting
NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Pain Specialty Group and SPaRC will host the 16th Annual Scientific Meeting on Friday 4 December 2026 at Malmaison in Dundee Confirmed guest speakers include: Professor Neil O'Connell, Brunel University of London Professor Annina Schmid, University of Oxford Call for Abstracts and Registration will open August 2026. If you wish to reserve an exhibitor stand, or have any other enquiry, please contact Ja...
NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Annual Scientific Meeting 2024
'Balancing Viewpoints: Rights, Data and Empowerment' This year we are hosting a hybrid event, with the opportunity to join us in person at the venue or virtually online. Anyone with an interest or involved with mental health research in Scotland can attend. We are delighted to announce that Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak (Chief Scientist, Health) will be joining us to give the opening address. Please note, this event has now sold out. You can
Care Home Research Accessible Summaries
We aim to enable researchers to share findings, raise awareness, and bridge the gap between “everyday practice” and academia. An accessible summary is a short piece of content used to explain research to members of the public. By co-creating these summaries, we can foster the outreach of wider academics and/or care home researchers to engage with people with lived experience by sharing findings and showcasing these outputs to have lasting impacts. We have integrated media tools (
Training and Events
National Cancer Research Institute Virtual Events To keep the community connected and provide an opportunity for researchers to share knowledge and foster collaboration, the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) provides regular events on the big topics in cancer research, with UK and international expert speakers. Visit their virtual events
Glasgow Clinical Research Facility
The Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) was established in 2006 with funding from the Scottish Government via the Chief Scientist Office. It provides state-of-the-art research space across several geographical sites including the £5million Clinical Research Facility at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus. The Service provided by the CRF embeds research into clinical practice, ensuring that clinical research is a cornerstone of patient-centred healthcare develop...
Take Part in Current Research
Each year in Scotland more than 1500 clinical research studies take place, involving over 30,000 patients. Taking part in research can offer many benefits. It may provide access to new tre...
Making Care Home Research Accessible
What is RICH Voices? Research In Care Homes (RICH) Voices is the equivalent of a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group for ENRICH Scotland. PPI is a method of including people in decisions about research and related activities. Instead of professionals making all the choices, PPI combines experiences, opinions, and ideas of the people who might be affected the findings of research. Our key aim is to collaborate with people living and working i...
Dr Maria Drummond
What Happens to my Tissue?
Often doctors need to remove tissue as part of your treatment, for example during a surgical operation. Alternatively, they might take a small sample to help them find out what might be wrong with you (tissue collected for this reason is called a 'biopsy'). The samples that the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Biorepository Network collects is material that is removed during a patient's routine clinical procedure, and which is surplus after all the necessary diagnostic tests have been concluded. O...
£125k call to Scotland’s researchers for epidemiology proposals is ‘vital to building stronger data’
The NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Gastroenterology Specialty Group believes a new epidemiology call offering up to £125,000 in funding is ‘vital to building stronger data for future planning’ The group — which is focussed on research into the common chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis — has urged researchers based at Scotti...
