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Electronic Signatures
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 research approval documents. Some sponsors continue to prefer ink signatures where other arrangements would be disproportion...
Our Staff
Professor William WhiteleyResearch Champion - Stroke Professor William Whiteley is a Reader in Neurology at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh and a consultant neurologist in NHS Lothian, working with patients with TIA and stroke. His work seeks to elucidate the...
NRS Mental Health 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting - video recordings
'Adaption and renewal: Navigating our recovery' Programme NRSMHN Code of Condu...
Research Governance
Research Governance concerns setting standards to improve research quality and safeguard the public. It involves enhancing ethical and scientific quality, promoting good practice, reducing adverse incidents, ensuring lessons are learned and preventing poor performance and misconduct. A broad range of regulations, principles and standards of good practice exist to achieve, and continuously improve, research quality across all aspects of healthcare in the UK and worldwide. Researc...
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...
Scottish Primary Care Research Network Staff
Fellowships
The capacity of NHS clinicians to undertake research is an important area in supporting an increase in research activity in Scotland. This can help increasing capacity in areas that are aligned to research excellence either locally or nationally; or areas where the potential exists to develop research excellence. NRS Career Researcher Fellowships
NHS Research Scotland Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care and Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) Conference 2026
The annual NHS Research Scotland Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care and Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) Conference will be held on the 23 and 24 of September 2026 in-person at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Clydebank On the first day (Wednesday 23 September) we will have speakers on all aspects of Anaesthetic, Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care research including updates from trainee research networks, work in progress,&nb...
Cardiovascular
Our role is to support the delivery of high quality clinical research. 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 recruitment targets providing advice on study design and feasibility troubleshooting issues...
NHS Research Scotland Good Clinical Practice (NRS GCP) Training
The Glasgow Clinical Research Facility (GCRF) Education Programme provides an extensive programme of education tailored to meet the needs of the clinical research community If you have any questions regarding the education programme or a course you have booked, please contact ggc.gla...
