CLiCIR

Centre for Life Span and Chronic Illness Research (CLiCIR)

Overview

CLiCIR is a research centre at the University of Hertfordshire specializing in health services R&D (HSR). Its roots are in the NHS Research Design Service, and it predecessors, CLiCIR continues to support the Research Design Service as a partner in the East of England RDS network. CLiCIR was set up to promote research more widely, and gain recognition, in the UK HSR network through its academic expertise in health services research. CLiCIR has now developed R&D partnerships in local NHS Trusts but also collaborates on national and some international health care projects.

Research activity within CLiCIR is organised into 4 areas of HSR expertise:

1. Quality of Life

2. Treatment adherence in long-term conditions

3. Psychological and complex interventions

4. Statistics and Methods


CLiCIR Job Opportunities

Aligning Strategies: The University and the NHS

Three Senior Research Fellow/Research Fellow vacancies resulting from this initiative between CLiCIR, Postgraduate Medical School, OVC and the local NHS Trusts are currently available.

The vacancies are as follows :

 
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The Science and Innovation Minister reviews CLiCIR research posters (July 2007)
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Funding Documents

NIHR Funding

MRC Funding

HTA Clinical Trials and Evaluation outline application form

RfPB Timeline for Applications

Funding Links

NIHR CCF Website

NIHR NETSCC

MRC Funding Opportunities

RDinfo Research Flowchart

 

Ethics and CTA Approvals

National Research Ethics Service (NRES)

Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MHRA)

Statistical and Methodological Guidance

Statistics Guide for Research Grant Applicants by Martin Bland

MRC Guidlines on Complex Interventions

Guidance on Clinical Trials and Reporting

CONSORT statement on the reporting of randomised trials

EQUATOR network collation of health reporting guidance