Taking part in research: Bertie and Freddie's story
18 May 2023
Bertie tells us about his son Freddie's experience of taking part in the MAP-ME study
18 May 2023
Bertie tells us about his son Freddie's experience of taking part in the MAP-ME study
19 January 2023
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust share how they find delivering PRES
18 November 2022
Billie Clayton tells us about her experience of enrolling her daughter in the INGR1D2 study
11 November 2022
Clare Leonard, Care Home Manager, shares her story about her career in research.
04 November 2022
Ben Brown, Deputy Care Home Manager, shares his story about his career in research.
01 July 2022
Hannat Akintomide, a specialty doctor in sexual health, shares her story about her career in research.
01 July 2022
Vicky Hewitt, a specialty doctor in palliative care, tells the story of her career in research.
25 February 2022
Sharon Dorgan is Senior Strategic Manager at NIHR Clinical Research Network North East and North Cumbria. Sharon is also Workforce Development Lead for the local network.
03 February 2022
Three members of the public with a passion for mental health research tell us about the importance of patient and public involvement.
25 January 2022
The Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme is a six month in-work training opportunity, providing practical experience for healthcare professionals starting their research career.
11 January 2022
As a researcher, your published work has the potential to make a global impact to a lot of people for a long period of time.
15 November 2021
Professor Jonathan Ling and Parisa Diba tell us about their project to develop an integrated service model for people in Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland.
20 October 2021
I began my research journey when I attended the Adult Critical Care course.
11 October 2021
Thomas Myerscough is a Clinical Trials Coordinator at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Thomas started his career in research at a young age, having previously worked in administrative roles in the NHS.
01 October 2021
Neil is a Consultant Nephrologist from South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who received Greenshoots funding and began his research journey.
02 March 2021
Jan Lacouturier is a Vaccine Research Participant and Senior Research Associate at NIHR Policy research Unit in Behavioural Science
08 February 2021
“I have been involved in research for years and since becoming a Research Champion the role has widened my knowledge of research and how to promote research.”
11 January 2021
"I think that people are currently more aware of medical research due to COVID and the publicity around researching symptoms, treatments, effects and vaccines, and I hope that many people see the variety of research, stay involved and move to other projects..."
18 November 2020
When I was younger medical research was something that I suppose I took for granted.
12 November 2020
Research staff at the Patient Recruitment Centre: Newcastle have been overwhelmed by the response from patients suffering with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), who have come forward in droves to participate in one of the UK's first virtual interventional commercial clinical trials.
04 November 2020
Michael Sykes is a nurse with experience of leading improvements across health sectors in NHS England and Scotland, including leading national improvement work.
21 August 2019
Meet Andrew, 52, and Chris, 50, a husband and wife who have first hand experience of the true gift that living kidney donation can be.
05 July 2019
When 29-year-old games designer and keen motorcyclist, Emily Knox, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, she found her lifestyle suddenly changed dramatically. But thanks to treatment, her condition is now under control.