Setting up and Managing a Project

First thing to do:

Come and have a chat with the R&D Department (contact the Manager, Assistant Manager or Research Facilitator)

Develop your idea:

• Discuss your thoughts with others in your department
• Review the literature; library, systematic reviews, websites
• Turn your ideas in to questions

Design your research:

• What are main aims and objectives?
• How will you measure them?
• Who will participate?
• Questionnaires/surveys/interventions?
• Sampling?
• Statistical relevance?
• Will you collaborate with others? Multicentre study?
• Qualitative and Quantitative research methods?

Writing your research proposal:

• Protocol - What? Why? How?
• Consent Form
• Participant Information Sheets
• Any questionnaires/surveys
• GP Letter
• Funding (see the funding tab for more information)
• IRAS (see training tab for more information)

Submission and approval process:

• All research (including student research) in the Trust is considered and approved by the research review board (RRB) prior to submission to a Research Ethics Committee (REC).
• RRB meets monthly and undertakes peer review and research governance check.
• Provisional approval letter or deferred letter.
• Once provisionally approved - then submit to REC (if applicable) for ethical review.
• Once a favourable ethical opinion has been granted a trust research approval letter is issued.
• Study can start!