Training

Staff and students involved in clinical research have to complete a number of training courses.

Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

Good Clinical Practice is the international ethical, scientific and practical standard to which all clinical research is conducted.

GCP training is a requirement set out in the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research developed by the Health Research Authority for researchers conducting clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (CTIMPs).

The National Institute for Health Reaecrh (NIHR) offers a range of GCP courses and training aids that are free and available to UK universities conducting and supporting clinical research. You can access GCP courses via the NIHR learning platform NIHR Learn.

For more information, visit the NIHR training pages.

Data Protection

In order to use personal data, the University must comply with all relevant UK data protection legislation covered by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).

All University staff members must have up-to-date GDPR training which has to be refreshed every three years. The obligatory GDPR and Information Security Essentials training module is accessible through Canvas (staff only). Colleagues who have honorary Trust contracts and have taken Trust-specific GDPR training can use this as evidence of having fulfilled their obligatory GDPR training requirements.

More information on Data Protection guidance can be found on the University's Legal webpages.

Human Material

We are licensed by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) for the storage of human material for research purposes, and are obliged to follow the legislation that is defined in the Human Tissue Act (2004) and associated regulations. This law ensures that human tissue is used safely and ethically, with proper consent. The HTA ensures that the Human Tissue Act is followed by setting standards that are clear and reasonable, and in which the public and professionals can have confidence. They provide codes of practice to help us understand these requirements.

Anyone that works with human material for research purposes has to show that they have been appropriately trained. Information on training sessions and training material can be found on the human material intranet (staff only).

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Health Data Science Courses and Workshops

A wide selection of courses and workshops are delivered by the Department of Health Data Science. From day workshops to 3 day events or longer, these will introduce delegates to the fundamentals of Health Data Science covering topics such as study design, hypothesis testing, regression modelling and more advanced courses on modelling survival, longitudinal and genetic data.

Find out more about the Department of Health Data Science courses and workshops.

MSc in Health Data Science

Offering specialist training for current and aspiring health data scientists, this MSc combines research-focused teaching, training and development in an emerging discipline. 

Find out more about the MSc in Health Data Science.