The Sponsor is the individual, or organisation (or group of individuals or organisations) that takes on responsibility for confirming there are proper arrangements to initiate, manage, monitor and finance a study. For any research that takes place in the context of the NHS in Scotland, there must be a Sponsor. Normally, the Sponsor will be one of the organisations taking the lead for particular aspects of the arrangements for the study. The sponsor may be the Chief Investigator’s employing organisation, the lead organisation providing healthcare, or the main funder.
R&I Management Approval is no longer provided by the Glasgow Sponsored Team, this is now provided by another R&I Systems Team member, independently of the Sponsor Co-ordinator
The Sponsor Team provide information and support to researchers from study inception right up to the point of issuing R&I Management Approval. The Sponsor Team can offer guidance in the following areas:
- Study Planning and Design
- Grant applications and study costings
- Any required study specific permissions and approvals (e.g. Ethics Approval, MHRA etc.)
- Study set-up support (e.g. making contact with appropriate support departments such as R&I Pharmacy and Imaging)
- Study documentation development (including study protocol, patient information and consent forms etc.)
- Sponsor confirmation and assistance with any contracts and/or agreements
If you wish NHSGGC to Sponsor your study (or Co-Sponsor with the University of Glasgow), you should contact the R&I Sponsor Team as early as possible.
Sponsor Team Contacts
Sponsor Co-ordinator: Ms Nicola Jensen (for ALL Oncology and CRUK co-ordinated Oncology studies)
Networks: Cancer; NRS Non- Malignant Haematology
- Haematology
- Ophthalmology
- Oncology
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Sponsor Co-ordinator: Dr Alison Hamilton
Networks / Speciality Group: Stroke; NRS Renal Speciality Group; Cardiovascular;
- Renal and Urology
- Cardiology (Colin Berry and John McMurray team led)
- Cardiovascular & Exercise Medicine
- Metabolic and Endocrine (Includes Dietetics, Metabolic Disease and Human Nutrition)
- Stroke
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Sponsor Co-ordinator: Dr Maureen Travers
Networks: Dental; NRS Oral & Dental Specialty Group; ENT; Cardiovascular Diabetes; Musculoskeletal Health;
- Anaesthetics
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)
- Gastroenterology
- Medical Genetics
- Oral and Dental Health* (Includes Oral Medicine, Dentistry/Community Dentistry, Restorative Dentistry and Paediatric Dentistry)
- Orthopaedics
- Public Health (Includes Occupational Health, Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and Family Planning)
- Rheumatology
- Respiratory Medicine
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Sponsor Co-ordinator: Mrs Louise Ner
Networks: NRS Trauma and Emergencies; Infectious Diseases; Mental Health; Children’s Research Network;
- A & E, Trauma and Emergencies
- Critical Care
- Heath Services and Delivery Research (Includes Biochemistry, Immunology, Clinical and Medical Physics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Homeopathy)
- Haepatology
- Infectious Diseases (Includes Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Virology and Bacteriology)
- Mental Health (Includes Adolescent Psychiatry, Alcohol/Drugs Misuse, Adult Mental Health, Psychological Medicine/ Clinical Psychology, Family Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry and Learning Disability)
- Neurology (Non Stroke) (Includes Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Migraine & Headache)
- Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Midwifery
- Paediatrics and Neonatal
- Physiotherapy
- Surgery (Includes Burns, Plastic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Vascular Surgery)
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Based on disease area for:
- Palliative Care
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Low Risk Non Commercial NHSGGC Sponsored
Research Facilitator: Mr Adam Wade
We have deemed “low risk” studies to be all Study Types from the IRAS Form that are:
- Study administering questionnaires/interviews for quantitative analysis, or using mixed quantitative/qualitative methodology
- Study involving qualitative methods only
- Study limited to working with human tissue samples (or other biological samples) and data (specific project only)
- Study limited to working with data (specific project only)
- Research tissue bank or Research database
- Patient Information Centres (PIC)
- Basic Science Study involving procedures with human participants