Greener Trials – Advancing Healthcare while Protecting our Planet [May 2025]
Clinical trials save lives and improve health — but did you know they can also impact the environment? From travel emissions to paper waste, research comes with a carbon footprint. But there’s a greener way forward.
Watch this short video to see how we can enable lower carbon clinical trials — without compromising health outcomes.
UCD along with the University of Liverpool, University of Galway, Institute of Cancer Research, the HRB-TMRN, MRC-NIHR TMRP, and public and patient involvement (PPI) partners, co-developed this video about Greener Trials. Subtitles are available in English, French, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
Trials Methodology Podcast [2024 – 2025]
Find out more about the “Who”, “What”, “When”, “Why” and “How” of trials methodology in this series by Ella Howes and Georgiana Synesi.
In each episode, Ella and Georgiana talk to a different professional working in the field, as well as asking other TMRP-DTP students about their projects, and life as PhD students.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/trialsmethodologypodcast
This podcast was funded and produced by the MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP).
Explainer animations for participants [March 2025]
The Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU), Nottingham CTU, and Centre for Trials Research have produced a number of Animated Explainer Videos (AEVs) which can be used to help individuals understand more about taking part in a trial.
AEVs on Informed Consent, Randomisation, and Safety in Clinical Trials are available in 6 languages.
Funded by the NIHR Efficient Clinical Trials Call, these AEVs are free to use for all registered CTUs.
To view the English versions of the animations, or to request copies for any of your trials or CTU websites, please and to visit https://explain.octru.ox.ac.uk/animations.html and to request copies for any of your trials or CTU websites please complete the request form on that page.
Working in clinical trial management [November 2023]
Produced by the UK Trial Managers’ Network, this short video showcases the vital role that clinical trial management professionals play in the design, delivery and implementation of clinical trials.
Working in academic clinical research [January 2023]
This leaflet outlines some of career option available in academic Clinical Research Units.
Trialaborate – Community for IS teams working in UKCRC Registered CTUs [Made available July 2020]
– To register or access site please click here.
NIHR Clinical Trials Toolkit and Routemap – www.ct-toolkit.ac.uk/
UKCRC Registered CTU Network Search for Oversight Statistician Database [Made available December 2016]
– To register or access the database please click here.
The UKCRC Registered CTUs Network strongly endorse the implementation of the Good Practice Principles for sharing individual participant data from publicly funded clinical trials. A copy of the Guidance can be found here. The Network support the implementation of this guidance across its Registered CTUs and a task and finish group has been created in order to facilitate this. details can be found under the Sub Groups tab.
Podcast on the Role of CTUs in clinical trials
Issued by The Cochrane Collaboration May 2016. To listen to the podcast please click here.
The role of Clinical Trials Units in developing an NIHR funding application. Issued by the NIHR March 2016. To view the video please click here.
Overview of the services provided by a Registered Clinical Trials Unit. To download this leaflet, please click here.
UKCRC Registered CTU Network List of Registration Numbers. To find the registration number of your CTU please click here.
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