Courses and events

Information and booking for courses and events run by Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility

We run a variety of in-person and online courses and events covering a diverse range of topics relating to clinical research. 

See below for information about our upcoming courses and events and associated booking links. 

A limited number of fully-funded places are available on some of our courses.  If there are funded places available, this will be listed in the course fees section of the course description.  Terms and conditions apply. 

For any queries, please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Alternatively contact us at education@edinburghcrf.ed.ac.uk if you have any specific queries, are unable to find a course you are looking for or you would like to contribute to our programme. 

Join our mailing list to be kept informed of our courses and events programme and news from the Edinburgh CRF Education Core. 

Please refer to our Education Core homepage for other useful information, including educational resources, webinars etc. 

Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Courses

We offer regular Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training courses.  See below for information and scheduled dates of available courses.

Please ensure you are signing up for the appropriate course.  We advise you to update your GCP training every two years. If you are involved in a trial, the MHRA and/or sponsor would expect you to provide an up-to-date GCP certificate. Therefore, if your GCP training has lapsed or if you have not attended GCP training before, we would advise that you book onto one of our “Introduction to GCP” courses. Alternatively, you can complete the “NIHR Introduction to Good Clinical Practice (GCP)” eLearning at https://www.nihr.ac.uk/health-and-care-professionals/learning-and-support/good-clinical-practice.htm. If you have completed an “Introduction to GCP” course within the past two years or have attended update courses every two years since completing an “Introduction to GCP course”, you should register for a “GCP Update” course.

We offer GCP courses free-of-charge for those attending from Scottish NHS or academic institutions.  Please enquire at education@edinburghcrf.ed.ac.uk to be advised of fees for those attending from elsewhere. 

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Other Scheduled Courses

See our full programme of courses below.  Please refer to our guidance on how to book and pay for our courses 

Join our mailing list to be kept informed of our courses and events programme and news from Edinburgh CRF Education Core. 

Bitesize Introduction to Patient Public Involvement Course

This free online, self-directed Xerte course aims to help you begin your patient public involvement activities.

Edinburgh Clinical Trial Management Course

This two-day course will develop your knowledge and skills in clinical trial management and improve your understanding of related disciplines including research governance, regulation, trial methodology, data management, monitoring, and project management, with a view to effective teamworking.

Including Patient and Public Involvement in Funding Applications

This course will explore how and where to include PPI in research grant applications.

GCP for Laboratories

This course will provide you with an understanding of the importance of GCP for Laboratories and its practical application in research studies.

Conducting Interviews in Qualitative Research

This course will introduce the knowledge and skills required to conduct research interviews in qualitative research.

Creating and Running a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Group

This course discusses how to advertise and recruit patient and public members, organise your first meeting and how to keep your group running successfully and sustainably.

Mixed Methods

This course will cover the application of mixed methods in health and social care research.

Stats for the Terrified: An Introduction to Medical Statistics

An introductory course covering the basics of using and interpreting statistics in healthcare research.

Making Sense of Numbers: Interpretation of Data

This half day course is aimed directly at those who need to interpret numbers but have little or no knowledge of statistics.

Research, GDPR and confidentiality – what you need to know

This course provides an overview of UK data laws and their practical application in health and social care research.

An Introduction to Health Economics

An interactive session introducing key concepts of health economics and allocation of health resource in relation to clinical research.

10th Edinburgh Clinical Research Methodology Course

A two-day introductory course providing a comprehensive overview of methods and frameworks essential for conducting clinical research.

Generative AI and the Researcher

This course introduces researchers to the area of Gen AI and how it can be integrated into the research process.

An Introduction to the R Statistical Software

This self-paced online training course is designed to introduce beginners to the R software.

Courses that we run

Refer to the full list of courses that we run to register your interest in future courses or to suggest other topics for training related to clinical research.

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