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. 

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

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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. 

You are advised to attend this course if you have not attended GCP training before or if your GCP training has lapsed (i.e. more than two years have passed since your last GCP course). 

See below for dates - to book, please select the hyperlink:

2025

You are advised to update your GCP training every two years.  If you have not attended GCP training before or if your GCP training has lapsed, you should book instead on an "Introduction to GCP" course.  

See below for dates - to book, please select the hyperlink:

2025

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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 

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Bitesize Introduction to Patient Public Involvement Course

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

Lothian Clinical Research Welcome Day

An introduction event for those new to working in clinical research in Lothian

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

An Introduction to Public Speaking: How to design and deliver successful speeches

This course covers how to plan, design and deliver a successful speech or presentation.

Cost-Effectiveness Modelling for Health Technology Assessment

This 5-day course will provide an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organisations.

Bite-size Practical Project Management

This workshop covers practical skills, tools and techniques to help you successfully plan and deliver clinical research projects

Doing Patient and Public Involvement with Under-served Groups

This advanced course will equip you with the skills to identify barriers and enablers to effective PPI with under-served communities.

Conducting Interviews in Qualitative Research

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

Stats for the Terrified: An Introduction to Medical Statistics / Making Sense of Numbers: Interpretation of Data

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

An Introduction to Qualitative Methods

This course introduces the key principles in research design and strategy for qualitative research. 

Using Mixed Methods in Clinical Research

This course will cover the use of mixed methods in healthcare research.

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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