Going for growth: improvement in the infrastructural and management support for clinical academic research.

ABSTRACT: Our objective was to implement a directorate research strategy to improve and grow clinical academic capacity and capability and ensure that the organisational systems and processes enabled clinical staff and managers to increase grant capture, undertake clinically relevant research, including the adoption of NIHR portfolio sites and established a culture in which research was an accepted part of professional practice. An initial evaluation of senior and middle manager attitudes and understanding of the research infrastructure and benefits of research identified that the directorate had a deeply segmented view of research and only a partial view of how research could benefit patients and improve their services. A significant number of staff claimed to be research active but this activity w

SUBMITTER: Fowler Davis S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693035 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature