RDN Coordinating Centre (RDNCC) Transition

Ann Wieland, Corporate Operations Director; Tim Brown, Head of Corporate Management; Richard Horton, Head of IT Service Management; Laurence Truman, Enterprise Architect Lead; Mick Mullane, Information Technology Lead

• Corporate Management – Coordinating Centre business management, HR admin support, Directors’ personal assistants, RDN governance, information governance

• IT Service Management – solution development, provision and management of digital products and services, utilising both in-house staff and managed service providers 

• Programmes – programme and project management, and business analysis expertise, for high-value and complex RDN and NIHR programmes

Life Sciences Directorate - Nicola Yallup, Head of Business Development

• Business Development – business development of NIHR services to non-NIHR funders and life sciences companies (with NOCRI), strategic engagement and key account management for life sciences companies, ensuring RDN meets the research delivery needs of funders and companies

• Marketing – marketing of NIHR services to non-NIHR funders and to the life sciences industry, collect and analyse customer experience feedback, conduct analyses of data from the sector in order to identify service improvement and development opportunities

Sarah Doherty-Fallon, Network Operations Director; Alex Barnard, Head of Data and Analytics; Sarah Thorp, Head of Finance and Contracts; Andrew Walker, Head of Performance and Impact; Chelsea Drake, Head of RDN Communications

• Data & Analytics – provide data management, key information, visualisations and dashboards essential to the operation and strategic development of RDN, and as a critical service to government, customers and stakeholders

• Finance & Contracts – financial management and assurance of RDNCC and RRDN host contracts, RRDN financial modelling, management of all RDNCC contracts and RRDN contracts framework

• Performance & Impact – RDN strategic and operational planning, RDN performance management, impact, value for money, DHSC Enquiries, general RRDN liaison 

• RDN Communications - Communications service including press, publicity and internal communications activities

Imogen Shillito, Public Engagement Director; Emma Maker, Head of Digital Engagement; Angela Polanco, Head of Public Partnerships 

• Digital Engagement – manage and promote a range of digital services to support public engagement in research, including ‘Be Part of Research’ and ‘Join Dementia Research’ 

• Public Partnerships – deliver a range of activities to ensure RDN engages effectively with patients and the public to support research delivery, including public partnerships training and community engagement outreach with communities under-served by research, and provide services to sponsors and sites to help them improve research recruitment and retention, including use of national participant experience data

Kate Jones, Research Delivery Director; Fiona Brain, Head of Portfolio Monitoring; Laura Bousfield, Head of Study Support Service; Sarah Crawshaw, Head of Specialist Commercial Services

• Commercial Services – provide a new, dedicated business unit for the new Active National Delivery service, including PECD, Patient Recruitment Centres management, coordinate RRDN Commercial Research Services 

• Portfolio Monitoring – maintain RDN Portfolio data, make data available to sponsors and sites to enable study monitoring, respond to requests to analyse delivery issues and identify solutions

• Study Support Service – provide a responsive, wide-ranging set of activities to support successful study delivery, targeted at multi-centre studies

Nick Lemoine, Strategic Development Director; Phil Evans, Deputy Health and Care Director; William Rosenberg, Deputy Health and Care Director; Caroline Wroe, Deputy Health and Care Director; Tracy Harman, Deputy Director of Strategic Development; Jo Mearhart, Head of Health and Care Settings; Jane Beety, Head of Health and Care Specialties 

• Health & Care Settings / Health & Care Specialties – strategic engagement with R&D leaders, NHS England and leaders, professional bodies, Royal Colleges, promote and embed research in health and care, manage national and regional settings / specialties expertise, support study design, set up and delivery

• Strategic Development & Projects – develop mandated 5-year strategies, develop 3-year strategies to improve research delivery efficiency, capacity, and capability, monitor RDN portfolio to ensure portfolio balance and to identify areas of strategic concern and opportunities, define and embed framework for stakeholder engagement and management

Joanna Sugden, interim Director of Workforce and Organisational Development, Emily Dew, Head of Organisational Development; Vanessa Poustie, Head of People and Inclusion, John Castledine, Head of RDN Funded Workforce

• Organisational Development – identify and implement service improvement initiatives, embed a culture of continuous improvement, identify and facilitate sharing and adoption of best practice

• People & Inclusion – RDN staff induction, development, talent management, EDI and an inclusive research culture, social value initiatives, staff wellbeing

• Workforce Development – learning and training materials, tools and interventions, research delivery workforce development schemes, RRDN Agile Research Support Teams, link with other agencies on workforce planning and development

• Communications – provide NIHR strategic communications function

• Nursing & Midwifery -  Ruth Endacott, NIHR Director of Nursing and Midwifery

– provide nursing and midwifery leadership for the NIHR, professional leadership for nurses and midwives involved in research, and work across the NIHR to optimise the contributions that nurses and midwives make to research