Applications for October 2024 are now open
Are you interested in medical research that matters to patients and the NHS?
The MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) aims to Improve health by improving trials. Our MRC Doctoral Training Partnership presents an opportunity to undertake training for a PhD in trials methodology.
We will advertise upcoming projects in various areas including statistics, data analytics and informatics, computer science, health economics, qualitative methods, mixed-methods, clinical medicine and psychology.
Professional development training and support
Students will become members of the TMRP, offering a broader spectrum of training activities and networking opportunities beyond their host Research Organisation. Students will be encouraged to join relevant TMRP working groups, where they will meet other PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and senior academic staff from relevant and complementary research themes. In addition to a structured ‘core’ training programme, we are able to provide a range of more specific training that students may choose to attend following consultation with their supervisors.
Our Associate Partner Research Organisations are able to offer opportunities for students that will include: research visits; internships with industry, regulatory bodies and clinical trials units; engagement with health professional and other research networks. We will encourage and support DTP students to apply for international internship schemes such as the UKRI UK-Canada Globalink Doctoral Exchange Scheme.
Below is the list of projects currently available.
For details on how to apply visit https://mrctmrpdtp.com/how-to-apply/
University of Aberdeen
Extending the estimands framework to surgical trials: implications for design and analysis
Optimising the collection and use of health economic data within trials
Bangor University
Analysis decisions for non-negative continuous outcome data collected within RCTs
Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)
Newcastle University
Eliciting expert knowledge in the design and analysis of trials in rare diseases
Identifying and validating digital biomarkers of frailty in Parkinson’s disease
Use of artifical intelligence methods in the conduct and analysis of trials
Queen Mary University London (QMUL)
Issues in cost–effectiveness analysis for multinational clinical trials
Pilot and feasibility studies for online clinical trials
Surrogate endpoints for cancer screening trials
University College London (UCL)
Increasing impact of non-industry drug clinical trials through experience with regulatory submission
University of Birmingham
University of Cambridge
Adaptive Designs for the evaluation of updates to algorithms and devices in digital healthcare
Adaptive methods for a complex endpoint: number of days alive at home
Designs for sequences of early phase (modular) studies
Master protocol trials for the development of oncology drugs
Operationally feasible Multi-Arm-Bandit Response Adaptive Trials
University of Glasgow
Platform trials: role of simulation in design
University of Leeds
Defining standards for layered patient information in clinical research
Leveraging progression free survival data in cancer trials
University of Liverpool
Improving core outcome set uptake in trials
Investigating multimorbidity in clinical trials
University of Plymouth
Improving adverse event reporting in rehabilitation trials for people with Multiple Sclerosis
Modelling multiple ordinal outcomes in clinical trials
Using dynamic website content in participant information sheets to increase accrual rates