Members of the cancer research community are now able to join the NCRI Networks. We are encouraging anyone interested in cancer research to join the NCRI Networks, including (but not limited to) clinicians, basic scientists, statisticians, nurses, allied health professionals, patients and carers and early career researchers.
The NCRI Groups are a central part of NCRI activity, acting as a forum to bring the cancer research community together and coordinating activities to develop new research. The NCRI Networks will become a central hub of people working within the cancer research field that will be able to get involved with the work of the NCRI Groups, ensuring they are wide-reaching, inclusive and diverse.
Anyone interested in cancer research can join the NCRI Networks, including (but not limited to) clinicians, basic scientists, statisticians, nurses, allied health professionals, patients and carers and early career researchers.
https://www.ncri.org.uk/how-we-work/networks/
Frequently asked questions
What are the NCRI Groups?
The NCRI Groups are a central part of NCRI activity, acting as a forum to bring the cancer research community together and coordinate activity to develop new research. Each group is comprised of a small group of up to 15 multidisciplinary researchers that are experts and thought leaders in their research area. The group will include patients and carers (consumers) and early career researchers as well as researchers with expertise outside of cancer where it could benefit the group. The group work with the NCRI to develop the priority areas and monitor progress of these priorities over a three-year period. They should be aware of changes in the cancer community and adapt as appropriate making sure to leverage opportunities and avoid duplication.
What is an NCRI Network?
The NCRI has established 19 networks, matching the NCRI Groups. The overarching aim of the networks is to engage with the wider research community in any given area and avoid the NCRI Groups becoming inward-facing, which would not benefitting cancer patients or outcomes. There are no prerequisites to be part of the network – anyone is welcome to join and members can sign up or leave at any time.
Further aims of the wider network include (but not limited to):
- Engaging with the wider cancer research community and involving them in NCRI Group activities for example strategy development and proposal guidance meetings, ensuring that research in the disease areas is not managed by a small or “exclusive” group of researchers.
- Maintaining engagement with members rotating off the group, subgroups and workstreams.
- Providing a central hub for those who express an interest in being involved in the work of the groups, be that scientific, Consumer, or Early Career Researcher (ECR) members. This may include members who cannot regularly commit the time, or who have been unsuccessful in their application to join the group.
- More widely promoting the work and achievements of the NCRI and NCRI Groups.
- Engaging with people who work outside of cancer research field but want to know about progress.
Who can get involved?
Anybody that is involved in cancer research can join our networks to hear about and be involved in our work. We need to maintain a wide-ranging membership to make sure our work is collaborative and takes into account multiple viewpoints. We are keen to have representation from all cancer disciplines.
We also recognise that cancer research can benefit from collaboration with researchers from different diseases outside of cancer. If you are interested in hearing about our research and think that your expertise might benefit us in one or several of our strategic priorities please join the NCRI Networks.
You should get involved;
If you are looking to hear the latest developments from the NCRI Groups and/or get involved in their work.
If you are a patient or carer (‘consumer’) looking to get involved in the design and the development of cancer research via the NCRI Groups.
If you are an early career researcher looking to get involved with the NCRI Groups and build collaborative networks in your field of interest.
NCRI have published these and other frequently asked questions on their website:
https://www.ncri.org.uk/how-we-work/groups/frequently-asked-questions/