Speaker Details

Alastair Nicholson

Head of Coordination and Standardisation, Health Research Authority

As part of his role, as Head of Coordination and Standardisation at the Health Research Authority (HRA), Alastair represents England on the UK Four Nations Contracting Leads Group; the group responsible for developing and maintaining the suite of UK template agreements for research in the NHS and the policies relating to their use. Before joining the HRA in 2014, as Policy Development Lead for HRA Approval, Alastair was Lead Research Management and Governance Manager and Industry Manager for North Thames LCRN and, prior to that, Central and East London CLRN. Alastair joined the NHS in 2001 as R&D Coordinator at his local secondary care NHS Trust, before joining the Cancer Research Network as a research facilitator in 2006 and moving to the CLRN in 2008.