Table 1 Characteristics of survey respondents
Characteristic | n = 420 (%) | Overall UKTMN membership n = 819 (%) |
|---|---|---|
Gender | ||
Female | 364 (86.7) | Data unavailable |
Male | 53 (12.6) | |
Prefer not to say | 3 (0.7) | |
Based in a UKCRC-registered CTU | ||
Yes | 317 (75.5) | 464 (56.7) |
No | 103 (24.5) | 355 (43.3) |
Location of CTU, n = 317 | ||
London | 49 (15.5) | 145 (17.7) |
West Midlands | 44 (13.9) | 87 (10.6) |
Scotland | 38 (12) | 86 (10.5) |
Oxfordshire | 35 (11) | 129 (15.8) |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 29 (9.2) | 66 (8.1) |
North West | 29 (9.2) | 66 (8.1) |
South West | 22 (6.9) | 73 (8.9) |
East Midlands | 17 (5.4) | 41 (5.0) |
South East | 15 (4.7) | 34a (4.2) |
Wales | 14 (4.4) | 28 (3.4) |
East of England | 14 (4.4) | 42 (5.1) |
South Central | 7 (2.2) | 34a (4.2) |
Northern Ireland | 3 (1.0) | 6 (0.7) |
North East | 1 (0.3) | 16 (2.0) |
Employment status | ||
Full-time | 313 (74.7) | Data unavailable |
Part-time | 106 (25.3) | |
Missing | 1 (0.2) | |
Organisation type | ||
University | 356 (84.8) | 729 (89.0) |
NHS | 60 (14.3) | 86 (10.5) |
Charity/Not for profit | 4 (0.1) | 4 (0.5) |
NHS grade/pathway, n = 60 | ||
Administrative/clerical | 35 (58.3) | Data unavailable |
Managerial | 19 (31.7) | |
Clinical | 1 (1.7) | |
Nursing/Health-care professional | 4 (6.7) | |
Research | 1 (1.7) | |
Academic grade/pathway, n = 356 | ||
Professional/Administrative/Managerial/Academic-related | 267 (75.1) | Data unavailable |
Research | 67 (18.9) | |
Not known | 20 (5.1) | |
Academic/Academic-related (research) | 2 (0.5) | |
Length of time in a trial management role | ||
<1 year | 32 (7.6) | Data unavailable |
1–2 years | 66 (15.7) | |
3–5 years | 126 (30) | |
6–10 years | 89 (21.2) | |
>10 years | 107 (25.5) | |
Funding for current position | ||
Grant/research funding | 278 (66.2) | Data unavailable |
Combination of core/grant funding | 77 (18.3) | |
Core-funded | 41 (9.8) | |
Don’t know | 22 (5.2) | |
Institute-funding (based in a charity) | 1 (0.2) | |
No salary – honorary research fellow | 1 (0.2) | |
Highest educational qualification | ||
PhD | 111 (26.4) | Data unavailable |
Masters or other post-graduate qualification | 138 (32.9) | |
Undergraduate degree | 147 (35) | |
A levels or equivalent | 16 (3.8) | |
General Certificates of Secondary Education (GCSEs) or equivalent | 6 (1.4) | |
Vocational qualifications | 1 (0.2) | |
None of the above | 1 (0.2) | |
Current job title | ||
Trial manager | 176 (41.9) | 380 (46.4) |
Senior trial manager/team lead | 93 (22.1) | 109 (13.3) |
Trial coordinator | 77 (18.3) | 174 (21.2) |
Trial administrator/assistant | 9 (2.1) | 22 (2.7) |
Other | 65 (15.5) | 134 (16.4) |
Project manager | 11 | |
Operations manager | 11 | |
Research assistant/associate/fellow | 11 | |
Assistant/associate trial manager | 6 | |
Senior trial coordinator | 6 | |
Senior research fellow/associate | 4 | |
Programme manager | 3 | |
Data manager | 3 | |
Head of trial management | 2 | |
Assistant professor of clinical trials | 1 | |
Compliance manager | 1 | |
Research facilitator | 1 | |
Senior research manager | 1 | |
Senior research midwife | 1 | |
Trial master file manager | 1 | |
Trial director | 1 | |
Trial management director | 1 | |
Current salary range (full-time equivalent) | ||
<£18,000 | 1 (0.2) | |
£18,000–£21,999 | 1 (0.2) | |
£22,000–£24,999 | 8 (1.9) | |
£25,000–£26,999 | 17 (4.1) | |
£27,000–£31,999 | 70 (16.7) | |
£32,000–£34,999 | 65 (15.5) | |
£35,000–£39,999 | 114 (27.1) | |
£40,000–£43,999 | 67 (16.0) | |
>£44,000 | 61 (14.5) | |
Prefer not to say | 16 (3.8) | |
Ever experienced a promotion/progression to more senior role | ||
Yes | 224 (53.3) | Data unavailable |
No | 196 (46.7) | |
Reason for no experience of promotion/progression, n = 196 | ||
No career pathway in my organisation | 66 (33.7) | Data unavailable |
Not in role long enough for this to be relevant | 62 (31.6) | |
Never been given the opportunity | 50 (25.5) | |
Not wanted to | 18 (9.2) | |
If promoted/progressed, how this happened, n = 224 | ||
Via application to new/vacant position outside your organisation | 159 (71) | Data unavailable |
Via a promotional pathway in your organisation | 65 (29) | |
Importance of career development | ||
Very important | 276 (65.7) | Data unavailable |
Quite important | 125 (29.8) | |
Not very important | 18 (4.3) | |
Not important at all | 1 (0.2) | |