Study Administrative Support

A team of administrative support workers are available to support the application and administration of studies taking place at the facility. This includes:

• Study costing
• Ethics submission
• Protocol development
• Submission to the facility's Scientific Advisory Board
• Getting an investigator's study started

IT support

We have a fully supported IT infrastructure via a Service Level Agreement with the Imaging Science (and Biomedical Engineering) Research Group within The University of Manchester. The infrastructure consists of:

• An MS Exchange email server
• Windows 2003 file server
• E-Document Server
• Two domain controllers
• 40 Workstations utilising the Microsoft active directory system
• Full system tape backup

All equipment is connected to a Cisco switched network with gigabit backbone to the NHS-net. There is also a web-based electronic booking system for room and participant attendance management, and a wide range of networked printing and scanning facilities. A secure Wi-Fi network is available throughout the building.

Hot desking facilities

We provide a full range of office resources for researchers to utilise between their appointments within the facility. These include:

• Workstations
• Access to the internet and John Rylands Library catalogue (requires UoM account)
• Email facilities
• Telephone and fax facilities
• Photocopying
• Scanning
• Colour printing
• Laminating