DrChristopher Crockford

Dr Chris Crockford is a Research Programme Manager with the UCD School of Medicine and St Vincent's UCD Cancer Centre. He leads the Cancer Research Programme Office (CRPO), with responsibility for research strategy, governance, quality, accreditation, intelligence data, communications, and research capacity development across the Centre. He sits on the Cancer Centre Executive Committee and drives the Centre's OECI (Organisation of European Cancer Institutes) accreditation for research.

Chris leads patient and public involvement (PPI) and equitable access to clinical trials at the Centre, managing the Scientific and Patient Advisory Boards. He sits on the National PPI in Cancer Centres Working Group and the Patient Voice in Cancer Research (PVCR) Steering Committee, and chairs URMAN (UCD Research Managers and Administrators Network).

As part of his remit, Chris also manages the UCD Cancer Trials Cluster (https://www.ucd.ie/cancertrials/) as a research infrastructure, a collaborative initiative between UCD, St Vincent's University Hospital, the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, and the Cancer Clinical Research Trust.

Chris holds a PhD in Psychology (Neuropsychology) from the University of Edinburgh, where he led a multi-centre study on neuropsychological function in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). He also holds an M.Sc. in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of Edinburgh and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Psychology from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), along with diplomas in project management and change management.

Chris's research has been published in journals including Cancer Policy, Neurology, PLOS One, and the British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing.