Newcastle and Durham Universities together with NHS partners provide the Research Design Service (RDS) for the North East region. The RDS is managed from two centres: Newcastle University (north) and Durham University Queen's Campus (south) with Prof Elaine McColl (Newcastle) as Director and Prof James Mason (Durham) as Co-Director.

Please visit the RDS NE official web page here for further information.

Durham hub enquiries: 
Rachel Pears (rds@durham.ac.uk), phone 0191 334 0826

Newcastle hub enquiries: 
Joanne Dryburgh (rds@newcastle.ac.uk), phone 0191 222 7647

Website: http://www.rds-ne.nihr.ac.uk/index.asp