Sine Littlewood is the Head of Business Development for non-commercially funded research in the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN). Her role is to maintain strategic relationships with global and UK medical research charities and government agencies which fund clinical research. This includes facilitating key discussions between funders and the CRN, working collaboratively with them and advising on how they can use CRN services to ensure clinical studies are set up quickly and efficiently so that they recruit to time and target. Sine also leads on keeping the Clinical Research Network abreast of new study delivery innovations to ensure that the organisation is evolving to meet funder and investigator requirements.