TOPRA 2025

Attracting a broad range of talents and backgrounds TOPRA proactively promotes a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion; encouraging members to engage with expertise, experience and wider networks of colleagues from any and all backgrounds. We are a signatory to the Science Council’s Diversity Declaration . Enhancing the depth of knowledge and breadth of reach available to the TOPRA community and our stakeholder networks increases the value of membership and raises the overall profile of the regulatory affairs profession. To encourage wider access, w e support a range of routes into the profession – in particular by encouraging student membership and developing apprenticeships. Students Undergraduates can access free membership, which enables them to experience what regulatory affairs and TOPRA have to offer. Every year TOPRA hosts Regulatory Careers Fair Live, which draws in many students and professionals at the outset of their careers. Apprentices The Regulatory Affairs Apprenticeship Standard is a crucial route for new entrants to the profession. We now have a growing number of apprentices from Medicines, Medical Devices and ATMPs (advanced therapy medicinal products) taking part in the programme with the opportunity to graduate with a TOPRA MSc Regulatory Affairs (Medicines/Medical Devices) and achieve Registered Scientist status.

At this stage of my life, it would not be suitable for me to quit my job in order to start a full-time MSc... [The apprenticeship] allows me to become qualified in two-and-a-half years while earning a living. I will have an MSc degree and will be able to work as a regulatory affairs specialist. The apprenticeship is not all study and includes great networking opportunities. Since I enrolled, I have met many people from other organisations on the same courses and

events as me. Ksenia Sitara

Senior QC Officer, Analytical Services Group at Oxford Biomedica, is a Regulatory Affairs Specialist Apprentice (ATMPs)

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