Blog

Insights on clinical-trial recruitment

Practical perspective on enrollment, engagement, and reaching the right participants.

October 26, 2026

How to Find Participants for Research Studies

Finding participants for research studies is one of the most persistent challenges in clinical trials. This guide walks through practical, honest strategies that research sites, coordinators, sponsors and CROs can put to work today.

Read more
October 19, 2026

3 Critical Barriers to Recruiting for Research

Recruiting for research is one of the most persistent challenges facing sites, sponsors, and CROs today. Understanding the barriers that slow enrollment is the first step toward building a strategy that actually works.

Read more
October 15, 2026

Finding Participants for Research Fast: Rescuing a Stalled Trial

Recruitment failure is one of the most common reasons clinical trials collapse before they reach their endpoints. If your study is behind on enrollment, here's how to pivot quickly and find the right participants before your timeline slips further.

Read more
October 8, 2026

Clinical Trial Recruitment Companies: The Five Types and How to Choose

There is no single best clinical trial recruitment company. There are five kinds of help, and they solve different problems. This guide names examples of each and gives you five questions to choose by.

Read more
October 5, 2026

The Ultimate Checklist for Recruiting Hard-to-Reach Research Participants

Recruiting for research studies is never simple, but niche populations present a unique set of obstacles that can stall even the most experienced teams. This checklist walks you through the key steps to find, engage, and enroll the right participants—without cutting corners.

Read more
October 1, 2026

Willingness Was Never the Problem

An Alzheimer's trial in London drew its first referral in four hours. A stroke study, ninety minutes. What that speed actually tells you about patients.

Read more
September 17, 2026

When you can't choose the audience, choose the outcome

Meta reclassified health advertisers, defaulted campaigns to automation, and degraded tracking. Here is how those shifts hit clinical trial recruitment, and the one lever you still control.

Read more

Looking to take part in research?

This site is for research teams. Beacon lists studies currently recruiting, in plain language, free to browse with no obligation.

Find a study
Protocol to Patients

Recruitment insights, in your feed.

IRB updates, protocol tactics and what is moving enrollment, straight to your LinkedIn feed.

Subscribe on LinkedIn