FMHS research themes

"Our Faculty has an established track record of research that improves the health and wealth of the population regionally, nationally and internationally. We have strengths in areas such as primary care research, musculoskeletal pain and arthritis, mental health, cardiovascular disease, long term conditions and methodological research. We host a Clinical Trials Unit and an Impact Acceleration Unit. Working in partnership with the NHS, social care, other regional universities, local government, research funders, patients and the public - we enable and deliver world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing. We also conduct applied health research in low and middle resource countries, and fundamental science research that discovers new mechanisms for further study. Our research training, including an MRes in Health and Care launched in 2024, develops our future research leaders. We follow the National Institute for Health and Care Research principles of good practice in research inclusion. “We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion in everything we do. Diverse people and communities shape our research, and we strive to make opportunities to participate in research an integral part of everyone's experience of health and social care services. We develop researchers from multiple disciplines, specialisms, geographies and backgrounds, and work to address barriers to career progression arising from characteristics such as sex, race or disability.” NIHR 2024"