Research themes

Our research is organised under six themes. You can see a complete list of current and recently completed projects on our projects page.

Evaluation: service models

Organisations or agencies in different localities often develop alternative approaches to providing or delivering a service. Research under this theme evaluates and compares service models.

Evaluation: interventions

This theme is about the evaluation of health and social care interventions, and the development of methods to do this.

Professional and service issues

A wide-ranging theme, but all the topics reflect challenges or issues faced by health and social care organisations or professionals.

Policy: research and evaluation

Projects within this theme are those specifically commissioned to study policy or inform policy-making.

Illness and impairment

Projects within this theme are concerned with capturing the views and experiences of individuals experiencing illness, impairment, frailty and old age and carers.

Child well-being and family poverty

Research on child well-being, child poverty, comparative social policy, and living standards by Professor Jonathan Bradshaw.