Research

Structured to support innovative multidisciplinary and multi-method solutions to research questions, our mission is to conduct high quality scientific research that can inform policies and practices aimed at securing people's health and well-being.

Our key objectives are:

• To conduct methodological research that can underpin robust research design and data analysis
• To produce evidence that can improve understanding of the aetiology, management and prevention of disease, including complex chronic physical and mental disorders
• To produce evidence that can improve health service organisation and delivery
• To disseminate our research outputs to the international scientific community, to practitioners, to policy-makers, and to health service users

Find out more about our research areas:

• Biostatistics
• Genetic Epidemiology
• SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied Healthcare and Improvement REsearch)
• TIMMS (The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies)
• Research Support Service Hub Leicester and Partners
• Divison of Primary Care

Research funding

External research funding, currently standing in excess of £19 million, is provided by NIHR, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Trust, the Department of Health, Diabetes UK and NICE, among other funding bodies and UK charities.