NIHR Research Support Service Hub
Support and expertise
Support available from our RSS Hub
Our RSS Hub offers a range of flexible research support services, including:
- advice on research funding opportunities
- feedback on research designs and draft funding applications
- advice, support, and small awards for public involvement
- support for fellowship applications and practice interviews
- lay reviews of plain English summaries
- opportunities to collaborate with partner clinical trials units
- opportunities to collaborate with our partner research groups
Expertise
Our staff and partner groups have wide ranging knowledge, including specialist expertise in:
- multiple long-term conditions, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease
- lifestyle, physical activity, and weight management
- ethnic health and health inequalities
- designing and delivering inclusive research
- health consequences of climate and environmental change
- injury risk and prevention
- health and care service quality, safety, and improvement
- healthy ageing and the care of older people
- use of routinely collected health and care data in research
- air pollution and environmental noise
- diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions
- technology development, evaluation and commercialisation
- statistical methods in health and care research
- realist research approaches