Green and blue spaces could improve mental health through the opportunities they provide to socialise and exercise; it could also be that these spaces improve air quality. But other factors, such as wealth, may explain this difference. ...

The NHS is paying increasing attention to leadership within clinical teams. Leadership training can be delivered in different ways, for example, to the team leader alone or to all team members. However, it is not clear which approaches work bes...

Professor Martin Tobin and Dr Catherine John talk to Professor Turi King about the first 10 years of the NIHR Leicester EXCEED Study, from its original aims through to the research questions its data is helping to answer today.EXCEED (E...

Discover how the UK is taking vaccine research delivery to the next level with NIHR support.During the pandemic the UK demonstrated its ability to deliver vaccine trials at pace and scale. In this podcast you will hear how that UK exper...

In this episode we are exploring public health research - what it is and how it can help people to live healthier and longer lives. For many people their only experience of public health research will be related to infection prevention ...

his short new NIHR podcast series hosted by Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research and Co-Lead of the NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group, brings together experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to discu...

This short new NIHR podcast series hosted by Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research and Co-Lead of the NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group, brings together experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to disc...

This short new NIHR podcast series hosted by Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research and Co-Lead of the NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group, brings together experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to disc...

The global pandemic has had a huge influence on how we work. This episode, with guests from multiple NIHR funded projects, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected community engagement and involvement (CEI) activities, as well as how CEI and...

We speak to members of an NIHR funded project researching Stillbirth Prevention and Management in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and discuss how CEI contributed to and enriched their project. This episode also showcases the impact of CEI on commun...

With a focus on exploring how power can be effectively shared between researchers and members of the community, host Saumu Lwembe (Assistant Director of PPI and engagement at the NIHR co-ordinating centre, CCF) speaks to Professor Richard Lilfo...

In this third episode of our series, you’ll hear from community connectors working in South Africa who play key roles in bridging the gap between research and communities. They are joined by a CEI consultant from the UK and host, NIHR's Gary Hi...

The second episode in this series, split into two parts, discusses the implementation of community engagement and involvement (CEI) across a range of countries and explores the different approaches used across these countries. Host, Doreen Temb...

The second episode in this series, split into two parts, discusses implementation of community engagement and involvement (CEI) across a range of countries and explores the different approaches used across these countries. Host, Doreen Tembo, G...

This introductory episode focuses on NIHR’s approach to Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) in the global health research we fund.Gary Hickey, a Senior Public Involvement Manager hosts this podcast and is joined by fellow N...

Rising numbers of young people have depression. It can affect their relationships with family and friends, disrupt their school lives and interfere with sleep. Services are struggling to meet their needs and many young people are waiting months...

Episode 4 of the NIHR podcast series discussing the big research challenges facing healthcare, hosted by Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford . Every week, UK clinicians with experience of ...

Episode 3 of the NIHR podcast series discussing the big research challenges facing healthcare, hosted by Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford . Every week, UK clinicians with experience of ...

Episode 2 of the NIHR podcast series discussing the big research challenges facing healthcare, hosted by Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford . Every week, UK clinicians with experience of ...

Episode 1 of a new NIHR series discussing the big research challenges facing healthcare, hosted by Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford . Every week, UK clinicians with experience of resear...

We speak to Professor Jonathan Wadsley, the NIHR Specialty Lead for Cancer Radiotherapy and Imaging Research about risk factors for cancer, what research has found so far, why some cancers are more challenging to research than others and wha...

People living with dementia need care that promotes continence, manages continence problems as they arise, and always preserves their dignity. Recent NIHR research has explored the impact of continence problems on people living with dementia, t...

This podcast explores aphasia which is a language and communication disorder usually caused by damage to the left side of the brain, most commonly after a stroke.  Speech and language therapists work with patients and their carers to he...

Dementia is one of the main causes of death in the UK and it regularly makes the headlines when high profile people choose to share their diagnosis or when there are new findings of possible causes.  In this episode, we talk to&nbs...

To mark International Nurses Day 2022 we talk with NIHR Associate Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Lead Matron at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility in Southampton and former president of the International Association of Clinical Research Nu...