Research themes

• Addiction and risk behaviours
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular disease
• COVID-19
• Domestic and sexual violence and abuse
• Inclusion health
• Infection and antibiotics
• Mental health
• Skin and allergy

• Avoidable hospital admissions
• Global health
• Health informatics and digital health
• Medicines and prescribing
• Multimorbidity and long-term conditions
• Palliative and end of life care
• Primary care consultations
• Workforce and workload

We conduct methodological work in collaboration with other groups such as the MRC ConDUCT Hub for Trial Methodology Research and the NIHR School for Primary Care Research .

The University has a site licence for the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), a large dataset of anonymised records from NHS primary and secondary care for research purposes.

See our current projects.