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Health@Lancaster: A collaborative partnership approach
Lancaster University academics work across a wide range of diverse research fields and have often explored the impact of individual and population health through specific thematic lenses, contributing valuable insights.
Health@Lancaster connects academics working across the University to foster collaboration and drive impactful research outcomes.
Its leadership team provides a supportive framework and strategic oversight for a cohesive approach - enabling partners to benefit from comprehensive and innovative solutions to complex challenges.
Our themes
The Health@Lancaster initiative has identified eight thematic areas where clusters of academics can work with partners on significant challenges.
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The group brings diverse expertise to tackle public health challenges and inequalities. Their skills span practical implementation, interdisciplinary methods, bid writing, and ethics approvals. They offer insights into health behaviours, disease modelling and environmental impacts, with strong links to public health bodies and access to key data sources to deliver effective, multifaceted solutions.
Academic champions
Combining expertise in co-produced solutions, real-world engagement and creative communication, the Mental Health group will address a wide range of societal challenges. The group leverages strong relationships with provider networks, can access large datasets and maintain a focus on underserved groups, ensuring it is well-placed to achieve impactful outcomes.
Academic champions
The group excels in collaboration, innovation and connecting stakeholders to improve health and care service delivery. With expertise in various systems methodologies, funding and commercialisation, they engage partners to better navigate organisational systems and deliver impactful solutions.
Academic champions
An innovative research collaborative leveraging expertise in areas like AI, data management and digital horizon-scanning to improve health outcomes. With a focus on co-creation, digital modelling and patient-embedded communication, the group is well-equipped to deliver impactful solutions for a safe and healthy future.
Academic champions
The group combines expertise in biomedical science, chemistry, engineering, psychology and medicine to explore the mechanisms of health and disease. With strengths in advancing and emerging technologies and community engagement, they champion multidisciplinary research collaborations to deliver impactful solutions in health.
Academic champions
Promoting a cross-disciplinary approach, the group is focussed on sharing knowledge and changing policies to address sustainability, environment and health challenges. It is led through a strong culture of collaboration and resource sharing, with a focus on aiding health and care organisations in achieving sustainability goals and attempting to leverage influence through research and creative communication.
Academic champions
This group brings together a diverse range of interdisciplinary researchers from across the University whose work leads to real world impact and innovative insights in the fields of neuroscience and neurology. Researchers in this theme work in diverse disciplines including neuroscience, neurology, psychology, psychiatry, mathematics and statistics, chemistry, sport and exercise science and in the social sciences and humanities. The collaborative and cross-disciplinary working supported under this theme focuses on leveraging insights for positive impact in a broad range of brain and nervous system contexts that occur across the life course, spanning healthy ageing, neurodevelopmental disorders arising in early life and neurodegenerative disease in ageing populations.
Academic champions
The group has a focus on leadership and its role in organisational health and wellbeing. With experience using ethnographic methods, translating policy impact and utilising intervention strategies, the group aims to address workplace wellbeing, cultural diversity, resilience and supportive structures to promote practices which foster caring, healthy organisations.
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