Disseminating our Research

Dissemination of our research activity is undertaken through a variety of ways to a range of target audiences. Our research dissemination aims to help health care agencies and professionals nationally and internationally to recognise the potential impact of our research evidence on patient outcomes and to apply our findings in a way that can inform changes to health policy or clinical practice.

Once validated, we make our Research Tools widely available.

In our scientific communities high quality research is presented at selected key conferences and published in high impact journals, which recognise the international standard of our research methods. The impact of our research and staff can also be demonstrated through involvement in national and international clinical guidelines.

Our clinical partners in the NHS look for high quality studies that can help to change clinical practice for the benefit of patients and we have a number of collaborations through which this happen:

  • Primary Care Research West Midlands North (PCR WMN)
  • We run Evidence-based practice groups with our NHS partners to facilitate implementation of research evidence into practice
  • Our patient and public research users help to shape dissemination at every stage so that key messages are accessible to the lay person
  • We also work closely with NHS commissioners and our partners at the Haywood Rheumatology Centre to implement our research findings in day to day clinical practice.

The research centre regularly showcases important studies via the centre newsletter and you may see our research hitting the news. Our research funders also highlight the outputs of our research to the wider community e.g. Arthritis Research UK and NIHR. In collaboration with Arthritis Research UK, we publish the Musculoskeletal Matters Bulletin.  These bulletins are designed to provide information about musculoskeletal problems which are encountered in everyday practice in primary care.

In recent years we have adopted traditional methods to disseminate our findings. In future years we hope to invent new and improved ways to reach our target audiences.