Academic Directorate of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery - View Profile

Alcohol Research UK - View Profile

Alcohol Research UK is an independent charity that tackles alcohol-related harm by funding high quality, impartial research. We provide grants to people working at the cutting-edge of alcohol-harm prevention, whether undertaking research, testing out new ideas or running projects that help to disseminate high quality evidence. We also have a studentship scheme which invests in promising researchers embarking on a career in the field.

Alzheimer’s Society - View Profile

Alzheimer’s Society is the leading support and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers. Alzheimer’s Society provides information, education, support and care to help people live their lives to the full. Researchers are making great progress in the fight against dementia. Alzheimer’s Society funds research to improve the lives of people today and to find a cure for tomorrow. Our research portfolio covers laboratory studies into the causes of dementia, developing treatments and strategies to prevent dementia and improving support for people with dementia and their carers. Alzheimer’s Society works with people affected by dementia to ensure that our research informs practice and transforms lives. In 2012/2013 Alzheimer’s Society invested more then £5 million in new dementia research.

Aquarius – Shanti Project - View Profile

Supporting the Sikh & Punjabi Community with Alcohol Misuse and Others Affected by it.

Arthritis Action - View Profile

Arthritis Action’s vision is for people to live active lives, free from arthritis pain.

Our aim is to empower people with arthritis to take control of their lives, manage their condition and reduce the need for medical intervention.

We are a registered charity who works in partnership with members, health professionals, other charities, researchers, arthritis experts and corporates is very important to us.

Arthritis Research UK - View Profile

Arthritis Research UK is the charity dedicated to stopping the devastating impact that arthritis has on people’s lives.

Our long-term commitment is prevention, developing a cure, and transforming the lives of those with arthritis.

We fund research into new treatments to end the pain of arthritis, and provide information on living well with arthritis.

Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis - View Profile

The Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis was awarded to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, under the directorship of Professor Mark Batt.

First established in 2013, the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis is led by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and is a consortium of six universities: Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton, Bath, Loughborough and Leeds. The Centre is strengthened by several  international collaborators, with expertise from around the world.

The Centre consists of an established group of world-leading researchers in sport and exercise medicine, orthopaedics, rheumatology, skeletal muscle biology, physiotherapy, podiatry, occupational therapy, epidemiology and physiology.

The first five years of Centre funding (2013-17) focused primarily on research with elite sports including Olympic athletes, professional footballers, cricketers and rugby players. The next five years’ research (2018-22) will build upon existing research findings, focusing specifically on recreational athletes and exercisers, to enhance our understanding of the effects of sport, exercise and injury on musculoskeletal health and osteoarthritis.

The Centre will work with sports representatives, patients, the public and carers, in order to improve the understanding of the effects of sport and exercise on joint injury and osteoarthritis. The Centre’s research will lead to plans for prevention, assessment and treatment of injury, aimed at reducing the risk of later osteoarthritis.

Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre - View Profile

The Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre at the University of Nottingham investigates the mechanisms that lead to the chronic pain experienced by sufferers of arthritis, in order to improve the treatment of that pain. The Centre is funded by a substantial award from Arthritis Research UK.

The Director of the Centre is David Walsh, Professor in Rheumatology, and the Deputy Director is Professor Victoria Chapman.

Research is undertaken by a multidisciplinary team based in the Schools of Medicine and Life Sciences. The team, led by Professors Walsh, Chapman, Auer, Lincoln, Doherty, Scammell, Vedhara and Ferguson as well as Drs. Kelly and Zhang, bring together expertise in the investigation of pain mechanisms and the evaluation and development of existing and new analgesics.

Psychological aspects, including patients’ beliefs about their pain are being studied alongside magnetic resonance imaging of brain activity. Studies of the peripheral, spinal and brain mechanisms contributing to arthritis pain increasing our understanding and pointing the way to the potential of novel treatment targets.

Our mission is to pursue international excellence in multidisciplinary, translational research, thereby enhancing understanding of arthritis pain and improving its treatment.

Asthma UK - View Profile

Asthma UK is the only national charity dedicated to asthma in the UK and as such has a responsibility to tackle the issues affecting people with asthma today, and to conduct research that will lead to a better future for people affected by asthma tomorrow. Asthma kills three people each day and yet research into asthma is under-resourced and under-funded.

Asthma UK funds research into all aspects of asthma, from scientific studies into the biology of our lungs, through to the creation of new treatments and investigating its causes. To date, the charity has spent over £50 million on basic and clinical research, making us a significant contributor to the asthma research landscape in the UK.

Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research - View Profile

The Centre was launched in May 2014. It is a ‘virtual’ Centre, in that there is no physical building – it is a collaboration between the leading asthma researchers from 13 universities across the UK, led by the University of Edinburgh and Queen Mary University of London, working with Asthma UK, people affected by asthma, NHS partners and other organisations.

Our focus is on improving the lives of people with asthma in the short-to-medium term, rather than on laboratory research.

Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam - View Profile

The assumption of Athena’s research program is that in order to realize the development of ‘inclusive’ science and technology, the knowledge and expertise of a diverse group of non-scientific actors need to be integrated in decision making on innovation processes. The rationale for this is that these actors have relevant knowledge and different perspectives.

A further assumption is that this integration should take place early in the innovation trajectory through a well-designed interaction process. The interaction should lead to a gradual deepening of the understanding of different perceptions concerning the definition of the problem context and the desired outcomes. In addition it should lead to a joint vision on how to proceed. The key question then is: how to organize the interaction in such a way that meaningful exchange of knowledge and expertise between scientific and non-scientific groups can take place effectively. This requires:

• an understanding of the dynamics within  and between science and society;
• methodologies (principles and heuristics) that can guide multi-stakeholder innovation processes
• strategies that can sustain and upscale such processes.

To realize such a structured interaction process, we have developed a model for understanding and influencing interaction between actors in science and society, as well as a methodology to operationalize the model (the ILA approach). The model integrates available knowledge and perspectives on societal needs and on potential innovations from relevant actors in societal and scientific fields (e.g. scientists, policy makers, societal organisations, companies, citizens, and consumers) on three levels of analysis.