NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Southampton
About us
Strategy: Concentrating and sharing our strengths
The NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Southampton aims to improve health and healthcare through research that helps prevent disease, enables earlier diagnosis, delivers more personalised treatment, and supports better recovery from surgery and serious illness.
We drive innovation through world-leading research that improves understanding of health, disease and recovery.
Working closely with patients, communities, healthcare professionals and partners across Wessex and beyond, we translate discoveries into practical solutions that improve health and healthcare by:
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Bringing together expertise from a wide range of scientific, clinical and technological disciplines
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Collaborating regionally, nationally and internationally with patients, public contributors, academics, healthcare organisations and industry partners
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Developing new treatments, technologies, digital tools, guidelines and policies that benefit patients, the NHS and wider society
Our strategy is built on collaboration, connecting expertise across our research themes and working in partnership with local communities, NHS organisations, universities, industry and the wider NIHR to accelerate the translation of research into real-world impact.
Delivery: 600 researchers, five themes
The centre of over 600 researchers, across the partnership, draws together the patients, staff, trainees, facilities and equipment needed to study health, disease and new treatments.
It does so through five strategic research themes:
Public and patients
We involve and engage the public in all that we do.
Our Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Participation (PPIE(P)) Strategy sets out how we are doing this through to 2028.
This builds on well-established foundations of PPIE(P) in Southampton and continues to innovate, embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity, and develop best practice.
We will achieve this with our public partners by placing co-production the heart of all our efforts. This approach works together in equal partnership and for equal benefit.
Read the full strategy here.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity
Our aim is to advance clarity, openness, and fairness in all our interactions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Strategy sets out how we will ensure a diverse mix of people drive and contribute to our research. It also fosters inclusive attitudes and behaviours across our Centre.
We want to deliver a welcoming and enabling research environment that is known and valued as fair, open and supportive to all.
Read the full strategy here.