NIHR Research Schools Projects Dataset

About this dataset

The NIHR Research schools are collaborations between leading academic centres with national coverage across England. The NIHR funds three schools in these priority areas: the School for Primary Care Research (SPCR, established 2006), the School for Public Health Research (SPHR, established 2012), and the School for Social Care Research (SSCR, established 2009). The schools' mission is to increase the evidence base for practice by funding research and building research capacity, with supporting aims of leading strategically in their topic areas, engaging stakeholders, and developing future research agendas. They also provide capacity building programmes relevant to their priority areas that complement broader NIHR Academy initiatives. The schools also work together to deliver joint "three-schools" research programmes on government priority topics such as Mental Health, Dementia, and Prevention, enabling a system wide approach to tackle these challenges. The following data provides a comprehensive list of the projects commissioned to date by each of the Schools across their multiple phases since their original inception. This also includes those funded by the Three Schools collaboration research programmes. Please note that this only includes those research projects commissioned by the Schools and not the studentships or fellowships funded by their capacity building activities.