Specialist Centre
for Public Health
delivered by the University of
Southampton and Partners
delivered by the University of
Southampton and Partners
The NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) - Specialist Centre for Public Health (SCPH) provides advice and support for public health research outside the NHS.
It is hosted jointly by the RSS Hub delivered by the University of Southampton and Partners and the RSS Hub delivered by Newcastle University and Partners.
Contacting the Specialist Centre for Public Health gives you access to a wide range of public health expertise, whether you are an experienced researcher or completely new to the field.
Our team provides advice to researchers who are designing research proposals and developing funding applications. We help organisations (such as local authorities) to increase their capacity for public health research, and our governance and ethics team help researchers in non-clinical settings to set up public health research in their own organisations.
This includes public health research in local authorities, the criminal justice sector, education and the voluntary sector.
Together with our RSS Hub, we offer training on writing and pitching research funding applications as well as bespoke training for non-NHS organisations looking to increase their research capabilities.
A free to attend, online, three-day masterclass on how to write a grant application for applied health or social care research that is strong from a methodological point of view, reads well and presents a convincing case for funding .
(Please note that this event is not specific to public health research.)
Free 30-45 mins sessions with a public health expert and a methodologist to discuss your research interest. Your ideas do not need to be well developed at this point.
Submit a request for support to the NIHR Research Support ServiceĀ Hub and Specialist Centre for Public Health delivered by the University of Southampton and Partners. The RSS and the SCPH can support researchers in the devolved nations if they are working in collaboration with English partners.
For bespoke support to develop research capacity and capability email nihr-rss@soton.ac.uk.