Embedding a Research Culture

Page last updated 09 January 2024

How to use this section

This updated guide aims to provide some 'tools' to help you support health and care service colleagues to further embed research activity in their organisations for patient benefit at the frontline. 

You will find information here that should support you in interacting with non research colleagues in care settings. This might be facts and figures, simple key messages, reports, new strategic work or examples of approaches to research engagement. 

We need to be able to see the health and care providers as customer as well as a means by which we can get research done.

NIHR's commitments

As part of the NIHR’s commitment to enhance the health and wealth of the nation through research, we work with health and care organisations and the NHS to improve the environment for health and care research in England.

This means funding and supporting the delivery of research that is practically and meaningfully embedded in the experience of patients and service users, regardless of where they live, as outlined in our strategy Best Research for Best Health.