About the Centre for Healthcare and Communities

The Research Centre for Healthcare and Communities enables researchers, educators and health and social care leaders to develop research with partners within social care and the NHS. This is achieved through collaborations alongside universities and the third sector. We work to create the key links between research, practice and education to make a difference to patient care and community health and wellbeing at local, national and global level. Through the combined expertise of clinical-academics, researchers, patients, service users and service user groups, the centre supports compassionate and effective health and social care. In addition to service provision, the centre delivers excellence in research and development, innovation and enterprise, education, capacity building and leadership.

The centre works closely with Coventry University’s Centre for Care Excellence for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health.

As a centre we strive to display the following characteristics: