We provide advice in a number of core areas including advice on finding appropriate funding, finding collaborators and advice on structuring and writing proposals. Below you will find specific examples of our advisers’ methods/advice expertise. This is not an exhaustive list, we can advise in many more areas.
For information on how we provide you with advice see our how our advice service works page.
A
Action research
Ageing
Analytical strategies
Anthropological approaches
Application writing/”grantsmanship”
Applied bioethics and medical ethics
Applied health service research
Assessment of treatment outcomes
B
Biomedicalisation
C
Chronic disease
Clinical communication
Clinical trials
Cluster-randomised trials
Cohort studies
Comparative case studies
Complex interventions
Consensus methods, e.g. Delphi
Cost-effectiveness analysis of pharmaceuticals
Critical reviews
D
Data analysis
Dataset management
Dialogic analysis
Disability and long term conditions
E
Econometrics
Economic determinants of health
Efficiency measurement
Epidemiology
Epilepsy
Equality and diversity
Ethical issues in study design
Ethnographic research
Ethnography
Evaluation design
Evaluation of NHS services
F
Family research
Feasibility issues
Feasibility studies
Finding collaborators
Focus groups
Formulating research questions
Funding sources
G
Grant writing – watch the video on our expertise
Grounded theory
Guideline development
H
Healthcare regulation
Health Economics – watch the video on our expertise
Health informatics
Health Psychology – watch the video on our expertise
Health services and delivery research
Health technology assessment
I
Identifying appropriate collaborators in research
Interviews
Impact of innovations
Implementation methods
Implementation research
Intellectual Property (IP)
K
Knowledge translation
L
Literature reviews
M
Maternity research
Medicalisation
Medically unexplained symptoms
Medication adherence research
Mental health research
Meta-analysis
Methods of health technology appraisal
Mixed Methods – watch the video on our expertise
Modelling studies
N
Narrative interviewing
Nested qualitative studies within RCTS
Non-participant observation
O
Obesity
Observer performance
P
Palliative care
Participative research
Patient and Public Involvement – watch the video on our expertise
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS)
Performance monitoring
Personalised dosing algorithms
Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacogenetics studies
Pharmacokinetics
Phenomenological research
Philosophy of natural sciences
Philosophy of social sciences
Pilot studies
Policy evaluation
Power calculations
Practicality and feasibility of research
Primary care database research (CPRD)
Primary care research
Productivity measurement
Psychology research
Public health research
Q
Qualitative meta-synthesis
Qualitative methods – watch the video on our expertise
Quantitative methods – watch the video on our expertise
Questionnaire-based studies
Questionnaire design
R
Randomised controlled trials
Realist evaluation and synthesis
Recruitment and conduct of clinical trials
Rehabilitation research
Research impact
Research management
Research protocol and design
Research with children/young people
S
Sample size calculation
Service evaluation
Social care research
Statistics
Study design
Supportive care
Survey design
Systematic reviews
T
Thematic analysis
Trial-based economic evaluation
U
Use of routine data
W
Work and health
We try to keep this list updated but on occasion it may not be up-to-date.