Past successes in community and primary care research
Find out more about our successfully completed projects

Bringing together people living and working in residential and care homes during COVID-19.
Improving child psychosocial outcomes through evidence-based prevention and early intervention.
This research examined how moralising narratives relating to individual responsibility and welfare entitlements influence the medicalisation of mental distress caused by material deprivation and social disadvantage.
Investigating childhood predictors of adult health.
A multi-centred randomised controlled trial that investigated the effects of adding web-based coaching (e-coachER) to an exercise referral scheme for patients with chronic physical and mental health conditions.
Engager was a novel intervention for supporting prisoners with common mental health problems to achieve their goals.
Our study aimed to investigate older people, carer and staff attitudes towards seeking help and using techniques to get-up following a fall.
Formative evaluation of the implementation of the Neighbourhood Liaison and Diversion (NL&D) intervention in Devon and Cornwall.
This NIHR funded Programme aimed to help primary care and community based mental health services work more closely together by developing a system of collaborative care based in GP surgeries for people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
‘Care that is guided by and organised effectively around the needs and preferences of the individual’.
Evidence synthesis with stakeholder engagement to formulate practical recommendations.
Blowing the starting whistle on constructive Public Health research in Plymouth.
COVID-19 research.
Linking individuals from primary care to social interventions which have the potential to improve health and wellbeing.
Optimising cultural provision to improve older people’s wellbeing through social prescribing in the context of COVID-19: Realist review and evaluation.
Improving health for those under community supervision, with the support of a Health Trainer.
Covid-19 research.
Defining the Street Triage intervention and formative evaluation of implementation in Cornwall.
Our researchers led a national study to test the effectiveness of new support to help smokers who want to reduce but not quit.