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Health, psychology and communities research projects

Discover how our seven research clusters are making a difference to the wellbeing of communities around the world.

Communication Disability

  • Smiling boy sat in a wheelchair using a tablet-based assisted communication device

    Identifying appropriate symbol communication

    Influencing the consistency and quality of clinical decision-making in the supply of symbol communication aids.

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    Refugees with communication disabilities

    Understanding the need for accessible sexual and reproductive health and sexual and gender-based violence services.

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  • A Kenyan schoolgirl stood in front of a blackboard during a maths class

    Street-connected children

    Understanding the experiences, attitudes, beliefs and wishes of children with communication disabilities and their carers.

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    Speech and Language Therapy

    A collaboration with the University of Ghana to develop services for people with communication disabilities.

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  • The Mcast Communication Screening Tool in a branded carry case

    Validation of the Mcast Communication Screening Tool

    Improving patient access to communication support during mental capacity assessments.

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Global Perspectives, Marginalisation and Thriving Communities

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    Homicide abuse learning together

    A three-year study of lessons from domestic homicide reviews.

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  • A woman stood looking out of a window with partially drawn curtains on a suburban street

    Domestic abuse safeguarding during COVID-19

    Investigating how the pandemic has affected policies and practices, with testimony from survivors.

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  • A protester holding up a placard on which is written My uterus, My rules

    Feminist outlaws and abortion trails

    Examining how abortion activists shape worldwide political debates about reproductive justice.

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Learning disabilities and autism

  • A man with Down's syndrome laughing with a worker at a daycare centre

    The 200 Lives project

    Evaluating the quality and cost of supported living and residential care for adults with learning disabilities.

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  • A family carer helping his daughter, who has Down's syndrome, adjust her protective face mask at city street.

    COVID-19 and people with learning disabilities

    Improving services and support for adults with learning disabilities and their carers.

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  • A stressed healthcare worker leans against a wall, looking anguished

    Witness to harm

    Improving the experience of witnesses in professional misconduct investigations in health and social care.

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  • A young man cleaning up the kitchen counter at home

    In Search of Flourishing Lives

    Helping people with learning disabilities get the support they need to do what they value most.

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  • Older people at a daycare centre working on crafts projects

    Using co-design to improve social care

    Designing quality social care services by capturing, understanding and using people’s experiences.

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  • An older woman with Down's syndrome tending flowers in her garden

    Growing older — planning ahead

    Improving support for older people with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge others.

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  • Two young women stood close together, one touching the other's arm

    Supporting autistic adults’ intimate lives

    Helping autistic people enjoy healthy and fulfilling intimate relationships.

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Mental Health

  • Protesters hold hands and lift their arms in the air at a peaceful demonstration

    Mental health act reform

    Improving the experiences of Black African-Caribbean men detained under the Mental Health Act: a co-produced intervention using the Silences Framework (ImprovE-ACT).

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    The LEARN Project

    A realist review of interventions used to prevent and reduce the use of restrictive practices on adults with learning disabilities.

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  • Meds and Mental Health

    Medications and my mental health

    Mental health medications in the lives of people with learning disabilities

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Neuroscience of Ageing and Impaired Mobility

  • A young girl tying the laces on one of her shoes

    Combined action observation and motor imagery

    Helping children learn essential skills.

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  • An older man walking down a corridor with the aid of a woman and walking frame

    Brain activity during movements in Parkinson’s disease

    Using wireless brain implants to understand how Parkinson’s affects the ability to walk.

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  • researcher viewing sheet of brain scan images

    Linking cognition and gait impairments in Parkinson’s disease

    Investigating mobility loss in age-related diseases. 

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Physiotherapy

  • A person holding their back due to lower back pain

    Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) and litigation

    Exploring the lived experiences of UK physiotherapists involved in Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) litigation cases.

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  • Person holding their exposed knee in pain

    Identifying patellofemoral pain

    A survey that works as screening tool to identify people suffering with patellofemoral pain.

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  • Person holding shoulder experiencing shoulder pain

    The POWER Study

    Testing the effect of a physiotherapist-led exercise programme for patients waiting for shoulder surgery.

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Social aspects of ageing

  • A man posing with a GM gold photo frame

    GM Gold

    Growing older with learning difficulties in Greater Manchester.

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  • A man walking through a park with a group of others.

    Place age

    Identifying the development of a strong sense of place.

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  • Two men converse outside a shed, one sat down and one stood up

    Men in sheds

    How sheds can help men stave off loneliness after retirement.

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  • Manchester Art Gallery in the daytime

    Uncertain Futures

    A participatory artwork and research project exploring the experiences of work for women over 50 in Manchester.

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Stress, Health and Performance

  • A tree-lined path through an urban park dappled in sunlight

    Go Green Routes

    Exploring natural ways to foster mental health and wellbeing in urban communities.

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  • t the Baikonur Cosmodrome Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos during pre-launch training in the Soyuz MS-16

    Athlete in Sirius

    Studying effects of biopsychosocial stress on space missions.

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  • A heavily pregnant woman staring out of a window

    Re-thinking the programming hypothesis

    A study of how prenatal stress links to child psychopathology.

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Other research

  • Two teenage girls cooking with an older woman in a kitchen

    Model of excellence for residential care

    Helping shape new ways of looking after young people in care and assessing the effectiveness of support services.

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  • Abstract waves watercolour painting with golden shimmer in mint, turquoise and teal colours

    Uniting Senses and Experiences Network (USEN)

    The USEN research network supports young people and their families who experience voice hearing and other sensory experiences.

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  • An adult and four children sit around a table working with colorful wooden shapes

    Wellbeing of children’s home workers

    Exploring intense working environments to create guidelines for practice to improve the delivery of children's residential care.

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