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Organisation profile
The Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary research centre focused on producing research that makes a difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of health and social care services and promoting health and wellbeing. At the last assessment of research quality (REF 2021) over 80% of our research was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.
The Centre, which is part of the School of Health and Social Work, brings together over 30 researchers with backgrounds in nursing, primary care, public health, epidemiology, social work, the social sciences, mental health and nutrition. Key areas of research activity include:
- Communities, Young People and Family Lives
- Older People's Health and Complex Conditions
- Public Involvement and Engagement in Health and Care
- Data, AI and Technology
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MoRRE: Mapping and mobilising evidence of new and extended practice roles In NHS primary and community care: A Scoping Review and Meta-review of Realist Reviews and Evaluations with integrated knowledge mobilisation
Goodman, C. (PI)
NIHR - National Institute for Health Research
1/09/25 → 29/02/28
Project: Research
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Support Needs of Migrants Living in Hertfordshire
Hamilton, L. (PI) & Thompson, C. (CoI)
1/09/25 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
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Co-designing improvements to systems of care and support to tackle inequality of access for people with Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes: combining a system approach and realist review to inform a discrete choice experiment.
Casarin, A. (PI) & Handley, M. (CoI)
NIHR - National Institute for Health Research
1/03/25 → 31/08/27
Project: Research
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The mental health peer support relationship: a realist informed qualitative meta synthesis
Handley, M. & Hackman, C., 13 Nov 2025, (Submitted) In: BMJ Open.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Home working during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of drug and alcohol support workers
Lloyd, N., Wills, W., Freethy, I., Fakoya, O., Bontoft, C., Garcia Iglesias, J., Bartington, S., Bartington, S., Breslin, G., Howlett, N., Jones, J., Newby, K., Smeeton, N., Wellings, A., Wellings, A., Wellsted, D. & Brown, K., 12 Nov 2025, In: Journal of Public Health Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Funding Health Promotion Activities to Reduce Avoidable Hospital Admissions in Frail Older Adults (HomeHealth): Further Challenges to the “Cost-Effective but Unaffordable” Paradox: When Health Promotion is Cost Saving but Unaffordable: A Case Study in Frailty (HomeHealth)
Hunter, R. M., Frost, R., Kalwarowsky, S., Marston, L., Pan, S., Avgerinou, C., Clegg, A., Cooper, C., Drennan, V. M., Gardner, B., Goodman, C., Logan, P., Skelton, D. A. & Walters, K., 1 Nov 2025, In: Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 23, 6, p. 1099-1113 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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