Stroke Rehabilitation

The University of Nottingham strives to lead world class stroke rehabilitation research. Our focus is the development, and implementation of evidence that will enhance the quality of life of stroke survivors and their carers.

Our research ambitions and activities are rooted in more than 25 years experience of stroke rehabilitation research. We embrace interdisciplinary research and have the largest critical mass of health service research occupational therapists anywhere in the world.

Our research activities utilise multiple methodologies; our particular expertise lies in the conduct of randomised controlled trials and implementation research.

• Patients’ needs and their quality of life remain central to all of our research activities.
• Investigation of areas identified as priorities by stroke survivors and the stroke rehabilitation research community.
• The conduct of research that will inform policy, clinical practice and the commissioning of stroke rehabilitation services.
• Conduct of research that ensures robust evidence is successfully implemented into clinical care.
• Collaboration on all aspects of research activity with stroke survivors.
• Proactive collaboration with partners in other research institutions, both nationally and internationally.
• Proactive collaboration with NHS and social care colleagues.
• To attract competitive funding from NIHR and partner organisations, MRC and European funding bodies.
• Attract the very best research students and develop them as research leaders of the future.
• Ensure that all research endeavours produce high quality research publications.
• Disseminate research findings through oral presentations to the local, national and international academic community and throughout the public domain.

Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) were established through funding from the National Institute for Health Research to undertake high quality applied health research focused on the needs of patients and to support the translation of research evidence into practice in the NHS.

Stroke Rehabilitation has four projects in this programme of work.

• More about CLAHRC  

Our research focus lies in real life problems encountered by stroke survivors and in the development of evidence based stroke services. We have strong links with the stroke clinical services in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and have worked in partnership with them on many research projects.

• http://trent.uksrn.ac.uk/

Since its inception in 2005 the UK Stroke Research Network has transformed rehabilitation research by facilitating and supporting multicentre research activity across the UK.

• http://www.ukcrn.org.uk/

The route to meaningful research activity can only be achieved by truly understanding the actual impact caused by stroke. In recognition of this we established a Stroke Research Consumer Group in 2004.

This group has involvement in all our research activities from inception of the idea through to steering group membership of successfully funded studies.