Research Community

The Northern Hub for Veterans and Military Families Research are a multi-disciplinary team conducting integral translational research in the Armed Forces Community. The Northern Hub’s research profile is both qualitative and quantitative, covering health and social care, public health, psychology, social policy, human geography, and nursing. They consistently work to attract and facilitate collaboration across the Armed Forces sector, working with a variety of organisations across the Government, Local Authorities, NHS and Third Sector.

The Scottish Veterans Health Research Group provides high-quality evidence-based information on the long-term health of military Veterans, acting as an evidence base for policy-makers, planners, and service providers and to counter the potentially damaging myths and misconceptions about Veterans’ health. Their team also carry out research on the health of Serving personnel, especially in areas where there may be an impact on long-term health extending into life as a Veteran, to inform planning for preventive strategies.

Established in 2016, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice is a flagship for interdisciplinary research in areas of major societal change.  This rings together researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and peace-builders from diverse backgrounds and international locations who share their multiple perspectives and work collaboratively to solve specific problems associated with the GRI’s priority themes of Legacy, The Politics of Security and Institutional Peacebuilding, Rights and Social Justice and Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding. 

Umio is a non-university affiliated body working to transform processing complex experiences and create expansive health, well-being and care impacts via experience ecosystems. Their strategic focus is pursuing novel ways to better see, know and address complex conditions whose real experience lies far beyond a narrow clinical or biomedical model.  They are building the UmioSphere® - experience ecosystems centred on focal problem contexts of real experience. The first of these is for Veterans who have experienced chronic pain.

We are a collection of Social and Organisational Psychologists who are interested in the health and wellbeing impacts of veterancy and the transition to veterancy on ex-servicepeople. Through our research, we aim to benefit veterans' health/wellbeing by improving their experiences of veterancy and the transition to veterancy. We conduct our research using the Social Identity Approach to Health, which highlights the impact of group memberships on health/wellbeing. 

The Veterans & Families Institute for Military Social Research carries out research, policy development and consultation on the impact of military Service - improving the well-being of Veterans, Service personnel and their families. Their work falls into four key areas of research: Thriving Families, Transition Measurement and Service Improvement, Women and Equalities, and Narrative. They have a growing domestic and international profile and are involved in NATO research on military-to-civilian transition, and sexual violence, as well as collaborative work with international universities.