Collaborate with us

We welcome collaboration with anyone who wants to improve women's health through high-quality evidence.

Whether you have a fully developed research proposal or an early-stage idea, we are happy to start a conversation. Contact us early – we are most useful when we can shape the research from the outset.

Who we work with

• Academic researchers – co-investigators, methodological partners, collaborating institutions
• NHS clinicians and services – research questions arising from clinical practice
• Clinical guideline developers – evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, consensus methods
• Professional societies – guideline support, evidence reviews, evidence-to-recommendation processes
• Women's health charities and NGOs – priority setting, PPIE partnerships, co-produced research
• Patient advocacy organisations – patient-centred outcomes, dissemination, community engagement
• Funders and policymakers – evidence reviews, evidence synthesis to inform policy
• Industry and health technology companies – evidence generation for products and diagnostics
• PhD students and fellowship applicants – supervision and collaboration

How we can help

We can help with:

• Shaping and refining research questions to ensure they are answerable and impactful
• Design studies – systematic reviews, meta-analyses, trials, diagnostic studies, economic evaluations
• Conducting evidence synthesis – systematic reviews across all types
• Planning and supporting trials and feasibility studies
• Developing and supporting grant applications
• Supporting guideline development and evidence-to-decision processes
• Analysing and interpreting complex evidence across multiple studies
• Building patient and public involvement into research from the outset
• Developing implementation outputs – guidelines, decision aids, plain-language summaries

When to contact us

If you are at any of the following stages, now is the right time to get in touch:

• Early idea stage – a clinical question you want to investigate
• Before grant submission – needing methodological support, co-investigators or letters of support
• When designing a review or trial – seeking design expertise
• When developing a guideline – needing evidence synthesis or consensus methods support
• When evidence is conflicting – needing expert synthesis to make sense of the literature
• When patient priorities need to be built into research
• When planning implementation of findings into practice

How to contact us