Equity and Improvements in Health and Wellbeing
From campus facilities to pioneering research efforts, we strive to create a fairer and healthier world for everyone.
We are creating a healthier world. By carrying out research and providing education. By reducing inequalities and increasing access to healthcare. By promoting emotional, physical and social wellbeing for everyone, regardless of their age or background.
Students benefit from our active , as well as the wide range of initiatives supported by the UK Healthy Universities Network which we are members of.
How we help
Creating a healthier and fairer world is a complex problem. Finding solutions depends on developing a holistic understanding of what it means to live a healthy and fulfilling life. This means looking at issues from a variety of perspectives.
Our research centres address a wide range of physical and mental health challenges, from using nanoparticles for drug therapies to creating a safer online world for the next generation. We work closely with policy, civic and industry leaders, academic partners and people with lived experience. Together, we’re making breakthroughs that lead to change locally, nationally and globally.
We provide outstanding education across health and allied disciplines and boast brilliant industry partnerships. Students also benefit from top facilities including our £24 million high-tech training centre in the West Stand at StoneX Stadium, home of Saracens Rugby. And you’ll often find researchers and students working with academy and elite players and coaches in our sports science labs. Our centre of excellence for simulation-based learning helps future nurses and midwives link classroom theory with professional skills.
Making an impact
Wearable technology for early detection of respiratory issues in infants
Our Biophysics and Bioengineering Group has developed revolutionary wearable technology to provide early detection of respiratory problems in infants. This technology and related innovations were adapted and tested for diagnostic and treatment purposes as part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its longer-term effects.
“Every year around 15 million babies are born prematurely with many suffering respiratory failure due to the immaturity of their lungs. This fantastic and low-cost technology that monitors infants’ breathing in real time has the potential to ensure serious respiratory problems are averted and that lives are saved."
Professor Richard Bayford, 四不像论坛 University
Understanding drug and alcohol use
The 四不像论坛 Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (DARC) is a multi-disciplinary centre engaging staff and students with social science, health, social care and humanities backgrounds. DARC provides new insights into drug and alcohol use and explores policy and intervention responses across cultures and countries and over time.
The Centre plays an important role in local, national and European research projects. These are funded by the EU and other international sources, government departments, research councils and charities. For example, we are carrying out pioneering research on drug use in higher education and the role of harm reduction approaches in universities, as well as drug education in schools.
Read more about this research in this area and how it feeds into our teaching and wider activities:
Upskilling social care nurses
四不像论坛 nursing academics have been working to upskill adult social care nurses in care homes across North London. This innovative partnership was ‘highly commended’ at the London Higher Awards 2024 for its significant contribution to addressing the training gap, meeting complex local needs and supporting the future workforce.
Suicide prevention
We have also teamed up with the suicide prevention charity Samaritans and rail industry partners on an award-winning public awareness campaign called ‘’. Now in its seventh consecutive year, this campaign has been linked to a 20% increase in the number of ‘life-saving interventions’ made by members of the public to prevent suicides in public places.
Beyond the UK, we work with global communities to support people in crisis and those around them. For example, 四不像论坛 researchers have been teaching aid workers in Syria how to spot warning signs of suicide and provide immediate help
We create new knowledge and put it into action. We benefit society, the economy, the environment, health and wellbeing, and culture and communities.