Centre for Healthcare and Community Research (CHeCR)
Transforming lives through high-quality healthcare and community research.
Welcome to the Centre for Healthcare and Community Research (CHeCR) at the University of Stirling. Our mission is to conduct impactful, interdisciplinary research that enhances healthcare practice, improves community well-being, and informs policy at local, national, and international levels.
Our research focuses on building a strong evidence base to improve frontline service delivery across unscheduled, emergency, primary, and secondary healthcare settings. Increasingly, we are also working within community environments and the digital sphere to enhance health and well-being while reducing the strain on healthcare services.
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CHeCR publications
Explore publications by researchers connected to the Centre for Healthcare and Community Research. We use a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise to improve healthcare delivery, healthcare policy, and the health and wellbeing of people in the healthcare system and living in the community.
Who we are
We are a highly interdisciplinary collaborative research centre bringing together experts from a wide range of disciplines, including clinicians, social scientists and methodologists. These researchers work closely with healthcare professionals, policymakers, and members of the public to co-develop innovative evidence-based solutions to real-world health and social challenges.
CHeCR projects
Take a closer look at the wide range of projects related to the Centre for Healthcare and Community Research. We use our methodological and statistical expertise in existing dataset and linked dataset analysis to undertake epidemiological studies and studies to explore variation in healthcare and treatment outcomes, patient pathways, and long-term outcomes for trials.