Research Community

Tamara Obradovic is a PhD student at the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), King’s College London. Tamara's PhD is a mixed methods study exploring the prevalence and impacts of Military Sexual Trauma in ex-Serving females in the UK, with a particular focus on the implications for mental health and help-seeking. Before joining the King’s Centre for Military Health Research, Tamara completed a masters in psychology at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include women's mental health, the mental health impacts of trauma, and occupational mental health.

Tara Zammit is a PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. She has been awarded the SSHRC-CRSH Department of National Defence MINDS Initiative Doctoral Award to undertake her research. Tara’s research is situated within the fields of ontological security, feminist security studies, and war studies. She is developing a framework for better understanding the interconnectedness of these subjects through an ontological security lens and an analysis of diverse service experiences with the aim of influencing policy to better support women and LGBTQ+ individuals pursuing careers in defence and security.

The Centre for Military Research Education and Public Engagement is a research, education, public engagement, and practice unit in Scotland dedicated to the Armed Forces. It is based in Edinburgh Napier, a recognised Gold Covenant University, and works with key military stakeholders across Scotland, the UK and internationally through various networks related to armed forces transition, mental health, and wellbeing. At the heart of the centre is a multidisciplinary team of academics, practitioners, veterans, and key military personnel from tri-services with a reputation and demonstrable track record for innovation and flexible approaches to project management, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies

The Gambling Research, Education and Treatment (GREAT) Network Wales exists to drive research, education and treatment for all forms of gambling-related harm in individuals, families and communities. As a network for researchers, service providers, people with lived experience and policymakers, GREAT develops effective treatments for problematic or excessive gambling, educational and consultancy services for all sectors, produces high-quality, peer-reviewed impartial research, and serves as a clearinghouse for scientific and policy-based evidence regarding gambling and its related harms.

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. 

The Service Children's Progression Alliance, hosted by the University of Winchester's Research and Innovation Department, brings together practitioners, researchers, policymakers and funders to build a stronger evidence-base, better policy, and enhanced support for Service children’s education and progression, placing their voices at the heart of activity. The SCiP Alliance Research-practice Hub Network brings together hundreds of professionals across the UK to build collaboration and it has designed, tested and rolled out collaborative delivery models including the Creative Forces and the Festival of Friends programmes which connect military professionals, families and children with civilian partners. 

The Sustainable Housing & Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) is a multidisciplinary research group at the University of Salford hosted within the Centre for Research on Inclusive Society in the School of Health and Society. SHUSU seeks to understand complex social issues and work towards social justice and environmental sustainability. They engage in research that highlights the processes, outcomes and impacts of marginalisation on individuals and communities. 

The work of SHUSU reflects the complex and interconnected social and environmental challenges faced by contemporary society. These challenges include ensuring fair access to housing, equitable welfare systems and services, population mobility, positive social relations within communities, ageing populations, environmental sustainability and inclusive growth.

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.