Specialist Groups

CHSS favours a team-working approach with regard to its research interests, and includes a number of specialist groups, each offering a discreet range of services within their respective fields. The groups' operations are all based at CHSS, promoting integration and cross-collaboration.

	The Research Design Service (RDS) is an NIHR funded initiative, providing free support for NHS researchers in developing successful grant applications.
	The South East Trials Unit (SETU) provides a comprehensive range of services to support randomised controlled trials across the health and social care sectors, as well as maintaining a broad portfolio of its own in-house trials. The unit also provides support for all stages of constructing small and large scale surveys.
	The Addictive Behaviours Group has been providing education and research in addiction related areas since 1982. Servces include undergraduate courses and training for practitioners.
	The Social Exclusion Group facilitates collaboration between organisations working with socially excluded people and academic researchers, from CHSS, and the Department of Psychology Medicine at Cardiff University, and working collaboratively with The Salvation Army.
	Vulnerable Groups undertakes research into at risk groups, including children, older people and mental health. Within the group, the Senectus team maintain a large and comprehensive database of health indicators for older people.
	The Ethnicity research programme was initiated in the mid-1990s and aims to examine ethnic disparities in health promotion, health and health care.
	CHSS also undertakes research funded by the European Union.