Collaborate with us

Collaborate with HSU to co-create knowledge, solve problems, and make a lasting impact.

Collaboration with partners is a fundamental part of our culture at HSU. By working together with organisations, practitioners, and communities, we ensure our research is relevant, impactful, and grounded in real-world needs. Whether through contract research, consultancy, professional development, or bespoke training, our partnerships create opportunities to generate and mobilise knowledge, share expertise, and drive innovation.

Our collaborative approach is built on partnership, transparency, and mutual benefit. By engaging with us, you can:

Co-develop projects and interventions with our research teams to tackle real-world challenges
Commission research or evaluation to generate evidence for policy, practice, or innovation
Access consultancy expertise across health, performance, education, and workforce development
Deliver bespoke CPD or training programmes to build skills and capability within your team or organisation

Researchers, facilities and equipment

You can browse our directory of academics and their research interests here.

HSU has two large clinics serving our local communities including an established musculoskeletal condition focused clinic seeing around 1000 patients per week, and our Integrated Rehabilitation Centre. This patient base provides a valuable resource for clinical studies and service evaluations combining research, health education and health provision all on one site.

Featured Projects

Move Mojo

Creating Inclusive Physical Education for Children with Disabilities and enhancing human performance and functioning. This project focused on shifting mindsets, building confidence, and gathering evidence that inclusive PE can work in mainstream and SEND school settings.

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Partnerships

At HSU we pride ourselves on our relationships with our NHS partners. We are a founding member of Wessex Health Partners, a regional partnership of Integrated Care Boards, top universities and leading NHS organisations. We are also partner of the Dorset Innovations Hub which works across primary, community secondary and social care, academia, innovation, research, economy, industry and patient and public involvement and engagement. We host the Dorset Brain Health Clinic on our Bournemouth Campus, in collaboration with Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust.

We value the opportunity to partner with industry, and have introduced an Innovation Voucher scheme to support industry partners develop their innovations. One such project with MoveMojo focused on developing an evidence-based physical activities scheme compatible with the PE curriculum to improve attention and engagement of children with ADHD.

Are you a patient or a member of the public and want to find out how to get involved in our research? The HSU Sharing Patient and Community Experience (SPaCE) Group provide opportunities to ensure patient and community voices are embedded in our research. You can read more about SPaCE and how to get involved here.