Research within the Alliance is developed and conducted in partnership with service users, their carers, health professionals, managers and policy makers.  We are committed to be respectful of the people who participate in and may be affected by our research.  We strive to be senstitive to the contexts in which we work, and to communicate our research plans and findings as clearly as possible.

Research has been focusing on a broad range of health and self care issues across the life span, including acute health problems (eg community acquired pneumonia); conditions (eg stroke); physical and intellectual disabilities; and dementia as well as mental health. 

Our research has explored and examined both the self care support needs of various populations as well as the context for where professional support is currently lacking (eg community-based efforts to support people from marginalised groups).

Alliance researchers have been instrumental in developing and evaluating interventions, designing measures, and in uncovering new areas for intervention research.  Research has brought together individual level with population level research drawing on a range of methodologies.