Programme 01
Frontline Trauma Innovation
A multidisciplinary testbed for field-ready haemorrhage control, monitoring, analgesia and evacuation technologies.
Programmes
Partnerships built for practical impact.
Our programmes connect research capability with clinical services, training systems and communities affected by injury.
Programme model
A platform for sustained collaboration.
Our programme structure connects clinical need, scientific enquiry, technical development and long-term recovery. Each area is designed to support collaboration across healthcare, academia, defence medicine, humanitarian practice and lived experience.
Programme 02
Complex Wound Collaborative
Shared protocols and multicentre studies focused on infection, tissue viability, reconstruction and limb preservation.
Programme 03
Recovery After Conflict Injury
Longitudinal research on mobility, pain, mental health, employment, family wellbeing and participation after injury.
Education and exchange
Building capability as well as evidence.
Research has greater value when knowledge and skills are shared. Our programme model includes clinical fellowships, methods workshops, interdisciplinary seminars and placements across laboratory, hospital, rehabilitation and operational settings.
FellowshipsProtected time for clinical and scientific development
MethodsTraining in trials, data, qualitative research and implementation
NetworksCross-sector relationships that outlast individual studies
ExchangeTwo-way learning with UK and international partners
Public and patient involvement
Experience belongs in the research team.
People living with conflict-related injury bring expertise that cannot be recreated in a laboratory or inferred from clinical records. Their priorities may challenge assumptions about which outcomes matter, what burdens are acceptable and how research should communicate risk.
We aim to involve contributors in priority setting, protocol review, outcome selection, interpretation and dissemination. Participation should be accessible, supported and appropriately recognised.
We also acknowledge that conflict injury can involve trauma, bereavement and moral complexity. Engagement must therefore be conducted with care, choice and clear boundaries.
Ways to engage
Join the network.
Research partners
Universities, hospitals, defence health organisations, charities, industry and humanitarian agencies.
Lived-experience advisers
Injured personnel, veterans, civilians, family members and carers who wish to shape research priorities.
Students and fellows
Clinicians and researchers seeking interdisciplinary training in conflict trauma and recovery science.
Discuss a programme partnership
Tell us about your organisation, expertise and the problem you are trying to solve.