Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Lincolnshire is faced with the challenge of a widely dispersed rural population alongside coastal communities with high levels of chronic illness and co-morbidities. These issues are exacerbated by local difficulties in recruiting healthcare professionals. This is why, following our commitment to nursing, pharmacy, and a wide range of other health professions, we established a medical school to train doctors in partnership with the University of Nottingham.
Research Spotlight
Our Lincoln International for Rural and Coastal Health was established to meet the needs of our dispersed and health-challenged rural populations. It conducts world-class interdisciplinary research to address the most challenging health issues facing rural and coastal communities locally, nationally, and internationally
We undertake research that aims to make a global impact on health and wellbeing. Examples of this cover areas such as malaria, where we are working with policy makers and healthcare professionals to provide better insight into the locations where malaria will be problematic in the face of global climate change. Another collaborative research project is aiming to tackle the high death toll in infants from communicable diseases which are largely treatable in wealthier countries. Taking a welfare-orientated approach, the Mobile Arts for Peace project has been working in Rwanda using digital, art-based workshops to improve social and community cohesion and mental health provision.
Our academic community is involved in a number of health-related research groups including the Community and Health Research Unit, whose mission is to increase people’s health and wellbeing by improving the quality, performance, and systems of care across the health, social, and third sector care services.
In 2022/23, 2,144 students were enrolled on our Nursing, Midwifery, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Science, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Paramedic Science courses, with a further 345 studying Biomedical Science. As part of our commitment to improving clinical care in Lincolnshire, we are also training 80 doctors per year in a collaborative venture with the University of Nottingham.
Our goal is to boost healthcare and clinical professional numbers in our region, an area that has in the past struggled to fill healthcare vacancies. In addition to working with relevant professional bodies and the NHS, many of our courses were created in collaboration with local businesses, such as our Pharmacy course with the Lincolnshire Co-op, having a further positive impact on our local community.
Lincoln Medical School was established in 2018 with the specific aim of improving the recruitment and retention of doctors to Lincolnshire. The School, which is a partnership between the universities of Nottingham and Lincoln, delivers the University of Nottingham’s Medicine degree programmes, enhanced with a Lincolnshire flavour.
Our students benefit from an on-campus GP surgery alongside dedicated Student Wellbeing and Student Support Teams who are active in promoting health to our students and supporting them during illnesses. Our Wellbeing Team provides innovative and dedicated support for students both before and during their time with us, as well as having strong links to other community support services such as the police.
Our innovative partnerships with the National Health Service and Lincolnshire Police allow us to provide seamless support to students who may be dealing with mental health difficulties or mental and physical abuse. Our Wellbeing Team has also provided evidence to the UK Parliament on best practice to support students who may have experienced sexual abuse or drinks spiking.
Mark Gussy is Global Professor in Rural Health and Social Care and he is exploring the broader determinants of health to help transform current practices and ensure that marginalised communities have access to the support they need.
We had 134 outputs relevant to this SDG in 2023 according to SciVal and 172 in 2022. See for example:
Aljabali, AAA et al. (2022) Monkeypox virus: An emerging epidemic. Microbial Pathogenesis 173
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36179973/
Altayeb et al. (2023) Genetic scores associated with favourable and unfavourable adiposity have consistent effect on metabolic profile and disease risk across diverse ethnic groups Diabetic Medicine 40
There is wide range of healthcare related research at the University of Lincoln, and our academic community is involved in a number of research groups.
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