Welcome to the Warwick Hub of the West Midlands Research Design Service (RDS WM)

The RDS WM is part of the infrastructure of the National Institute for Health Research and has been established to provide help to anyone working in the West Midlands region who has a 'good idea' and wants to turn it into a research proposal for submission to peer-reviewed funding programmes in applied health and social care.

The RDS WM has three 'hubs' based in the Universities of Birmingham, Keele and Warwick.

The Warwick Hub provides support to all health and social care staff working in NHS Trusts and other organisations within Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Each Hub has a team of staff with expertise in statistics, quantitative and qualitative research techniques, clinical trials, evidence synthesis, health economics, epidemiology, public and patient involvement, and ethics and governance.