How to reference the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) if we’ve funded your research.
When submitting a paper, article, report for publication, or other research output, it is essential that the NIHR SPHR is named and acknowledged appropriately. Please ensure the following funding acknowledgement and disclaimer is included:
For QQ2 2017–2022 please use:
“This study/project is funded/supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Public Health Research (SPHR) (Grant Reference Number PD-SPH-2015). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.”
For QQ3 2022–2027, please use:
“This study/project is funded/supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Public Health Research (SPHR) (Grant Reference Number NIHR 204000) The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.”
If there is space, please also include the SPHR relationship statement:
For QQ2 2017–2022, please use:
“The NIHR School for Public Health Research is a partnership between the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Sheffield; Imperial; and University College London; The London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); LiLaC – a collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster; and Fuse – The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health a collaboration between Newcastle, Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities”.
For QQ3 2022–2027, please use:
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Public Health Research (SPHR), is a partnership between the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter and Sheffield; Imperial College London; The London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; the LiLaC collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster; Fuse, The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a collaboration between Newcastle, Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities; and PHRESH, the Public Health RESearch for Health consortium, a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Keele.
Notify us when your paper is accepted
You must notify us when your paper is accepted. It is also very helpful if you can let us know its progress before this. Please email sphr.comms@ncl.ac.uk attaching a copy of the paper if possible. This is so we can:
• notify NIHR comms and the DHSC
• check the funding statement and disclaimer
• prepare any communications to promote your paper (we will discuss this with you to find the right approach)
If we don’t find out about a publication until after it has published or too late, we lose the timeliness of any comms produced and it’s a missed opportunity to promote your work.
“Research is of no use unless it gets to the people to need to use it”
Professor Chris Whitty
