Research
Medact values high-quality research because it helps us understand health inequalities and offers solid evidence for effective campaigning and organising.
All our research is ultimately geared towards supporting our organisational goal of building a strong movement of health workers fighting for health justice.
Medact Research Network (MRN)
One of our biggest strengths is the knowledge we have within our movement. The Medact Research Network (MRN) harnesses members’ research skills and produces collaborative campaign-relevant research, supported by a Research Steering Group.
Medact Publications
We produce a range of research outputs including reports, policy briefings, case studies, toolkits and peer-reviewed academic journal articles. These are useful to a wide spectrum of actors, including policy-makers, journalists, campaigners, health workers and communities impacted by the issues concerned.
Our recent research has included a cutting-edge briefing on Palantir Systems and NHS data; hard-hitting reports on housing and health from the Nags Head estate in London and Barton House in Bristol; Unhealthy Liaisons, an investigation into the counterterrorism clinical consultancy service; Home, Sick Home, frontline views on the public health crisis of unhealthy homes; and Criminalising Distress, a report on the national scandal of Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM).
Medact Research policy
Medact’s Research Policy outlines our ethical principles, how and why we do research, and what we do with the research we produce.
It also explains how we ensure our research makes an impact. We understand that knowing is not enough. We produce knowledge in order to change society, so publication is never the end point of our work.