ARC South West

ARC South West’s Mental Health Theme addresses the urgent national need for equitable, person-centred mental health care, with a particular focus on underserved rural and coastal communities.  

ARC South West’s Dementia and Neurological conditions theme focuses on enhancing service provision, equity of care and quality of life from diagnosis through to end of life.  

ARC South West’s Ageing Well theme focuses on improving health, function, and quality of life for older people – particularly those with multiple long-term conditions or frailty, including across rural and coastal communities.  

ARC South West’s cross-cutting Prevention theme focuses on reducing the burden of preventable disease and tackling the structural causes of health inequalities across the South West.   

ARC South West’s Methods for Research and Implementation theme provides the methodological foundation for all ARC activity, ensuring our research is rigorous, inclusive, and ready for implementation. The theme brings together leading expertise in evidence synthesis, health economics, statistics, qualitative and realist methods, data science, epidemiology, and implementation science, underpinned by co-production, research inclusion, and knowledge mobilisation.  

ARC South West’s Children and Young People (CYP) theme focuses on improving health, wellbeing, and equity for children and young people, particularly those living with complex needs, disability, or social disadvantage. Our work follows a life-course approach, addressing the social, economic, and environmental conditions that shape health from infancy onward.