October 2025 marks 6 years since ARC West formed. In those years, we have conducted vital applied health and care research, in collaboration with many partner organisations, patients and members of the public. Our programme of events and communications has helped us engage and share our findings with people across the south west and the UK.
Here we highlight our achievements, in numbers.
In the last 6 years, ARC West has:
Carried out 202 projects
Published 596 papers
Leveraged nearly £157 million in external research funding
We have partnered with 42 organisations, including:
11 NHS partners
4 academic partners
7 local authority partners
We have:
Involved 101 public contributors
Recruited nearly 24k research participants
Supported:
12 PhD students
26 postdoctoral research fellows
We have hosted 280 events, with over 5,000 attendances, including:
149 training and capacity-building events
116 public engagement events
We have reached:
Over 13k social media followers, including:
9,764 on X
2,512 on Bluesky
1,068 on LinkedIn
More than 1,200 newsletter subscribers
More than 250k visitors to our website, in the past year alone
We would like to thank our partner organisations, public contributors and research participants in the south west and across the UK.