Affiliation:
1. Assistant Director of Nursing, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK,
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the factors that have already had an impact on the build-up of nursing/ midwifery research capacity and capability, and highlight other factors that have not yet been touched upon, but which are pertinent to the overall discussion of how nursing/midwifery research is being taken forward in an academic health science centre. The paper concludes by proposing ideas for short-term to medium-term research-building activities, but which need to sit alongside a supportive, infrastructural model in order to achieve the longer-term goals of (1) advancing nursing/midwifery research generally, and (2) ensuring nursing/midwifery research achieves equal-partner status in academic health science centres, which are predominantly biomedically research led organisations.