Welcome to the FiMT Research Centre. Ensuring research evidence is at the heart of decision making for the benefit of ex-Service personnel and their families.
This research explores barriers to mental health seeking, self-reported symptoms, and perspectives on self-help mental-wellness options among U.S. Army Aviation Personnel. Safe …
Abstract: Few studies have examined long-term mortality following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a military population. This is a secondary analysis of a prospective, longitudinal …
Abstract: Background: The responsibility of care for Veterans and Service Members (V/SMs) with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often defaults to informal family caregivers. Caregiving …
Military sport recovery programming has proliferated internationally over the past 20 years in response to increased numbers of military personnel with physical and/or psychological illnesses and inju…
In recent years, emerging evidence has highlighted that those who leave the Armed Forces prior to completing the minimum term of their contract (i.e., under four years) – known as Early Service Leav…
The final report from the UK Veterans family study was recently released and provides crucial insight into the lives of ex-Service personnel and their families, and how they are impacted after leaving…
Established in 2017, the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) Research Centre has been created to help ensure that policy makers and service providers supporting the UK Armed Forces Community, can base their decision-making on the most accurate and contemporary evidence available. Initially led by Anglia Ruskin University, it started with the creation of the Veterans and Families Research Hub and was subsequently expanded into the FiMT Research Centre.
Since the 1st September 2022, the Research Centre has been operated by a consortium of RAND Europe and the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King’s College London, under a grant agreement with FiMT for five years until 2027.
The Centre aims to ensure that research evidence about the experiences and needs of Serving personnel, ex-Service pesonnel, and their families, is at the heart of decision making so that it can inform and transform policy and practice to enable succesful transition to civilian life post-Service.
