NIHR Brand Update 2026

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has undertaken a comprehensive brand refresh to mark its 20th anniversary in 2026. The changes will help increase awareness among key audiences and ensure brand consistency across all NIHR schemes and infrastructure, highlighting what the NIHR stands for: life-changing research for the health and wealth of the nation.

The brand evolution includes updates to logos, font, colour palette and graphics. Resources are available to download below.

Key changes for PSRC colleagues 

The main change for NIHR schemes and services, such as PSRCs, is a new logo structure and naming convention. The refreshed brand gives greater prominence to each NIHR scheme, introducing a new logo system and reducing the overall number of NIHR logos.

• Every location and specialism within a scheme will use the same generic logo.
• Location names, such as ‘Greater Manchester’, are no longer included and should not be added to the logo.

The new PSRC logo is shown below. Logos must not be altered, and new versions should not be created.

If you require the new PSRC logo, please contact our Communications Manager, Melissa Lima (melissa.limasilva@manchester.ac.uk), who can provide the approved version and advise on its correct use.

Updated naming guidance

The NIHR has introduced updated naming structures for its schemes and services.

This means we should now use:

• NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaboration: Greater Manchester (first full use)
• NIHR PSRC: Greater Manchester (abbreviated thereafter)

From now on, please adopt this new naming convention for any new documents, materials or presentations being developed. You do not need to change or update existing materials, but please avoid mixing old and new branding or naming conventions within the same document.

Please note that there is currently no requirement to reflect this new naming structure in acknowledgements. For all other materials, we recommend using the updated naming convention outlined above and no longer using NIHR GM PSRC, GM PSRC, NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC, or NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration.

The new naming convention structure currently only applies to communications materials at this stage, however, the above structure will be implemented formally when new contracts are commissioned. Therefore, we advise using it in preparation during this transition phase, particularly when creating assets with associated cost .

Resources

Downloadable resources for NIHR PSRC: Greater Manchester staff and students.

Acknowledgements

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

When you include an author affiliation to the PSRC: Greater Manchester, you must also include a funding statement and disclaimer acknowledging the NIHR. A statement should be incorporated within the acknowledgements of publications and other disseminations of research results following studies undertaken at the PSRC: Greater Manchester.

Use the following options when you co-authored a paper that was directly or non-directly funded by the PSRC: Greater Manchester.

Funding statement

Scenario 1

Use the PSRC funded statement if: Your research is fully or majority funded by the PSRC: Greater Manchester

This research study is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Scenario 2

Use the statement below if: Your research was funded by another funder but supported or delivered through the PSRC: Greater Manchester

This research study is funded by [name of research funder]. The research is also supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the [name of the research funder], the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Scenario 3

Use the statement below if: Your research was funded by another funder but one or more researchers are funded by the PSRC: Greater Manchester

<Your name> is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the [name of the research funder], the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Please note: if you are not fully funded by the PSRC: Greater Manchester, you can use “supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration”.

Always remember to include the following disclaimer (also embedded in the statements above) in all papers:

The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Engaging with our Communications Team

The NIHR PSRC: Greater Manchester Communications Team can support you with promotion of your research to the media and across NIHR PSRC: Greater Manchester channels.