Sigma Research
Overview
Sigma Research is nationally and internationally renowned for its community-based research on the behavioural and policy aspects of HIV, sexual health and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) health. It provides research and development services across the UK and Europe from its offices in South London.
Vision
Sigma’s vision is that sexual health promotion and HIV prevention interventions are as effective and efficient as they can be.
Mission
Our mission is provide research and evaluation services with direct, practical application to policy and practice in relation to HIV and sexual health promotion. Sigma describes this as knowledge for action.
Values
Staff of Sigma Research value individual choice and strive to ensure that every adult has the knowledge, will and power to acheive the best sex with least harm.
Services
Sigma staff have substantial UK policy impact and are renowned for their capacity to work within service provider networks. Our community-based research arises from our engagement with health promotion practitioners, clinicians, policy-makers and other key stakeholders. In the UK alone, we have collaborated with more than 200 health promotion agencies, NHS Trusts and Local Authorities in the last decade. Our focus on end user utility means that most projects culminate in the publication of research-into-practice reports of which we have published 60 in the past decade, and extensive face-to-face dissemination through practitioner conferences and tailored seminars. Our main website contains descriptions of all our current research projects, listings of our journal articles, freely accessible research reports and presentations, and a variety of our questionnaires.