Research Priorities
Insight & Innovation
UKADs revitalised strategy, “Strategic Refresh: Athlete First” updates and extends the pre-existing strategy into 2026, with a renewed emphasis on putting the athlete first and foremost in our minds when delivering our mission to protect clean sport.
One of our key objectives is to “Leverage research and analytics to enhance our insight on the threats to clean sport”, speaks directly to the work of the Insight and Innovation Team, who are responsible for co-ordinating engagement with research and data analytics to identify ways of enhancing our operations.
Contact the Team
Our Insight & Innovation team can be contacted via email at insight@ukad.org.uk.
Our Objectives
Research Priorities & Agenda
- We will research doping prevalence within sports in the UK
- We seek new methods and technologies to gain insight on doping prevalence within sports
- Implementation of novel sample collection methods
- Improve UKAD's detection rates for prohibited substances and methods through enhanced analyses
- We will use data obtained from monitoring and evaluation processes to improve UKAD's anti-doping education and operations
- We will research how we can use our existing data and external data to inform UKAD's policies
Our Research Projects
Visit our research projects page to find out more about the recent work we have done and how to get involved in future research projects.
