In this episode Sean Boyle sits down with Doctor Oladayo Bifarin (Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Liverpool John Moore University; the Research Effectiveness Lead at Mersy Care NHS Foundation Trust; and one of the NIHR Senior Research Leaders) and Doctor Deborah Morgan (Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Liverpool John Moore University). The discussion explores whether the UK’s nursing research model is broken, what lessons might be learned from international models like Johns Hopkins in the US, and how the profession could evolve to better integrate evidence into practice.