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A recent review of interprofessional education in the UK invited the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) to instigate discussions amongst organisations and researchers for the purpose of “establishing a group to conduct an up-to-date, broad-based worldwide systematic review of evidence for pre-qualifying interprofessional education in health and social care” (Barr, Helme, & D’Avray, 2014, p.7). Such a challenging brief led CAIPE to consider the present state of interprofessional research and scholarship amongst its membership and contemplate how this work could be co-ordinated and nurtured, how research capacity could be advanced, and how CAIPE could support the research agenda moving forward. In this editorial we outline initial steps in this endeavour. We provide details of CAIPE’s newly-formed Research Advisory Group, set the scene based on a preliminary information-gathering exercise and outline the group’s intended activities to facilitate an expansion of interprofessional research in the UK.