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Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences- University of Oxford
We conduct high impact multi-disciplinary research. This has been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework, where Oxford was ranked top for the quality of our research, its infrastructure, and the impact we make on the world. We are able to do this because we are well supported by genuinely helpful research infrastructure and have an excellent training programme for clinicians and other scientists.
This inter-disciplinary department is home to clinicians, clinical epidemiologists, medical statisticians, social scientists and psychologists, working collaboratively on programmes to improve health and healthcare. Being a large department means we work hard at being a friendly one and are confident that we succeed. We ensure our department has progressive employment policies that value the careers of all our team and we are proud that we hold an Athena Swan silver award and are working towards gold. We aim to develop the careers of our early and mid-career scientists and to provide opportunities to form productive collaborations and develop high-level content and methodological expertise, which will enable all our team to grow their careers as scientists.
ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health
Our research on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in primary care focus on better detection, understanding the main causes of these conditions, new treatments, and developing and evaluating ways for people to better manage their conditions. https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/research-themes/cardiovascular-and-metabolic
Contact: richard.mcmanus@phc.ox.ac.uk
Health Behaviours
The Health Behaviours Team works on interventions to prevent or treat ill-health by intervening on diet, obesity, and smoking at individual and population levels.
Contact: paul.aveyard@phc.ox.ac.uk
Infections and Acute Care
Our research focuses on more effective ways of diagnosing and treating patients with serious and common infections in primary care through clinical trials, health behaviours research and the NIHR Community Healthcare MIC.
Contact: oliver.vanhecke@phc.ox.ac.uk; christopher.butler@phc.ox.ac.uk
Evidence-Based Medicine and Research Methods
Systematic reviewers, medical statisticians and health economists lead and collaborate on a variety of research projects across the department.
Contact: carl.heneghan@phc.ox.ac.uk; rafael.parera@phc.ox.ac.uk
Digital Health and Innovation
Our research in this area aims to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of applying digital tools in healthcare, with a particular focus on low-resourced national health services, where digital tools can be applied as cost-effective interventions for those with long-term conditions, and for particular groups such as pregnant women.
Contact: john.powell@phc.ox.ac.uk
Big Data
We use some of the world's largest and longest established electronic healthcare record databases to develop larger and more robust studies of routine patient data, carry out national surveillance of common diseases, create dashboards to provide up-to-date feedback on NHS prescribing, and pioneer new ways of delivering nationwide randomised controlled trials.
Contact: clare.bankhead@phc.ox.ac.uk
SUPPORT FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
The Department leads world-class research and training into the way healthcare is delivered in general practice and the community, across the UK and globally. Our department offers a supportive environment for researchers with dedicated facilities, support staff, libraries and a multitude of training courses and opportunities for development available, while working with world leading researchers. This includes development in important areas such as equality and diversity training, Good Clinical Practice, PPI training and tailored support. Early and mid-career researchers are supported to develop their grant writing and leadership skills and attend modules from local Masters programmes or externally funded courses as appropriate and supported to present at department seminars and conferences, All clinical students are supported by OUCAGS, facilitating interaction with other clinical academic trainees across medical specialties.
CONTACT DETAILS
If you want to conduct your fellowship at the University of Oxford, but not sure whom to contact for support, do feel welcome to reach out to the people below:
Paul Aveyard; paul.aveyard@phc.ox.ac.uk (Professor of Behavioural Medicine, GP and SPCR training lead)
Gail Hayward; gail.hayward@phc.ox.ac.uk (Assoc Professor and GP, SPCR clinical training deputy)
Katherine Tucker; katherine.tucker@phc.ox.ac.uk (Senior Researcher and SPCR research training deputy)
Kristy Smitten; kristy.smitten@phc.ox.ac.uk (SPCR Research Support Manager)