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Supervision

Geoff's research interest is in the use of realist approaches to make sense of and/or understand the implementation of complex health and social interventions. Only students who are interested in using realist synthesis and/or realist evaluation in their DPhil research (on a full or part-time basis at the Department in Oxford) are invited to contact him.

Current DPHil students

Angille Heintzman

Michelle Treacy

Rosie Cooper

Babar Akbar

Devon McConnell

Katherine Zippel

Geoff Wong

MA MBBS MD(Res) FHEA FRCGP


Associate Professor of Primary Care

  • Deputy Director of Graduate Studies

Geoff joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences team in March 2015. He is a highly experienced and internationally recognised expert in realist synthesis and evaluation and works closely with researchers in the field of evidence syntheses of complex health and social interventions.

Clinically he works as a salaried General Practitioner (GP) in London. His previous academic appointments were at University College London and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

He gained his first degree in Medical Sciences from the University of Cambridge and his MBBS from Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital. He undertook his vocational training in north London and was a GP Principal for almost two decades and a GP Trainer. His MD(Res) on the use of the Internet in medical education was supervised by Professors Trish Greenhalgh and Ray Pawson.

Geoff’s research centres on making sense of complex health and social interventions in which context and human agency are key. His work focuses on using realist synthesis and realist evaluations to explain and understand these types of interventions.

Researchers interested in realist syntheses or realist evaluations may wish to join the RAMESES JISCMail email list or visit the RAMESES Projects website.

 

Current research projects:

  • Supporting existing international medical graduates working in the NHS to become consultants and GPs: A realist approach (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Engaging Communities to Improve MMR Uptake: A Realist Evaluation of Public Health Outreach Approaches in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) (funder: Three NIHR Research Schools Programme)
  • Implementing relational continuity in general practice - understanding who needs it, when, to what extent, how and why: a realist review (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Understanding why junior doctors leave the NHS and what can be done to retain them: A realist synthesis (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Optimising delivery of integrated palliative care and heart failure services: A realist evaluation (PalliatHeartSynthesis II) (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • What makes health checks acceptable and implementable in primary care for people with a learning disability and for autistic people? (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Supporting mothers with severe mental illness during pregnancy and after birth: a realist evaluation of the Action on Postpartum Psychosis peer support model (RAPPORT) (funder: Three NIHR Research Schools Programme)
  • Understanding and improving compound pressures (CP) in primary care (PC): a realist review, appreciative inquiry, and three embedded studies within a review (SWAR)  (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Trauma-informed Care in Children’s Homes: A Realist Co-production Development Study (NEST) (funder: NIHR RfSC Programme)
  • Getting better community engagement and participation of adults with learning disabilities: Realist synthesis, evaluation and co-production (CONNECT) (funder: NIHR HTA Programme)
  • Building Bridges: A Realist Synthesis To Understand The Needs Of Men At Risk Of Suicide (funder: Three NIHR Research Schools Programme)
  • Optimising care pathways in Motor Neurone Disease for family carers: A realist evaluation (funder: NIHR SPCR)
  • Evaluating the NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (NHS-CPCS) (funder: NIHR SPCR)
  • Independent prescribing in community pharmacy; what works for whom, why and in what circumstances (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Optimising the deLIvery of Mental health support to adolescents in care vIa low-inTensity LifE Story work: a realist evaluation with co-deSign and feasibility trial [LIMITLESS 2] (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health Joint Response Car with Young People and Families (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • Optimising general practice support for autistic adults: A realist review (funder: NIHR RfPB Programme)
  • A Pre-implementation Study to develop and test an Integrated Discharge Intervention (PreSIDInt study) (funder: PDG Programme)
  • Food Glorious Food: A mixed methods evaluation of food-related practices in post-diagnostic community-based group support for people affected by dementia (funder: NIHR RfPB Programme)
  • The future of care at First Referral Hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa - place, people, technologies and task-sharing (funder: Wellcome Trust)
  • Using Realist Evaluation and Participatory Action Research Approaches to Co-Design a Mindfulness-Based Literacy Intervention for use in Early Years Settings (The Little Minds Project) (funder: The Joyce Morris Research Programme)
  • How might Physician Associates help (or not) address the workforce crisis in the NHS? (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)
  • REAL2 – realist review of participatory engagement (funder: Wellcome Trust)
  • Developing Realist Economic Evaluation Methods (REEM) and Guidance to Evaluate the Effectiveness, Costs, and Benefits of Complex Interventions (funder: NIHR HS&DR Programme)

  • The clinical, social and cost effectiveness of a decision support tool to optimise community-based tailored management of sleep (TIMES) for people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and sleep disturbance: TIMES –TaIlored ManagEment of Sleep (funder: NIHR PGfAR)

Completed research projects: