Supervision and teaching

I actively engage in supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

I am currently supervising three DPhil students within the Department (Georgia Richards, Julian Treadwell and Georgette Eaton)

I am a supervisor on the MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare program. I have overseen over 10 students completing their MSc thesis as well as advised students on the course at pre-dissertation level.

I take a prominent role in supporting undergraduate medical students within the Department. I have acted as educational supervisor for final year students and placement supervisor for students doing EBM special study modules in the Department.  

I am an Oxfordshire GP and have been involved in clinical academic primary care for over 10 years. I lead a group within the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.

Research

I lead a research group with interests that focuses broadly on:

• Health Services Research - such as increasing the evidence base to support the redesign of future primary care (including the role for social prescribing in the community)
• Assessment of novel technologies to improve patient-centred chronic disease management
• Improving the understanding and use of evidence, particularly systematic reviews, in knowledge translation

I work collaboratively with other researchers at a local, national and international level.

I am a member of the Catalogue of Bias team.

My work was recognised nationally by the 2016 RCGP/SAPC Yvonne Carter Award for outstanding new researcher.

In 2019, the Royal College of General Practitioners awarded me Fellowship status of the college.

In 2020, I was awarded the RCGP/SAPC John Fry award for promoting the discipline of general practice through research and publishing.

A list of my publications can be found here.

Teaching and training

I am the Director of the MSc Evidence Based Health Care (Systematic Reviews). I am also the lead tutor of the Complex Reviews MSc module, which seeks to provide training in the broader forms of evidence synthesis.  I co-lead the Knowledge into Action module which explores the ways in which research evidence is used to inform clinical care and policymaking. 

I am a tutor on the internationally renowned Teaching Evidence Based Medicine course.

I am also the lead tutor for EBM teaching in the Graduate Entry Medical School.

I was the Clinical Lead for the Oxford AHSN Evidence-Based Healthcare Fellowship program developing and supporting clinical leaders across the Thames Valley.

Other activities

• Chair NIHR HTA Prioritisation Committee A

• Clinical editor at The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group.

• Associate Editor BMJ Evidence Based Medicine

• Fellow of Kellogg College

I also occasionally write a blog for the CEBM and the BMJ on topics related to evidence based medicine that may be of interest to members of the public and fellow researchers.

Declarations

I have received funding to conduct research from the NHS National Institute for Health Research. I have also had funding from the RCGP to conduct independent research. I was also a voluntary (unpaid) member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Physical Activity and Lifestyle clinical priority steering committee. I have no other COI to declare.