The University of Sheffield
School of Health and Related Research

Research Committee

The Research Committee was established in 1995 and the current Chair is Steve Goodacre.

The Research Committee makes recommendations for action through the Executive Group and the main duties of the committee include identifying future areas of research, proposing and developing policies to implement the Research Strategy Document, assisting the School´s Ethics Committee and a range of other activities including monitoring the availability of suitable fellowships and studentships.

The current Research Committee membership, including deputy leads, where appropriate, is as follows:

Steve Goodacre (Chair)


John Brazier (Director of Research, ScHARR)

Ravi Maheswaran (Deputy Director of Research, ScHARR)

Andrew Booth (Director of Information, ScHARR)

Mari Bullock (Research Administrator, ScHARR)

Lindsay Blank (Postgraduate Research Committee, ScHARR)

Jonathan Boote (PPI Representative, ScHARR)

Jim Chilcott   Suzy Paisley (HEDS)

Judith Cohen    Jenny Freeman (HSR)

Michelle Holdsworth    Ravi Maheswaran (Public Health)

Jennifer Burr    Richard Cooper (Ethics Committee)

Judith Cohen (RDS) (CTRU)    Wendy Baird (RDS)


Marc Chattle (Secretary)



ScHARR staff members can access the minutes from ScHARR Research Committee meetings via the Staff Only Research Committee web-page, which can be found by following the link below:

Staff Only web-page

This web-page is only available to ScHARR staff members, but, if you are a ScHARR staff member, you will be asked for your user-name and password to access this page.