Broad area of research interest:

• Malnutrition: under-and overnutrition
• Food environment and policy
• Nutrition in emergencies management
• Evaluation of complex interventions
• School health and nutrition
• Maternal and child health
• Low middle income countries

Specific areas of interest:

• The socio-cultural, economic and political influences of malnutrition
• Community-based approaches to addressing childhood malnutrition
• Food security, food systems and policies: Understanding the physical, economic, political, and sociocultural surroundings that influence an individual’s food choice
• Understanding how the individual dietary practices, patterns and behaviours impact on non-communicable diseases
• Social interventions to improve maternal and child health in low income countries.
• Infant and young child feeding practices, including school feeding interventions

Methods:

• Realist (and other ‘theory led’) Evaluations of Programmes and Complex Interventions 
• Conversion Analysis & Ethnomethodology
• Mixed and Qualitative Research Methods

Topics of Interest:

• Health Service Organisation and Delivery
• Interdisciplinary Team-Working
• Organisational change management
• Implementation and knowledge transfer
• Use of technology in healthcare (for service development and evaluation)
• Health Care Interactions and Relationships
• Self-Management of Chronic and Long-Term Conditions
• Older People's Community Health Services

Research Interests

My primary research interest is in 'improving the quality of life of older people'. Key research areas arising from this are:-

• The impact of the physical environment on the quality of life of older people
• Evaluating the housing needs of older people
• Assessing the palliative care needs of older people with life-limiting illnesses
• Improving communication between patients with life-limiting conditions and their health care professionals
• Improving hospital environments for the end of life care of older people

General areas of interest:

• Systematic review and evidence synthesis of public health topics including qualitative and mixed method evidence synthesis.
• Qualitative evaluation of complex public health interventions.

Specific areas of interest:

• I am particularly interested in topics relating to social and commercial determinants of health, wellbeing, and housing concerns.

Research methods I am able to supervise: 

• Systematic review and evidence synthesis
• Qualitative
• Evaluation
• Mixed methods

Research Interests

Research Interests

My fundamental interest is in mathematical modelling approaches to inform decision making in health and healthcare.

I am currently principal investigator or co-investigator involved in over 19 research programmes and projects. Current government / national policy research.

Alcohol Policy

I have been involved in modelling alcohol behaviours and policy since 2008, when we began a programme of research for UK research bodies and policy makers. With Prof Meier, we have developed the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, a leading international centre for alcohol policy and epidemiological modelling research. Our work has influenced government policy on minimum unit pricing for alcohol; shaping and informing policy in UK, Scotland, Canada, Wales, EU Commission, and Republic of Ireland.

Public Health - Health Economics and Decision Modelling

I am co-applicant (Health Economics and Decision Modelling leader) on large research grants for the NIHR School of Public health research and the ESRC funded UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies.

I have a wider portfolio of public health work including work around screening and prevention of diabetes, linking smoking and alcohol behaviours and developing a joint smoking and alcohol policy analysis model, encouraging behaviours in physical activity and general lifestyle risk reductions. This entire programme relates to the central methodological interest which is in developing and using novel mathematical modelling approaches to support and inform decision making around health and healthcare for international impact.

Health Technology Assessment

I have been heavily involved in health technology assessment and health economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals and interventions for both government bodies in the UK eg NICE and internationally, and also with the pharmaceutical industry.

I direct a programme of research in Health Economic Modelling / Health Technology Assessment which involves a large team of modelling staff and their collaborators. We are recognized as a leading national and international centre for HTA modelling research. I have been involved in direct leadership of over 30 research projects within the last five years, working closely with ScHARR-TAG and DSU.

I am an academic GP with a particular interest in how doctors and patients deal with persistent physical symptoms. My work aims to help doctors explain symptoms constructively. We recognise that symptoms have both peripheral (body) and central (brain) processes and the challenge is to translate developments in science, particularly neuroscience, into explanations which safely make sense of symptoms for patients and lead to better management

I have other interests around diagnosis, testing and reassurance, and healthcare use in relation to both mental and physical ill-health. I use a variety of methods including analysis of large data, development and evaluation of clinical interventions, and technological innovation.

Within the university I lead the Academic Unit of Primary Care, and represent the Academic Unit of Medical Education on faculty research committees. I am a member of the Centre for Urgent Care Research within ScHARR.

Research Interests

• Systematic review and evidence synthesis of medical, health and social science topics, including qualitative and mixed method evidence synthesis
• The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process
• Information retrieval and programme evaluation (implementation fidelity) research

Research Interests

* Modelling in public health

* Modelling in cancer and cancer screening

* Methodological modelling interests including:

• the modelling process and errors in HTA models
• cognitive mapping for systematic reviews in complex settings
• structural uncertainty in models
• Bayesian analysis of joint disease natural history and test characteristics in screening
• value of information methods
• probabilistic sensitivity analysis methods
• meta modelling
• information gathering processes for models

Research Interests

My research interests include:

• Systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness for healthcare interventions
• Development of methods for systematic reviewing and evidence synthesis, including rapid review methods
• Systematic reviews of complex interventions 
• Patient safety and quality of care
• Complementary and alternative medicine research

Research Interests:

• Access to and provision of equitable services for individuals from marginalised groups
• Learning disabilities
• Health behaviour particularly weight management
• Qualitative methods
• Narrative research
• Cross lanaguage qualitative research
• Realist synthesis
• Complex intervention development and evaluation
• Social Care Research

Specific area of research interests:

• Statistical methods
• Clinical trials methodology to improve trial efficiency across disease areas
• Adaptive designs
• Bayesian methods with application in clinical trials
• Early phase clinical trials
• Diagnostic accuracy studies
• Hierarchical or multilevel modelling
• Global health research
• Prediction modelling

Research Interests

• Infectious disease modelling.
• Epidemiology
• Burden estimation
• TB, particularly in settings with high-HIV prevalence, and population-level TB interventions.
• TB in children.
• Individual-based modelling methodologies.
• Methods for model calibration and uncertainty analysis
• Cost-effectiveness modelling
• Global health

Research Interests

My research interests are investigating the long-term consequences of cancer treatment.

Research Interests

I specialise in research on the third sector such as charities and community groups. I also research wellbeing interventions including social prescribing. I am interested in services which link different sectors together such as housing associations working in hospital inpatient units. I also have experience in implementation and knowledge mobilisation for example, implementing Patient Reported Outcome Measures. 

Methods

I am a mixed methods researcher with experience of booth quantitative and qualitative methods. I also undertake participatory and action research. I am passionate about stakeholder involvement especially patients/ service-users. 

My current interests are in the use of routinely collected care data for the purpose of costing analysis, economic analysis and decision modelling. I also have an interest in the capability-approach and extra-wefarism and its conceptual and practical application to economic evaluations and decision making, and the conceptual and practical use of outcome measures in general.

I can supervise students interested in the use of large databases of rountinely collected care data for health economic analysis and decision modelling problems. These databases include, but are not limited to:

• Secondary Uses Service (SUS)
• Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
• Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
• ResearchOne

Research Interests

My research interests are clinical trials in emergency medicine, economic analysis, the organisation of emergency care and methods for evaluating the quality of emergency care.

Research Interests

My main research interests lie in applied micro-econometrics and health. I am interested in applying advanced quantitative techniques to large datasets to explore obesity.  I am particularly interested in obesity across different stages of life and how and why obesity prevalence changes over time, by age and across different generations.  My previous research has included a range of quantitative methods including factor analysis, structural equation modelling, growth models and mixture models as well as methods for dealing with missing data.  I am also interested in methods development in related research areas.

Current and recent research includes the estimation of:

• BMI trajectories in older adults (including novel methods to account for missing data)
• obesity and overweight trends in England
• trends in weight-to-height ratio and associated risk in England
• obesity trends in Ghanaian women
• the impact of weight change on EQ-5D-3L

Research Interests

• Assistive Technology
• Telecare & telehealth
• Digital Healthcare

My main research interests lie in microeconometrics, the analysis of micro level data on the economic behaviour of individuals. I am also interested in more general model and methods development to analyse individual level data showing nonstandard characteristics. Recent examples include analysis of health state utility data, health and life satisfaction, the economics of illicit behaviour, the dynamics of children developmental outcomes and applications to individuals’ decisions to participate in welfare programmes.

Research interests

• Evaluation
• Methodology
• Research methods
• Evidence synthesis
• Clinical trials
• Qualitative research
• Anthropology
• Ethnography
• Personalised care
• Quality improvement
• Philosophy of Science
• Theory
• Theories, models and frameworks
• Applied health research
• Health sciences
• Health Services Research
• Complexity
• Mechanisms and mechanistic thinking
• Philosophical Realism
• Philosophical Pragmatism

Research Interests

My research focuses on alcohol and public health.  I have particular interests in trends and patterns in alcohol consumption, alcohol policy analysis, and the relationship between alcohol use and other health-related behaviours.  Recent projects focus on alcohol pricing, trends in drinking occasions, cultures and practices, youth drinking trends, the development and evaluation of drinking guidelines, and the equity implications of alcohol policy. 

I would be interested in supervising doctoral research related to any of the topics above using quantitative or mixed methods.  

Research Interests

As well as having an interest and clinical background in substance misuse and mental health (which was the area or work for my PhD), I have experience in designing and delivering complex interventions, as well as the feasibility, design and recruitment to studies within primary care and pharmacy settings. 

Research Interests

• Statistical methods for clinical trials and observational studies
• Statistical methods for healthcare performance monitoring
• Prediction modelling
• Analysis of routinely collected data
• Diagnostic accuracy studies

Research Interests

• Clinical trials
• Clinical trial design
• Early phase trials
• Non-inferiority
• Asthma epidemiology

My research interests include outcome measurement,  psychometrics, economic evaluation and current health policy analysis including PROMs. I am also interested in economic evaluation of mental health policies and community services.

Research interests

My research interests focus on economic evaluation methodology, with a particular emphasis on the incorporation of survival analysis within economic models. My doctoral and post-doctoral research has focused primarily on methods for adjusting survival estimates in the presence of treatment switching - that is, when patients in the control group of a clinical trial switch onto the experimental treatment, thus confounding estimates of the treatment effect (where the relevant question for an economic analysis is what would have happened if control group patients did not receive this experimental treatment). Adjustment methods are primarily from the causal inference literature, and I have a related interest in the use of causal inference methods to estimate comparative effectiveness from registry datasets, particularly in the area of cancer.

My main research interests are in the field of health protection-related topics such as disaster response and emergency planning, and the control of communicable diseases/infectious diseases. I am also interested in topics in international health, primary care as well as health service management.  Examples of my previous research  activities include

• mixed methods study of the state of integrated disease surveillance globally
• evidence reviews on mass testing for COVID, public health benefits of urban greenspace, emergency planning in health in the UK
• qualitative studies on beneficiary perspectives of humanitarian aid in Sri Lanka after the Asian Tsunami disaster, and of the drivers of smoking in young people in Pakistan
• developing evidence-based disaster management practice in the UK and Nepal,
• mixed methods study investigating barriers to testing and treatment of Hepatitis B in the migrant Chinese ethnic population in the UK,
• Methods: policy, qualitative, epidemiology and evidence reviews.

My current ongoing research projects (as of February 2017) are:  

• developing a series of health research projects on slum health in Nepal,
• evidence review of public health needs following earthquakes.

Research Interests

• Qualitative methodologies

• Complementary and alternative therapies

• Healthcare workforce and service delivery

• Mental health

Current projects

• DEUCE (Drivers of Demand for Emergency and Urgent CarE services)

Research interests

My main research interest concerns the application of geographical information systems and science (GIS) to public health research and practice. Research fields within this area include (i) geographical and environmental epidemiology; (ii) geographical variations in health and health care; and (iii) methodology for spatial studies.

Research interests

My research interests include:
• Systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness for healthcare interventions
• Development of methods for systematic reviewing and evidence synthesis including meta-analysis, meta-regression, individual patient data analysis and mixed-treatment comparisons/network meta-analysis
• Critical appraisal and risk of bias assessment methods for systematic reviews
• Exercise interventions for health outcomes

Research Interests

My research focuses on improving the quality of life of people with long term conditions, particularly through exploration of the effectiveness of rehabilitative interventions and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to support the self-management of the rehabilitation process. My research work, funded predominantly through the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, and latterly the NIHR CLAHRC Y&H, has capitalised on new innovations in sensor and digital technologies and involves interdisciplinary work, integrating clinical rehabilitation researchers with engineering, design, mecatronics, informatics and digital media specialists.

Research Interests

My research interests are focussed upon improving the quality of life of older people through provision of appropriate interventions, good design and by facilitating participation. I am particularly interested in improving the lived experiences of people at all stages of the dementia trajectory.

Research Interests

My research interests are in Health Services and Public Health research.  My main field of research is the evaluation of emergency and urgent first contact care and services, particularly A and E services, including trauma services and chest pain care; ambulance services including helicopter ambulances; and urgent first contact care services including telephone and out-of-hours services.  I also carry out methodological research related to the design of health service evaluations, and I have a particular interest in the use of routine (e-health) data for HSR.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the following areas:

• Harms/adverse events in behavioural change trials
• Randomised controlled clinical trials
• Systematic reviews

Tessa is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics within the Division of Population Health. She has a background in economics and is a mixed-methods researcher, with significant expertise in quantitative and qualitative research.

Research Interests

• Measuring and valuing health, wellbeing and quality of life
• The development, evaluation, and modification of patient reported
• outcome measures and preference-accompanied measures
• Measuring and valuing child health and carer health and wellbeing
• Valuation of very poor health states which may be considered worse
• than being dead
• Normative and ethical issues in the valuation of health states
• The use of health values or utilities within economic evaluation
• Use of wellbeing measures in health and social care

Tessa is available to supervise students in these and related areas.

hilip (Phil) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR). He has a background in Psychology, Economics, and Health Outcomes research and is a mixed-methods researcher, with combined expertise in quantitative, qualitative, and experimental research methods.

Phil’s research interests include:

• Measuring and valuing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across different health conditions.
• Measuring and valuing HRQoL in children and in rare diseases.
• Developing, evaluating, and modifying patient reported outcome measures (PROMs).
• Methodological (including normative and ethical) issues in the valuation of health states.

He is available to supervise students in these and related areas.

I am broadly interested in all areas of economics of health, but especially the economics of "sin" behaviours such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs and gambling. I am also interested in the economics of food. I am currently involved in several different topics within the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group including work on alcohol dependence, local alcohol consumption estimates, joint modelling of tobacco and alcohol demand, and modelling of price policies.

I am also more generally interested in wellbeing work, especially work combining this with "sin" behaviours. Previous work includes looking at the monetary cost of problem gambling on wellbeing. I have also supervised an MSc dissertation looking at smoking and wellbeing.

My primary research interest is strengthening the collection, collation, and use of HIV data to inform prevention and care programming in sub-Saharan Africa.

Working towards this broad objective, my key research areas are

• developing epidemiological methods to strengthen the collection and use of data collected through surveillance and service delivery platforms
• characterising the locations, populations and individuals at greatest risk of infectious disease
• designing and implementing frameworks to collect strategic health data
• constructing health indicators / minimum indicator-sets
• implementing continuous data quality improvement
• formative research into the health and wellbeing needs and priorities of communities

Research Interests

• Measuring and valuing health and quality of life
• Modelling preference data
• Methodology of developing preference-based measures of health from existing measures
• Mapping between measures to generate utility values
• Measuring and valuing child health

Broad area of research interest: 

• Health inequalities
• Gender
• Race/ethnicity
• Poverty
• Reproductive health
• Work and health
• South Asia

Research methods I am able to supervise:

• Qualitative
• Quantitative or mixed methods
• Participatory and inclusive research approaches

Specific areas of interest:

• UK South Asian populations
• Intersecting inequalities
• Complex interventions
• Knowledge translation

Research interests

• Developing and applying the contingent valuation methodology, in particular the technique of willingness to pay. Applications include: estimating the social value of a quality adjusted life year (QALY); using willingness to pay values to aid priority setting in publicly-financed health care systems; investigating how willingness to pay can and should be used alongside randomised trials; the use of willingness to pay to evaluate the benefits of public health interventions such as the fluoridation of drinking water supplies and the supplementation of flour with folic acid; evaluating minimally invasive surgery; assessing patient preferences for diagnostic radiology; and assessing preferences for an expanded newborn screening programme.
• The identification, measurement and valuation of (dis)benefits that are not captured in the QALY approach. Applications include: assessing the value of patient health cards; eliciting patient preferences for out-of-hours primary care services; establishing and quantifying the preferences of mental health service users for day hospital care; eliciting patient preferences for the organisation of vascular services; and assessing preferences for access to a general practitioner.
• The application of economic evaluation techniques to assess the efficiency of health care programmes and interventions. Applications include: screening in primary care; antenatal screening; management of lower respiratory tract infection in general practice; computerised cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety and depression; methods for assessing patients with intermittent claudication; drug treatments for epilepsy; stroke incidence and prevention in Tanzania; venous leg ulcers; and treating upper limb spasticity due to stroke with botulinum toxin.

My research interests involve the use of decision-analytic modelling to help with policy decisions. In particular, this includes the use of health economic modelling for assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Public Health interventions. Key methodological interests include conceptual modelling and individual-level simulation.

Research interests

• My research interests are discrete event simulation, individual patient modelling and mathematical modelling in the field of health technology assessment and cost-effectiveness

Research Interests

My research interests are:-

• public health and health services research, particularly relating to black, minority ethnic and other marginalised groups
• migrant health;
• leisure and everyday, relational life;
• physical activity and health, particularly in relation to children, young people and families
• policy making and outcomes in the fields of employment, health and sport;
• sedentary lifestyles and 'sit less' interventions.

My research interests are systematic review methodology, including Complex Intervention development. I am also interested in dementia research.

My research interests include prognostication and clinical decision-making, particularly with respect to end of life care.  In addition to developing my own ambitions, I have worked with St Luke’s on their existing research portfolio, including EnComPaSS and project ECHO. 

I have collaborated with researchers nationally to support St Luke’s involvement with the £1.3m Yorkshire Cancer Research funded RESOLVE study, and the NIHR portfolio StOIC study, exploring management of opioid-induced constipation in cancer patients.

In collaboration with colleagues at ScHARR, I am undertaking research into Avoiding Emergency Admissions in Palliative Patients, funded by the Sheffield Health Care Challenges Collaboration.

Research Interests

My research interests are:

• Healthcare modelling
• Health economics
• Multi-criteria decision analysis
• Optimisation

Research Interests

• Economic evaluation including alongside clinical trials and decision modelling
• Analysis of patient level data, particularly around health utilities
• Social values and decision making, including equity and procedural preferences

Scott Weich is Professor of Mental Health in ScHARR.  He is also a practicing NHS Consultant Psychiatrist.

His research interests include public mental health and the study of the distribution, causes and consequences of common mental disorders, as well as mental wellbeing.  He has experience of large-scale observational and secondary research looking at socio-economic, ethnic, gender and spatial variation in mental disorders and their outcomes.

Recent research includes the study of compulsion in mental health services, inclding compulsory admission and the use of Community Treatment Orders.  He is also undertaking research into the way in which patient experience data are collected and used to influence service improvement in NHS mental health services.

Prof Weich has an interest in the evaluation of service change in real-world settings.  He is also interested in the evaluating improvements in the efficiency with which existing services are delivered, and in evaluating the use of technology in mental health care, and in the application of experience-based co-design in mental health settings.

Research Interests:

• Young people's health and substance use practices
• Health inequalities for children and young people
• Accessing marginalised groups 

Methods:

• All qualitative methods 

Research Interests

I have extensive experience in modelling and have contributed to the methodology of economic evaluation in various areas. In 1993 I was one of the earliest researchers to apply discrete event models and was the first to apply a non-parametric method to estimate costs in the presence of censoring[1]. In 1994 I was the first to apply Fieller´s approach to calculate confidence intervals around cost-effectiveness ratios, and I introduced the acceptability curve, which is now a well known concept in cost effectiveness analysis[2]. In 1996 I was one of the first to apply probabilistic sensitivity analysis[3]. In 2000 I was one of the initial people to explore Bayesian techniques in economic evaluation[4]. I have had work published on discounting[5] and estimating utility functions[6].

I am one of the founding members of the EuroQol group and I currently enjoy chairing the valuation task force within the EQ-5D group. My experience covers several therapeutic areas, including renal disease, cancer, osteoporosis, sepsis, schizophrenia, blood safety and most notably cardiovascular disease. My main interest concerns the use of elegant techniques, mostly to solve practical problems, but sometimes also because of the elegance itself.