Professor Gillian Parker

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Gillian has a first degree in Psychology and a PhD in Social Policy. She has been a researcher since she graduated, working in the third sector and at the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, York, Leicester and Nottingham. She was appointed to a Chair at Leicester in 1993 and established a new research unit there. From 2001-2005, Gillian was Programme Director of the NIHR R&D Programme on Service Delivery and Organisation and from 2002-2004, Head of the Policy Research Programme, Department of Health. She returned to York in 2005 and was director of SPRU until 2014.

NIHR Evidence Synthesis Centre

• BA, University of Liverpool
• PhD, University of Birmingham

External roles

• Member - Department of Health Evaluation Reference Group for Integrated Care and Support  
• Member  Steering Committee, NIHR funded project 'Acute Hospital Care for Frail Older People', University of Newcastle 
• Member - tide - together in dementia everyday (carers of people with dementia)  
• Member - Grant Review Panel, Multiple Sclerosis Society 
• Chair - Study Steering Committee, NIHR research project on Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, University of Oxford 
• Member - Steering Committee, NIHR research project LoTS-2-Care (Improving Longer Term Stroke Care), University of Leeds
• Editorial Board Member - Health and Social Care in the Community  

PhD supervision

The role of social workers in continuity of care for people with severe and enduring mental health problems