Our staff
Kadiri Abioye
Research Project Coordinator
Research interests:
- Knowledge translation and stakeholder engagement
- Data visualisation for decision support
- Research management and impact
Dr Jacob Brain
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Overview of reviews / umbrella reviews
- Evidence synthesis of dementia and stroke
- Methodological appraisal of high-level evidence
- Risk modelling and external validation
Professor Rachel Churchill
Professor in Evidence Synthesis
Research interests:
- Mental health services research and evidence synthesis
- Child and youth mental health evidence synthesis
- Knowledge exchange / mobilisation and stakeholder engagement
- Implementation science and research impact
Dr Mark Corbett
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Health technology assessment
- Risk of bias assessments
- Applicability/external validity assessments
Dr Diarmuid Coughlan
Research Fellow in Health Economics
Research interests:
- Evidence generation plans for HTA
- Causal inference / Trial emulation methodology
Jasmine Deng
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Formal incorporation of health inequalities into economic evaluations and health policy decision-making, particularly through methodological approaches such as Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
- Better capturing the distribution of health outcomes across socioeconomic and demographic groups.
- The application of equity-informed health economic methods to support fair and evidence-based resource allocation across healthcare systems.
Professor Sofia Dias
Professor in Health Technology Assessment
Research interests:
- Bayesian Statistics
- Evidence synthesis
- Health technology assessment
- Network meta-analysis / Indirect treatment comparisons
Dr Kerry Dwan
Senior Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Evidence synthesis
- Health technology assessment
- Network meta-analysis
- Selective reporting
Connor Evans
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Evidence synthesis in childhood cancer
- Promoting transparency in evidence synthesis
- Database management
- Using graphic design/ web resources for knowledge translation
Dr Helen Fulbright
Research Fellow in Information Science / Information Specialist
Research interests:
- Information retrieval
- Information science
- Automation tools
Claire Khouja
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Evidence synthesis for public health
- Evidence mapping
- AI tools for systematic reviews
- Training for systematic reviews (Introduction to Systematic Reviews course)
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Dr Yiwen (Eva) Liu
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Evidence synthesis in mental health
- Health and healthcare inequalities
- Knowledge mobilisation and public involvement
- Evidence mapping
- Methods evaluation
Dr Theo Lorenc
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Public health
- Qualitative and mixed-methods reviews
- Complex interventions
- Evidence and policy
Jess Morgan
Senior Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Children and young people with cancer
- Supportive care research
- Living systematic reviews
- Reviews of early phase studies
- Knowledge mobilisation and public involvement
Dr Sarah Nevitt
Senior Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Statistical analysis
- Evidence synthesis
- Health technology assessment
- Network meta-analysis
- Individual patient meta-analysis
Dr Susan O'Meara
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Evidence synthesis in tissue viability and management of non-healing wounds
- Evidence synthesis in management of diabetes
- Health technology assessment
- Individual participant data meta-analysis
Dr Mark Perry
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Systematic Reviews
- Pairwise and Network Meta Analysis
- Bayesian Methods
Professor Bob Phillips
Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis; Director, Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre; Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Oncology
Mark Rodgers
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Evidence-based policy research
- Identifying scientific misconduct
- Machine learning and generative AI in evidence synthesis
- Mixed methods evidence synthesis
Lucy Shepherd
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Paediatric oncology
- Living systematic reviews
- Knowledge mobilisation and patient/public involvement
- Mixed methods research
- Qualitative research
Emily South
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Public health
- Health inequalities
- Scoping reviews and evidence mapping
- Use of evidence in policy and practice
Dr Melissa Taylor
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Qualitative evidence synthesis
- Research methods
- Guideline development
Dr Chinyereugo Umemneku-Chikere
Research Fellow
Dr Noortje Uphoff
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Appraisal of health technologies
- Inequalities in mental health treatment
- Evidence synthesis of psychological therapies
- Overviews of systematic reviews
Ros Wade
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Systematic reviews
- Scoping reviews
- Health technology assessment
Dr Ruth Walker
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Child health
- Patient and public involvement in research
- Bayesian analysis / information sharing method / adaptive clinical trial design
Chris Watts
Online Learning Fellow
Research interests:
- Mechanisms for digital learning and engagement
- Knowledge mobilisation tools and impact for evidence synthesis