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Jack Hall is a medical statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU).

Jack’s interests are in the design, conduct and analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and cluster randomised trials (CRTs). He is the trial statistician for trials in vascular surgery, gastroenterology, intensive care, paediatric medicine, and women’s health.

James is a personable and enthusiastic research fellow in Health Economics at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

James recently passed his PhD VIVA, entitled “An exploration of the use of decision analytic modelling in low back pain and sciatica”.  Accordingly, he is interested in the novel application of decision modelling in a variety of research areas, such air pollution and ...

Lauren is a Research Fellow (Methodologist) for the NIHR Specialist Centre for Public Health Research Support Service (RSS). As a methodologist, Lauren is part of the Pre-Award Research Design team, working alongside a group of expert methodologists who specialise in a diverse range of research approaches, including mixed methods, health economics, qualitative research, epidemiology, ...

Kelly Handley is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) in the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Kelly is interested in the design, conduct and analysis of large scale late phase randomised controlled clinical trials. She is the senior statistician on a wide variety of clinical trials in the areas of colorectal cancer, surgery, hepatology and cardiology, ...

Dr Hanley is a historian of medicine and modern Britain and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, with particular interest in the history of sexual and reproductive health. Her publications span a broad range of topics in medicine, welfare and sexuality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In recent years, her research and teaching have become increasingly interdisciplinary, drawing ...

Stephanie is a Research Fellow in women's health currently completing an NIHR Three Schools' Mental Health Programme Postdoctoral Launching Fellowship entitled 'Understanding the mental health care needs of pregnant women and new mothers with language barriers (MOTHER)'. Her research focuses on pregnancy and postpartum care, working in collaboration with women and staff. She has skills in ...

Sayeed Haque is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics. 

 

Shamil is a clinical epidemiologist with a special interest in respiratory and chronic diseases. Shamil's research focuses on long COVID, asthma, and COPD, although he does have a broad interest in public health, primary care, and health data science.

Lorraine Harper is Professor of Nephrology at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. She has published over 70 research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews and book chapters in the fields of inflammation and nephrology. She has received major grants from Kidney Research UK and the Medical Research Council. 

Lorraine is a strong supporter of academic training supporting the ...

Melita is based in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  She works as PA to Professor Richard Lilford and Senior Administrator for ‘Team Lilford’. 

Previously she worked as Senior Administrator for the NICE External Assessment Centre, directed by Dr Carole Cummins.  Prior to this she was the 5^th Year CBM coordinator and support for Dr Russell Cherry.

In ...

Ciara Harris is a chartered physiotherapist, who worked clinically full-time within the NHS, across a range of clinical specialities, for 4 years before moving to the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ as a research associate in February 2018. She also continues some clinical work alongside her research role.

Her research interests lie in the evolving delivery of acute healthcare outside the traditional ...

Matt is operations manager (administration) for BCTU, with an initial focus on monitoring/supporting BCTU finances, staffing and systems. Matt works closely with the CMH Finance Team and UoB Post-Award teams.

Mike Hawkins is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivors Studies.

He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific and clinical journals mostly relating to the long-term health and social consequences of being treated for cancer. Mike has received programme grant funding from Cancer Research UK, the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund and the ...

Oliver Hawley is a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Health Research at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. He is a lived experience researcher working on the Improving mental health peer support for children and young people: A mixed methods realist modelling study.

Oliver has a background in lived experience mental health work for both children and young people and adult services, ...

Jon is an Academic Clinical Lecturer (ACL) in Endocrinology within the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science. His principle interests are in complex endocrine obesity (the interaction between obesity and endocrinopathies) and type 2 diabetes mellitus. His current work includes obesity, thyroid disease as well as PCOS. Previous work has focused on pre-receptor steroid metabolism as well as ...

Dr Vanessa Heggie is a historian of modern science and medicine, with a particular interest in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century biomedical and life sciences. She also dabbles in the philosophy of science. 

Vanessa has published books on the history of exploration and physiology, and on sports medicine, and many articles and chapters on a range of topics from Victorian nursing ...

Karla is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡, UK. Karla’s research interests include how to design cluster and stepped-wedge trials so as to maximise their statistical efficiency and minimise their risk of bias; how to model time and treatment effect heterogeneity in longitudinal cluster trials; and the ethical issues ...

Clare Herd is a systematic reviewer working predominantly in the areas of Parkinson’s disease and headache. Her main responsibility is the undertaking of systematic literature searching to identify existing evidence as a basis for development of clinical trial proposals, grant applications and synthesis of the worldwide research evidence. 

Bethany Hillier is based in the Test Evaluation Research Group within the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Bethany is finishing her MSc Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester. Once complete, Bethany will be exposed to a variety of projects, methods and techniques under the guidance of the research group. The group’s interests include systematic reviews, meta-analyses ...

Dr Sarah Hillman is a GP and Clinical Associate Professor in Women’s health and Primary Care at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. Sarah is a mixed methodologist and her research interests are in community Women’s health having previously trained for some years in Obstetrics and Gynaecology before becoming a GP. She is a member of both the Royal College of General Practitioners and the ...

Jo has overall management of Institute administration processes and procedures, in addition, she manages the AHS/BCTU admin team.

Her varied role includes ensuring compliance to a full range of University requirements and delivery of key priorities in support of the Institute leadership team.

 

Victoria is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. With a special interest in preterm birth prevention and support the running of the specialised preterm birth service at . The clinic works to prevent pregnancy loss and reduce preterm birth.

Victoria's research interests include all aspects of maternal and fetal health. She is currently ...

James Hodgkinson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. James is both a medical sociologist with a particular interest in qualitative methodology, and an experienced systematic reviewer who has led and supported a range of reviews. He has, however, enjoyed using a full range of research methodologies in health services research, also including ...

Dr Sedighe Jebeli is a health economist who joined Health Economics Unit in June 2024 as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Before this role, Sedi was working with Newcastle University as a Research Associate.

During her professional career, Sedi has collaborated with number of different international organizations including World Health Organization, RAND Europe, United Nation Development Program ...

Sarah is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR), Institute of Applied Health Research. Her research interests focus on the development and validation of patient reported outcomes and their implementation within the evolving landscapes of health and social care. She has methodological expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods research, evidence ...

Chris is a windsurfer working as a Research Associate (Frontend Engineer) in the Health Informatics, THINKING Research Group in the Department of Applied Health Sciences.

Chris is a Consultant Respiratory Physician who specialises in interstitial (ILD) and occupational lung diseases (OLD) at the Birmingham Regional Interstitial Lung Disease Service and Birmingham Regional Occupational Lung Disease Service. His primary research interests are epidemiological studies exploring association and causation within ILD and OLD, with broad experience in large data studies ...