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• Phd in Health Economics (2010), University of East Anglia
• MA in Economics (2004), University of East Anglia
• BA (Hons) in Economics & Politics (2003), University of East Anglia

Philip was awarded his PhD in Health Economics in 2010 by the University of East Anglia. The PhD explored the use of the Capability Approach to assess and value quality of life, using chronic pain as a case study.

In 2010, Philip took up a post as a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, initially working on an NIHR funded and MRC managed project to value patients’ experiences of receiving health care services.

In 2012 Philip moved to the Health Economics Unit at the University 麻豆精选 to work on a European Research Council funded project relating to end of life care (EconEndLife).  With the EconEndLife project concluding in 2015, Philip began an MRC funded project to establish a monetary threshold for ICECAP in the context of public health and social care in the spring of 2016. The project was funded as a New Investigator Grant.

More recently, Philip has been working on several research projects relating to social care.

Philip has experience of conducting qualitative research, systematic reviews and of using online survey methods.  

Philip is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Current

• Lecturing on the following courses/programmes: MSc Health Economics and Health Policy; Masters in Public Health (MPH); Undergraduate Economics
• Dissertation Supervision: MSc Health Economics & Health Policy
• Module Coordinator: Undergraduate Health Economics (delivered in partnership with Birmingham Business School); Introduction to Health Economics (module on the MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy)

Previous

• Module Co-Coordinator: Policy and Economics of Healthcare Delivery (module on the MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy).
• Lecturer: Risk Management Module from the MSc in Occupational Health
• Undergraduate & postgraduate microeconomics (lectures & tutorials)

Current

• Lead supervisor: Gareth Hooper (Start date: September 2022).  Gareth’s PhD is exploring the economic evidence base for interventions to manage frailty.

Previous

• Co-Supervisor for Alastair Canaway's PhD, "Capturing Family Benefits of End of Life Care for use in Economic Evaluation".  Graduated Winter 2015.
• Co-supervisor for Chidubem Ogwulu’s PhD, “Developing and piloting approaches for the valuation of outcomes associated with sexually transmitted infections in order to construct quality adjusted life years (QALYs) for use in economic evaluation”.  Graduated Winter 2018.
• Co-supervisor for Henry Nwankwo’s PhD, “The impact of different trajectories of dying and associated care settings on the opportunity for a good death”.  Graduated Summer 2020. 

Philip is interested in supervising doctoral research related to the following topics:

• Applications of the Capability approach within health economics
• The application of health economic methods to social care
• Assessing & valuing outcomes for inclusion in economic analysis
• Costs and outcomes associated with the provision of informal care

PhD title

Developing a Capability Approach to Measure and Value Quality of Life: An Application to Chronic Pain.

Philip is currently working on several grants relating to adult social care and is currently the Principal Investigator for an NIHR School for Social Care Research funded project on self-funding and capital depletion, which started in March 2022.

In 2016, Philip was awarded an MRC New Investigator Grant. The project, “Investigating deliberative methods for setting a monetary capability threshold in the context of social care and public health”, was conducted over three years.

Until September 2015, Philip was working on an ERC funded project, relating to care at the end of life.

Philip was also previously a co-applicant on the NIHR HTA funded project "A study to assess feasibility of a randomised multi-centre clinical trial in children and adults, to examine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of pressure garments to improve scarring."

Research Groups and Centres:

• Health Economists’ Study Group
• International Health Economics Association
• European Health Economics Association

• Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research within the Department of Applied Health Sciences.
• Member of the London Region Committee, NIHR Research for Patient Benefit.
• Frontline advisor for the West Midlands Research Design Service.