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We are members of an Athena Swan Workload Allocation Group. In this role, we are preparing to develop a questionnaire exploring how people’s workload is allocated and managed by them; it will be sent to all staff in the new year. Findings will be used to direct departmental policy on workload allocation.
Burning Brightly, Not Out: Redefining Resilience
Staff stories
Many assume the pandemic is behind us, but there's a 'silent pandemic' happening of collective mental health challenges and burnout.
Department Values Award winners
Staff stories
2024 is the first year that NDPCHS held the Values Awards – a peer recognition scheme to recognise and reward staff and DPhil students who have exceptionally demonstrated the department values through their work, behaviour or projects and activities in the department.
Disability History Month 2023
Department Staff stories
This Disability History Month Lucy Cureton, the Athena Swan CTU Rep, shares the importance that active inclusivity and workplace adjustments make to her experience at work.
The importance of inclusivity: a tale of two conferences
Department Staff stories
This Disability History Month Charlotte Albury, Athena Swan EMCR Rep shares the importance and difference that active inclusivity makes to her experience at conferences and work.
How to be depressed: A guide for users and their colleagues
Staff stories
Join me, Gavin Hubbard, as I try to navigate the intricate maze of depression and anxiety in a humerous-ish way. In this candid account, I share the good, the bad, and the absurd moments of my mental health journey. It's an invitation to look beyond the stigma, understand you're not alone, or perhaps get a better understanding of what others might be going through.
Why Oxford's new Sustainable Health Care short course is vital to mainstreaming sustainability in health care delivery.
MSc in Translational Health Sciences Policy & health systems Staff stories Teaching
Amy Booth, DPhil student and lecturer on the MSc in Translational Health Sciences takes us on her journey towards a future of environmentally sustainable health care
What does philosophy have to do with evidence-based healthcare?
Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care Short Courses in Evidence-Based Health Care Staff stories Teaching
Leadership Learning Pathway: Digital Distractions Workshop
Staff stories
Our digital devices bring a lot of ‘good’ into our lives, but they also come with heaps of ‘bad.’ This workshop allows you to reflect on your relationship with your digital devices, rather than removing them from your life.
MSc in Translational Health Sciences: addressing complexities of knowledge translation in healthcare
Digital health & innovation MSc in Translational Health Sciences Staff stories
In this blog, Course Director Anne Ferrey, reflects on the MSc in Translational Health Sciences as its third year begins and discusses the complex issues this interdisciplinary programme seeks to address in relation to research innovation and implementation in healthcare.
DPhil student exchange programme: Emilie’s experience
DPhil Programmes Staff stories Students
Emilie reflects on her experience as a visiting DPhil student with the Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences (IRIHS) team, or in her words ‘the best three months’ of her DPhil study!
Meat Your Persona: a travelling exhibition
General Global perspective Policy & health systems Public engagement & involvement Staff stories
Lucy Yates, Public Engagement Coordinator for the multi-disciplinary Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) research programme talks us through the development, delivery, and what was learnt from creating a national touring installation to support the public to engage with the environmental and health impacts of meat eating.
Closing the STEM gap is a collective responsibility
Department Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care Staff stories
11 February 2022 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science; a day dedicated to helping ensure women and girls are encouraged and able to contribute and benefit from the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Here DataLab policy lead, Jess Morley, discusses the challenges involved in closing the gap in representation and reward for women working in these fields, and what the DataLab are trying to do to help lower some of the associated barriers.
Spotlight on Professor Simon de Lusignan
Staff stories Teaching Undergraduate
For this term’s "spotlight interview" with the Undergraduate Teaching Team, Simon de Lusignan (Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Informatics) talks computers, COVID and careers in primary care research.
International Nurses' Day 2021
Department General Staff stories
We asked some of our researchers nurses what they have learnt over what's been a particularly hard and out of the ordinary 12 months? What made them want to be nurses?
Racist abuse against Asians during the Covid-19 pandemic
Staff stories
Are there members of the University who are of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent suffering in silence from escalated racial abuse from members of the public during the pandemic, asks Qualitative Researcher Suzanne Ii?
Spotlight on Dr Richard Harrington
Staff stories Teaching
For this term’s “Spotlight Interview”, Dr Richard Harrington (Associate Director of Graduate Entry Medicine) discusses the drama of medicine and the very fine art of clinical teaching.
PARADIGM is done, but its mission is just beginning
General Global perspective Health Services Research Staff stories
Now the project has wrapped up, Teresa Finlay gives a brief overview of the outputs and the department member's roles in the Patients Active in Research and Dialogues for an Improved generation of Medicines (PARADIGM) project.
Women of Oxford Medical Sciences
Staff stories
100 years since women were admitted as full members of the University of Oxford, women now hold vital posts at all levels of this institution.
Women of Oxford Medical Sciences
Staff stories
100 years since women were admitted as full members of the University of Oxford, women now hold vital posts at all levels of this institution.
From famine to feast? Staff experiences of video consulting in the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 Health Services Research Policy & health systems Staff stories
Dr Gemma Hughes and Dr Lucy Moore write about current research on video consulting, led by Dr Sara Shaw, with funding from the Health Foundation.