Research Committee
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Terms of Reference: (last updated September 2022)
- Develop, monitor and maintain a Departmental research strategy which aims to promote excellence in primary care research.
- Develop and implement plans to maximise cross-group working, through scientific collaborations and efficient use of shared resources.
- Develop and oversee an ongoing strategy to communicate our research strategy and the impacts of our research both internally and to external stakeholders.
- Develop, monitor and maintain a strategy for income generation to support the departmental infrastructure and facilities for research.
- Work with the education and training committee to develop, monitor and maintain a staffing strategy and staff development programme aligned to Departmental interests.
Meeting frequency:
Twice a term (0th and 8th Week)
Membership: (last updated September 2024)
Chair: Gail Hayward
- Head of Department (from 1 October 2024) Aziz Sheikh
- Health behaviours: Susan Jebb (Deputy: Pete Scarborough)
- Infections and acute care: Gail Hayward (Deputy: Sarah Tonkin-Crine)
- Cardiovascular and metabolic: Richard Hobbs
- Patient experience: Lisa Hinton (Deputies: Catherine Pope and James Sheppard)
- EBM and Research Methods: Rafael Perera (Deputy: Kamal Mahtani)
- Trials: Chris Butler (Deputy: Ly-Mee Yu)
- Big Data (ie CPRD): Ben Goldacre (Deputy: Simon de Lusignan)
- Cancer: Brian Nicholson (Deputy: Clare Bankhead)
- Digital Health: Trish Greenhalgh (Deputy: Sara Shaw)
- Health Policy: Stavros Petrou (Deputy: Apo Tsiachristas)
- Impact: Julia Hippisley-Cox (Deputy: Jenny Hirst)
- Training: Gail Hayward (Kath Tucker)
- Information Governance Committee Chair: Ly-Mee Yu
- Communications: Jo Gearing (Deputy: Gavin Hubbard)
- EMCRs: Lauren Bandy (Deputy: Yaling Yang)
- DPhils: Jessica Schiff and Fahad Al-Huda
- Head of Administration & Finance: Nicola Small
- Patient and public involvement – Polly Kerr
- Ex-Officio: DGS – Rafael Perera
- Ex-Officio: Athena Swan Lead James Sheppard
- Secretary: Claire Meadows