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IRIHS Research Group Annual Report 2025

Academic Team

In 2025, we had 26 IRIHS staff comprising: 

  • Five Professors (three clinical)
  • One Associate Professor
  • 17 academic staff and 5 support/ academic-related staff. 
  • One affiliated academic who works mainly within another research group
  • Four honorary IRIHS academics that bring expertise and ideas from other universities in the UK and abroad.


Research

Research income to IRIHS for new research studies awarded in 2025 and other grants secured to start in 2026 included approximately £1.4 million as principal and co-investigators, including a new UKRI grant with Manchester on interdisciplinary systematic review and research theme leadership within the new NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Thames Valley.  

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Awards, fellowships and prizes

  • 2 awards for paper of the year 
  • 3 student awards
  • 7 staff awards
  • 5 fellowships were awarded to staff members
  • 2 staff promotions

2025 Publication highlights

er the disruptive innovation: How remote and digital services were embedded, blended and abandoned in UK general practice - longitudinal study

Journal article

Greenhalgh T. et al, (2025), Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 13, 1 - 37

Challenges to quality in contemporary, hybrid general practice: a multi-site longitudinal case study

Journal article

Payne R. et al, (2025), British Journal of General Practice, 75, e1 - e11

How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)

Journal article

Dijkstra P. et al, (2025), BMJ Medicine, 4

Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: rapid systematic review of recent UK based research

Journal article

Greenhalgh T. and Mckee M., (2025), BMJ

Preventing type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study exploring the complexity of health-related practices in people with prediabetes

Journal article

Barry E. et al, (2025), British Journal of General Practice the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 75, e739 - e748

Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice

Journal article

Dakin FH. et al, (2025), British Journal of General Practice, 75, e211 - e221

Teaching

Our MSc in Translational Health Sciences is in its sixth year (46 students; 10 modules). Our DPhil in Translational Health Sciences is in its fourth year. We also contribute to several Oxford MSc programmes, with IRIHS members leading two modules on the MSc in Applied Digital Health.

Doctoral Students

Of our 35 DPhil students hosted in IRIHS during 2025, four passed their final DPhil viva. During 2025, we also supervised a further ten doctoral students based elsewhere, with three of these students having passed their final vivas.