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We lead multidisciplinary applied research and training to rethink the way health care is delivered in general practice and across the community.
Yarnfulness: Engaging the public in research on well-being through craft
Health Services Research Public engagement & involvement
SPCR Research Fellow Dr Emma Palmer-Cooper and Health Psychology Researcher Dr Anne Ferrey write about an innovative public engagement project that sets out to investigate whether yarn-based crafting can improve health and wellbeing. The project recently received a University of Oxford Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund Award.
Meet a student - Georgia Richards
DPhil Research methods & EBM
NIHR CLAHRC Oxford Communications Officer Gavin Hubbard interviews DPhil student Georgia Richards about her recent move from Australia and what prompted a change of heart towards a research career rather than studying medicine.
James' story - Working for a family-friendly department
Staff stories
Senior Research Fellow James Sheppard describes how the department has supported him to progress his career while achieving a positive work–life balance through shared parental leave.
Big Data: How codebreakers helped transform healthcare
Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care Public engagement & involvement Research methods & EBM
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine and Official Fellow of Kellogg College, discusses the role of code breaking in healthcare, linking its use to the famous Enigma Machine and explaining why the department is linking up with Kellogg College's upcoming 'Bletchley Park Week.'
Training for public contributors
Public engagement & involvement
PPI Coordinators Lynne Maddocks (NIHR CLAHRC Oxford and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences) and Polly Kerr (NIHR Oxford BRC) discuss their initiative to provide training for their public contributors in some of the essentials of medical research, and why this is important.
Are you trying to lose weight? Make it a success with science, scales and apps
Digital health & innovation Health behaviours
DPhil student Kerstin Frie takes us on a whistle stop tour of weight trackers and compares their features and user reviews.
From the 'quantified self' to a community of communally enacted selves
Digital health & innovation Patient experience
Postdoctoral Researcher Farzana Dudhwala explores the quantified self movement to understand the ways in which self-monitoring and self-quantifying technologies are implicated in the 'doing' of self.
EBM for under 18s: equipping the next generation to think critically about healthcare
Public engagement & involvement Research methods & EBM
Professor Carl Heneghan describes a school's outreach programme designed to bring EBM to young people.
What makes a systematic review “complex”?
Health Services Research Research methods & EBM
Kamal R. Mahtani, Tom Jefferson, and Carl Heneghan reflect on the lack of definitions, and propose a solution.
The need for international primary care research leadership
Department
Alison Ward, Director of Oxford University's Postgraduate Certificate in International Primary Care Research Leadership, explores the origins of the new Postgraduate Certificate, which is now open to applications.
A view from The Hill
Digital health & innovation Health Services Research
Sociologist Alex Rushforth, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, recently attended Oxford’s annual digital health pitching event, The Hill, for the first time. Here’s what he made of it.
Let's Talk About Weight
Health behaviours
Kate Farrington interviews SPCR doctoral student Charlotte Albury, who is a contributing author on Public Health England's step-by-step guide to conversations about weight management with children and families for health and care professionals.
We are still going for Gold
Staff stories
Following the EDU's Athena SWAN Awards announcement, where our department achieved a Silver renewal, Head of Department Professor Richard Hobbs reflects on our progress to date in creating a better workplace.
Publication bias: IN CAKE FORM. DataLab at the Curiosity Carnival
Public engagement & involvement Research methods & EBM
Dr Helen Curtis writes about her experience at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival.
A blood pressure reading a day shouldn’t keep the patient away
Cardiovascular & metabolic
Opening the door to a by-gone age of healthcare
General Public engagement & involvement
Dan Richards-Doran reflects on the Oxford Open Doors event, and what it means to be involved.
Female doctors show more empathy than male doctors
Health behaviours
Diet, identity and dopamine
Health behaviours
Chef Tom Kerridge visited Oxford during this year's Oxfordshire Science Festival to talk about his diet with Professor Susan Jebb and an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre. Rebecca Nourse gives us the lowdown.
Placebos work even when patients know what they are
Health behaviours
It’s false to believe that antibiotic resistance is only a problem in hospitals – GP surgeries are seeing it too
Clinical trials Health Services Research Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care
Dr Oliver van Hecke and Professor Chris Butler argue that antibiotic resistance applies to us all.