Meet our supervisors
Our supervisors welcome enquiries from prospective students either about our suggested projects of if you have your own research idea. For general support, please contact our Postgraduate Training Officer.
> Submit a general enquiry here
We encourage all prospective students to enquire with one of our supervisors before submitting an application. This is to ensure that your research ideas fit with our criteria and core themes outlined, and can increase your chances of a successful application.
Key contact for general enquiries
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Thomas Fanshawe
Senior Medical Statistician
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Anthony Harnden
Professor of Primary Care; Director of Graduate Studies
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Julia Hippisley-Cox
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and General Practice
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Kamal R. Mahtani
Professor of Evidence Based Healthcare
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Emily McFadden
Departmental Lecturer and Senior Statistical Epidemiologist
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Richard Stevens
Associate Professor, Medical Statistics
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Nerys Astbury
Senior Researcher - Diet & Obesity
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Charlotte Albury
Mildred Blaxter Fellow in Health Behaviours
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Catia Nicodemo
Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics
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David Nunan
Departmental Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow
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Jason Oke
Senior Statistician
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Chrysanthi Papoutsi
Associate Professor
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Rafael Perera
Director Medical Statistics
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Margaret Smith
Senior Statistician and Epidemiologist
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Suman Prinjha
Senior Qualitative Researcher
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Clare Bankhead
Associate Professor
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John Powell
Professor of Digital Health Care
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Alexander Rushforth
Post-doctoral researcher
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Sara Shaw
Professor of Health Policy & Practice
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James Sheppard
Associate Professor
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Annette Plüddemann
Course Director: MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
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Carmen Piernas
University Research Lecturer
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Simon de Lusignan
Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Informatics
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Marta Wanat
Senior Qualitative Researcher in Behavioural Science
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Sarah Tonkin-Crine
Associate Professor & Health Psychologist
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Katherine Tucker
Senior Researcher
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Kay Wang
NIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
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Geoff Wong
Associate Professor of Primary Care
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Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
Associate Professor
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Ben Goldacre
Director of Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
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Anne-Marie Boylan
Departmental Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow
NIHR Senior Investigators
The National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigators are among the most prominent and prestigious researchers funded by the NIHR and the most outstanding leaders of patient and people-based research within the NIHR community. We have several in this department who supervise students:
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Paul Aveyard
Professor of Behavioural Medicine
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Carl Heneghan
Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
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Stavros Petrou
Academic Research Lead in Health Economics
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Chris Butler
Professor of Primary Care
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Richard Hobbs
Head of Department
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Catherine Pope
Professor of Medical Sociology
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Andrew Farmer
Professor of General Practice
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Susan Jebb
Professor of Diet and Population Health
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John Powell
Professor of Digital Health Care
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Trish Greenhalgh
Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences
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Richard McManus
Professor of Primary Care
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Sue Ziebland
Professor of Medical Sociology and Co-Director of MS&HERG
What do our supervisors have to say about our students?
DPhil students are the future generation of research leaders. The questions they're asking will help generate tomorrow's evidence base. They challenge traditional perspectives, questions their supervisors' assumptions and adapt tired methodologies creatively. Best of all, they get together and generated new interdisciplinary synergies. In doing so, they push us senior academics to acknowledge that the cutting-edge research we did a few years ago is now yesterday's evidence. We all gain from their intellectual excitement and their future orientation. - Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences
For me, having DPhil students is very rewarding. They bring new ideas and enthusiasm to the department and make a huge contribution to the outputs of our research group. I believe supervising DPhil students makes you a better academic and has benefited my own career progression. - James Sheppard, University Research Lecturer
Graduate students are a key part of our academic strategy of investing in the research capacity in academic primary care. Some of you will make use of your time with us to launch successful independent academic careers and we hope that the very best of you will want to compete in that career at Oxford. And even if a glittering academic career is not your main aim in seeking to complete a DPhil with us, the opportunities for personal thinking and development through a graduate studentship are very worthwhile. - Richard Hobbs, Head of Department