Meet our supervisors

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:

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