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 Graduate Studies team: graduate.studies@phc.ox.ac.uk.
> 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
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Kamal R. Mahtani
GP & Professor of Evidence Based Healthcare
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Emily McFadden
Departmental Lecturer and Senior Statistical Epidemiologist
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Richard Stevens
Professor of Medical Statistics
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Nerys Astbury
Associate Professor - Diet & Obesity
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Charlotte Albury
Associate Professor
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Michael Kidd
Professor of Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems
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Catia Nicodemo
Associate Professor in Health Economics
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David Nunan
Senior Researcher and Educator in Evidence-Based Health Care
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Chrysanthi Papoutsi
Associate Professor
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Rafael Perera
Director Medical Statistics and Director of Graduate Studies
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Margaret Smith
Senior Statistician and Epidemiologist
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Clare Bankhead
Professor of Epidemiology and Research Design
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Sophie Park
Director Primary Care Undergraduate Studies
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Lisa Hinton
Associate Professor
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Dimitrios Koutoukidis
Associate Professor
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Sara Shaw
Professor of Health Policy & Practice
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James Sheppard
Professor of Applied Health Data Science
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Annette Plüddemann
Course Director: MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
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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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Anne Ferrey
Senior Researcher and Course Director, MSc Translational Health Sciences
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Abigail McNiven
Senior Qualitative Researcher
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Apostolos Tsiachristas
Associate Professor in Health Economics
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Sarah Tonkin-Crine
Associate Professor & Health Psychologist
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Katherine Tucker
Associate Professor
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Geoff Wong
Associate Professor of Primary Care
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Ben Goldacre
Director of Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
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Anne-Marie Boylan
Departmental Lecturer & Senior Researcher
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Jennifer Hirst
Senior Research Fellow
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Brian D Nicholson
Associate Professor
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Megan Kirk Chang
Senior Researcher, Behavioural Medicine & Mental Health
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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Carl Heneghan
Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
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Richard McManus
Honorary Professor of Primary Care
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Sue Ziebland
Professor of Medical Sociology and Co-Director of MS&HERG
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Chris Butler
Professor of Primary Care
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Stavros Petrou
Academic Research Lead in Health Economics
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Andrew Farmer
Professor of General Practice
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Richard Hobbs
Mercian Professor of Primary Care
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Susan Jebb
Professor of Diet and Population Health
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Catherine Pope
Professor of Medical Sociology
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Trish Greenhalgh
Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences
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Susan Jebb
Professor of Diet and Population Health
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John Powell
Professor of Digital Health
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, Professor of Applied Health Data Science
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, Mercian Professor of Primary Care