Becky Garnett

DPhil Project

• I am a DPhil candidate in the Department of Primary Health Care Sciences under the supervision of  James Sheppard, Richard McManus, Becky Barnes, John Buckell
  
  
• My doctoral project focuses on investigating patient and informal caregiver attitudes towards healthcare workers  'deprescribing' (stopping or reducing) medication that is considered inappropriate/unnecessary. I will do this using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods.
  
  

ResearcH Interests

• My academic interests are wide-ranging, but all share the same core theme - using science to address societal challenges
  
  
• I am particularly interested in the use of qualitative methods in primary health care 
  
  

Biography

• I was awarded a Cambridge UK Master's Scholarship (jointly funded by the Cambridge Trust and Corpus Christi College) to complete my Master's in Bioscience Enterprise at Cambridge University
  
  
• Prior to this, I completed a Biological Sciences degree (First Class) at Oxford University 
  
  
• I also have employment experience - I worked as a scientific researcher for Heartfelt Technologies, a cardiac failure medical device company. I was responsible for patient recruitment and conducting patient health assessments
  
  
• I am always looking for new experiences, so please feel free to get in touch