Paul Aveyard

Carmen Piernas 

Felicity Waite

Susan Jebb

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 

NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Council 

Research Interests

I am interested in behavioural interventions for the management of disorders and disease. I have focused on language impairment, vitamin D and B12 deficiency, childhood obesity, and dyslipidaemia as exemplar health outcomes. My methodological expertise spans qualitative data collection and analyses, feasibility testing and randomised controlled trials. 

Doctoral Project

My doctoral research aims to develop an intervention to support weight loss in people with serious mental illness. In 2019 I was awarded the Division of Medical Sciences doctorate scholarship. I also serve on the Oxford Student Advisory Board, and as Junior Dean at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Education  

I trained in psychology and language Sciences at UCL. My BSc research won first prize at the Faculty of Brain Sciences annual conference. In 2015 I received two scholarships to study the MSc Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences programme at King's College London, and later awarded the Sackler Institute Award for highest overall mark. I returned to UCL at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health prior to joining Oxford in 2018.

Doctorate scholarship, Medical Sciences Division graduate school (2019), University of Oxford

Sackler Institute award for highest postgraduate mark (2016), King's College London 

Postgraduate scholarship (2015), Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust and King's College London

Primary Care Shopping Intervention for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, NIHR CLAHRC Oxford and the Oxford NIHR BRC, Co-Investigator, Oct 2018-Oct-2019.

A randomised controlled trial to compare two different doses of maternal B12 supplementation in improving infant B12 deficiency and neurodevelopment, MRC, Co-Investigator, Oct 2018-Sept 2021.

Patient and public involvement prioritisation pilot, CLAHRC West London and Internis Pharmaceuticals, Co-Investigator, 2018.