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Claire Meadows
BA (Hons), MA
Executive Assistant
- Executive Assistant to Professor Gail Hayward & Dr Philip Turner
- Healthtech Research Centre Administrator
Claire joined the department in October 2019. She is Executive Assistant to Professor Gail Hayward and Dr Phil Turner. She is the main administrator for the HealthTech Research Centre at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Claire performs secretarial duties for the HealthTech Research Centre Strategic Partnership Board and Operational Group.
Claire was Head of Administration for SW SAPC 2025 conference, held at Keble College 31st March - 1st April 2025. She was a recipient of a departmental Award for Excellence in 2022.
She holds both a BA and an MA in English Literature from the Open University. She is the author of three books, the latest one - James M Cain's 'Mildred Pierce' in Adaptation - is the dissertation that gained her a Merit in her MA.
She established After Nyne Magazine, an online and print arts periodical, and acted as its Editor in Chief from 2014 to 2019, when she left the company to pursue other ventures. She is passionate about using her experiences of running a small independent media enterprise, both positive and negative, to help guide others on their career paths both outside in the media and within.
From 2003 - 2007 Claire was a civil servant the Home Office working on extradition and extradition policy, and retains a keen interest in politics, government, history and current affairs.