NIHR Research for Patient Benefit is a national funding programme that funds research on a regional level through eight Regional Advisory Committees. Each region has a local committee chair and members, and patient or public members.
Regional chair
Dr Judith Cohen is Chair of the Yorkshire and North East Regional Advisory Committee for NIHR Research for Patient Benefit.
Committee members
| Name | Position | Organisation | Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Samina Begum | Public Member | - | - |
| Mrs Anne Benson | Public Member | - | - |
| Professor Ann-Louise Caress | Professor of Health Services Research and Director, Centre for Applied Research in Health (CARH) | University of Huddersfield | Living with long term conditions (especially respiratory and renal), patient/carer experience, patient education, health information, patient and public involvement |
| Dr Nicola Clibbens | Lecturer in Mental Health | University if Leeds | Qualitative research methods particularly grounded theory. Consensus methods; focus groups and Delphi survey. Mental health research with focus on psychosocial care. Service user partnership research |
| Professor Peter Day | Professor of Children's Oral Health | University of Leeds | Prevention and oral health, paediatric dentistry, dental traumatology, behaviour change, feasibility studies |
| Dr Emma Giles | Associate Professor Public Health | Teesside University | Health services research, Qualitative research, Behavioural, Mental health, Generic Health Relevance. Research focuses on public health promotion and prevention, namely the interplay between mental and physical health, obesity and weight management, behaviour change, co-producing and designing healthcare systems, and evaluation of complex interventions. |
| Dr Julia Hackett | Research Fellow | University of York | Health services research, Qualitative methods, research has been mixed-methods, with specific expertise in applying qualitative methods to explore the care and support of adults, children, and young people with palliative care needs and at end of life; their families; and the health and social care professionals who support them. |
| Dr Ann Henry | Associate Professor in Clinical Oncology | University of Leeds | Management of urological cancers, radiotherapy Phase 2/3 clinical trials and prostate brachytherapy. Personalised radiotherapy delivery to improve overall survival and reduce treatment related side effects |
| Dr Harry Hill | Research Fellow in Health Economics | University of Sheffield | Health Economics |
| Professor Andrew Husband | Professor of Clinical Pharmacy | Newcastle University School of Pharmacy | Mixed methods and evidence synthesis around the safe and effective use of medicines and electronic systems to support safe medicines use |
| Dr Laura Jefferson | Research Fellow | University of York | General Practice, Clinical trials, Health services research, Qualitative research. Experienced health services researcher with skills in a range of methods and a particular interest in general practice workforce research. Experience of leading or contributing to research projects in wide ranging fields from orthopaedic randomised controlled trials to applied qualitative health research. |
| Dr Rachael Kelley | Reader in Dementia Research | Leeds Beckett University | Mental health nurse; dementia care research (including dementia and physical comorbidities and improving community and hospital-based healthcare services for people living with dementia and their families); qualitative research (especially ethnography); epidemiology |
| Dr Peter Knapp | Reader in Health Sciences | University of York & the Hull York Medical School | Reader in Health Sciences at the University of York & the Hull York Medical School. He is a highly experienced academic and applied health researcher, having worked in higher education since 1993. Currently his main research activities are in information for patients and patient engagement with health services. Although originally trained in quantitative methods, he is equally comfortable with undertaking quantitative or qualitative research, and has experience of undertaking trials, cohort studies, surveys, interview and focus groups studies, and systematic reviews. |
| Mrs Ellen Lee | Research Fellow | University of Sheffield | Medical statistics; design and analysis of clinical trials; pragmatic trials and complex interventions |
| Professor Rory O'Connor | Charterhouse Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine | University of Leeds | Clinical trials, Health services research, Qualitative research, Injuries and accidents, Musculoskeletal Neurological, Stroke, Generic Health Relevance. |
| Dr Samuel Smith | Associate Professor | University of Leeds | Behaviour change particularly in relation to cancer prevention, medication adherence, weight loss, early diagnosis, and screening participation; pilot and feasibility trials; systematic reviews; qualitative research; intervention development; process evaluations; and measure development |
| Mrs Jan Speechley | Public Member | - | - |
| Dr Bethany Shinkins | Associate Professor of Health Economics | University of Warwick | Health Sconomics; Medical Statistics Diagnostics |
| Professor Claire Surr | Professor of Dementia Studies | Leeds Beckett University | Dementia care and services research, observational and qualitative research, cluster RCT design, dementia workforce training and development |
| Dr Eugene Tang | NIHR Clinical Lecturer | Newcastle University | General Practice, Secondary analysis, Health services research, Qualitative research, expertise in both stroke and dementia to supplement experience as a general practitioner. |
| Ms Alex Wright-Hughes | Principal Statistician | University of Leeds | Statistics, Clinical trial design, Complex interventions |