Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars

Department seminars covering our research into prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness in primary care – helping GPs to deliver better care to patients.

Type: Seminar Series
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Thursday 12 February 2015

10:30 - Supporting GPs to deliver advance care planning in end of life care for patients suffering from heart failure: a feasibility RCT
Markus Schichtel (Clinical Researcher, NDPCHS)

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Thursday 22 October 2015

Wednesday 28 October 2015

10:30 - The evidence of effects page - Cochrane's loss?
Dr David Nunan (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Departmental Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow)

Thursday 29 October 2015

12:30 - The Impact of Precarious Employment on Mental Health: the Case of Italy
Prof Francesco Moscone (Brunel University London)

Thursday 5 November 2015

10:30 - OPTIMUM-BP: blood pressure self monitoring for the management of chronic hypertension in pregnancy. A mixed methods feasibility study
Louise Pealing (Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Primary Care, Clinical Research Fellow, DPhil)

Wednesday 11 November 2015

10:30 - The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times
Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Research Fellow, Centre for Health Service Economics & Organisation)

Thursday 12 November 2015

12:30 - Does greater autonomy among women provide the key to better child nutrition?
Prof Wiji Arulampalam (University of Warwick)

Thursday 26 November 2015

Wednesday 2 December 2015

10:30 - Recording and managment of smoking cessation after diagnosis of a smoking-related cancer and the impact of smoking cessation on smoking
Constantinos Kosharis (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 December 2015

10:30 - CPR and defibrillation training
Dr Susannah Fleming (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 January 2016

10:30 - Narrative research into sexual abuse in the medical profession
Dr Louise Stone (Visiting researcher, from the Australian National University)

Wednesday 13 January 2016

10:30 - ‘Illustrating the Person-Based Approach to developing e-health interventions’
Prof Lucy Yardley (University of Southampton)

Monday 18 January 2016

10:30 - Post-marketing withdrawal of anti-obesity medications: an analysis of trends
Igho Onakpoya (DPhil Student, NDPCHS)

Wednesday 27 January 2016

10:30 - Infants health outcomes: Trends and inequality in the last ten years in England
Dr Elisabetta De Cao (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation, University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 January 2016

10:30 - “Women in Science”: A qualitative study of the perceptions of successful women scientists working at Oxford
Dr Alison Chapple (Research Lecturer, Health Experiences Research Group)

Wednesday 3 February 2016

10:30 - The impact on self-management behaviour of automated brief messages delivered to people with type 2 diabetes via mobile devices: results from two systematic reviews
Dr Ignacio Ricci-Cabello (Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2016

10:30 - Does changing the local supply of elective care have any impact on the consumption of emergency care?
Dr Stuart Redding (CHSEO, University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2016

14:15 - Global Health and Non-Communicable Diseases
Prof Andrew Farmer (University of Oxford), Prof Carl Heneghan (CEBM Oxford University), Dylan Colins (University of Oxford), Igho Onakpoya (University of Oxford), Merlin Willcox (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 2 March 2016

10:30 - Using Electronic Health Records and Systematic Review To Estimate The Burden Of Complications Following Gastrointestinal Infection
Seun Esan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 March 2016

10:30 - Digital Patients: A Typology of Emerging Patient Roles
Professor Axel Tjora (Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.)

Thursday 7 April 2016

Thursday 21 April 2016

10:30 - Internal Structure Validation of Medical Competency Constructs - a "simplified" approach from a clinician's perspective
Darryl McGill

Thursday 5 May 2016

10:30 - Can patient and public involvement (PPI) enhance recruitment and retention in clinical trials?
Dr Joanna Crocker (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford), Keira Pratt-Boyden (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 May 2016

Thursday 12 May 2016

10:30 - TEXT ME: Findings and Future Directions
Assoc Prof Clara Chow (University of Sidney, Faculty of Medicine)

Wednesday 18 May 2016

16:00 - Inequalities in the NHS
Professor Luigi Siciliani (University of York)

Thursday 19 May 2016

10:30 - Maximising your PPI to make a good SPCR grant application
Dr Sian Rees (University of Oxford), Lynne Maddocks (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 May 2016

14:00 - CANCELLED: Conversation analysis and communication training for medical and health professionals
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough University)

Thursday 2 June 2016

10:30 - "Switching Costs in Medicare Part D Program with Forward Looking Consumers”
Dr Levonyan Vardges (ETH Zurich)

Wednesday 8 June 2016

10:30 - Obamacare: How does the insurance market work?
Professor Richard Scheffler (UC Berkeley School of Public Health)

Thursday 30 June 2016

10:30 - Symbolic violence and street-based injecting drug use
Dr Stephen Parkin

Thursday 14 July 2016

10:30 - 'NHS England and Care Quality Commission: How arms-length bodies help shape health and care services'.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Catherine Thompson (HEXI), Tim Read (HEXI)

Wednesday 20 July 2016

10:30 - The changing times of the ‘gold standard’: Examining the rise of adaptive design clinical trials
Dr Catherine Motngomery (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)

Thursday 21 July 2016

14:30 - Conversation analysis and communication training for medical and health professionals
Professor Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough University)

Tuesday 13 September 2016

10:30 - Exploring the experiences of mothers of inpatient sick newborns in Nairobi, Kenya: an ethnographic approach.
Dorothy Oluoch (Kemri-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)

Wednesday 14 September 2016

12:30 - What is impact? A lunchtime seminar for early-career researchers
For Primary Care staff and students only
Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 September 2016

10:30 - 3-minute summaries of theses
DPCHS Dphil students (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 September 2016

13:00 - Defining models of primary health care structure in Europe: an international Delphi process.
Dr Ana Espinosa Gonzalez (Centre for Health Policy, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London. )

Thursday 29 September 2016

10:30 - Departmental Impact Seminar - The Health Research Authority: An opportunity for dialogue
Professor Jonathan Montgomery (Professor Health Care Law, University College London)

Friday 30 September 2016

12:00 - Lunchtime Talk - Tom Sheldon, Science Media Centre
Tom Sheldon (Science Media Centre)

Wednesday 5 October 2016

10:30 - Not desperately seeking healthcare; autistic adults and an ‘uncommon’ sense
Dr Sara Ryan (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 October 2016

10:30 - Co-designing research into experiences of female genital mutilation (FGM); A report on a PPI project
Dr Lisa Hinton (University of Oxford), Dr Sharon Dixon (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 October 2016

10:30 - NHS England and Care Quality Commission: How arms-length bodies help shape health and care services (TBC)
Catherine Thompson (HEXI), Tim Read (HEXI)

Tuesday 25 October 2016

10:30 - QUARITE: A Randomised Controlled Trial of an intervention to reduce maternal mortality in Africa
Professor Alexandre Dumont (IRD, Paris)

Thursday 27 October 2016

Wednesday 2 November 2016

13:30 - Divided by Choice? Private Providers, Patient Choice and Hospital Sorting in the English National Health Service
Please note updated time.
Dr Elaine Kelly (Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies)

Thursday 10 November 2016

10:30 - How to involve PPI Contributors before you have funding
Lynne Maddocks (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Thursday 24 November 2016

10:30 - Running meetings that include PPI Contributors
Lynne Maddocks (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 December 2016

10:30 - How do People with Dementia and Their Carers Make Assistive Technology Work for Them: Innovation, personalisation and bricolage
Dr Grant Gibson (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling)

Tuesday 17 January 2017

10:30 - The art and science of non-evaluation evaluation
Dr Lorelei Jones (Department of Applied Health Research, University College London)

Thursday 26 January 2017

10:30 - Self-Tracking Health Data and the Possibilities for Patient-led Innovation
Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 January 2017

10:30 - Writing for public audiences: get involved in The Conversation
Miriam Frankel (Science Editor, The Conversation)

Thursday 2 February 2017

10:30 - Filling the void: How to lose weight and keep it off
Professor Colin Greaves (Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter)

Thursday 9 February 2017

10:30 - Young women’s alcohol consumption: acknowledging the unconscious
Dr Melissa Stepney (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 February 2017

14:30 - Positive action towards gender equality? Evidence from the Athena SWAN charter in UK medical schools
**PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME**
Dr Ian Gregory-Smith (Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Sheffield)

Thursday 2 March 2017

10:30 - *CANCELLED* Gendering skin: exploring the gendered dimensions of a qualitative study on four dermatological conditions
CANCELLED
Abigail McNiven (HERG, University of Oxford)

Friday 3 March 2017

10:30 - Primary Care for the Developing World
Dr Merlin Wilcox (University of Oxford), Prof Andrew Farmer (University of Oxford), Dr Jenny Hirst (University of Oxford), Shameq Sayeed (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2017

15:30 - Market structure, patient choice and hospital quality for elective patients
Giuseppe Moscelli (University of York Centre for Health Economics)

Wednesday 15 March 2017

12:00 - Impact case-study workshop
Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 March 2017

10:30 - Optimising the implementation of advance care planning in heart failure: results from a MRC framework approach for the development of a complex intervention
Markus Schichtel (Clinical Researcher, NDPCHS)

Tuesday 28 March 2017

10:00 - Propensity score: help or hype?
Professor Tobias Kurth (Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Wednesday 29 March 2017

10:30 - Seminar and mini practical on health apps: a proposed comprehensive framework to guide clinical risk assessment and promote safer use
Michelle Van Velthoven (NDPCHS University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 April 2017

10:30 - Evaluating Organizational Change in Health Care: The Patient-Centered Hospital Model
Dr Stefano Verzillo (Milan University)

Thursday 20 April 2017

10:30 - Title TBC
CANCELLED
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Annette Hauskov Graungaard (Research Institute for General Practice, University of Copenhagen)

Thursday 27 April 2017

10:30 - Enabling personalised cohort studies from large repositories of clinical practice data.
Dr Blanca Gallega Luxan (Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University), Dr Thierry Wendling (Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University)

Thursday 4 May 2017

10:30 - Have you been mis-sold PPI? (Making sense of patient and public involvement in the real world)
TBA

Wednesday 10 May 2017

10:30 - The organization of and social practices in a Danish emergency department – possible explanations of the ‘weekend effect’
Iben Duvald (Interdisciplinary Centre for Organizational Architecture )

Monday 15 May 2017

15:00 - Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers
Sergi Jimenez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

16:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Conti

Wednesday 24 May 2017

10:30 - Alternatives to face-to-face consultations in primary and secondary care
Anne-Marie Boylan (NDPCHS University of Oxford), Sara Shaw (NDPCHS University of Oxford), Joe Wherton (NDPCHS University of Oxford), Sue Ziebland (NDPCHS University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2017

14:30 - Patient and Public Involvement in Medical Research - Q&A Session
Lynne Maddocks (Patient and Public Involvement Coordinator, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

10:30 - “Tailoring” of evidence-based messages: worth the effort?
Dr Ingmarie Skoglund (University of Gothenburg)

Thursday 1 June 2017

10:30 - CANCELLED - Building personalised risk maps to improve health outcomes
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Darren Wright (Director of Inside Outcomes)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

10:30 - How can community-based research support antimicrobial stewardship?
Professor Alastair Hay (Professor of Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol)

Wednesday 7 June 2017

10:30 - CANCELLED
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Adda

Thursday 15 June 2017

10:30 - Parent experiences of neonatal surgery: understanding the long term impact on families
Dr Lisa Hinton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 June 2017

10:30 - CANCELLED - RCGP impact from research initiative
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Alison Marsh (RCGP)

Friday 23 June 2017

13:00 - Getting in the habit: Understanding and harnessing the role of habit in health behaviour
Dr Benjamin Gardner (King's College London)

Tuesday 27 June 2017

10:00 - Missing data in randomised trials: design and analysis
Professor Ian White (Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit)

Thursday 29 June 2017

10:30 - “It might sound weird but I prefer to see the nurse”: young skin condition patient’s experiences with healthcare professionals
Dr Abigail McNiven (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, HERG Researcher)

Tuesday 4 July 2017

14:30 - Evaluation of Closing the Gap the major initiative to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Professor Margaret Kelaher (School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne)

Thursday 13 July 2017

10:30 - Addressing the needs of family carers at the end of life: the New Zealand experience
Professor Merryn Gott (The University of Auckland)

Thursday 27 July 2017

10:00 - Use and costs of primary care services in relation to body mass index in middle-aged and older women in England: a prospective cohort study
Dr Seamus Kent (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)

Monday 4 September 2017

10:30 - Evidence in a post-truth world
Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 September 2017

10:30 - Different dimensions of congenital heart disease: 2D images, 3D models, and the experiential domain
Dr Giovanni Biglino (Lecturer in Cardiovascular Bioinformatics & Medical Statistics, University of Bristol)

Wednesday 20 September 2017

10:30 - OPTIMUM: Optimising Titration and Monitoring of Maternal Blood Pressure
Louise Pealing (Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Primary Care, Clinical Research Fellow, DPhil)

Tuesday 26 September 2017

12:00 - External validation of clinical prediction models using big data from e-health records or IPD meta-analysis: opportunities and challenges
Professor Richard Riley (Professor of Biostatistics, Primary Care & Health Sciences, Keele University)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

10:30 - Antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections in primary care: Findings from an updated meta-ethnography
Evdokia Germeni (HERG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2017

10:30 - Stepped Wedge Design for a Feasibility Cluster RCT to implement Advance Care Planning in Heart Failure
Markus Schichtel (Clinical Researcher, NDPCHS)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

10:30 - Building personalised risk maps to improve health outcomes
Darren Wright (Director of Inside Outcomes)

Monday 30 October 2017

11:30 - Improving research impact via a cross-sectoral email list for knowledge translation
David Evans (CHAIN), Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2017

10:30 - It is not too late to claim your PPI - Talking honestly about patient and public involvement in the real world
Various Speakers

Friday 3 November 2017

15:30 - The new UK Life Sciences Strategy: implications for the Oxford regional innovation system
Dr Glenn Wells (Chief Operating Officer, Oxford Academic Health Science Centre), Dr Nick Scott-Ram (Director of Commercial Development, Oxford Academic Health Science Network), Dr Marc Ventresca, (Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Said Business School, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

10:30 - Engagement between the NHS and industry on digital health
Tony Bowden (CEO, Helicon Health), Sara Shaw (NDPCHS University of Oxford)

Monday 13 November 2017

15:00 - Meat, Health & Global Food Security
Professor Andrew Salter (Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Division of Nutritional Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

15:00 - "Does choice and competition in public services improve the performance of non-altruistic providers, but worsen the performance of altruistic providers?"
Dr Matthew Skellern (Department of Health Policy and CEP, LSE), Tom O'Keeffe

Wednesday 22 November 2017

15:00 - Behavioural drivers of obesity in Malaysia
Geeta Appannah (Universiti Putra Malaysia , Putrajaya · Department of Nutrition and Dietetics)

Thursday 14 December 2017

10:00 - Department Christmas Seminars
Please note the new time of 10am.
Various Speakers

Wednesday 24 January 2018

Tuesday 30 January 2018

10:30 - Why do so many technology projects in healthcare fail? A new framework for studying the non-adoption, abandonment and failure of scale-up, spread and sustainability (NASSS) of health and care technologies
Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 February 2018

10:30 - Smart glasses: Assessing a new technology for the visually impaired using qualitative methods
Dr Anne Ferrey (NDPCHS, University of Oxford), Iain Wilson (DPhil Student, NDCN)

Wednesday 14 February 2018

10:30 - Doing the Self: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Quantified Self
Dr Farzana Dudhwala (University of Oxford )

Wednesday 21 February 2018

10:30 - To engage or involve? PE and PPI explored
Helen Adams (LEAP Public Engagement Coordinator)

Thursday 1 March 2018

10:30 - Why every healthcare consultation needs a dose of empathy
Dr Jeremy Howick (Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.)

Thursday 8 March 2018

10:30 - CANCELLED - OpenPrescribing.net
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Helen Curtis (EBM DataLab, NDPCHS, University of Oxford), Dr Alex Walker (Researcher, EBM DataLab, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 March 2018

10:30 - Launch of Inventive Involvement
Lynne Maddocks (Patient and Public Involvement Coordinator, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 April 2018

10:30 - Ethics training and advice for CUREC and NHS ethics applications
Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)

Thursday 3 May 2018

10:30 - CANCELLED: Living whilst dying: exploring ‘a life worth living’ for people with heart failure
CANCELLED
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Caitlin Pilbeam (DPhil Student, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 May 2018

10:30 - Open Prescribing
Dr Helen Curtis (EBM DataLab, NDPCHS, University of Oxford), Dr Alex Walker (Researcher, EBM DataLab, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 May 2018

Wednesday 23 May 2018

10:30 - Impact Case Studies for the REF
Professor Trish Greenhalgh (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 May 2018

10:30 - NIHR CLAHRC OXford
Gavin Hubbard (NIHR CLAHRC Oxford), Dr Esther Williamson (Deputy Director, Centre for Rehabilitation Research in Oxford)

Thursday 7 June 2018

Wednesday 13 June 2018

10:30 - Care pathways in under-5 deaths in sub-Saharan Africa: a comprehensive literature review
Jessica Price (DPhil Student, NDPCHS)

Wednesday 20 June 2018

10:30 - Tackling Obesity Right from the Start: attempts to avert obesity through working with parents of infants and preschoolers in disadvantaged communities
Professor Mary Rudolf (head of the Center for Public Health in the Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Medicine)

Wednesday 27 June 2018

10:30 - Under pressure - do patients really want the responsibility of managing their own BP?
Dr Claire Schwartz (Research Fellow, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 July 2018

10:30 - CANCELLED - Using the UK Biobank cohort study for biomedical research
CANCELLED
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Carmen Piernas (Research Fellow, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 September 2018

10:30 - PPI - Learning from colleagues
Anne-Marie Boylan (NDPCHS University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 October 2018

10:30 - Open Access and Act on Acceptance
Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries)

Wednesday 7 November 2018

10:30 - Using the UK Biobank Study for biomedical research
Dr Carmen Piernas (Research Fellow, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 November 2018

10:30 - Should we treat patients with low risk mild hypertension? A (trendy) propensity score matched observational study in the CPRD
Dr James Sheppard (NDPCHS University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 December 2018

Monday 10 December 2018

14:00 - Workshop on public co-applicants
Doreen Tembo (NETSCC), Martin Lodemore (INVOLVE)

Thursday 27 June 2019

12:00 - Developing and testing digital health interventions
Dr Nikki Newhouse (Diabetes and Long-Term Conditions Group, NDPCHS), Sarah Payne-Riches (Health Behaviours Group, NDPCHS), Dr Laura Armitage (Diabetes and Long-Term Conditions Group, NDPCHS)

Tuesday 2 July 2019

12:00 - The 'Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly' (ASPREE) Trial
Updated time - starts at midday.
Professor Mark Nelson (Chair of General Practice, University of Tasmania)

Tuesday 30 July 2019

12:00 - Answering policy questions with discrete choice experiments: applications in the US tobacco market
TBA

Monday 30 September 2019

10:30 - Publishing in BMC Medicine
Professor Lin Lee (Editor in Chief, BMC Medicine)
11:00 - Opening access to help manage demand: dichotomy or opportunity?
Various Speakers

Monday 9 December 2019

09:30 - Unmaking and remaking: how I used and built theoretical frameworks throughout my DPhil
PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME AND DATE - THIS SEMINAR WILL NO LONGER TAKE PLACE ON 27 NOVEMBER.
Caitlin Pilbeam (DPhil Student, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 January 2020

09:30 - What does it mean to engage research in policy: A case study of Brexit & Healthcare
Dr Nicholas Fahy (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 February 2020

10:30 - Interdisciplinary research: What is it? How can we strengthen interdisciplinary research in primary care?
Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

11:00 - Improving access to primary care: eight case studies of introducing Advanced Access in England
Professor Catherine Pope (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 May 2020

11:00 - What we know about the journey of a doctor from medical school to specialist practice
This will be held on Zoom. Details will be shared nearer the event.
Simon O'Hare (GMC)

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