Professor Jessica Corner

Dean of Health Sciences

Director CLAHRC Wessex

Jessica is Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and has over 25 years’ experience in higher education. One of the first students to graduate with a degree in Nursing from London University, she went on to specialise in Cancer Nursing at the Royal Marsden Hospital.  She gained her PhD in 1990 from Kings College London. She was Director of the Centre of Cancer and Palliative care Studies and Deputy Dean (Nursing) at the Institute of Cancer Research at the Royal Marsden Hospital for 12 years and was the first nurse to be appointed to a Chair at the Institute. She joined the University of Southampton in 2002.  Throughout her career she has a wide range of research interest focussed on improving the care and support for People with Cancer combining academic, clinical work and research. In 2005 she was seconded to Macmillan Cancer Support to work as Director of Improving Cancer Services returning to Southampton University in 2008 to become Head of the School of Health Sciences a new entity bringing together Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health professions into a new School.

She was a member of the Department of Health Cancer Reform Strategy for England, chairing the Patient Experience working group, and continues to work closely with the Department of Health to deliver the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative, and is currently co-chair of the Department of Health Cancer Reform Strategy Patient Experience Advisory Group with Professor Sir Mike Richards, National Cancer Director.

Jessica coordinated the bid to the Department of Health to establish and Head the Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) for the region which is hosted by the University of Southampton.

 

Anne Rogers

Research Director for CLAHRC Wessex

(Theme 5 Lead)

 Professor Anne Rogers has led a number of national and international programmes of research into self-management. She led and is the theme lead for the GM-CLAHRC Patients with Long Term Conditions Research Theme (2008). She was Associate Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, and NIHR NSPCR Lead for Manchester (2010-2012) and Research Lead and Head of Health Sciences FMHS University of Manchester (2009-2012). She has interests in lay knowledge and health care practices, innovations in service delivery for long term condition management and health inequalities, help-seeking and utilisation, patient and professional interactions. Her methodological interests include social network analysis complex interventions and nested qualitative studies, meta-synthesis and policy analysis. She was elected as an Academician of the Social Sciences (ACSS) in 2009 and became an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2010.

 

Richard Trowbridge

Chief Operating Officer for CLAHRC Wessex

Richard Trowbridge is a Chartered Management Accountant with over 10 years’ experience in Finance and Resources, and Research Grant administration.  Richard is responsible for the strategic development, operational delivery, financial management and governance of the programme. He leads the core team whilst maintaining effective partnership working across all key stakeholders.  He has significant experience in long term strategic planning and financial monitoring, and implementing reporting software, to improve the accuracy and timeliness of KPI information.
Richard has worked at the University of Southampton for over ten years as a Head of Finance, predominantly in NHS facing roles, overseeing both education and research funding streams, with the Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and other departments at the University.  Prior to the university, Richard worked at HSBC in a strategic planning role.

 

Dr Tom Wilkinson

Reader in Respiratory Medicine- (Theme 1 Lead)

Dr Tom Wilkinson was appointed as Consultant and Senior Lecturer to a joint post held between the Respiratory and Nutrition BRUs and allied to the faculty of medicine in July 2010. He was subsequently awarded a HEFCE New Blood Senior Lectureship on the basis of his track record of clinically focused research in COPD and respiratory infection having been recognised as European COPD researcher of the year prior to his move from UCL. Since his appointment in Southampton Dr Wilkinson has raised over £7m for COPD and infection research.  Dr Wilkinson’s work focuses on understanding the mechanisms which contribute to the vulnerability to and impact of respiratory infections in patients with chronic lung disease. He is co-lead of the Southampton COPD group and is establishing a cohort of deeply phenotyped patients with COPD to determine the mechanisms driving exacerbations of this disease. Close collaborations in Southampton, London and Oxford have been established to uncover the interaction between nutritional status, immune responses and infection. He has contributed to the establishment of unique ex-vivo and in vivo infection challenge models and is clinical lead on the EVITA programme (ex-vivo models of infection and therapeutics in airways disease) which has established a translational pathway for novel therapies from simple cell systems to complex human viral challenge models.

Tom was appointed to the role of Associate Director of Innovation and Enterprise for the faculty of Medicine and has a lead role in fostering major collaborations between industrial partners and the faculty.

 

Helen Roberts

Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine (Theme 2 Lead)

Dr Roberts was appointed as senior lecturer in geriatric medicine in 2002. She graduated from the University of Birmingham and specialized in geriatric medicine. Her particular research interests include:-

The assessment of older people and evaluation of models of health care delivery, combining quantitative and qualitative methods; Parkinson’s disease, particularly movement analysis and diagnosis.

Dr Roberts is a member of the interdisciplinary Ageing & Health Group, which carries out high quality integrated clinical, epidemiological, basic and social science research that translates into improving the health of older people. The group consists of clinical and non-clinical researchers and postgraduate students, spanning research divisions within the Faculty of Medicine, and linking to the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the Biomedical Research Unit for Nutrition, Diet and Lifestyle. Dr Roberts collaborates with researchers from the Faculty of Health Sciences, as well as nationally.

Dr Roberts is a consultant in Geriatric Medicine based at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust.

 

Peter Griffiths

Chair of Health Services Research (Theme 3 Lead)

I’m interested in the impact of change in the organisation, management and composition of the healthcare workforce on both patient and staff outcomes. Linked to this is an interest in quality measurement and in particular using outcome data to improve practice. My current or recent work includes – the RN4CAST study: an international study being undertaken by a consortium of 13 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the united States, which is working with professor Linda Aiken to replicate and extend her seminal studies on the link between nurse staffing and mortality; – a series of studies exploring links between nurse staffing and quality and outcomes in general practice.

I’m also currently working with the Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan in Canada, to evaluate the Productive ward programme and the Health Quality Improvement Partnership in England to develop a national audit of nutritional care.

My academic background is in nursing and social psychology. My interest in ‘nursing outcomes’ goes back to the early 1990s when I was involved in setting up and evaluating pioneering ‘nursing-led’ units delivering intermediate care to post-acute patients. Before taking up the chair of health services research at Southampton I was, from 2006 to 2010, Director of England’s National Nursing Research Unit, where I remain a visiting professor. I am Executive Editor of the International Journal of Nursing Studies.

 

Dr Michael Moore

Reader in Primary Care Research (Theme 4 Lead)

Dr Moore is an academic GP with more than 25 years’ experience as a partner in a Salisbury practice. His practice has been engaged in research since 1993 and is now actively contributing to NIHR clinical network research.  He is deputy director of the Primary Care and Public Health Science group in the Faculty of Medicine. This group aims to improve the management of disorders with major impact on public health, through a better understanding of the processes and outcomes of decisions made by health care professionals and their patients including help-seeking behaviour, diagnosis, decisions about interventions, treatment outcomes and predictors of benefit.

His research interests include the optimal management of acute minor illness with a focus on antibiotic sparing strategies and he brings this experience to his role as the RCGP National Clinical Champion for Antimicrobial Stewardship. He is also involved in other programmes of work including depression management, obesity, alcohol and liver disease.

 

Carl May

Professor of Healthcare Innovation (Theme 6 Lead)

Professor Carl May, Associate Director of Research at Health Sciences, is a social scientist with longstanding interests in professional knowledge and practice, implementation studies of complex healthcare interventions and health technologies using organisational ethnography and discourse analysis, and theory building and testing.

He is looking forward to developing and promoting interdisciplinary research collaborations within the Faculty.

Carl’s own research over the next few years will focus on the changing dynamics of professional-patient interactions, socio-technical changes in healthcare, ways of implementing, embedding and integrating interventions, technologies and practices in everyday life and how healthcare can be delivered in minimally disruptive ways.

Carl joined Southampton in 2010 from Newcastle University.

 

 

Claire Ballinger

Principal Research Fellow – PPI, CLAHRC Wessex

Claire Ballinger is an academic occupational therapist, with a research programme focusing on falls and fall prevention in older people, multidisciplinary rehabilitation more widely, and with an interest in applied health research methods. She has been the lead or co-applicant on grants worth over £4,000,000, and has authored over forty peer reviewed publications, eight book chapters and a research text. She has examined doctoral candidates in Australasia, Canada, Europe and the UK.
Claire is the Deputy Director of the NIHR Research Design Service South Central, funded through the UK NIHR to provide advice for researchers applying for health funding. She has a strategic remit for patient and public involvement (PPI) and is leading the ten national sites of the Research Design Service on initiatives to support learning and development in PPI and evaluate the impact of PPI support provided through the RDSs. Claire was the second co-applicant on the recent successful bid for re-provision of the Research Design Service South Central, a five year contract worth £5,000,000.

In 2012 she delivered the prestigious Casson Memorial Lecture at the annual College of Occupational Therapists (COT) conference in Glasgow, and from 2009-12 was the Chair of the national COT Specialist Section – Older People.