Research Fellow
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Anna Lavis is a Medical Anthropologist whose work focuses on individuals’ lived experiences and subjectivities of mental illness and distress.
She conducts applied qualitative research into first-episode psychosis (FEP). To this there are two central strands:
1) The SUPEREDEN Study: Exploring the experiences of young people with FEP treated through English ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3140
Email a.c.lavis@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Primary Care
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Helen Lester is a Professor of Primary Care.
Helen has published over 100 research papers in scientific journals as well as books and book chapters in the fields of primary care mental health, early intervention and quality improvement. Helen co-edited the BMA primary care book of the year (2010) on Primary Care Mental Health. She has received major grants from the NIHR, HTA and the ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 2684
Email h.e.lester@bham.ac.uk
NIHR NSPCR Research Fellow
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Amanda Lewis is an NIHR/NSPCR Research Fellow within the Primary Care Clincial Sciences Department at the University of Birmingham.
Her main research area is weight (obesity) management in Primary Care. She is involved with projects surrounding weight gain during pregnancy, the comparison of differing weight loss programmes and the effectiveness of brief GP interventions for weight ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4405
Email a.lewis.1@bham.ac.uk
Lecturer
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Antje Lindenmeyer is a Lecturer in Qualitative Methods at the Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences.
Antje’s background is in social sciences and she has wide ranging, interdisciplinary research and teaching interests. Currently, she is focusing on narratives of health and illness especially in relation to the experience of living with chronic illness and collective ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5390
Email a.lindenmeyer@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Nicola Lindson-Hawley is currently managing a large-scale multi-centre randomised controlled trial, being led by the University of Birmingham, investigating the efficacy of four weeks of nicotine patch preloading in smokers who want to quit, funded by the NIHR HTA. This work follows on from her PhD research which investigated new approaches to smoking cessation: smoking reduction and ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 2657
Email n.l.lindson@bham.ac.uk
NIHR-SPCR fellow and Consultant Dietitian
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Deborah Lycett is a NIHR School for Primary Care Research Fellow and consultant dietitian working in Behavioural Medicine.
Her main area of research is in smoking cessation related weight gain and its impact on type two diabetes. She is chief investigator on randomised controlled trials exploring effective dietary management of this weight gain within primary care. She is ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3765
Email d.lycett@bham.ac.uk
PhD Researcher
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Claire is currently undertaking her PhD research in weight management in Primary Care. She will be looking at taking different cognitive and behavioural approaches to weight control, with particular emphasis on the usefulness of regular weighing and self monitoring techniques.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 47949
Research Associate
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Tatum Matharu is a Research Associate based in Primary Care.
Tatum is part of Professor Helen Lester’s QOF research team, contracted by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to develop and pilot indicators for the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
Tatum came to Primary Care from the University’s Institute of Local ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8902
Email t.g.matharu@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Lorraine is a Research Fellow working on an NIHR funded study, ExPeKT: to explore the knowledge and barriers to venous thromboembolism prevention.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7482
Email l.a.mcfarland@bham.ac.uk