Person-Centred Research Staff
Professor Jonathan Reinarz, Director, Person-Centred Research
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Jonathan Reinarz is the Director of The History of Medicine Unit. He is Professor of the History of Medicine.
Jonathan has published extensively on the history of hospitals and medical education, including a history of the Birmingham teaching hospitals (2009), the history of the senses, especially smell, and the history of accidents, including burns and scalds.
Telephone: +44 (0)121 415 8122 Email: j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk
The Team
Professor Sheila Greenfield, Professor of Medical Sociology
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Sheila Greenfield is Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Applied Health Sciences.
Sheila teaches medical sociology on the MBChB course. She is a qualitative methodologist and her research is focussed on two main areas; the design and implementation of qualitative methodology as a component of mixed methods research; the methods people use to self-manage their health either for health promotion and prevention or for the management of diagnosed medical conditions with a particular interest in their use of complementary and alternative medicine.
Telephone: +44 0121 414 6493
Email: s.m.greenfield@bham.ac.uk
Dr Anne Hanley, Senior Research Fellow
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Anne Hanley is a historian of medicine and modern Britain and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, with particular interest in the history of sexual and reproductive health. Her publications span a broad range of topics in medicine, welfare and sexuality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Email: a.hanley@bham.ac.uk
Miss Ciara Harris, Research Associate
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Miss Ciara Harris is a chartered physiotherapist, who worked clinically full-time within the NHS, across a range of clinical specialities, for 4 years before moving to the University of Birmingham as a research associate in February 2018. She also continues some clinical work alongside her research role.
Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7867
Dr Vanessa Heggie, Associate Professor in the History of Science and Medicine
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Vanessa Heggie is a historian of modern science and medicine, with a particular interest in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century biomedical and life sciences. She also dabbles in the philosophy of science.
Telephone: +44 0121 415 8184
Email: v.heggie@bham.ac.uk
Dr Anna Lavis, Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Anna Lavis is an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, and the Institute for Mental Health.
Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 9069
Email: a.c.lavis@bham.ac.uk
Dr Ian Litchfield, Senior Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Ian Litchfield is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, with a background in occupational medicine and interests in health service delivery. He uses qualitative and quantitative research methods in the evaluation of service delivery interventions in both primary and secondary care.
Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6006 Email: i.litchfield@bham.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Mathers, Associate Professor in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Applied Research
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Jonathan Mathers is an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Applied Health Research. He has broad based expertise in the application of qualitative and mixed methods research approaches in a range of applied health and policy contexts.
Email: j.m.mathers@bham.ac.uk
Dr Dean M Thompson, Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Jonathan Mathers is a Chartered Psychologist and NIHR Advanced Fellow in Mental Health and Mixed Methods Research at the Department of Applied Health. He is an advisor for NIHR Research Support Service (RSS), offering consultation with health and social care researchers on study design and delivery, patient and public involvement, and training and career opportunities.
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 3344 Email: d.m.thompson@bham.ac.uk
Dr Rebecca Wynter, Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Rebecca Wynter is an Honorary Research Fellow for the four-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injuries and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000’.
Rebecca is a historian of medicine and of Quakers. Her research and publications centre on the history of psychiatry, mental health, neurosurgery, neurodiversity, and First World War medicine and disability.
Telephone: +44 0121 414 2921 Email: r.i.wynter@bham.ac.uk