Dr Charlotte Spurway PhD, MSc, BSc

Dr Charlotte Spurway

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
Health Economics Unit
Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Charlotte is a research fellow in the Health Economics Unit. She is currently working on the CONNECT project as qualitative researcher conducting in-depth interviews on the role of remote consultations in Sexual and Reproductive health services in the UK.

ORCID Profile

Qualifications

  • PhD in Social Statistics and Demography, June 2024
  • MSc in Social Research Methods with Social Statistics, University of Southampton, 2019
  • BSc (Hons) in Population and Geography, University of Southampton, 2018

Biography

Charlotte completed her BSc (Hons) in Population and Geography at the University of Southampton in 2018, focusing on global health in low- and middle-income countries. She continued at the University of Southampton for her MSc in Social Research Methods and PhD in Social Statistics and Demography, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. Her PhD explored inequities in access to health and physical rehabilitation services for adults with physical disabilities in Cambodia, using multiple methods.

Her current research explores health inequalities, digital healthcare access, and sexual and reproductive health services, using methods such as systematic reviewing, qualitative interviews, and a Delphi Consensus Study. She is currently working on a multidisciplinary project examining the impact of remote consultations in sexual and reproductive health services on health inequalities. Charlotte is also involved in the Optimal project, a multidisciplinary initiative focused on OPTIMising therapies, disease trajectories, and AI-assisted clinical management for patients living with complex multimorbidity.

Starting in May 2025, she will lead a funded project supported by the Sexually Transmitted Infection Research Foundation (STIRF), investigating access to sexual and reproductive health services for people with mental health conditions in the West Midlands.

Teaching

Research Methods for Health Economics – Module Coordinator

Research

Research interests include:

  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Digital health
  • Inequalities

Publications

Dickinson, A., Gates, L., Metcalf, C., Owen, C., Kheng, S., Harte, C., Bunthoeun, S., Simpson, S., Worsley, P., Ostler, C., Donovan-Hall, M. & Channon, A. (2022). Learning about the changing needs for prosthetics service provision from routinely collected digital centre management data: An exemplar study across three clinics in Cambodia. Journal of Global Health. 12: 1-10

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