Paul joined the Section in March 2006 as a Senior Lecturer (Non-Clinical) in Public Health and is the Course Director for the Master in Public Health. Paul has a background in health services research and medical sociology. He studied politics and sociology as an undergraduate, completed an MA in Applied Social Research and obtained a PhD in health services research and medical sociology, all from the University of Manchester.
Before working at ScHARR Paul was a Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, teaching medical sociology and research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Prior to this Paul worked as a contract researcher on a number of health related projects at the Universities of Manchester and Salford. He has published widely in the area of medicines usage and pharmaceutical care, both from a professional and a user perspective and has a particular interest in pharmacy and public health. Whilst much of his research has had an applied policy focus, he is especially interested in developing more theoretically informed research in the medicines usage sphere.
Currently, Paul is principal investigator for the Department of Health funded evaluation of supplementary prescribing in nursing and pharmacy and is also a PI for the Leverhulme funded Changing Families Changing Food programme.
Paul has considerable experience of research student supervision. He has supervised PhD and MPhil students working in the areas of medicines usage and management, evaluation of innovative models of pharmaceutical care, patient safety, ethics and health care, compliance, concordance and health care relationships and the sociology of the body.
As Course Director of the Master in Public Health at the University of Sheffield, Paul is delighted to be working with European colleagues delivering the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Europubhealth programme which will take its first students in the 2006 - 2007 session.
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