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Tutor expertise: Qualitative Research Methods

We offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Qualitative Health Research Methods and a Qualitative Research Methods module on the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care. In addition, students can access our supervisory faculty to complete qualitative research as part of their dissertation on any of our Masters or DPhil programme. 

Let's meet some of our tutors, highly qualified in conducting qualitative research:

PhD FHEA Anne-Marie Boylan - Departmental Lecturer & Senior Researcher

Dr Anne-Marie Boylan is Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Qualitative Health Research Methods and leads modules on Qualitative Research Methods for the MSc in Evidence Based Health Care. She is an experienced qualitative researcher with an interest in patients' experience of health and illness conditions, interactions with the health service and involvement in health research. 

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Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is the director of the part-time Evidence-Based Healthcare DPhil programme. Her particular interests lie in evidence synthesis (both quantitative and qualitative) and the communication of complex information and data to inform policy and public action. Jamie's research mainly consists of evidence synthesis work, with a focus on health behaviours, long-term conditions, and new and complex methodologies.

Jamie teaches at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including courses on critical appraisal, systematic review methodology, and behaviour change. Jamie supervises DPhil and MSc students and undergraduate student projects, ranging from systematic reviews to explorations of literature in health.

BSc PhD MBBS PGDip FRCGP Kamal R. Mahtani - GP & Professor of Evidence Based HealthcareProfessor Kamal Mahtani is a health services researcher, conducting high-quality qualitative research to support the redesign of future primary care (including the role for social prescribing in the community).
PhD, MA, BA Stephanie Tierney - Associate Professor

Dr Stephanie Tierney is a departmental lecturer and health services researcher with an interest in long-term conditions, delivery of services and patients' experiences of care. She has completed qualitative research on a range of health-related topics, including understanding compassionate care, living with cystic fibrosis, working with patients who have diabetes, interventions for children with a cleft lip/palate, and social prescribing.

Marta Wanat - Senior Qualitative Researcher in Behavioural Science

Marta Wanat is a senior qualitative researcher in the Infectious Diseases Research Group at the University of Oxford. Marta is working on the interface between social science and medicine in primary care setting. Her research involves applying behavioural science to understand, develop and evaluate complex interventions with the aim of improving patient outcomes.

BSc (Hons) DPhil Ailsa Butler - Postdoctoral Researcher & Systematic Reviewer

Ailsa Butler has worked on a large systematic review to explore the long-term outcomes of behavioural weight management programmes in terms of weight regain and associated health outcomes. She has also worked on a systematic review on behaviour linked to HIV spread and time spent in different HIV stages. Ailsa is currently working on the Cochrane Systematic Review of Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation. This review has recently become a living review with monthly searches.