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The Mapping Doctors Team
Dr Liz Brewster
Joint Principal Investigator and work package 3 lead (2022-25)
I am co-principal investigator for Mapping Doctors, and lead WP3, the qualitative interview package. I work as a senior lecturer in medical education at Lancaster Medical School. My approach to research focuses on its application in practice and service improvement, with a commitment to ensuring patient and public benefit. I am experienced in conducting large-scale qualitative interview studies and my research interests include the reduction of health inequalities, co-design in health and improving mental health care.
Professor Jo Rycroft Malone
Joint Principal Investigator (2022-25)
I am a Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medicine at Lancaster University. I mentor Dr Brewster and advise the research team based on my extensive experience of large-scale NIHR-funded projects. I am Lancaster’s representative on the Medical Schools Council. I previously chaired the NIHR’s Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme.
Dr Michael Lambert
Co-investigator and work package 1 lead (2022-25)
I am a co-investigator and research fellow for Mapping Doctors, leading WP1 which examines the policy history on underdoctoring. I also work within the Widening Participation portfolio at Lancaster Medical School. My research concerns the history of the welfare state since 1945, focusing primarily on North West England. It aims to think how contemporary decision-makers might learn for the future by understanding the process which led them to the present. I am experienced in using archival and documentary sources, and undertaking oral history interviews.
Professor Cliff Shelton
Co-investigator and work package 4 co-lead (2022-25)
I am a co-investigator for Mapping Doctors, leading WP4 with Dr Lawson, which focuses on dissemination and engagement, ensuring relevance to medical policy and practice. I am a senior clinical lecturer in anaesthesia at Lancaster Medical School and a consultant anaesthetist at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester. My research interests include patient safety and healthcare quality, and I grew up in an ‘underdoctored area’ of Cumbria.
Dr Euan Lawson
Co-investigator and work package 4 co-lead (2022-25)
I am a co-investigator for Mapping Doctors, leading WP4 with Dr Lawson, which focuses on dissemination and engagement, ensuring relevance to medical policy and practice. I am a senior clinical lecturer in anaesthesia at Lancaster Medical School and a consultant anaesthetist at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester. My research interests include patient safety and healthcare quality, and I grew up in an ‘underdoctored area’ of Cumbria.
Dr Luigi Sedda
Co-investigator and work package 2 co-lead (2022-24)
I am a co-investigator I and co-lead of WP2, the work-package aimed at quantifying doctor movements within UK. My research is multidisciplinary and focuses on integrating geospatial and geospatio-temporal models in frameworks for risk surveillance. Within ecological study designs, I am particularly interested in migratory processes and their influence on the emergence, establishment and spread of diseases. In other studies, I have evaluated the effects of conflicts and socio-economic conditions on malaria incidence.
Dr Tom Keegan
Co-investigator and work package 2 co-lead (2023-25)
I am a co-investigator, and co-lead WP2. My research focuses on environmental and occupation epidemiology, with an interest in exposure measurement and modelling. I am interested in occupational cohorts, including medical professionals and military veterans.
Barry Rowlingson
Co-investigator and work package 2 co-lead (2022-25)
I am a co-investigator and research fellow, and co-lead WP2. I work mostly on the application of spatial statistics to disease epidemiology and mapping problems. I am an advocate for open source geospatial software and I release as much work as possible via open source licenses.
Professor Peter Diggle
Co-investigator (2024-25)
I am a co-investigator, supporting statistical analyses in WP2. My research concerns the development and application of statistical methods relevant to the biomedical and health sciences. I also work on public health projects in low-resource settings, where statistical modelling of spatial and temporal variation in disease risk can partly offset the lack of comprehensive registry data.
Dr Nicola Rennie
Co-investigator (2024-25)
I am a co-investigator, supporting statistical analyses in WP2. I am data visualisation specialist with a background in statistics and data science. I'm interested in understanding how to effectively communicate complex quantitative ideas in an accessible way, as well as how we do so using open source tools.
Rebecca Knagg
Patient and Public co-investigator (2022-25)
I am the Patient and Public Voice Lead for Mapping Doctors. I am passionate about advocating for patient views and wishes and I have experience of patient engagement as former Chair of Maternity Voices Partnership for Morecambe Bay, an NHS forum for maternity service users, practitioners, and commissioners. I have also worked previously in patient engagement for Healthwatch Cumbria.
Dr Choon Key Chekar
Senior Research Associate (2022-25)
I am one of the senior research associate for Mapping Doctors. I am a qualitative social science researcher in the field of medical sociology. My research interest is social discussion around, and lived experience of, innovative biomedicine, such as cancer genomics and regenerative medicine. My recent work includes an international comparative research project on non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic responses in eight countries.
Dr Clare Mumford
Senior Research Associate (2024-25)
I am one of the senior research associate for Mapping Doctors. I am a qualitative social science researcher in the field of organisation studies, with an interest in people’s subjective experience of work and its meaningfulness in their lives. I have worked on a range of qualitative research projects since 2011 and am currently the senior research associate on the Mapping Doctors project covering maternity leave.
Dr Tasneem Patel
Senior Research Associate (2022-25)
I am one of the senior research associate for Mapping Doctors. My research interests are in the area of health psychology, this is a varied field which encompasses behavioural sciences and is applicable to individual, population-based health and mental health. I am particularly interested in public health priorities and understanding social determinants of health to improve community health, and clinical services which seek to improve individual health.
Throughout the research, we have been supported by research administrators and assistants:
Nushuhr Smith, Nausheen Fatima, Eleanor Vowles and Karianne Robinson.