The Team

Co-directors

• Professor Jonathan Benger, Professor of Emergency Care, University of the West of England
• Dr Matthew Booker, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Bristol
  

Delivery group

• Professor Sarah Voss, Professor of Emergency Care, University of the West of England
• Professor Edd Carlton – NIHR Advanced Fellow and Emergency Medicine Consultant, University of Bristol
• Dr Mark Lyttle, Consultant and Senior Research Fellow in paediatric emergency medicine based at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and the University of the West of England
• Kim Kirby, Senior Research Fellow in Paramedic Science, University of the West of England

• Emily Phillpotts, Research Associate, University of the West of England to Delivery Group

Team Members

• Dr Laura Goodwin, Associate Professor in Emergency Care, University of the West of England
• Dr Helen Nicholson, Senior Research Fellow, University of the West of England
• Alice Colombo, Research Administrator, University of the West of England
• Behnaz Schofield, Associate Professor in Emergency Care, University of the West of England
• Fraser Birse, Tern Fellow, University of the West of England
• Helen Baxter, Research Fellow in Knowledge Mobilisation and Implementation, University of Bristol
• Jo Daniels, Senior Lecturer, University of Bath and Clinical Psychologist North Bristol NHS trust.
• Julie Menzies
• Katherine Coates, North Bristol Trust
• Rebecca Hoskins, Consultant Nurse and Faculty Strategic Lead for Advanced Practice, University of the West of England
• Robert Crouch, Consultant Nurse & Honorary Professor of Emergency Care, University of Southampton
• Scott Watkins, Senior Research Fellow, University of the West of England
• Tom Roberts, Academic Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Care, University of Bristol
• Zoe Anchors, Research Fellow, University of the West of England

• Benjamin Clarke, Tern Fellow, University of the West of England

Current PhD students

• Alyesha Proctor, Advanced Paramedic Practitioner in General Practice and PhD fellow based at the University of the West of England. The PhD is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Academic Training Programme. The project aims to develop an intervention to support Paramedics in safely assessing and managing children with minor head injury.
• Philip Braude is a Consultant at North Bristol NHS Trust working in geriatric medicine and perioperative care. Philip is in his first year of a DPhil by publication looking at frailty and serious injuries. As part of his work with REACH he has examined frailty and outcomes in the national trauma database (TARN), is looking at how surgeons view frailty in acute admissions, and is also examining whether frailty and discrimination are present in trauma care.
• Peter Danihel is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Urgent and Emergency Care. Peter is currently in the first year of a PHS studentship with the University of the West of England. The project will investigate paramedic assessment and management for pain in people living with dementia. The aim is to develop a tool to support paramedics to assess pain quickly and efficiently in prehospital care.
• Vicky Stanley, Registered Nurse and programme lead of the MSc Advanced Practice at UWE.  Vicky is in her first year of a PhD looking at the experiences of trainees and graduates of Advanced Clinical Practice apprenticeship programmes.  The aim of the project is to investigate the extent to which education and training meets the knowledge, skills and behaviours required of the role in clinical practice.
• Peter Owen is a specialist paramedic in critical care working in the South of England. He is undertaking a PhD at the University of the West of England in partnership with Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. The project aims to look at how dispatch for prehospital critical care teams such as air ambulances can be improved.
• Matt Dixon is an advanced paramedic practitioner working in a range of settings. Matt’s PhD is a mixed methods study exploring the impact of portfolio working on paramedic wellbeing, job satisfaction and retention in the United Kingdom.
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Previous PhD students

• Tom Roberts, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Care at the University of Bristol. Tom is an Emergency Medicine Doctor and completed his Doctoral Fellowship, “Developing a complex intervention for patients presenting to the Emergency Department with acute severe headache” in 2023. This was funded by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
• Kim Kirby, Paramedic at South Western Ambulance Service and Senior Research Fellow at University of the West of England. Kim followed the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Academic Training Programme at the University of the West of England. She completed her PhD in 2022 which focused on improving the ambulance response to patients who are at imminent risk of suffering, an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.