The Team

Co-directors

The co-directors; Jonathan Benger and Dr Matthew Booker

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
  • 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
  • Jessica Coggins Research Associate, University of the West of England

The Delivery Team of REACH

Team Members

  • Aiswarya Raghunathan
  • Alice Colombo, Research Administrator, University of the West of England
  • Behnaz Schofield, Associate Professor in Emergency Care, University of the West of England
  • Faiza Gul, Research Fellow, 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, Psychologically Informed Policy and Practice (PiPP) Project Lead, Royal College of Emergency Medicine and University of Bath UKRI collaboration
  • Julie Menzies
  • Katherine Coates, North Bristol Trust
  • Kim Kirby, Senior Research Fellow in Paramedic Science, University of the West of England
  • 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

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.

Current PHD students of REACH

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.