Research Partnership Team
Welcome to the Research Partnership Team (RPT). We are a dynamic, multidisciplinary group of researchers with specialist methodological and subject expertise, who are core to the work of NIHR ARC North Thames. Experience among team members is diverse and includes: evaluation of complex interventions (using quantitative and qualitative methods), social care research, applied statistics, health economics, organisational research, and systematic reviewing.
As a team, we support the delivery of research by:
- Enhancing research design
- Identifying potential for research impact and implementation
- Reaching out and engaging with our partners and communities
Through our wider engagement efforts, we respond to emerging local and national priorities by forming new collaborations, leveraging externally funded grants, and delivering research.
How do we work with you?
The process begins by listening to your ideas, questions and needs. The team works with you to identify the key issues and to determine if an evidence-based solution could be achieved through applied health research. No problem is too big or too small, and we encourage you to get in touch.
Contact us via email to share your ideas and explore opportunities for new research.
Meet the Team
Dr Fiona Aspinal
Senior Research Fellow, UCL
Fiona Aspinal worked as a registered nurse in elderly care and palliative care settings. Using qualitative and mixed-methods approaches, she has undertaken several complex evaluations of systems, services and interventions across health and social care settings, including palliative care, community neurological services, support for carers of people with dementia, and reablement.
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Dr Helen Blake
Research Fellow in Applied Statistics, UCL
Research Fellow, Clinical Effectiveness Unit, Royal College of Surgeons of England
Helen Blake is a medical statistician, providing quantitative expertise to the Research Partnership Team. Her background is in developing and applying statistical methodology to routinely collected health care data, including methods for: record linkage, dealing with missing data, propensity score analysis of observational data, and meta-analysis. Her current clinical research areas include cancer, surgery and secondary care.
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Dr Beth Eveleigh
Research Fellow in Applied Health Research, UCL
Beth Eveleigh is a mixed-methods researcher and registered nutritionist with experience in population health, observational studies, research trials, systematic reviews and clinical research. She has particular interest in areas including population health improvement and sustainability.
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Dr Melissa Galea Holmes
Research & Implementation Facilitator, UCL
Melissa Galea Holmes coordinates the activities of our Research Partnership Team, including engaging with NIHR ARC North Thames partners to identify and progress researchable problems. She contributes to programme management, and provides support on funding applications, sponsorship and ethical approvals, and publication processes. She works closely with our Implementation Leads to facilitate translation and impact of our research findings in practice.
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Dr Kristoffer Halvorsrud
Research Fellow in Evaluation of Health Interventions, UCL
Kristoffer Halvorsrud has an interdisciplinary background especially in research on health and inequalities and the application of different evidence synthesis formats such as systematic reviews and meta-analyses, in addition to quantitative and qualitative primary research methods.
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Andrew Hutchings
Deputy theme Lead, Health Economics and Data
Assistant Professor, LSHTM
Andrew Hutchings' background is in quantitative analysis and the use of linked routine heath care data for health services research, usually as part of mixed methods evaluations or alongside cost-effectiveness analyses. His main interests are in questions of effectiveness, organisational variation and inequalities/inequity in secondary care (surgery, cancer, rheumatology, critical care) and population health management.
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Dr Sarah Jasim
Senior Research Fellow, UCL & Research Fellow, LSE
Sarah Jasim has expertise in using qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the implementation of interventions in health and social care. She has particular interests in areas of social care, mental health, quality improvement and inequalities. Sarah is currently building a knowledge brokerage function, improving the way academic researchers and policy makers in London government work together.
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Dr Danielle Lamb
Senior Research Fellow, UCL
Danielle Lamb has a background in acute mental health service research. Her expertise is in using mixed methods to evaluate the implementation and use of complex services and interventions. She has a particular interest in mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
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Professor Elena Pizzo
Theme Lead, Health Economics and Data
Professorial Research Fellow, UCL
Elena Pizzo's clinical research areas include oncology, mental health, maternal health, diabetes, hepatology, orthopaedics and stroke. She is particularly interested in the economic evaluation of health care technologies and interventions and in the measurement of health and distributional aspects of health policy.
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Dr Eirini-Christina Saloniki
Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, UCL
Eirini-Christina Saloniki is an expert in economics of disability, economics of discrimination and applied microecometrics. She has a special interest in workforce studies, discrimination faced by disabled people in different areas, and how such discrimination is measured using survey data. She has experience in economic evaluation of clinical and non-clinical studies (oral health, mental health, genetic disorders, chronic conditions, diabetes, long-term care).
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Dr Jessica Sheringham
Senior Research Fellow, UCL
Honorary Consultant in Public Health (non-clinical), OHID
Jessica Sheringham is co-chair of the Local Authority Public Health Academic Research Network for London and North Thames. She is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London, an honorary Consultant in Public Health with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and a member of NIHR ARC North Thames Research Partnership Team, where she also leads on population health research with Integrated Care Boards and Local Authorities.
Jessica works predominantly with public health and healthcare professionals on research that addresses questions of importance to public health and healthcare delivery. From 2024, she is embarking on a programme of research through an NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Fellowship to understand the impact of data sharing between housing and health services to reduce health inequalities.
Jessica also has an enduring commitment to public health education and training. She has led development of eCREST, an online educational resource on clinical reasoning, used by current and future healthcare professionals in four different countries. She is a co-author of Mastering Public Health, a textbook on public health and an Examiner for the UK Faculty of Public Health international membership exams.
29 Nov 2023