Dr Mike Bracher BA (Hons), MSc, PhD
Visiting Fellow
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Mike Bracher is a Visiting Fellow and within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.
He currently provides consultancy services to the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded project: Eye Donation from Palliative and Hospice care contexts: investigating Potential, Practice, Preference and Perceptions (EDiPPPP) study team (https://www.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/17/49/42).
Mike is a Medical Sociologist with interests in:
- planning and evaluating implementation of technologies and processes in complex healthcare settings
- communication and interaction between healthcare professionals, patients, and family/friends/partners;
- patient experience information drawn from large-scale free-text data sets;
- review and synthesis of evidence from studies using qualitative and mixed methods.
After completing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Southampton in 2013, Mike worked as a Research Fellow within Health Sciences at Southampton from 2014-2017. From 2017-2018, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship examining implementation of procedures for screening and treatment of malnutrition for older people in community care (the INSCCOPe project). Mike then worked as a Senior Research Associate on the SAToRI-BTR (A systematic approach to review of in vitro models in brain tumour research) project within the Faculty of Science at the University of Portsmouth. Mike re-joined the School of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton in June 2019 as Project Manager/Senior Research Fellow for the EDiPPPP project, before leaving to join the Office for National Statistics in January 2022. Mike continues to be involved with the EDiPPPP project as a Visiting Fellow.