Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education encompasses a broad range of research and teaching disciplines and areas including primary care, public health, medical statistics, qualitative methods, health economics and medical education. There is an active postgraduate group and our staff make major contributions to postgraduate training and medical undergraduate and leadership teaching.
Head of School – Professor Julies Parkes
Deputy Head of School – Professor Hazel Everitt
The constituent groups of our School are:
Our research is described in detail on the following websites
And under the personal pages of research staff:
The Primary Care Research Centre undertakes world leading primary care research, helping to inform and improve evidence based health care. Since 2008 the Primary Care Research Centre (research led by Professor Paul Little) has been a member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR). Our Centre has attracted a wide range of funding, notably from NIHR (Programme Grants, Health Services Research, EME, Public Health Research, RfPB, Health Technology Assessment) as well as other research bodies e.g. MRC, Arthritis Research Council and Macmillan Trust.
Researchers in Population Sciences are working on a number of multi-disciplinary projects with a range of funding from NIHR (Health Technology Assessment, HS+DR, Public Health Research, ARC Wessex) and from charities (British Heart Foundation, British Renal Society, Kidney Research UK) and work closely with other Faculties and Schools right across the University of Southampton.
Medical Education staff undertake research activities that range from education research projects to research in the fields of clinical ethics and law, sociology, medical education including widening participation and pedagogic methods. Much of this research is collaborative and inter-disciplinary, involving colleagues from other faculties and other universities. The Medical Education Innovation Network (MEIN) aims to share best practices in education to improve students' learning experiences by supporting new educational strategies, disseminating cutting-edge educational research and promoting innovative projects.
Our contributions to education are:
Leading the development and delivery of many areas of the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) programmes. Supervision and examining of postgraduate students and Year 3 medical students’ projects. Co-supervision of postgraduate students including Health Sciences, Psychology, Geography and Mathematics. We are also involved in interviewing, lecturing, running seminars, being Personal Academic Tutors and OSCEs. Our postgraduate students are undertaking a broad range of work, some of their web profiles can be found on the Medicine Research Students page and a summary document of our postgraduate students and their projects can be viewed here.