Dr Elise Crayton — Research Associate, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change

Doctor Elise Crayton is a Research Associate in Health Psychology based at University College London in the Centre for Behaviour Change.

Elise's research has focused upon the use of evidence synthesis and application of behavioural science methods to design, deliver and evaluate behaviour change interventions. Elise has carried out research across multiple healthcare settings within the NHS, engaging with patient, general public and healthcare professional populations. Her research to date has focused upon anxiety and social support for elderly stroke survivors, medication adherence in stroke survivors, quality improvement of the two-week wait cancer referral pathway and safe stewardship of antimicrobials.

Dr Peter Dutey — Research Associate, UCL Institute of Health Informatics

Peter is a postdoctoral researcher working on analysing hospital electronic health records to monitor and improve the use of antibiotics in hospitals. He is developing an R software package to enable NHS hospitals to analyse and act upon data collected routinely by electronic prescribing systems and microbiology laboratories.

Peter's research interests are in clinical decision support systems, intervention development and evaluation. He previously worked as an information analyst at the Royal Free Hospital's public health team.

Dr Gillian Forbes — Research Fellow, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change

Doctor Gillian Forbes is a Research Fellow based at the UCL Centre of Behaviour Change. Her first degree is in Psychology (University of Dundee) and her MPhil is in Health Psychology (University of St Andrews). She was awarded her PhD in Improvement Science funded by the Health Foundation at the University of Dundee in 2019.

Gillian’s current research focuses on healthcare professional behaviour associated with antibiotic stewardship and the antibiotic seeking behaviour of the general public.

Gillian is interested in the implementation of research evidence into practice and the associated use of behaviour change theory to underpin the design and development of interventions aiming to change clinical practice.

Mr Christopher Fuller — Project Manager, UCL Institute of Health Informatics

Dr Martin J. Gill — Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Dr Martin Gill is an NHS Microbiologist in secondary/tertiary hospital with a wide range of specialist adult services. He advises on the diagnosis, management (including the use of antimicrobials) and prevention of infection. He works with a range of healthcare professionals who have responsibility for prescribing and overseeing prescribing. He has chaired the Trust’s Antimicrobial Steering Group and been its Infection Control Doctor. He has research interests in surgical site prevention, antimicrobial resistance and in infection informatics. He collaborates on projects funded by National Institute of Health Research, Economic and Social Research Council.

Dr Arnoupe Jhass — NIHR In Practice Fellow, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care

Doctor Arnoupe Jhass is an NIHR In Practice Fellow at the Institute for Health Informatics and the Research Department of Primary Care & Population Health, University College London. He undertook his medical training at Southampton, and holds a degrees in health policy from the London School of Economics and the University of Edinburgh.

His research interest is in the use of antibiotics in primary care looking at long-term care facilities in particular. Prior to this fellowship, he held a School of Primary Care Research Grant from the National Institute of Health Research.

Alongside his academic fellowship, Arnoupe works as GP in North London.

Ms Selina Patel — PhD Student, UCL Institute of Informatics

Selina has been a PhD student of public health at UCL since 2017. Selina’s research considers how best to monitor antimicrobial use in NHS hospitals, and how to harness these data to develop higher impact interventions which optimise prescribing and reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance. This project is aligned with the PASS research programme and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Prior to starting her PhD, Selina won an award for the most outstanding performance in her BSc at the University of Birmingham and completed her MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Selina has previously held positions at the World Health Organization, the Royal Society and in the charity sector. Her research interests are antimicrobial use and resistance.

Dr Emma Richardson — Research Fellow, Aston University Institute for Forensic Linguistics

Emma Richardson is a Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University. She is a qualitative researcher with interests in how policy and guidance documents are used by people in practice, to assist the most vulnerable in society.

Emma’s research activity is largely based within forensic and health and social care settings. She spent 4 years, first at the University of Liverpool and then at the University of Manchester examining the impact of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) inspection and rating of health and social care services in England before joining the PASS team at the University of Leicester as an ethnographer.

Now based at Aston, she uses conversation analysis to examine investigative interviews with vulnerable adults.

Mr Patrick Rockenschaub — Research Assistant, UCL Institute of Health Informatics

Patrick is a PhD student in Health Data Science at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics and a research assistant for the PASS project. Patrick is responsible for the analysis of the primary care data obtained from large English healthcare databases.

Within the broader remit of his PhD, Patrick is looking into using these real-world medical datasets to optimise the use of antibiotics across healthcare settings using predictive modelling and machine learning.

Dr Catherine Smith — Research Associate, UCL Institute of Health Informatics

Catherine Smith is a postdoctoral infectious disease epidemiologist. In the PASS project, Catherine is leading the Bug Watch community cohort study and the analysis of data from care homes. She has experience in research about the application of novel technologies to improving control of infectious diseases. This has included a randomised controlled trial assessing the use of a mobile app to support treatment of tuberculosis, and a study combining epidemiological information with whole genome sequencing to improve understanding of transmission of viruses in hospitals.

Dr Rosanna Traina — Research Associate, RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design

Rosanna is a designer, illustrator and researcher passionate about the affordances of user-led design and considerate information design. She is currently a Research Associate in the Healthcare Research Space at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. She completed her BA in printmaking at Sheffield Hallam University, an MA in Communication Art & Design at the RCA in 2007, and a doctorate in Information Design at Reading University in 2017. The thesis explored the design and transparency of documents that record and relay past live art works, and the challenges and opportunities of relaying transient experience in print. Recommendations were presented through a working prototype, the structure and design of which was guided both by user-centred design and research methods and information design principles and practices.

Her role as research associate at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design continues to further her interest and exploration into design research methods, which is core to the PASS design work package activities.