Founding Director
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Centre Director
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Founding Director of the EPPI Centre and the Social Science Research Unit, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy
a.oakley@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Gender, health, methodology and evidence-informed public policy; theories of knowledge construction.
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Director of the EPPI Centre,
Professor of Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice
david.gough@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Development of methods of systematic review and the study of research use.
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Deputy Directors
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Deputy Director of the EPPI Centre and Professor of Public Policy
sandy.oliver@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Making knowledge more democratic, through public involvement in doing and using research, and synthesising and sharing research literature.
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Deputy Director of the EPPI Centre, Professor of Social Research and Policy, Director of the Evidence Reviews Facility for DHSC
james.thomas@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Developing methods for research synthesis, in particular for qualitative and mixed methods reviews and in using emerging information technologies such as text mining in research.
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Associate Directors
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Associate Director of the EPPI Centre, Reader in Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Education and Social Policy
mark.newman@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Developing methods and processes for systematic reviews for policy and practice decision making across social policy.
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Associate Director of the EPPI Centre, Associate Professor
a.o'mara-eves@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Meta-analysis and systematic review methods; technologies to assist systematic reviewing; social psychology; education; and public health.
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Associate Director of the EPPI Centre, Professor of Social Policy, Director of the Social Science Research Unit
rebecca.rees@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Synthesis of studies of people's perspectives on social phenomena and in participatory approaches to research in public health.
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Associate Director of the EPPI Centre, Associate Professor of Evidence Synthesis Methodology
i.shemilt@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Developing, applying, and evaluating methods and automation tools to increase the efficiency of systematic review and evidence synthesis production workflows.
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Associate Director of the EPPI Centre, Associate Professor
katy.sutcliffe@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Children's participation in their health-care; approaches for integrating different types of research evidence in systematic reviews and approaches for supporting the implementation of review findings.
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Staff
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Associate Professor
m.bangpan@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Social interventions; gender, health and well-being of children and women in developing countries; systematic reviews in international development.
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EPPI Reviewer Support Officer
and Trainer
melissa.bond@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Systematic review methodology (particularly within the field of education), educational technology and student engagement, digitalisation, the flipped learning approach, international research collaboration, foreign language teaching and learning, the doctoral journey, and offering professional development.
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Senior Research Fellow
preethy.d'souza@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: International development; research networks in South Asia; international multidisciplinary reviews; machine learning.
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Associate Professor
k.dickson@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Systematic reviews in education and social care and working with review groups to undertake systematic reviews.
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Senior Research Fellow
rachael.edwards@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Nature-based interventions for health and wellbeing; Equity and inclusion; Intersections of sustainability and public health; Mechanisms of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration; Qualitative methods
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Lead Developer and
Information Systems Manager
s.graziosi@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: EPPI-Reviewer development and related technology; evidence synthesis methods; epistemology; cognitive science and politics.
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Principal Research Fellow
gareth.hollands@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Development and evaluation of scalable interventions to improve population and planetary health (especially systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions to change health-related behaviours) and related methods development across evidence generation and evidence use.
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Senior Research Fellow
m.khatwa@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Qualitative evidence synthesis, stakeholder engagement and participatory methods; systematic reviews for DHSC; social and health inequalities; co-lead MSc Introduction to Qualitative Methods, MSc Qualitative Dissertation and UCL Menopause Network.
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Principal Research Fellow
d.kneale@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Exploring methods and practice in evidence-based policy-making; policy analysis; longitudinal analysis; neighbourhood and contextual effects; transitions to adulthood; housing and health; and ageing and ageing policy.
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Research Fellow
i.kwan@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Systematic review methodology and its application in different contexts of public health investigations; evidence use and implementation; online harms, digital health.
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Research Officer
sarah.lester@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Systematic reviews in health, social care and well-being; approaches to involving service users in research processes; research on research use.
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Senior Programmer
p.o'driscoll@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: C#.NET Core and Angular development for ER-Web; SQL server; computation, education, science and gaming.
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Senior Communications
& Design Officer
l.openshaw@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Communications, design and branding strategy, for digital and other media, across SRI; research editorial, design and publishing for EPPI/SSRU; visual arts, culture and politics.
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Research Officer
m.richardson@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Applying mixed methods to synthesise evidence in public health and health promotion; developing tools to characterise the elements of interventions.
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Professor of Health
and Social Care
c.rivas@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Medical sociology, multidisciplinary research methods and innovation; patient and public engagement and participatory research.
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Associate Professor of
Social and Political Science
k.bird@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Social research methods including systematic review methodology, and visual research in social science; gender issues, women and higher education; visual methods and knowledge exchange.
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Professorial Research Fellow
j.sharples@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Evidence ecosystems; evidence-informed decision-making; implementation; research intermediaries and brokers; critical thinking across different fields.
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Associate Professor of
Social Policy
a.simon@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Social research methods, including secondary analysis of large-scale data, administrative data and systematic review methodology; childcare; early years; children’s wellbeing; children’s diets; and trends in ethnicity and poverty.
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Senior Research Fellow
c.stansfield@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Information management support; advice and guidance to other research projects in health promotion, international development and related fields.
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Honorary Professor
utnvrst@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Research with service users, practitioners and policy-makers in health and education, facilitating and researching user-involvement in evidence-informed decision-making; international development.
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Associate Professor of
Inclusive Social Research
gillian.stokes@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Medicine, public health and developing methods in evidence-based health policy; discourse analysis methods; Bakhtinian theory; intrapersonal role conflict theory; children's rights.
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Associate Professor of
Social Policy
janice.tripney@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: The influence of scientific evidence for policy and practice decision-making in education and other areas of social policy; the history and politics of evidence use, and the use and methodology of systematic reviews.
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Senior Research Fellow
c.vigurs@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Diabetes education; Children and young people; Young offenders; Youth at risk; Systematic reviews; rapid evidence assessment.
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Students
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PhD Student
Interests: Human Behaviour Change Project – using AI methods to advance behavioural science research; interaction between humans and AI.
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