Public Engagement Group

The Public Engagement Group (PEG) harnesses expertise not typically considered to be 'translational' –  for example, health economics, outcomes research, social sciences, ethics and, most importantly, patient care.  This connectivity will enhance research opportunities and quality and most importantly ensure its relevance to patients

Chair

Elaine Strachan-Hall
Elaine has ten years experience as a nurse director and was appointed to the Trust in February 2007.  She is a cardiothoracic nurse with general management experience in medicine.  Read more >>


Engagement Group Members

Susan Dopson
Professor Sue Dopson is the Director of Research Degrees at the Said Business School, and Rhodes Trust Professor of Organizational Behaviour. Read more >>
Katharine Wright
Katharine Wright is Assistant Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, currently leading a project on the ethical issues arising out of dementia. Her background is in health policy, law and ethics: before taking up her current post, she spent 9 years at the House of Commons Research Library, briefing MPs of all parties on health issues. Read more >>
Mary Boulton
Professor Mary Boulton is Professor of Health Sociology and Director of Research in the School of Health & Social Care, Oxford Brookes University. Her research has included work on the evaluation of health care services from the patients’ point of view; primary care; children with chronic illness and/or disabilities; and families and health. Read more >>
John Hutton
Professor John Hutton is Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York as well as a Project Director at YHEC. John is an experienced health economist who has spent time in academia, the public sector and healthcare consulting.Read more >>
Professor Ray Fitzpatrick was a lecturer at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London before moving to Oxford in 1986. He is Professor of Public Health and Primary Care in the Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care and a Fellow, Nuffield College. Read more >>
Michael Hocken lives at Delly End, near Witney. He started his professional life as a conference interpreter, before becoming Secretary-General of the European Civil Service Federation (a staff association representing European civil servants).Read more >>
Louise Locock - BRC Health Experiences Fellow.
Louise interviews patients taking part in a range of different types of medical research, to help understand more about why they take part, what it’s like for them, what information they need and how they think things could be improved for people involved in research.Read more >>

Mark Sheehan
Mark Sheehan is Oxford BRC Ethics Fellow at the Ethox Centre and a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences.  Read more >>