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Nisar Ahmed | Abodunrin Aminu | Peter Bower | Katie Davies | Kimberly Lazo Green | Alex Hall | Jane McDermott | Lisa McGarrigle | Debora Price | Chris Todd | Louise Tomkow | Linda Welch |
Nisar Ahmed
Nisar is a Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences. He joined the NIHR Older People and Frailty Policy Research Unit at The University of Manchester in 2023. He was awarded a PhD from The University of Sheffield in health services research (patient holistic needs/symptom assessment in chronic progressive disease).
Nisar has over 20 years of project management experience in conducting mixed methods research in both academia and industry using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. He has successfully project managed numerous research projects that have led to over 40 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. He has been a co-applicant on major research grants.
Nisar has a particular interest in health services research, digital health and lifestyle medicine research using an evidence-based, whole person approach to reduce symptom and disease burden, and improving health and wellbeing.
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Abodunrin Aminu
Abodunrin is a Research Associate in the School of Health Sciences, where he works as part of the team leading the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing. His research focuses on the ageing population, and he has a specific interest in the social determinants of frailty and geriatric oral research.
Abodunrin’s background is in dentistry, and he holds a PhD in Health and Social care. He is passionate about health promotion and has authored publications in the field of ageing research. Prior to his current role at The University of Manchester PRU, Abodunrin participated in the EU Horizon 2020 project (EUROAGEISM), where he worked as one of the 15 global Early-Stage Researchers investigating ageism in the UK and EU, with partners and beneficiaries including the WHO, UNECE, AgePlatform Europe, Age Alliance, European Centre for Social Welfare and Policy Research and other Higher Education Institutions in Europe.
Abodunrin was a former British Commonwealth Scholar and a member of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Action Alumni. He received different awards for excellence in academics and research. He enjoys volunteering for social causes and mentoring students in health research.
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Peter Bower
Peter Bower is a Professor of Health Services Research and an NIHR Senior Investigator, and leads the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, which is part of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. He also has roles in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester and the NIHR REVAL Greater Manchester Rapid Service Evaluation Team.
He has a track record of research in the evaluation of treatments for mental health, and on effective ways of improving management of long-term conditions, with a focus on self-management and patient-centred care. He is especially interested in the management of patients with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity).
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- Email: peter.bower@manchester.ac.uk
Katie Davies
Katie is a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care at the School of Health Sciences, The University of Manchester. This fellowship allows her to integrate research with clinical training in General Practice. As a practising doctor, Katie is passionate about delivering compassionate, patient-centred care.
Her research focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of older adults, with published work addressing key areas such as social connectivity, frailty, falls and healthy inequalities. She has experience working with big data and analysing large longitudinal datasets.
Currently, Katie is pursuing a Master’s in Research in Public Health (MRes) at The University of Manchester. In addition, she is actively involved in research projects linked with the policy research unit.
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Kimberly Lazo Green
Kimberly is a Research Associate in the School of Health Sciences. She joined the NIHR Older People and Frailty Policy Research Unit in 2022 and carried on her role at the NIHR Healthy Ageing Policy Research Unit in 2024. Her work focuses on conducting evidence synthesis and rapid reviews on healthy ageing and the delivery of health and care services.
She obtained her PhD in 2020 from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), where she looked at informal institutions and collective action in the Greater Manchester health devolution. Prior to commencing this role, she was a Research Associate for the Implementation Team in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) and an Associate Lecturer in Economics at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and MMU.
Kimberly is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity (JAPA) and a member of The University of Manchester’s Healthy Ageing Research Group (HARG).
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Alex Hall
Alex is a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences and deputy lead of The University of Manchester Healthy Ageing Research Group.
His research focuses on a range of topics relating to ageing, dementia, social care and end-of-life care, including organisation and delivery of care, the role of technologies in health and care, and socio-legal topics in later life (such as advance care planning and later life finances). He has expertise in qualitative and evidence synthesis methods, and in implementation science.
He is a member of the British Society of Gerontology and currently sits on the NIHR Research Programme for Social Care funding committee. He has previously served as an editorial board member of Health and Social Care in the Community, as deputy chair of a University Research Ethics Committee, and has held a policy fellowship with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
His teaching includes supporting research-focused units of various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, and the supervision of master’s and PhD students.
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- Email: alex.hall@manchester.ac.uk
Jane McDermott
Jane holds a number of strategic positions both within the Policy Research Unit, where she leads our public and community involvement and engagement, strategic collaborations, knowledge mobilisation and impact. She is a visiting Professor of Practice at Newcastle University, proactively working across our sites and in close partnership with our extensive network spanning the NIHR infrastructure (e.g. the NIHR Innovation Observatory) and health, care policy and practice landscapes. This includes partnership working with voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sectors, as well as with national, regional and local authorities and integrated care boards.
Previously Jane undertook a CAPE Policy Fellowship at the Department of Health and Social Care, working within the Science, Research and Evidence Directorate and supporting the Women’s Health Strategy implementation. Jane has more than 25 years of experience in senior programme and project leadership, strategic relations, knowledge mobilisation and impact in the fields of health ageing, policy research, innovation and social inclusion. Having worked extensively across Europe, as a lead member of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing she is well a well-practiced strategic leader working across-borders and organisational boundaries. Her interests lie in innovation practice to improve participation, representation, diversity and belonging.
Jane is a thinking environment, open space practitioner and expert facilitator who regularly works with community groups as co-researchers and partners in the research of the PRU. Through her extensive network she proactively seeks to involve and engage citizens in research, in particular with those who are most underrepresented in health and social care.
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- Email: j.mcdermott@manchester.ac.uk
Lisa McGarrigle
Lisa is a Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences. She joined the NIHR Older People and Frailty Policy Research Unit in 2022. She has a background in cognitive psychology and holds a PhD from Dublin City University, Ireland, where her research focused on protective factors in cognitive decline and dementia.
Lisa’s research interests lie mainly in the area of healthy ageing, with a particular focus on the use of technology in activity promotion and falls prevention. She has a background in quantitative research, with experience working with large longitudinal and clinical trial datasets, statistical modelling software, and advanced statistical analysis techniques such as structural equation modelling.
She is also experienced in conducting systematic reviews using Cochrane, COSMIN (for reviews on outcome measures), overview, and rapid review methodologies. Lisa is also a member of the Research and Innovation Workstream of the Manchester Falls Collaborative.
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Debora Price
Debora is a Professor of Social Gerontology at The University of Manchester. She is a former Director of MICRA, the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, and held office as President of the British Society of Gerontology from 2016 – 2019. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her research into poverty in later life.
Debora’s work focuses on social policy for an ageing society, especially at the intersection of financial wellbeing and health. She is also a Deputy Director of the UK Data Service. She works closely with stakeholders across government, local government, NGOs and industry to embed research evidence into our understanding of later life.
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Chris Todd
Chris is Professor of Primary Care and Community Health in the School of Health Sciences at The University of Manchester and a NIHR Senior Investigator.
As well as being Deputy Director of the Healthy Ageing Policy Research Unit he also leads the Healthy Ageing Theme for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration- Greater Manchester and is co-lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaborations National Priority Area in Healthy Ageing, Dementia and Frailty. He leads the Dunhill Medical Trust/NIHR/University of Manchester Healthy Ageing PhD Programme. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Chris has more than 30 years of research experience, with a portfolio of research funding from UK funders (NIHR, UKRI Research Councils and Charities) and the European Commission. He sits or has sat on a number of research funding committees in UK and EU, currently including NIHR Policy Research Programme and NIHR Advanced Fellowships Panel. He serves on advisory panels such as the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group, the World Falls Guidelines Development Group and the Fall Prevention Core Group; World Health Organization; Age-Friendly Environments Knowledge & Action HUB. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he sat on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) Social Care Working Group. He is a member of World Falls Prevention Society, Executive Council.
Chris is author/co-author of some 350 peer reviewed publications as well as some 200 other publications and reports. Chris teaches at postgraduate level and has supervised some 40 PhD students. He has mentored numerous early and mid-career researchers. He has broad university administrative experience as School Director of Research (2003 to 2013) and through leading RAE2008 and REF2014 submissions.
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- Email: chris.todd@manchester.ac.uk
Louise Tomkow
Louise spends 50% of her time working at Salford Royal at the Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital as a Consultant Geriatrician and 50% of her time undertaking research at The University of Manchester.
Louise graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2008 and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2012. Louise has spent time volunteering as a doctor in Malawi and India and has an MA with distinction in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response. In 2019 she was awarded a PhD at the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute. Her ESRC-funded doctorate examined how forced migration impacts health in later life, and therefore integrated her interests of migration, ageing, health and inequalities.
Louise was awarded an NIHR academic clinical lectureship in 2019, where she led research projects including the NIHR-funded projects ‘Improving discussions about resuscitation for bereaved relatives in COVID-19’; ‘Palliative and End of life Care experiences of people of African and Caribbean descent during COVID-19 (PEACE)’; Diverse experiences of end-of-life care with dementia; and work exploring the healthcare of asylum seekers in multiple occupancy accommodation during Covid-19.
Louise has worked as a volunteer Medico-Legal Report writer for Freedom from Torture and an active is part of Medact Manchester, a group of healthcare professionals who campaign on issues of social justice and health. She currently leads a programme of health seminars in Rochdale, aimed at reducing health inequalities. Her work within the Policy Research Unit is focused on minoritised communities and end-of-life care planning.
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Linda Welch
Linda is the Senior Research Administrator for the HAPRU team based at The University of Manchester. She has 30 years of experience working in administration and has been based within the School of Health Sciences at Manchester since 2014.
Prior to joining the HAPRU, Linda supported other NIHR and ESRC research projects.
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- Email: linda.welch@manchester.ac.uk
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