People at IHR

Meet the people behind the Institute

The Institute for Health Research supports a culture of research and the building of capacity so membership is inclusive and open to all members of staff and students engaged in, or with an interest in health research in the broadest sense. Accessibility to all events, interest group meetings and website content is not restricted and will be open to all LJMU staff and postgraduate students, and potentially external colleagues.

Executive Board

Membership of the IHR Executive Board	Name
Head of IHR	Dr Gillian Hutcheon
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)	Professor Robin Leatherbarrow
Dean of Faculty of Education, Health and Community	Professor Raphaela Kane
Dean of Faculty of Science	Professor Peter Wheeler
Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Technology	Professor Ahmed Al-Shamma’a
Dean of Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies	Professor Joe Yates
Dean of Liverpool Business School	Tim Nichol

Advisory Board

Membership of the IHR Advisory Board	Name
Head of Institute for Health Research	Gillian Hutcheon
Associate Dean Research: Education, Health and Community	Ian Jones
Associate Dean Research: Science	Keith George
Associate Dean Research: Liverpool Business School	Shona Bettany
Head of FET technology	Paulo Lisboa
Representative: Research Innovation Services	Robin Leatherbarrow
Representative: Research Innovation Services	Alan Welby
Representative: Public Health Institute	Vivian Hope
Representative: Cross PBS/FET	Mark Murphy
Representative: Natural Sciences and Psychology	Helen Poole
Representative: Nursing and Allied Health	Deborah Fitzsimmons
Representative: Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences	Charles Morecroft
Representative: Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences	Ellen Dawson

Coordinators

Coordinators lead the activities of each interest group will then report progress and successes to the advisory board on an annual basis. There will be a balance of interest groups across disease states, health areas, methodologies and technologies and it is anticipated that an individual interest group will contain a broad range of researchers from different disciplines.

Interest group	Coordinator
Cardiovascular health and care	Prof Ian Jones and Dr Ellen Dawson
Green spaces	Prof Zoe Knowles
Mental wellbeing	Dr Grahame Smith and Dr Caroline Brett
Children's health	Dr Clare Van Miert and Dr Lorna Porcellato
Diagnostics and therapeutics	Dr Francesca Giuntini
Image and performance enhancing drugs	Dr David Todd Mr James McVeigh
Living with Cancer	Dr Helen Poole
Nutrition for health	Dr Ian Davies
Social prescribing	Prof Gillian Hutcheon
Systematic reviews	Dr Lisa Jones
International health	Prof Marie-Claire van Hout
Digital health and technology	Dr Ian Jarman and Prof Andy Shaw