Julius Sim

Biography

Julius initially studied English at the University of Durham, after which he gained an MSc (with distinction) in Sociology at South Bank Polytechnic, an MSc (with distinction) in Statistics at Sheffield Hallam University, and a PhD in Philosophy, supervised by David McNaughton, at Keele University. 

Before coming to Keele in 1997, Julius had a brief but successful career in Pizza Express and a longer, but markedly less successful, career in the National Health Service, after which he worked at Coventry University as a lecturer in social and health research. 

Julius is a Chartered Statistician and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. 

Research and scholarship

Julius's research within Keele is mainy located in the Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, but he has also worked with the Social Gerontology, Psychology and Criminology research groups within Keele. His principal research interests are in methodology and ethics. 

Teaching

• GRT-40023: Approaches to research design and process 

• HLT-40001: Research methods in health 

• PTY-40002: Evidence-based practice 

• ETH-40043: Ethical issues in research 

• HLT-40002: Avanced quantitative data analysis (module leader) 

• CLM-40003: Statistics and Epidemiology 

Further information

Julius was deputy chair on Sub-Panel 3 of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, having previously chaired Sub-Panel 12 of the 2018 Research Assessment Exercise, and has served on the East Midlands Committee of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit funding scheme. 

Currently, Julius sits on the funding committee for the Research for Patient and Public Benefit scheme (Health and Social Care, Wales) and the commissioning board of the Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (NIHR), and is a member of sub-panel 3 in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. 

Julius is statistical advisor for the Journal of Psychomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology and BMC Medical Research Methodology, an associate editor (and previous editor-in-chief) of Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, and a member of the editorial board of Physiotherapy Canada.