Biography
Paul has an undergraduate degree in psychology and a PhD in psychiatry. Paul joined Keele in 2007 with a focus on research within primary care settings, covering the areas of musculoskeletal health, mental health, and dementia. In 2019 Paul took a senior research role at the Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) where he currently leads research capacity building across social care, public health, and integrated care. Paul is also a Senior Research Fellow within the national DEMCOMM fellowship programme (hosted locally by the West Midlands Applied Research Collaboration). DEMCOMM looks to build research capacity in applied dementia research and Paul’s focus is on the provision of social work dementia-based services. Paul continues links with Keele via ongoing collaborations and his honorary role.
Research and scholarship
Paul's research has mainly focused on health conditions within a primary care or general population context, predominantly musculoskeletal pain conditions, dementia, and mental health. Teaching experience includes lectures, seminars, and workshops at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as one to one supervision (ACF dissertations, Masters, PhDs). Management experience includes project coordination, project management (principal and chief investigator), line management, grant application, and dissemination and impact activities.
Further information
Paul is currently a Senior Research Lead within the integrated care academic group (COSMIC) at the Department for Research and Innovation at Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). Paul's role within MPFT is to develop and support research capacity growth and research activity to the clinical and practitioner population, mainly within mental health, public health, and social care areas of practice. Paul is the academic lead for MPFT’s Social Care Research Engagement Network (SCREEN) and Paul also leads the MPFT/Keele Dementia Research Engagement and Activity Meeting (DREAM) group which supports the dementia research interests of academics and clinicians/practitioners at Keele and MPFT.
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