Institute of Education London

Professor Sandy Oliver

• Qualifications and position:
  • BA, PhD, FHEA
  • Professor of Public Policy
  • Deputy Director, SSRU
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Children and Health
• Department:
  • Social Science Research Unit
• Centre:
  • Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre)
• Summary:
  • My special interest involves making knowledge more democratic, through public involvement in doing and using research, and synthesising and sharing research literature. Ten years as an advocate of maternity service users was followed by an academic career developing systems to support public involvement in research and policy, nationally and internationally.
• Teaching:
  • MSc in Evidence for Public Policy and Practice.
    Module leader for: Participative Research and Policy
• Research Projects:
  • Integration and evaluation of consumer involvement in the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme
    Health promotion and public health reviews facility
    Text mining as a search engine for the UK Educational Evidence Portal
    UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre
    Maximising engagement, motivation and long term change in a Structured Intensive Education Programme in Diabetes for children, young people and their families: Child and Adolescent Structured Competencies Approach to Diabetes Education (CASCADE) www.cascadestudy.com
    Supporting Centres for Systematic Review of Health Policy and Systems Research in Low and Middle Income Countries: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (WHO)
    Private ambulatory health care in middle and low income countries: a systematic review of strategies to improve the technical quality
• Postgraduate Research:
  • Research interests:
    The contributions of lay people to health services research; developing ways of training and supporting lay people who are planning, conducting or using research
    advancing evidence-based health promotion
    public engagement in the natural sciences and social research
    
    Postgraduate researchers:
    Katy Sutcliffe: Children with diabetes and the role of evidence-informed shared-decision making
    David Buglar: The Impact of Consumer Involvement on Research
    Bridget Candy: The contribution of qualitative evidence to our understanding of the effectiveness of treatments/or complex interventions
    Gillian Stokes: Medicines for Children.
• Professional Activities:
  • James Lind Alliance Strategy and Development Group: member
    Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group: editor
    National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme: advisor on public involvement
    National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
    Advisory committee for NHS Evidence: member
    National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Funding Board: member
    Interim Evaluation of the Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme in England: Project Advisory Group member
• Conferences/presentations:
  • Research agendas: exploring perspectives and participation methods. At: CARE V, Oslo Norway 26 April 2008
    
    Evidence for policy decision-making. At: ICDDR, B, Dhaka Bangladesh, 25 November 2007
    
    Comparisons of patients', clinicians', and researchers' agendas. At: How can clinical trialists serve the needs of clinicians and patients more effectively? A meeting organised jointly by the James Lind Alliance and The Lancet. Held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, on 25 June 2007. http://www.lindalliance.org/JLA_LANCET_Event_June2007.asp