Kath is a GP and Professor of Health Policy and Primary Care at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on health policy, organisation, and management, with a particular focus on commissioning, service planning, and the organisation of primary care.

Matt is the Director for the Applied Health Research Domain at Manchester. His research addresses the financing and organisation of health care, the healthcare workforce and influences on health and health behaviours. It primarily involves the development and application of micro-econometric techniques.

Stephen is a Professor of Health Policy at the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) at the University of Kent and is Director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent Surrey and Sussex, supporting the development of applied health and care research across the southeast. From 2010 to 2024, he was Director of PRU HSSC, and Director of CHSS from 2012 to 2023. He is an experienced qualitative researcher and policy analyst. His main research interests are health policy analysis, organisational and service delivery, primary care and public health. 

Professor Shereen Hussein is a Health and Social Care Policy Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). With over 30 years of expertise, her research focuses on ageing demographics, health and social care delivery, and workforce and service outcomes. She has led significant projects on global care and evaluated national schemes to improve workforce outcomes. Professor Hussein advises governments and international organisations, including the UK Parliament Health and Social Care Committee, the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Shereen leads the MENARAH Network and Care ∞ Track Consortium and is a former Co-director of PRU HSSC.

Rachel is interested in the evaluation of changes to the financing and organisation of health care. In particular, her work focuses on adapting the methods commonly used in the cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare technologies, and applying these to large-scale programme evaluations. Rachel has particular experience of performing high-profile evaluations of the NHS' move towards seven day hospital services, and multiple pay-for-performance initiatives. She leads the ‘Efficiency and cost-effectiveness’ research theme within PRU HSSC.

Jonathan is a Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Organisation. He is a health services researcher specialising in qualitative and observational methods. He has particular interests in the NHS and health care policy, general practice access, governance, political economy, institutionalism, and anthropology.

Marie is a policy analyst whose research is focused on the governance of health services. She has a background as an NHS Manager and has held a variety of management positions in both strategic and hospital settings.

Lynsey is a  Research Fellow in health policy and services, with a background in Sociology and Psychology. She is an ethnographic researcher, specialising in qualitative observations and interviews. Her research interests span the NHS and Local Authorities with a focus on primary care, commissioning, integration, partnership working and health inequalities.

Laura is a qualitative researcher with a background in sociocultural anthropology. She uses ethnographic, participatory, and sociolegal approaches to explore how policy interventions and legislation are interpreted and implemented in practice and the real-life impacts of these processes on individuals, systems, and communities. She joined University of Manchester in 2025 as a Research Associate in The Place Project and the Post Implementation Review of the Health and Care Act 2022. In recent years, she has worked on interdisciplinary projects - spanning health and care law and policy; maternity and perinatal service improvement; public health approaches to safeguarding, counter-terrorism, and violence reduction; multi-agency partnership working; criminal law reform; and community-based environmental activism - at the Universities of Birmingham, London (SOAS; Royal Holloway), and Cambridge.

Simon is interested in the adoption of new knowledge, practices, technologies and roles and the manner in which these become embedded and institutionalised within healthcare organisations. His research expertise is in qualitative, ethnographic and arts-based methods.

Simon has a background in social sciences and has conducted many studies exploring interprofessional collaboration in health and social care settings. His research interests include sociology, including post-structural and late modern theory, organisational tension and barriers to successful coordination.

Dorota has a background in sociology and social policy. She is interested in health policy analysis, health system governance, the use of competition in commissioning health care services and social attitudes to provision of public services.

Dr Christina Petsoulas’ educational background is in Sociology and Politics (MPhil and DPhil, Oxford University). Since 2003 she has been conducting research in health policy in England. She has worked on projects focusing on policy reforms in the English NHS, in particular enhancement of patient experience via patient choice, NHS contracting, and more recently integrated care services. She is currently a member of a research team working on a NIHR-funded project exploring the development of provider collaboratives in England. She is also a module organiser for the distance learning course Health Policy, Process and Power.

Bingqing is a quantitative researcher, working as a Research Fellow in the Health Organisation, Policy, and Economics (HOPE) research group at The University of Manchester.

Keyi specialises in health economics, conducting a PhD focused on examining the impact of unemployment and fragile employment on health and social care utilisation. Her research utilises a large, linked dataset of residents from Barking and Dagenham in East London. Keyi has extensive expertise in analysing linked datasets, applying quasi-experimental study designs, and conducting statistical inference in applied health research. Her research interests include health economics, health and social care utilisation and systems, climate change impacts on health and social care, and the evaluation of health-related policies.

Jack is a qualitative researcher specialising in decentralisation and place-based policy. Since September 2025, he has been Research Associate on The Place Project and the Post Implementation Review of the Health and Care Act 2022. Jack’s research considers how local policymaking is affected by the structure of multi-level systems. In recent years, he has worked at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Surrey, and Leeds, and has contributed to the national policy debate on issues around English devolution, local accountability, and policy geographies.

Yao is a quantitative researcher specialising in applied health economics. His research focuses on topics including health system decentralization, determinants of health expenditures, and the impacts of risky health behaviours.