Meet the Team

The Qual-P Project Team

From left to right:

Robbie Foy, Nat Wright, Krysia Canvin, Sue Bellass, Marie Cunningham, Kate McLintock, Tracey Farragher, Bridget Gill, George Charlesworth, Laura Sheard


Sue Bellass

Research Fellow, Qual-P and Project Partner, Impact-C19P

Sue is the full-time researcher on Qual-P which means she does the bulk of the work!

Sarah Senker

Research Fellow, Impact-C19P

Sarah is a researcher on Impact-C19P. If you decide to take part in an interview it will be Sarah or Lucy who you meet.

Lucy Wainwright

Research Fellow, Impact-C19P

Lucy is a researcher on Impact-C19P. If you decide to take part in an interview it will be Sarah or Lucy who you meet.


Laura Sheard

Principal Investigator, Qual-P and Impact-C19P

Laura is the lead researcher on Qual-P and Impact-C19P, which means she is responsible for everything! Laura is based at the University of York.


Robbie Foy

Principal Investigator, Qual-P

Robbie jointly leads Qual-P with Laura. He’s a GP, spending one day per week at a local practice and the remaining four days at the university.


Nat Wright

Co-investigator, Qual-P and Impact-C19P

Nat is involved in Qual-P and Impact-C19P. He’s also a GP but he works in prisons. He’s also Clinical Director for Spectrum CIC (a health services provider to prisons).


Tracey Farragher

Co-investigator, Qual-P and Impact-C19P

Tracey is based at the University of Manchester and will be taking care of all the complicated statistical analysis in Qual-P and Impact-C19P.


Krysia Canvin

Co-investigator, Impact-C19P and Programme Manager, Qual-P

Krysia works on Qual-P and Impact-C19P. She manages Qual-P and has to make sure everyone does their bit on time. If you have a comment or query about either project, contact Krysia.

Pip Hearty

Co-investigator, Impact-C19P and Researcher, Qual-P

Pip is a researcher based at Spectrum Community Health and works on Qual-P and Impact-C19P.

Paula Harriott

Co-investigator, Impact-C19P and Oversight Committee Member, Qual-P

Paula is Head of Prisoner Involvement at Prison Reform Trust and is involved in Qual-P and Impact-C19P.

Éamonn O’Moore

Project partner, Impact-C19P and Oversight Committee Member, Qual-P

Éamonn is National Lead for the Health & Justice team, Public Health England and Director of the UK Collaborating Centre, WHO Health in Prisons Programme (Europe) and is involved in Qual-P and Impact-C19P.


Marie Cunningham & Nicola Seanor

Co-investigators, Qual-P and Impact-C19P

Both Marie and Nicola work in NHS Health and Justice commissioning and are involved in Qual-P and Impact-C19P.


Kate McLintock

Co-investigator, Qual-P and Impact-C19P

Kate is also a GP who works in prisons. She works with us on Qual-P and Impact-C19P.

Bridget Gill

PPI partner, Qual-P

Bridget is Charity Manager at Spectrum People, a micro-charity based in Wakefield. Bridget is involved in Qual-P.

Who’s who and what do they do on the Qual-P study?

Name Position / Organisation Role 
Dr Laura Sheard, Principal investigator Assistant Professor, University of York, and University of Leeds Overall responsibility for study; lead qualitative work package 
Professor Robbie Foy, Co-principal investigator Professor of Primary Care, University of Leeds Joint responsibility for study; lead identification of indicators and consensus panel development of interventions 
Dr Tracey Farragher, Co-investigator Lecturer, Integrated Interdisciplinary Innovations in Healthcare Science (i3HS) Hub, University of Manchester Statistical analysis of the prisoner primary care records 
Dr Nat Wright, Co-investigator Clinical Director, Spectrum Community Health Clinical and methodological input, ongoing liaison with Spectrum Community Health CIC  
Dr Kate McLintock, Co-investigator General Practitioner, Care UK Clinical and methodological input 
Nicola Seanor (Marie Cunningham), Co-investigator Health and Justice Lead, North of England Commissioning Support Unit Expertise on commissioning landscape and process including strategic and operational level knowledge  
Dr Krysia Canvin, Programme Manager Senior Research Fellow, University of Leeds Day-to-day project management, lead for PPI strategy and stakeholder engagement 
Dr Sue Bellass, Researcher  Research Fellow, University of Leeds Lead the qualitative fieldwork and analysis, scoping review and assist with stakeholder and consensus process 
Dr Pip Hearty, ResearcherSpectrum Community HealthCo-ordinates data extraction
Bridget Gill, PPI partner Spectrum People Facilitate PPI 

Who’s who and what do they do on the Impact-C19P study?

Dr Laura Sheard, Principal investigatorAssistant Professor, University of York, and University of LeedsOverall responsibility for study
Dr Krysia Canvin, Co-investigatorSenior Research Fellow, University of LeedsOversee scoping review & environmental scan (stage 1); qualitative work (stage 2), convene stakeholder and expert by experience panels (throughout)
Dr Tracey Farragher, Co-investigatorLecturer, Integrated Interdisciplinary Innovations in Healthcare Science (i3HS) Hub, University of ManchesterStatistical analysis of the prisoner primary care records (stage 3)
Paula Harriott, Co-investigatorHead of Prisoner Involvement, Prison Reform TrustPPI lead, convene expert by experience panel (throughout)
Dr Pip Hearty, Co-investigatorSpectrum Community HealthScoping review & environmental scan (stage 1); data extraction (stage 3)
Dr Kate McLintock, Co-investigatorGeneral Practitioner, Practice Plus LtdClinical and methodological input (throughout)
Nicola Seanor, Co-investigatorHealth and Justice Lead, North of England Commissioning Support UnitExpertise on commissioning landscape and process including strategic and operational level knowledge (throughout)
Dr Nat Wright, Co-investigatorClinical Director, Spectrum Community HealthOversee data extraction (stage 3), clinical and methodological input, ongoing liaison with Spectrum Community Health CIC (throughout)
Dr Sue Bellass, Project partnerResearch Fellow, University of LeedsAdvice on qualitative work and scoping review
Dr Éamonn O’Moore, Project partnerNational Lead Health & Justice team, Public Health England; Director UK Collaborating Centre, WHO Health in Prisons Programme (Europe)Policy adviser (throughout)
Phil Pearce Project partnerLife Experience CICPPI, convene expert by experience panel (throughout)
Dr Sarah Senker, ResearcherResearch fellow, University of YorkQualitative work (stage 2)
Dr Lucy Wainwright, ResearcherResearch fellow, University of YorkQualitative work (stage 2)

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