Professor George Davey
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
School of Social and Community Medicine
University of Bristol
George Davey Smith was a member of the noise-terrorism outfit Scum Auxiliary in the early 1980s. Since artistic and commercial success eluded them he has had to earn his living working as an epidemiologist in the provinces.
Caroline Wright
Research Associate
University of Exeter
Caroline is a Research Associate working at the School of Social and Community Medicine (SSCM), University of Bristol, with DECIPHer. Her research focusses on multiple risk behaviour (MRB) and educational attainment. She has experience as a postdoctoral researcher working on Widening Access to higher education in Wales (WISERD, Cardiff University) and evaluating the effectiveness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) care bundles (SSCM, University of Bristol). Caroline’s PhD at the University of Bristol was a multilevel analysis of post-16 and higher education in England. Before working in academia, Caroline was an Education Welfare and Travel to School Officer and worked extensively with vulnerable children and young people.
Ruth Kipping
Senior Research Fellow
University of Bristol
Ruth Kipping is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Director of DECIPHer in Bristol. Ruth works on the design and conduct of RCTs in the area of obesity prevention in children, and epidemiological analysis and systematic reviews of
multiple risk behaviours in adolescents. Ruth completed a feasibility RCT during her PhD, which progressed to a full-scale trial and is currently PI of an NIHR funded feasibility trial in nurseries to improve diet, oral health and physical activity of 2 to 4 year olds. Ruth has been co-applicant of a number of other feasibility trials. Ruth studied Natural Science at Cambridge University, undertook management training through the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and then moved into health service research before training in public health in the South West where she completed an MSc in Public Health at LSHTM and a PhD at the University of Bristol. Ruth worked part-time for 4 years as Consultant in Public Health in North Somerset alongside public health research work with DECIPHer. Ruth has an honorary Consultant in Public Health with Public Health England and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.
Professor Paul Aveyard
Professor of Behavioural Medicine
University of Oxford
Paul is a public health physician and Professor of Behavioural Medicine within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford. Paul also works as a salaried GP once a week in Solihull. His work focuses on helping people change their behaviour, either to prevent or treat serious disease. Paul’s research started in tobacco control, but over the past 7 years or so has also included work on weight control, guided by the strategies we have applied in tobacco control.
Paul works as part of a number of other organisations, including being president of the UK Society of Behavioural Medicine and a trustee of the Association for the Study of Obesity. Paul also advises the Department of Health on obesity.