NIHR - Meet the Team
Creating Healthy Jobs project team
Professor Chris Warhurst
Principal Investigator
Chris Warhurst is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the UK. He is an internationally recognised expert in job quality and skills.
Chris Warhurst - Institute for Employment Research
Gill Dix
Deputy Principal Investigator and Work Package 6 lead
Gill is a public policy expert and former Head of Policy & Research at Acas, where she worked for over 20 years. Gill is the non-academic co-lead of the PPIE/ evidence translation work package.
Gill Dix - Institute for Employment Research
Catherine Vassallo
Project Manager
Catherine is the Project Manager for the Creating Healthy Jobs project and is first point of contact for project enquiries.
Catherine Vassallo - Institute for Employment Research
Dr Laura Boothman
Communications and Advocacy Lead
Laura supports the Creating Healthy Jobs team and the wider work of the IER through communications, stakeholder engagement and influencing activity.
Laura Boothman - Institute for Employment Research
Dr Meanu Bajwa-Patel
Work package 6
Meanu is a Research Fellow at Warwick Medical School specialising in qualitative research with children and families, focusing on educational disadvantage and SEND, with experience in co-production and secondary education
Meanu Bajwa-Patel - University of Warwick
Dr Sarah Damery
Work package 3
Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science at University of Birmingham. She is a methodologist, specialising in evidence synthesis and health service evaluation.
Sarah Damery - University of Birmingham
Professor Kevin Daniels
Work package 2 lead
Kevin Daniels is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of East Anglia. Kevin has a particular interest in developing policy, standards and practices to promote workplace health, wellbeing and safety.
Kevin Daniels - University of East Anglia
Dr Eli Dutton
Work Package 2 and 3
Eli is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include fair work and job quality, workplace innovation and managing long-term ill health at work. She has extensive experience of conducting research in the hospitality industry.
Professor Amy Grove
Work Package 3 lead
Prof Grove is Director of the Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science at University of Birmingham. She is a leading methodologist, who evaluates innovation to directly impact health service design and delivery. Prof Grove will support The Creating Healthy Jobs Evidence Hub (WP3) and Work Package 6.
Amy Grove - University of Birmingham
Dr Sagar Jilka
Work Package 6
Dr Sagar Jilka is a Senior Research Fellow in the Mental Health & Wellbeing Unit in the Division of Health Sciences.
Sagar was previously the patient and public involvement coordinator at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (King’s College London), and prior to that worked as a football data scientist at a tech start up in London.
Professor Melanie Jones
Work Package 4
Melanie Jones if a Professor of Economics at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on labour market inequality, particularly the relationship between work and health.
Melanie Jones - Cardiff University
Dr Kamran Khan
Work Package 5
Kamran is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School.
His research focuses on trial-based economic evaluation, health-related quality of life measurement, and cost-effectiveness analysis, with applications in mental health, emergency care, and global health.
Kamran Khan - Warwick Medical School
Dr Sangwoo Lee
Work package 2,3,4
His research addresses social inequalities in work and education through data collection, management, and statistical analysis. He has extensive experience of working with large national and international datasets and applying advanced statistical techniques to education and labour market research. Recent projects.
Sangwoo Lee - Institute for Employment Research
Professor Jason Madan
Work Package 4 and Work Package 5 lead
Professor Jason Madan is a Professor in Health Economics at Warwick Medical School, and Director of Graduate Research Studies for the School. Jason has an extensive track record in leading health economic evaluations in mental health and in LMIC settings, and is the health economics lead for the NIHR Global Unit for Slum Health and the NIHR Global Group Health Group on Improving on Psychosis Outcomes (NIHR WIC).
Dr Sima Rafiei
Work package 4
Sima Rafiei is a research fellow in WMS. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health, job quality, mental wellbeing, and the use of longitudinal and linked data to inform policy and practice. She has held research roles at Manchester Metropolitan University, Lancaster University, and the University of Liverpool, and previously served as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Health and Care Management at Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Sima Rafiei - Warwick Medical School
Dr Katharina Sarter
Work package 2 and 3
Katharina Sarter is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick. Katharina’s main interests are in the field of public and social policy, sustainability, and digitalisation, with a view to employment and its regulation, public procurement as a policy tool, and comparative research.
Katharina Sarter - Institute for Employment Research
Professor Sophie Staniszewska
Work Package 6 Co-lead
Sophie Staniszewska leads the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and Patient Experiences Programme at the RCN Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. Sophie is the academic co-Lead of the PPIE/Evidence translation work package.
Sophie Staniszewska - Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
Professor Michael Tildesley
Work Package 5
Prof. Mike Tildesley is a Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling at the University of Warwick and the Director of the Mathematics for Real World Systems Centre for Doctoral Training
Mike Tildesley - School of Life Sciences
Dr Carla Toro
Work Package 4 lead
An Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School, Carla's research interests include furthering our understanding of mental wellbeing for different groups including those living with chronic illness, neurodiversity and work-related stres
Carla Toro - Warwick Medical School
Lynne Marston
Project Management support and PA to Chris Warhurst
Lynne Marston is the point of contact for enquiries to the Principal Investigator, Chris Warhurst. Lynne will also provide project support by organising and servicing project meetings; research workshops and conferences.
Lynne Marston - Institute for Employment Research
Stef Poole
Project management support and social media management
Stef will provide Research Project support for the project, including managing the social media channels for the project; sourcing and recruiting participants for research interviews; project data record-keeping and servicing project meetings.
Stef Poole - Institute for Employment Research
Yifan Wang
Research Finance Officer