Michele Peters

Michele Peters is an Associate Professor within the Applied Health Research Unit (AHRU) and works on improving the quality of health and social care for people living with long-term chronic conditions. Michele is Deputy Director of the NIHR Policy Research Programme Quality, Safety and Outcomes of Health and Social Care Research Unit (https://www.qso.ac.uk/) and theme lead on Outcomes and Equality Diversity and Inclusion. Michele is theme lead on ‘Social and community care’ in the NIHR Thames Valley Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) (https://www.arc-oxtv.nihr.ac.uk/our_work/Improving_health_and_social_care).

Michele’s research aims to ensure that people and their families receive high quality health and social care and have a good quality of life. Her main research interest is to investigate how patient- and carer- reported outcome and experience data can be applied within health and care services to improve quality of care. Her research is conducted in close collaboration with Patient and Public Involvement Advisors, policymakers and health and care professionals. Specific research topics are:

• Quality, safety and integration of health and social care services
• Application of patient- and carer-reported outcomes and experiences to improve quality of care
• Development of patient and carer-reported outcome measures, and core outcome sets
• Development of patient-reported and carer-reported experience surveys
• People with chronic disease and their informal, unpaid carers
• Survey, qualitative and mixed methods research

Michele is the lead for Medical Sociology for medical sciences teaching, including the standard entry biomedical and the graduate entry courses. This role includes curriculum development, assessment and quality monitoring of the courses. She is an experienced educator (e.g. mixed methods, survey development) and examiner on a range of other courses (e.g. MSc. Global health) and supervises DPhil students.

Before joining the University of Oxford in 2006, Michele worked as a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Medical Psychology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam (Netherlands). Michele has a BSc in Nutrition (University of Surrey), MSc in Health and Exercise Sciences (University of Bristol), a conversion diploma in Psychology (Open University), a PhD in Health and Medical Sciences (University of Surrey) and a Postgraduate Teaching Certificate (PGCert) (University of Oxford).