Dr Siobhan Reilly
Lancaster University
Site Principal Investigator
Siobhan is the research site lead in Lancashire for PARTNERS2. She was part of the original PARTNERS research team with Professor Helen Lester. Her background is in health services research and her research is primarily concerned with improving the evidence base for the delivery of health and social care services for people with people with dementia, older people with long term conditions and people with severe mental illness. This work includes the policy, practice, organisation and delivery of health and social care services, particularly in relation to the integration and coordination of health and social care services.
Professor Waquas Waheed
University of Manchester
Clinical Site Lead
Waquas is Reader in Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Centre for Primary Care, Institute of Population Health, The University of Manchester. Waquas is an expert in design and conduct of clinical trials of complex interventions, particularly in hard to reach groups. He also leads mental health in the CRN North West Coast region.
Professor Linda Gask
University of Manchester
Emeritus Professor
Linda is an academic psychiatrist with particular expertise in qualitative research and development of interventions to improve quality of care for people with common mental health problems. She is an expert in collaborative mental health care. She has experience in service re-design at the interface between primary and specialist care, and in the design and delivery of training in mental health skills. Linda has been central to the development of the PARTNERS Service, training the Care Partners and supporting supervisors, and will oversee its implementation alongside other members of the team.
Tim Rawcliffe
Lancashire Care NHS Trust
Service User Researcher
Tim joined the PARTNERS2 project in January 2015, having previously been employed by the Mental Health Research Network in the North West of England as Service User Development Officer, promoting and supporting service user involvement in National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) studies. His early academic career aspirations were disrupted by mental health and alcohol problems, and he spent many years undertaking voluntary activities within the area of mental health, punctuated by spells in psychiatric in-patient facilities, detox units and under local community mental health teams. Tim's role in PARTNERS2 involves bringing both research understanding and personal appreciation of mental health problems to play in the current project, with a passionate hope that the outcome will bring about real benefits for those experiencing difficulties.
Bethany Gill
Lancashire Care NHS Trust
Research Assistant
Bethany started working as a Research Assistant on the PARTNERS2 Trial as part of the East Lancashire Team in August 2018. Bethany completed her undergraduate and MRes degrees in Psychology at The University of Manchester in 2015 and 2016 respectively. She has spent the last two years working across different organisations and universities working on different research studies. Alongside working on PARTNERS2 she is also working as a Research Associate on the IMPART study at Lancaster University. She also has previous experience of mentoring individuals with mental health needs.