Dr Amy Booth, Research Fellow in Sustainable Medicines

Dr Amy Booth is a medical doctor and researcher working at the intersection of health, environmental crises and sustainability. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, studying pharmaceutical climate action, after graduating summa cum laude in Medicine from the University of Cape Town and working clinically in South Africa—experiences that led her into sustainable health research.
Her work has been published in leading journals, and she is co‑authoring a book on sustainable health care. Amy has presented internationally, including invited talks at the UK House of Commons and major medical organisations, and has appeared on the BBC. She co‑leads Oxford’s MSc module on Sustainable Health Care and will focus her BSMS research on reducing the environmental footprint of medicines.
She has advised the WHO, the UN, and projects across sub‑Saharan Africa, and is a member of the UK Young Academy, an Academy of Medical Sciences Emerging Research Leader, and an ERASMUS+ PlanEd Prescribing Associate Partner.

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Dr Simon Bishop

Is a Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour and founding member of the Centre for Health Innovation Leadership and Learning (CHILL). His research is primarily focused on organisational change in health and social care, alongside other public service organisations. He has conducted several studies on new types of healthcare organisations and services, such as Independent Sector Treatment Centres, integrated care providers, new forms of community health delivery and knowledge translations organisations. An important theme of his research is the relationships between public policy reform, organisational level change - for example partnerships, supply and commissioning arrangements - and how this affects management, work and employment. His work has been published in Human Relations, Social Science and Medicine and Sociology of Health and Illness amongst other journals.

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Dr Alexander Trautrims is Professor of Supply Chain Management at Nottingham University Business School and Associate Director at the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab's, leading its large Business and Economies Programme.

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Professor of Social Pharmacy, Faculty of Science at Nottingham University.

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Jane Harvey is a Nottingham‑based pharmacist and applied health researcher who splits her role between work on decarbonisation in the NHS and qualitative research in dermatology. Driven by a strong personal interest in sustainability, her work focuses on how environmental considerations can be thoughtfully integrated into everyday healthcare practice without undermining patient experience or quality of care. Alongside her role supporting NHS decarbonisation initiatives, she conducts qualitative research in dermatological care, exploring how people live with long‑term skin conditions, navigate care pathways, and manage the ongoing demands of treatment and self‑care. Jane specialises in qualitative interviews and thematic analysis, and works closely with clinicians and services to generate practice‑relevant insights that support more sustainable and patient‑centred approaches to care.
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Basharat Hussain completed his MA in Research Methods and a PhD from University of Nottingham. His PhD research focused on implementation of equality and diversity policy in the NHS service provision. He has worked in the UK and abroad (France, Belgium, Netherlands) on Public Health England, NIHR and EU funded projects. His research interests are in the fields of implementation science, health inequalities, health and social innovations, health technologies and inclusivity, policy analysis, vaccine uptake and hesitancy, systematic reviews and realist evaluations. He has published in high ranked journals including Lancet. Dr Hussain is Associate Fellow of the UK HEA.

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Professor Jennie Wilson
Richard Wells Research Centre
College of Nursing Midwifery & Health
University of West London

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Professor and Executive Director The Advanced Services Group, Aston University

Tim is the leading international scholar on servitization and advanced services. He spends much of his time working hands-on with both global and local manufacturing companies to understand its application in practice and to help transform businesses. He spent ten years working in manufacturing businesses, beginning his career as an apprentice. His background gives him a personal understanding of the challenges faced by the industry and of the need for practical, relevant guidance on implementing change strategies.
He has published over 300 academic research articles, as well as numerous books and chapters, and he is the author of the critically acclaimed book Made to Serve.
Tim’s latest book Servitization Strategy: Delivering customer-centric outcomes through business model innovation consolidates research and industrial insights from the past decade. It has been titled ‘the definitive guide to Servitization and Advanced Services’ and is based on in-depth research with leading industrial firms, such as Tetra Pak, Rolls-Royce, Xerox and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
Following an ESRC funded research project and survey of over 700 firms, he and the research team recently published the Design, Make & Serve: The Big Business Case for Servitization.

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Dr Yang Zhao Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Digital Transformation and Business Intelligence

Yang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Digital Transformation and Business Intelligence at Aston Business School. Her research examines business model innovation in the digital economy and value creation through digital transformation. To ensure her research generates real-world impact, Yang collaborates extensively with businesses and organisations in the manufacturing and healthcare sectors.

She has secured funding from ESRC, NIHR, Innovate UK, and industry partners, enabling her to address pressing challenges at the intersection of theory and practice. Her projects have explored themes such as decarbonising healthcare through the servitization, developing digital and shared-care business models in healthcare, and strengthening the business case for digital adoption in manufacturing. These engagements have enabled her to actively support, shape, and drive servitization and digital transformation in practice.

Dr Raveen Menon Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Raveen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Advanced Services Group at Aston Business School. His research sits at the intersection of operations management, behavioural operations and sustainable service innovation, combining empirical studies behaviour behavioural experiments and case-based research.

He collaborates closely with businesses, policy makers and academic partners to generate evidence that informs both industrial practise and public policy. His work has been published in leading journals, including production and operations management and the journal of cleaner production.

Raveen is dedicated to translating research into action. Through workshops roundtables and conferences, he helps industry leaders and policymakers understand how service-led growth can support a most more sustainable and competitive economy.

Pete Culmer is Professor of Healthcare Engineering at the University of Leeds, leading the Healthcare Mechatronics Group. He brings research expertise in the development of medical devices with a focus on sustainability and global healthcare. He leads research into sustainable materials for Circular Medical Devices (EPSRC ReMed, UKRI/NIHR Green Healthcare Hub) and co-leads the Sustainability theme of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care. He sits on the UK IMechE Biomedical Engineering Division (BMeD) committee and Innovations in Global Surgery organisation, working as an advocate for sustainable, global healthcare engineering.

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Dr. Frances Mortimer is Medical Director of The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH), where she has led their pioneering work in clinical specialties and care pathways - combining research with practical action to improve patient care at a lower environmental and social cost. She has a particular interest in engaging health professionals in clinical transformation and sustainable leadership, Frances first identified CSH’s four principles of Sustainable Clinical Practice and developed the SusQI framework for incorporating sustainability into quality improvement in healthcare.

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Ingeborg Steinbach has been part of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) since 2008, supporting healthcare organisations and professionals to embed sustainability into everyday practice. As Director of Analytics, she leads the metrics work at the Centre. The team supports healthcare organisations, healthcare professionals and researchers to estimate the carbon footprint and social and financial impact of healthcare organisations, clinical pathways, quality improvement projects and healthcare products as well as developing tools to support this analysis.

Senior Principal Economist

Chris Sampson is an economic evaluation specialist whose work at OHE examines issues such as environmental sustainability, digital therapeutics, and cost‑effectiveness thresholds. His main interest is mental health, and he serves as Lead Convener for IHEA’s Mental Health Economics Special Interest Group. As part of the EuroQol Group, he contributes to the development of EQ‑5D ‘bolt‑on’ items.
Chris is also an active organiser in the health economics community, founding The Academic Health Economists’ Blog and acting as webmaster for the UK HESG. He joined OHE in 2017 after working as a health economist at the University of Nottingham, where he earned his PhD. He also holds degrees from the University of Sheffield.

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Grace is an economist with a strong interest in value assessment, pricing and reimbursement, and public health economics. She is team leader for OHE’s Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems Research theme.

Grace’s work is dedicated to advancing value assessment and healthcare decision-making. Her current research interests include high-value innovative technologies like cell and gene therapies, AMR-targeting drugs and devices, and the economics of environmental sustainability in healthcare and life sciences.

Grace previously worked developing NICE guidelines and has served as an advisor in economics across NICE’s Clinical Guidelines and Public Health Guidelines committees. Grace holds an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York and an MSc in Nutritional Medicine from the University of Surrey.

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Gill Holmes Senior Research Manager

Gill is project manager and impact coordinator at the advanced services group, where she overseas research projects that connect servitization with wider economic and environmental goals.
An experienced manager, Gill has held roles in manufacturing industries and in research and marketing management across leading UK universities. This combination gives her a practical perspective on how academic research can be translated into business and policy impact.

Grit provides financial grant management support for various small and multi-million pounds grants within the department. She works closely with PIs, researchers, professional services colleagues and other university teams. Her responsibilities include financial reporting to various funders, budget reviews/forecasting as well as general finance services to the department. As a trained accountant, Grit has extensive knowledge and experience in multiple functions within accountancy gained through previous roles.