Richard Byng

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Professor Richard Byng

Professor in Primary Care Research/PenARC Deputy Director
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)

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The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Richard's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 01: SDG 1 - No PovertyGoal 04: SDG 4 - Quality EducationGoal 17: SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

About Richard

I have worked as a researcher since 1995 in a range of research settings and since 2009 have led the Community and Primary Care Research Group (CPCRG) in Plymouth. I am Deputy Director of the Peninsula ARC for the South west Peninsula (PenARC).

My key areas of research include:

  • Care for complex mental health problems
  • Consultations for mental illness
  • Management of common mental health problems
  • Systems approaches for mental distress and wellbeing
  • Care for individuals with multi-morbidity
  • Offender health care
  • Organisational systems of health care.

 

Supervised Research Degrees

Alex Georgiadis. PenCLAHRC PhD studentship, Offenders with common mental health problems and their care: examination of the perspectives of offenders and practitioners in a qualitative study. 2012-16

Hannah Storey. ESRC/MRC PhD studentship, The Institutional structure of consultations for depression in primary care. (Peninsula Medical School) From 2007-2011.

Kaj Gohal. D Clin Sci Thesis. Ethnic differences in the content of consultations for depression. (University of Exeter). From 2009-2011.

Teaching

I teach medical students at the Adelaide St Surgery in the Substance Misuse year three module and our outreach service for homeless and offenders.

I have developed teaching at the medical school in Complex Clinical Reasoning, Mental Health and Psychycho-Immuno-Neuro-Endocrine (PINE) delivering lectures and workshops.

I taught and facilitated ‘Trailblazer’ work based learning courses for primary care and specialist clinicians. (2005-7)

Work at Rushey Green involved teaching of medical students regularly during years one, two and four of the undergraduate course; it included seminar teaching and clinical contact. (1996-2002)

I supervised the GP registrar working at a hostel on the Homeless and Rootless GP training rotation. (1995-99) and and support supervision of GP registrars at Mount Gould.

My post in the South Sudan involved developing an integrated problem oriented curriculum for Medical Assistants, covering clinical care, health promotion, management and teaching skills. (1991-92) 

Contact Richard

N14, ITTC, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 764260