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Dr Petra Makela

Assistant Professor

School: Communities and Education

I am a social scientist with medical training. My work examines how health and care services respond to marginalised needs, drawing on medical sociology, implementation science, and co-productive approaches to understand and improve the translation of evidence into policy and practice.

My research interests grew from my work as a neurorehabilitation physician in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, I completed a doctorate alongside my clinical work, addressing a policy and practice gap in conceptualisations of support for self-management. Since my transition into academia, I have held posts at the at the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine before moving to ֲýƵ as a Vice Chancellor's Fellow in Community Wellbeing.

Registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and holding a current Licence to Practise, I work clinically with the NGO Medical Justice. I am a member of the Royal College of Psychiatry Working Group on the Health of Asylum Seekers and Refugees and a trustee with the charity Torture ID. My research interests include health and wellbeing of sanctuary seekers, using inclusive, participatory approaches.

I am an editorial board member with Sociological Research Online.

Petra Makela

My research interests encompass:

  • Health and social care integration, including workforce development
  • Complex intervention development, implementation and evaluation
  • The lived experience of people who draw on care and support
  • Understanding 'trauma-informed' approaches with forced migrants
  • Knowledge mobilisation, particularly through academic-policy engagement.

I am interested in discussing PhD or Prof Doc supervision in these (or related) areas with potential applicants.

  • Health Studies PhD
  • Neurosciences MSc
  • Medicine MBChB(Hons)
  • PGCert
  • PGCert
  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy FHEA 2022
  • Certificate of Completed Training in Rehabilitation Medicine CCT
  • Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) MRCP(UK)

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