Lisa Hinton

Lisa is a senior social scientist in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Research Fellow at Green Templeton College. She leads applied qualitative and mixed methods research using patient and staff experiences to improve healthcare.

A major area of focus is women's health and maternity care (antenatal and postnatal), inclusion, equity and diversity. 

Current projects aimed at improving maternity services include:

• MatNeoPREM:  Using experiences of maternity care services to design a new Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for the NHS, based on listening to the voices of women, birthing people and families.
• PROMISE investigates how biases in medical devices used in pregnancy and the neonatal period affect health outcomes for minority ethnic and socio-economically disadvantaged groups.
  

From 2019-2023 Lisa worked at the Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, at the University of Cambridge where she was co- investigator for the major research DHSC programme on avoiding brain injury in childbirth (ABC) and led the CORONET study, co-producing good practice for remote antenatal care.

She was a principle investigator for the RESPECT study, Kenyan-based research exploring the potential for using mothers’ experiences of pre-term birth to improve care in LMICs. She is currently co-investigator for the SNAP2 trial which seeks to optimize care for people after a hypertensive pregnancy, leading on evaluation and health equity, and co-investigator for the Children’s Surgery Outcome Reporting programme using routinely available data to reduce unwarranted variation in the health and wellbeing of children undergoing early surgery. 

Lisa is an expert in qualitative and mixed methods for applied health research. She has published over 115 peer-reviewed journal articles for clinical, sociological, policy and practitioner audiences. She regularly supervises masters and doctoral students and is happy to hear from prospective DPhil students interested in doing sociologically-informed studies of health experiences, healthcare improvement and digital innovations in the broad area of women’s health. She is Director of Oxford Qualitative Courses, the University of Oxford's expert-led programme of short courses in qualitative research.