Dr David Wyatt
Senior Research Fellow in Social Science
Biography
David is a Senior Research Fellow in Social Science in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Exeter where he also obtained his BA in sociology. David’s work focuses on the transformation of the National Health Service (NHS) from solely a provider of free at the point of delivery healthcare, to an organisation that also supports, completes and directs health research. He’s particularly interested in the practices of involving patients in health research and using routine health records as research data. More recently, he’s also focused on the broader political economy of the NHS and how research practices fit into wider discussions of assetisation and privatisation.
David also co-leads the social science work on the NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research, Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data.
David is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and lectures on the Masters in Public Health, undergraduate medical education programme, translational research summer school and the King’s College London/NIHR Guy's and St Thomas' Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) post-graduate Qualitative Research Methods course.
Research
Stroke Research Group
We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.
Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems
Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.
Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data
We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.
Project status: Ongoing
Population Health Stakeholder Involvement Group (PHSIG)
An initiative to support the Department of Population Health in developing a greater research focus on prevention and improvement of the health of communities.
Project status: Ongoing
News
The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research in the UK
A new paper has examined how the global research response to the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted research.
Research
Stroke Research Group
We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.
Health Inequalities, Societies and Systems
Central to our research is understanding and tackling the systemic and intersecting drivers of disparities in health over the life course such as racism, gender, crime, precarious livelihoods, environmental pollution, and inaccessible health care. We work collaboratively across the School of Life Course and Population Sciences to strengthen the theoretical aspects of population health research.
Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data
We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.
Project status: Ongoing
Population Health Stakeholder Involvement Group (PHSIG)
An initiative to support the Department of Population Health in developing a greater research focus on prevention and improvement of the health of communities.
Project status: Ongoing
News
The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research in the UK
A new paper has examined how the global research response to the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted research.