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Professor Deborah Swinglehurst is a Professor of Primary Care at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London. She combines her academic role with working as a General Practitioner (GP) in Suffolk. Her research focuses on the intersection of medicine, social science, and linguistics, emphasizing interaction and social relationships in primary healthcare. She leads interdisciplinary research on multimorbidity, polypharmacy, medical overuse, and health policy impacts. As Institute Theme Lead for Complexity and Social Sciences and co-lead of the Primary Care Unit, she drives initiatives like the Wellcome Doctoral Training Programme and NIHR School for Primary Care. She holds Fellowships from the Higher Education Academy and the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Education: MBBS from Imperial College London (1993), MSc from UCL, PhD from QMUL. Previous roles include Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia and tutor on UCL's MSc in International Primary Health Care.
Research Interests: Mixed-method qualitative approaches (ethnography, discourse analysis), patient-professional dynamics, and practice-based evidence for clinicians/policymakers. Current projects include the NIHR-funded APOLLO-MM study addressing polypharmacy in older adults with multimorbidity.
Awards: 2019 RCGP/SAPC John Fry Award for contributions to general practice research. Supervision: Actively mentoring PhD students across topics like dementia care, chronic pain management, and obesity policy discourse.
