Fiona Sampson

Professor Fiona Sampson is a leading academic in Health Services Research at the School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield. She serves as Director of the Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE) and School Director for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Working part-time since 2008, she specializes in mixed methods research and observational/ethnographic approaches within emergency care systems.

• Research Focus: Emergency and urgent care systems, patient perspectives, observational methods, implementation science
• Leadership: Director of CURE, Equality Director at School level
• Grants: Multiple NIHR-funded projects including prehospital pre-alerts, pain management, and thromboprophylaxis

Her work spans both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, with recent publications examining prehospital care systems, pain management challenges, and thromboprophylaxis in maternal health. She supervises PhD students Naif Harthi and Melanie Watson in prehospital care research.

Key recent projects include:

• NIHR HS&DR study on long lie after falls
• NIHR HTA-funded TIME trial for take-home naloxone
• Thromboprophylaxis economic evaluation during pregnancy
• NHS 111 Online evaluation

Scientific awards include:

• NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship (2011)
• Multiple NIHR project grants

She founded a ScHARR observational methods research group and has extensive teaching experience in research methodologies and evidence-based healthcare through MSc programs.