The Return Project Team in Liverpool

A team of researchers based in Liverpool work on this project.

Left to right standing: Victoria Lowers (Programme Manager and Senior Trial Manager), Rebecca Harris (Chief Investigator), Marieke van der Zande (Sociologist), Margaret Stanley (Patient and Public Involvement Coordinator). Left to right sitting: Amy Rawsthorne (Junior Research Dental Nurse), Robyn Kirby (Trial Manager), Julie Hennessy (Senior Research Dental Nurse), Stacey Jones (Junior Research Dental Nurse). Helen Rowe also worked on the project as the Project Administrator.

The Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre also worked on the RETURN trial: Girvan Burnside (Lead Statistician), Jess Green (Statistician), Ashley Best (Statistician), Amy Humphries (Trial Coordinator), Grace Thomas (Trial Coordinator), Sean Gaines (Trial Coordinator), Emma Bedson (Senior Trial Manager), Claire Taylor (Senior Trial Manager), Michelle Girvan (Data Manager) plus other staff members over the years.

Also involved in the project is a dental public health researcher at the University of Dundee (Jan Clarkson), a health economist at the University of Exeter (Claire Hulme) and a Sociologist at the Newcastle University (Cath Exley).

Meet the Liverpool Team

Professor Rebecca Harris

Rebecca is a dentist by background and has done a lot of research work in the past about dental services. She is the project lead or Chief Investigator

“There has been so much research over the years which simply describes the problem. This is a real opportunity to actually develop and test out something to help people” Rebecca Harris, Chief Investigator

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Victoria Lowers

Victoria is the RETURN Programme Manager and Senior Clinical Trials Manager. She has a special interest in training dental teams in research delivery, and the optimisation of the delivery of complex behaviour change interventions in real-world dental settings.

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Julie Hennessy

Julie has been involved in training the dental teams and the recruitment of participants. She is passionate about patient care and is committed to help erase health disparities and their impact on communities and individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Julie has worked closely with both staff and participants in the collection and analysis of data.

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Robyn Kirby

Robyn is the Trial Manager for the RETURN study. She has a background in Biological Sciences. She has previously worked on a number of research studies, biobanking projects and clinical trials at the University of Liverpool, and a number of hospitals around Merseyside and Manchester.

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The Return Project Collaborators

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This study/project is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) [PGfAR project reference RP-PG-0616-20004]. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.