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Tim Coleman

Professor of Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Tim studied Medicine at Leeds University, qualifying in 1988. He then trained as a GP in Bradford, finishing in 1992 and began working as a primary care researcher in 1993. Initially he worked as a half-time lecturer at the University of Leicester and in 2001 joined the University of Nottingham as a full-time senior lecturer, becoming a Professor in 2011. He works one day each week as a GP in Mapperley, Nottingham.

Tim is interested in behaviour change and most of his research is on the topic of smoking cessation. He has investigated the management of smoking by primary care clinicians, the organisation and effectiveness of smoking cessation services and currently, is strongly focussed on finding ways to reduce the harm caused by smoking in pregnancy.

Expertise Summary

Tim has broad experience of methodologies used in applied health services research including: randomised controlled trials, systematic review, surveys, qualitative research, economic analyses, systematic reviews, use of large routine datasets in health services research and quasi-experimental studies. Most of his work has been conducted in NHS settings used for the delivery of routine healthcare.

Teaching Summary

Supervises PhD and Masters' students and teaches on Tobacco Control for the Masters in Public Health run by the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health. Enjoys supervising PhD students who study… read more

Research Summary

Tim's first research work was small in scale and involved observational and qualitative investigations of how GPs engage with smokers to encourage smoking cessation. Over the last decade he has… read more

Selected Publications

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University of Nottingham
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Nottingham, NG7 2UH

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