Dr Helen Lloyd is a Research Advisor for the Research Design Service, based in Oxford. She has spent the past fifteen years engaged in health and social research in both academic and commercial sectors. This has encompassed study design and implementation through to analyses and dissemination.  Helen’s research experience includes qualitative and quantitative designs and managing clinical trials in psychiatry.

Helen completed her D. Phil in social psychiatry and anthropology at the University of Oxford in December 2007.  This research reflected her interest in combining mixed methods to study human behaviour, and used approaches from both disciplines to investigate cross-cultural experiences of caring for a son or daughter with schizophrenia.  Specifically it explored how personal, cultural, social, and psychological variables interacted to create caregiving and family experiences.

Whilst studying medical anthropology Helen developed an interest in health behaviour, and her current research interests involve understanding the interaction between micro and macro factors and how these contribute to individual and group health behaviour.