Christopher Poyner

Senior Research Fellow

School of Health and Wellbeing

Department of Psychology and Mental Health

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Dr Chris Poyner is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Worcester. He co-leads the Suicide Prevention theme within the THRIVE Rural Mental Health Research Unit at University of Worcester.

Chris is an experienced qualitative researcher, who has recently finished an NIHR DEMCOMM (Dementia Communities of Practice) Fellowship where he gained funding for and completed extensive dementia care research. Chris has conducted a wealth of research with people disproportionately impacted by poor mental health and social exclusion, including people experiencing homelessness and LGBTQ+ communities. Chris is skilled in engaging with experts by experience through meaningful PPI and co-production methodologies.

PhD in Applied Dementia Studies (2019), University of Stirling

MA Social Research (Social Policy) (2013), University of Birmingham

BA Sociology (2011), University of Warwick

PGCHE (2020), University of Birmingham

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Research interests

Chris is interested in co-producing research with local stakeholders and VCSE organisations, to address structural inequalities, and improve outcomes and services for people living with severe mental illness in rural communities.

Recent publications

Tripathi, D., Handley, K., Holden, L., Abdali, Z., Jowett, S., Mathers, J., Poyner, C., Richardson, P., Ferguson, J., Rowe, I., & CALIBRE trial collaborative group (2025). Clinical Trial: A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial of Carvedilol Versus Variceal Band Ligation in Primary Prevention of Variceal Bleeding in Liver Cirrhosis (CALIBRE Trial). Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 61(11), 1740–1754. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.70080

Grey, E., Pardoe, M. N., Nasiadka, P., Barker-Jones, B., Belan, O., Breheny, K., Lourida, I., Soria, D., Mikelyte, R., & Poyner, C. (2025). How could technology be used to facilitate domiciliary dementia care? Perspectives of people with dementia, their families and care providers. Alzheimer's Europe Conference 2025, Bologna, Italy.

Poyner, Christopher, Grey, Elizabeth, Breheny, Katie, Lourida, Ilianna, Soria, Daniele and Mikelyte, Rasa (2024) Perso nalising Domiciliary Dementia Care via Co-Designed Computational Matching: A Study Protocol. In: 34th Alzheimer Europe conference, 8-10 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland.

Adams, R., Jordan, R. E., Maher, A., Adab, P., Barrett, T., Bevan, S., Cooper, L., DuRand, I., Edwards, F., Hardy, P., Harris, C., Heneghan, N. R., Jolly, K., Jowett, S., Marshall, T., O'Hara, M., Poyner, C., Rai, K., Rickards, H., Riley, R., … Sapey, E. (2024). Health screening clinic to reduce absenteeism and presenteeism among NHS Staff: eTHOS a pilot RCT. Health and social care delivery research, 12(23), 1–105. https://doi.org/10.3310/KDST3869