Professor Edward Duncan

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CHeCR University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Edward Duncan

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Edward is Professor of Applied Health Research, Director of the Centre for Healthcare and Community Research and Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport. His current research, which has attracted international recognition, focuses on mental health, pre-hospital emergency care, allied health & related global health. Methodologically Edward is particularly interested in intervention development and evaluation, consensus methods, evidence synthesis, and realist methods. Edward is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Scottish Ambulance Service and a co-director of the Scottish Ambulance Service & Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit Research Collaboration.

In 2006 Edward was appointed as a Research Fellow in the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit. This followed his award of the first Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Training scheme's post-doctoral research fellowship (2004-2006), which he undertook at The University of Stirling. Edward's clinical background is in occupational therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, which he practiced in a range of mental health settings (1995-2004). He received his PhD in Health Science (2004) while still working in clinical practice. Edward was a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland.

My research is interdisciplinary and impact focused. I routinely collaborate with a range of health and behavioural and social scientists, government policy officials, senior health board staff, people from art and design backgrounds, clinical specialists, members of the public, and national charitable organisations.

Clinical areas of focus include mental health, pre-hospital emergency and urgent care, allied health and rehabilitation, long COVID, and related global health research.

Methodologically my research focuses on evidence syntheses of various forms, intervention development, and complex theory driven evaluation. I have specific expertise in the development and conduct of high quality consensus methods in areas where other forms of empirical research does not exist.  Recent research activity in this area includes the development of The Delphi Platform© - a web-based research platform that improves the efficiency and analysis of Delphi studies. The Platform has been successfully used in a number of externally funded studies to date. Studies using the platform have been supported by funding from NIHR, MRC, WHO, Scottish and UK Governments, among others.