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Julia Hamer-Hunt

BSc (Hons) Psychology

Honorary Member

Honorary Member


  • Lay member of the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre Steering Committee (OH BRC)
  • Member of the OH BRC Patient and Research (PAR) Group 

I work within the Department of Psychiatry and the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre to promote patient and public involvement and engagement (PPI/E) in research. My interest in PPI/E developed out of a desire to improve and manage my mood disorder (Bipolar Disorder 1).

For almost 20 years I participated in clinical trials and studies ranging from a randomised control trial of different medication combinations to StemBANCC - a study to develop a resource of induced pluripotent stem cells for researchers to use in their search for drugs to treat and cure diseases, and everything in between.

Since 2015 I have been advising on how to raise the profile of mental health research, influence research design and how to best involve patients and members of the community in research.  In addition to my work at the OH BRC, I sit on numerous committees and boards relating to mental health research and its dissemination including the Evidence Synthesis Research Centre.  In early 2020 I joined the Ethics Board for IM2PACT, an international research project, formed by a new consortium of 27 partners from academia, industry, small and medium size enterprises which “aims to tackle the unmet challenge of discovery and characterisation of blood-brain barrier targets and transport mechanisms for brain delivery of therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases”.

Latterly my interests have led me to becoming involved with medical education and in this role I have been co-delivering lectures on Mood Disorder and Humanities and Psychiatry workshop sessions. I am also a member of the Admissions Committee for Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training and Research and a member of the Project Assessment Panel.

Interests

• Patient and Public Involvement

• Psychiatry