Meet the Team

University of Bristol Research Team

Dr Harleen Kaur Johal, PhD Student (Chief Investigator)

Harleen is a junior doctor with interests in medical ethics and critical care. She is conducting this research as part of her PhD studies at the Centre of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol. Harleen will conduct all of the interviews.

Professor Richard Huxtable, Director of the BABEL Research Project and Centre for Ethics in Medicine (Supervisor)

Dr Giles Birchley, Research Fellow on the BABEL Research Project (Supervisor)

Clinical Collaborators

Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Reading

  • Ms Melanie Gager, Nurse Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
  • Mr Gordon Sturmey, Former ICU Patient and Chair of the ICU Support Network (Reading)

Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon

  • Dr Rachel Prout, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, and Deputy Chair of the Great Western Hospital Clinical Ethics Advisory Group

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford

  • Professor Dominic Wilkinson, Director of Medical Ethics at the Ethox Centre
  • Dr Richard Siviter, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
  • Dr William Orchard, Specialty Registrar in Acute Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine

North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol

  • Dr Ian Thomas, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, and Chair of the North Bristol Clinical Ethics Committee

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton

  • Dr Chris Danbury, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Medical Mediator

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton

  • Ms Becky Purnell, Research Nurse in Intensive Care