Professor Edwin van Teijlingen
Professor of Reproductive Health
Bournemouth University, UK
I am trained as a medical sociologist and I have an interest in mixed-methods research, qualitative research and evaluation research. A large share of my academic work has been in the fields of Public Health, Health Promotion and the Organisation of Maternity Care. I have substantial research experience in conducting large-scale comparative studies, usually applying interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approaches.
I have been involved in evaluating large-scale community-based public-health interventions in Scotland funded by, for example, the Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Government, Edinburgh), the Wellcome Trust, and NHS Health Scotland.
I have has also published on various aspects of research methods in a format easily accessible to a lay audience, including a paper on research ethics published in a midwifery journal.
My international research is largely based in Nepal. We are involved in several research projects in the community with Green Tara Nepal to improve health and well-being of poorer people in Nepal. In 2009 we started a DelPHE grant in collaboration with the oldest university in Nepal, Tribhuban University, the University of Aberdeen and Green Tara Nepal. This interdisciplinary project: Improving Access to Research Literature for Higher Education Institutions in Nepal (PARI Initiative) helped build research capacity at Nepalese universities.
In 2020 we started an interdisciplinary project, led by the University of Sheffield, examining the consequences for the health system of Nepal’s move to a federal government structure. The three-year project is UK-funded by the MRC, Wellcome Trust and DFID under the Health Systems Research Initiative. The project is collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Bournemouth (Prof. van Teijlingen) and Huddersfield in the UK and the Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Science and PHASE Nepal in Kathmandu.
In early 2021, the UKCGE (UK Council for Graduate Education) awarded me Recognised Research Supervisor status.
