Professor Peter Griffiths, Chair of Health Services Research at the University, has been made a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator.
The honour is decided by a competition every year and recognises the research expertise of an individual in their particular field.
In this latest round of the competition, Professor Griffiths is the only academic to receive the award for the discipline of nursing and becomes one of only five to have gained the award in the field of nursing overall.
He has published a number of internationally recognised studies looking at nurse staffing ratios and staff performance.
Professor Griffiths commented:
I am very honoured to have been given this award by the NIHR. Despite huge technological advances delivering health care is an essentially human activity, which remains labour intensive. Ensuring we have the right workforce and organisation to deliver high quality and safe care with humanity, now and in the future, is the ultimate aim of my research.
Professor Griffiths is also the Nursing workforce lead for NIHR CLAHRC Wessex and joins colleague Professor Anne Rogers, as one of the 200 NIHR senior investigators.
