Professor Richard Cooper
PhD, MA, LLB, BSc, PGCertHE, FRSPH, SFHEA, MRPharmS
School of Medicine and Population Health
Professor of Public Health and Social Pharmacy


+44 114 222 0768
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School of Medicine and Population Health
Room 2016, 2nd Floor
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
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- Profile
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I have been at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ since 2007. I studied pharmacy as a first degree and undertook various community pharmacist roles before studying law, then health care ethics at the University of Leeds; my PhD was undertaken at the University of Nottingham and involved an empirical study of ethics in healthcare.
- Research interests
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My research interests span a number of methodologies (but particularly qualitative and mixed methods) and themes including:
- Misuse, abuse and addiction to medicines
- Over-the-counter and prescription medicine supply and prescribing
- Medical sociology
- Pharmacy
- Medical ethics
- Publications
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Postgraduate research students
- Chloe Tuck - Social and economic influences on cancer service utilisation and their implications for health policy in Ghana
- Menghan Wang - Use and Misuse of Sleeping Medication by University Students in England
- Narjis Al Shurafa - What is the perceived role of primary care pharmacists in Saudi Arabia in diabetes care? (Successfully completed)
- Hina Kanabar - What are the factors that inform the doctor to start insulin in the type 2 diabetic patient? (Successfully completed)
- Andrea Madrid Menendez - What are the values that shape the relationship between alternative/traditional medicine practitioners and their patients? (Successfully completed)
- Rodney Nagumo - Adverse drug reaction reporting practices amongst Ghanaian healthcare professionals (Successfully completed)
- Yetenta Osasu - Prescribing, consumption and monitoring of direct oral anticoagulants in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation (Successfully completed)
- Helen Radford - Dealing with disaster: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of healthcare staff following a mass casualty incident in England (Successfully completed)
- Jess White - Patient experiences of Addiction to Medicine and Associated Treatment in the United Kingdom
- Genevieve David (Successfully completed)
- Emma Howard-Drake (Successfully completed)
- Ellie Sprake (Successfully completed)
- Neda Milevska-Kostova (Successfully completed)
- Penny Siebert (Successfully completed)
- Ryosuke Yokoe (Successfully completed)
- Rachel Tattersall (Successfully completed)
- Hina Patel (Successfully completed)
- Grants
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- Opioid Analgesic Dependence Study 2016-19 Principal Investigator. £199,000
- Exploring the Misuse and Abuse of Over the Counter (OTC) Medicines in the UK. Principal Investigator. Jul 08-Dec 10
- Over-the-Counter Medicine Abuse: a pilot study. 2011-2012
- - Pain relief strategies for dressing change in chronic wounds: a mixed-methods systematic review and survey of UK practice 2021-23 £221,413 (co-investigator)
- European Master in Public Health | 2019-2025 Project Reference: 610563-EPP-1-2019-1-FR-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB EU Grant: €4,272,000 (co-applicant)
- Teaching activities
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I contribute to a variety of teaching and assessment on Master of Public Health degree modules, as well as the MBChB medical degree.
I coordinate and teach the Qualitative Research Design and Analysis module (HAR6531)
I teach and assess medical ethics, qualitative research, substance misuse and addiction to prescription/OTC medicine on the MBChB.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Registered pharmacist (GPhC regn 2038210)
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health
- Associate editor: Pharmaceutical Issues
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- Member of the Society for the Study of Addiction
- Member of the British Sociological Association
- Member of the Institute of Medical Ethics
- Regular peer reviewer for a variety of journals and funding bodies
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