The ARCH Study Team brings together a strong and experienced multidisciplinary collaboration with complementary disciplinary backgrounds. All members have previously productively collaborated with one or more of the others in the team. We encompass both relatively early career researchers with considerable directly relevant experience and growing reputations, along with established internationally-recognised experts in their respective fields.

Meet the team below and click on the individual names to access their broader profiles.

Principal Investigator: Dr Charis A Marwick, NHS Tayside and Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee (UoD). Clinician and Health Services Researcher in infectious diseases, with expertise in antimicrobial use, resistance and stewardship. Dr Marwick has overall responsibility for ARCH project management, design, conduct and delivery, and will lead Work Packages 1 and 4. 

Co-Investigator: Dr Suzanne M Grant, Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee. Anthropologist with expertise in safety in healthcare organisations. Dr Grant will lead Work Package 2, directly supervising and supporting the University of Dundee Research Fellow on ethnographic fieldwork design, delivery, analysis and reporting. 

Co-Investigator: Dr Fabiana Lorencatto, Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London (UCL). Health Psychologist with expertise in designing & evaluating behaviour change interventions to improve clinical practice. Dr Lorencatto will lead Work Package 3 & aspects of Work Package 4, supervising the UCL & UoD Researchers. Supported during mat. leave & to end of study by Lou Atkins. 

Co-Investigator: Professor Bruce Guthrie, NHS Fife and Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Practitioner and Health Services Researcher with internationally-recognised expertise in prescribing safety and complex interventions. Professor Guthrie will share responsibility for delivery of Work Packages 2 and 4, and support overall project management.

Co-Investigator: Professor Peter T Donnan, Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee. Director Dundee Epidemiology and Biostatistics Group and the Tayside Clinical Trials Unit. Professor Donnan will provide statistical and trial design expertise, sharing responsibility for delivery of Work Packages 1 and 4.

Co-Investigator: Professor Carmel Hughes, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast. Pharmacist and international research leader in care home prescribing and interventions. Professor Hughes will contribute relevant experience and expertise to the design, conduct and completion of the entire research project.  

Research Fellow: Dr Jane Dickson, Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee. Anthropologist with considerable experience of healthcare ethnography in multiple settings. Dr Dickson will deliver the ethnography on Work Package 2, some of the psychology interviews on Work Package 3 and will also work on Work Package 4.

Research Associate: Dr Aleksandra Herbec, Behavioural Science, Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London. Psychologist and behavioural scientist with experience in mixed-methods research and application of theory to the design and evaluation of complex behaviour change interventions. Dr Herbec will work on Work Packages 3 and 4. 

Project Partner: Dr Jacqueline Sneddon, Pharmacist, previously Project Lead for the Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG) and now, from November 2021, Programmes Manager for the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), leading and co-ordinating projects in the UK and globally to support antimicrobial stewardship and tackle the threat of drug-resistant infections.

Biostatistician on Work Package 1: Dr Nicosha B DeSouza

Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee.

Project Administrator: Gill Heron

Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee.