[4] For 22 years (1994-2016) she was based at the University of Leicester, latterly (2007-2016) as professor of medical sociology and director of the SAPPHIRE group in the department of health sciences.
[5] In 2012 she became one of the first recipients of a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, to study ethics of patient safety and quality in healthcare.
The Wellcome Trust's Investigator Awards in Humanities and Social Science are intended to enable scholars to pursue individual, bold visions with greater flexibility.
In 2017 Dixon-Woods led a successful bid from the University of Cambridge to the Health Foundation to establish and run a new institute designed to work towards strengthening the evidence-base for ways to improve healthcare.
Together with our partners, the University of Cambridge is hugely excited at the chance to work with NHS staff, patients and carers to identify, design and text improvements.