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- Associate Professor (Teaching)
- CHIME
- Institute of Health Informatics
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Pippa is Principal Teaching Fellow and Insititute Postgraduate Tutor (taught) at the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, IHI.
She initially studied psychology at Leeds University, before researching first speech dysfluency and then medical accidents in the Department of Psychology, UCL. She also acheived a postgraduate diploma in the legal aspects of Clinical Risk Management. Having worked with Prof Charles Vincent at the Clinical Risk Unit for North Thames Region, she developed training programmes for healthcare staff in risk management. These training programmes became the foundation for the risk management postgraduate programme which was established at CHIME, UCL in 1998 and is now a specialist module in the masters informatics programme.
Her past research work focussed on the psychological issues in patient
safety and included topics such as patients' and clinicians' attitudes to complaints,
the clinician's need for support in litigation, the causes and consequences of
junior doctors' mistakes and obstetrics cases analysis.
In addition to her teaching and research work, she was a lay assessor for the General Chiropractic Council.


Pippa Bark-William's research focuses on patient safety aspects in healthcare from an organisational perspective. Her current work focuses on applying risk management methodologies to clinical practice (currently hip surgery and breast cancer). She is interested in public and patient engagement with a past research background in complaints and litigation, and is now involved in PPE studies on attitudes (currently antibiotic over-prescribing, using social media for commentary on research findings and sharing critical care records). She has methodological interests in qualitative design, systematic reviewing and interdisciplinary work.
Pippa is Institute Postgraduate Tutor (taught) for the Insititute of Health informatics and module lead on the masters dissertation in informatics, patient safety, and research methods for health.
She is invited as a guest lecturer for other universities and organisations on topics such as patient safety, qualitative research, risk information, complaints and was keynote speaker for the World Health Organisation, Sweden in 2017.
1986 | Bachelor of Science (Honours) | University of Leeds | |
Incomplete CV | To be updated | ||
1994 | Diploma | Open University | |
1990 | Postgraduate Certificate | Universite Libre de Bruxelles | |
1989 | Certificate | University College London | |
Doctor of Philosophy | University College London |