Researcher profile

Paul Bowie

Prof Paul Bowie is a chartered ergonomist and human factors specialist, safety scientist and medical educator with NHS Education for Scotland based in Glasgow. He has worked in the National Health Service in Scotland for over 25 years in a range of quality and safety advisory roles. He gained his doctorate in significant event analysis from the University of Glasgow in 2005 and has published over 100 papers on healthcare quality and safety in international peer-reviewed journals, and co-edited a book on safety and improvement in primary care. He is Honorary Associate Professor and a PhD supervisor/examiner in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow, and Associate Editor of BMC Family Practice. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and is a Registered Member of the UK Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. In his NHS role, he leads on the development and implementation of innovative research and evaluation approaches to improving the quality and safety of patient care based on systems thinking and human-centred co-design principles and methods.