Caroline Potter

BSc MPhil DPhil

Research Officer

Caroline Potter is a Research Officer at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. As a medical anthropologist Caroline has experience of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Informed by her role as deputy director of a multidisciplinary research unit on obesity (www.oxfordobesity.org), Caroline is especially interested in how people experience health and illness in particular cultural settings and across the life course. For more information click here.

Recent publications

Paternal origins of obesity: Emerging evidence for incorporating epigenetic pathways into the social determinants of health framework
Journal article

Milliken-Smith S. and Potter CM., (2018), Social Science & Medicine
Quality of life and burden of morbidity in primary care users with multimorbidity.
Journal article

Peters M. et al, (2018), Patient related outcome measures, 9, 103 - 113
Long-Term Conditions Questionnaire (LTCQ): initial validation survey among primary care patients and social care recipients in England.
Journal article

Potter CM. et al, (2017), BMJ Open, 7, e019235 - e019235
The context of coping: a qualitative exploration of underlying inequalities that influence health services support for people living with long-term conditions.
Journal article

Potter CM. et al, (2017), Sociology of health & illness
Social anxiety and vulnerability for problematic drinking in college students: the moderating role of post-event processing.
Journal article

Potter CM. et al, (2016), Cogn Behav Ther, 45, 380 - 396