The PCSM Research Hub Team
PROF JONATHAN WEBER - Co-Director of the PCSM Research Hub
Jonathan Weber is a Professor of Medicine at Imperial College London and at the Institute of Health at the University of Cumbria, where he is co-Director of the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine Research Hub (PCSM-RH). He is a Non-Executive Director at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust (NCIC), where he chairs the Quality, Improvement and Safety Committee. He trained at the University of Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. In 1982 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust clinical training fellowship to study the emergent AIDS epidemic and has researched HIV/AIDS and the other human retrovirus, HTLV, ever since. He was subsequently Lecturer at the Institute of Cancer Research and then Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. In 1990, he was appointed to the Jefferiss Chair of Communicable Diseases and Genito-Urinary Medicine at Imperial College London and was an honorary consultant physician at St Mary’s Hospital. His research encompassed the development of antiretroviral therapy and currently the prevention of HIV infection through prophylactic vaccine development and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial 2017-23, and Director of the Imperial Academic Health Science Centre from 2015-2024. He was awarded the CBE in 2024 for contributions to global health research and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
PROF SOPHIE DAY - Co-Director of the PCSM Research Hub
Sophie Day is Professor Emerita, Anthropology, Goldsmiths and Principal Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. She is Co-Director of the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine Research Hub at the University of Cumbria where she is Professor in the Institute of Health. She trained at the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Ca., and the London School of Political and Economic Science where she was awarded her PhD for research on spirit possession in Ladakh, North India. She then joined the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London where she became Head of Department 2005-2008. She established the Praed Street Project in London with Professor Helen Ward, which ran services and conducted research with sex workers from 1986 to 2017. Her 2007 monograph, On the Game: Women and Sex Work (London: Pluto Press) was awarded the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems. She established the Patient Experience Research Centre with Professor Helen Ward in the School of Public Health at Imperial College in 2011, where she continues to work. A monograph with Celia Lury and Helen Ward, The Generic Person: Personalization in digital culture, health and data science (forthc. 2026, Bloomsbury) resulted from their collaboration in a medical humanities project, ‘People Like You’ (2018-2022) and her monograph, Rendering Houses in Ladakh, was published with Routledge, 2023.
DR HUGH MARTIN - PCSM Research Hub Manager
Dr Hugh Martin is an experienced manager of research projects, centres, and small enterprises, with a multidisciplinary background spanning computational science, biomedicine, and scientific communication. Before joining the University of Cumbria as Research Hub Manager for the PCSM Research Hub, he held senior management roles at University College London’s Centre for Computational Science and led CBK Sci Con Ltd, an SME supporting science and technology initiatives. Dr Martin has supported the successful bidding and delivery of over £70 million in research funding across major UKRI and EU programmes, including projects and centres of excellence such as CompBioMed, VECMA, ComPat, and SEAVEA. His expertise includes project coordination, centre operations, dissemination planning, and stakeholder engagement, alongside extensive experience in organising large-scale events and managing communications across digital and social platforms. He holds an MSci in Chemistry and a PhD in Computational Biological Chemistry from UCL, with published work in Nano Letters, JACS, and Nature Methods, among others. He is committed to enabling effective, collaborative and impactful research.