Dr Parslow is a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care. She specialises in using qualitative and mixed methods in her research to understand the experience of health, illness and healthcare interventions. Dr Parslow has expertise in conducting qualitative research with both children, older patients, parents and health professionals as well as undertaking process evaluations in randomised controlled trials to evaluate healthcare interventions. 

She currently works on TOPIC: Transforming Outcomes for Paediatric allergy In primary Care in the Centre for Applied Excellence in Skin and Allergy Research (CAESAR). She is running a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to decide the top 10 research questions in food allergy in children.

Current and recently completed projects include:

• OPTIC study: OPTimising the prevention, identification and management of ICU Delirium

• IMPPP trial: Improving Medicines Use for People with Polypharmacy in Primary Care.

• FITNET-NHS Trial: A randomised controlled trial of Fatigue In Teenagers on the interNET (FITNET) compared to Activity Management (AM) to treat paediatric CFS/ME.

• POMME: Paediatric Outcome Measure for children with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 

Prior to this, Roxanne gained a BSc in Psychology from the University of the West of England and completed her PhD at the University of Bristol, developing POMME: Paediatric Outcome Measure for children with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.