Dr Xyrichis is a thrice King’s graduate (BSc Nursing, MSc Research, PhD Social Science) dedicated to developing collaborative practice-ready health professionals for coordinated, quality, and safe care. His work responds to mounting research evidence and policy calls from national (NHS) and international (World Health Organization) bodies for greater interprofessional learning and collaborative working as key drivers for health system strengthening and resilience.

Dr Xyrichis researches, develops, implements and evaluates interprofessional, team-based practice interventions for patient safety and quality improvement. This responds to NHS safety data pointing to 11,000 avoidable deaths every year due to failings in safety culture, including teamwork and psychological safety. I have secured over £1.6m in external mostly overhead-bearing grant funding, with over £1m as Principal Investigator of which over 900k to self.

Dr Xyrichis is recognised as a thought leader in his area of scholarship, across both education and research, with SciVal ranking him in the top 2% worldwide on the topic of ‘Interprofessional Relations; Health Occupations’. His publications are world-leading, making theoretical and practical innovations in his field of scholarship internationally.

Research Interests

Dr Xyrichis focuses his research on strengthening the organisation and delivery of healthcare, towards improving the accessibility, efficiency, safety and quality of healthcare systems. He is an expert evaluator on this topic for major funding bodies including the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the European Commission.

Dr Xyrichis; research is empirical and theoretically driven, applying rigorous qualitative social science techniques to investigating contemporary societal and healthcare related challenges. Much of this work is ethnographic in nature, involving participant observation, interviewing and document analysis. He believes that complex problems benefit from multiple methodological approaches and so he promotes interdisciplinarity and collaborative research.

Enquiring about potential PhD supervision

If you’re thinking of applying for one of our PhD programmes and are looking for potential supervisors, please email nmpc_pgr_enquiries@kcl.ac.uk listing the names of the supervisors you’ve identified as having expertise in your chosen area, along with your CV and a short research proposal. 

Our Postgraduate Research Team will contact supervisors on your behalf and get back to you. If you have any queries in the meantime, please use the email address above, rather than contacting potential PhD supervisors directly, because they are unable to respond to initial enquiries.

Research profile