Executive management group
This page is under review and will be updated over the next few months.
The new co-directors of the Scottish School for Primary Care (SSPC) are Katie Gallacher at University of Glasgow and Rosalind Adam at University of Aberdeen. In October 2026, Lisa Duncan (University of Aberdeen) has joined the team as Deputy Director.
Rosalind Adam (co-director)
Katie Gallacher (co-director)
Lisa Duncan (deputy director)
Lisa Duncan is a PhD student and was previously a Research Assistant in the Academic Primary Care group at the University of Aberdeen. Her PhD is exploring treatment burden in individuals living with and beyond cancer. She is the Deputy Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care (SSPC).
Associate Professor Barbara Farquharson
Barbara Farquharson is an Associate Professor in the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional's Research Unit (NMAHP), in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport, at Stirling University. She leads research applying behavioural science to issues in cardiovascular care: current funded projects focus on increasing rates of CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and reducing patient delay with serious heart symptoms.
Learn more about Barbara Farquharson
Professor Bruce Guthrie
Bruce Guthrie is Professor of General Practice at the University of Edinburgh and a mixed methods health services researcher whose research focuses on multiple long-term conditions, quality of care, and care in later life.
Dr Natalie Weir
Dr Natalie Weir is a Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde and a community pharmacist. Her research focuses on the expansion of the role of pharmacy professionals in primary care, using mixed method and implementation science approaches. She is passionate about getting health care professionals more involved in research through skill development and confidence building. Her clinical teaching is varied but she is specifically interested in Clinical Decision Making theories, involving people with lived experience of conditions in teaching, and mental health and substance use stigma.
Professor David Blane
David Blane is an academic GP with expertise in mixed methods research at the University of Glasgow. He is the Academic Lead for the Deep End GP project in Scoltand and within the Institute of Health and Wellbeing he is the Deputy Lead for the Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities (DHHI) theme. He is also the Royal College of General Practitiners (RCGP) representative for Obesity Action Scotland and he is on the RCGP Health Inequalities Standing Group.
Mr Colin Angus
Colin Angus represents a patient perspective on several forums. Being a past patient chair of P3, a subgroup of RCGP(Scotland), he was involved in several national Primary Care initiatives. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from RCGP in 2020.
Colin is a public partner in NHS Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership and Chairs his local Forum. He takes an active role in many groups including, Clydesdale GP Forum and Clydesdale Locality Planning Group and is a member of South Lanarkshire Seniors Together where he is involved in national consultations. He is involved as Chair of the PPIE Groups with Edinburgh University in two large research study projects and is a member of the NRS Primary Care Network PPI Group which sense checks would-be research proposals from a patient perspective prior to seeking funding.
He has presented at national events including the RCGP Annual Conferences, SARA Seminar, GP Society events and the Queens Nursing Annual Conference. As a member of Alliance Scotland, he has been involved in many focus groups and workshops and has represented them on several occasions. He is active, along with other patients, in establishing a Patient Participation Group in his local GP Practice.
