Having a background in both community pharmacy and paediatric research, I joined the School of Pharmacy at Keele University in December 2013 as a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy. I completed a PhD at the University of Birmingham in November 2013, which investigated barriers to administering oral medicines to children suffering from chronic conditions (http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/4799/). I work within the clinical team in the School of Pharmacy and teach a range of clinical therapeutic topics on the MPharm course.

My research interests lie within the field of paediatrics and include: barriers to medicines adherence, acceptance of solid oral dosage forms, unlicensed/off-label medicines use and prescribing.

Batchelor H, Venables RH, Marriott JF, Mills T. 2016. Tribology can be used to assess texture perception of oral medicines. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 511(2), 1128-1129. doi> link> Venables RH, Batchelor H, Stirling H, Marriott J. 2015. Barriers to administering non-oral formulations in a paediatric population: A semi-structured interview study. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 497(1-2), 12-17. doi> Batchelor H, Venables RH, Ranmal S, Tuleu C. 2015. Oral formulations for paediatrics: palatability studies. Hospital Pharmacy Europe. Venables RH, Stirling H, Batchelor H, Marriott J. 2015. Problems with oral formulations prescribed to children: a focus group study of healthcare professionals. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. doi> Venables RH. 2015. Determination of formulation factors that affect oral medicines acceptability in a domicilliary paediatric population. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 480(1-2), 55-62. doi>