The Dipex Charity

We’re an independent charity based in Oxfordshire, UK. We collaborate with academic partners globally to generate and disseminate robust qualitative research findings for the benefit of the public.

SocialCareTalk.org is our most recent offering, established as a social care companion site to our platform healthtalk.org (formerly healthtalkonline), that has been going strong for more than 20 years. We also support the websites of our counterparts in the USA and Netherlands. Collectively, our websites support millions of individuals every year.

Beyond publishing qualitative research for the public benefit, we can help with digital data collection through the provision of websites, apps, and online focus groups.

Publish your social care research on SocialCareTalk.org

Publishing on SocialCareTalk.org gives social care researchers a unique opportunity to directly impact the public and enhance the visibility of your work. If you would like to discuss working with us to create a social care resource from your qualitative research, please contact us.

Our team

Adam Barnett, CEO
Adam joined Dipex in 2008 from his former position at a web-based, VC-funded company. Since then, he has been involved in the digital dissemination of over 70 research projects and has been a co-applicant on more than £3 million pounds worth of research funding. He was appointed CEO in 2018.
Jo Kidd, Communications and Marketing Manager
Jo has worked for Dipex since 2010. She previously worked for charities campaigning on poverty, the environment and human rights, carried out research for campaigns for adults with autism and volunteered with VSO in Lahore, Pakistan.
Teya Costly-White, Digital Media Assistant
Tracy Noble, Administrator
Tracy is an experienced office manager/administrator with a progressive career record that has embraced general, sales office and HR management in a broad range of high-technology, consumer, business and industrial sectors. She has worked in large multi-national corporations, medium size blue-chip organisations and VC-funded start-ups.

Board of Trustees

Professor Fiona Stevenson, Chair
Fiona is a Professor of Medical Sociology and currently Head of Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health at University College London. Her first degree was in sociology and her PhD in medical sociology. Her research primarily focuses on communication between health care professionals and patients and she has a particular interest in patient and public involvement and engagement in research.
John Marden, Treasurer/Secretary
John is a Chartered Accountant by training. His early career post qualifying was spent in heading up finance teams in the IT and entertainment industries. He has spent the last thirty five years in venture capital either assisting emerging private companies or investing in them through the private equity firm that he helped found. John is now actively involved in the not-for-profit sector and is the Treasurer of Dipex.
Bob Gann
Bob is a consultant in digital health, with a particular interest in bridging the digital divide and ensuring nobody is left behind in the digital revolution. He has carried out recent projects on digital inclusion for NHS Digital, Public Health England and Digital Communities Wales. He worked for several years on the NHS website NHS.UK as strategy and engagement director. He is Visiting Professor in Health Informatics at Plymouth University.
Dr Tess McPherson
Tess McPherson is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Dermatologist at Oxford University Hospitals. She is an elected member of the British Society of Paediatric Dermatology. Tess has worked in the U.S., South America and for the WHO in Guyana. Tess has an interest in patient involvement in education and uses patient experiences to support patients and inform best practice. She was the lead clinician on the healthtalk.org project young people with skin conditions.