Professor Delyth H James PhD, MSc, BPharm, FRPharmS, FHEA

Panel of Fellows

Professor Delyth James is Professor in Pharmacy & Behavioural Medicine at Swansea University Medical School. She also holds a fractional post as Professor of Health Psychology & Pharmacy Practice at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She received her undergraduate degree in Pharmacy from the University of Bath, followed by a MSc in Clinical Pharmacy at UCL and a PhD in Health Psychology at the University of Brighton.

She was a hospital pharmacist at Charing Cross Hospital, London for many years, starting as a Resident Pharmacist, Renal Pharmacist and later Education & Training Lead. Delyth has experience of the community pharmacy sector (as a locum) in the Southeast of England, where she also worked as a Primary Care Trust Pharmacist, specialising in medicines management of older people. Later she worked for Kent, Surrey & Sussex, Workforce Confederation as a Principal Pharmacist for Education & Training.

Delyth has held academic positions in four Universities (Brighton, Cardiff, Cardiff Metropolitan and Swansea University), inputting into the Undergraduate and Postgraduate provision of Pharmacy and Psychology disciplines. She has supervised numerous non-medical prescribing pharmacists and PhD students at these institutions.

Her research focuses on the application of psychological theory to address problems which are central to the way people use medication. She adopts a range of research methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, drawing on health psychology and behavioural science approaches to underpin her work. Specific areas of interest are in developing interventions such as shared decision-making resources and using visual communication approaches to support medication-taking and educating professionals to conduct effective consultations to support patient behaviour change. 

She is a panel member for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Health & Care Research Wales (HCRW) Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Award review panels and was a member of NHS Wales Research Ethics Committee (REC) for over six-years. She is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (FRPharmS), Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA). She is a member of the UK Society of Behavioural Medicine (UKSBM) and Affiliate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Division of Health Psychology (DHP). She was recently appointed to the RPS Science & Research Committee and Fellows Panel of the RPS.