Expertise
Qualitative Research and Evaluation, Implementation Science, Knowledge Mobilisation, Older Adults and Aging, Social and Health Care Workforce, Care Homes, Collaborative Research
Biography
A psychologist and qualitative researcher working on projects researching and evaluating the implementation and improvement of new/existing innovations and use of research findings for public benefit. Main areas of work are health and social care workforce, older adults/aging and care homes research. Contribute to education and capacity building for academic and practice-based researchers, implementers, improvers and knowledge mobilisers. Current work involves:
- Developing new or support emerging research and implementation projects.
- Working collaboratively with partners in health and social care organisations and public representatives to research and support the implementation and improvement of evidence-informed changes to practice and services.
Capacity-building to increase the awareness, understanding and use of qualitative research, implementation science and knowledge mobilisation for health and social care practice and services.
Projects
- PARTNERS3
- The rapid emergence of Local Authority Public Health knowledge brokers in a global pandemic to interpret Public Health England guidelines across local social and health care settings: Experiences of the UK’s PPE ‘cells’
- WHELD into Practice: improving Wellbeing and mental HEaLth for care home residents with Dementia and reducing unnecessary sedative medications.
- Rehabilitation to enable recovery from COVID-19
- PhD Project – The implementation of integrated psychological medicine services in Devon: An ethnography of change
- Understanding stakeholders’ perspectives on implementing deprescribing in care homes (STOPPING)
- The Care Home Implementation and Knowledge Mobilisation Project (CHIK-P)
Publications
- The Impact of a Public Health Crisis on the Well-Being of UK Senior Care Home Staff: A Qualitative Interview Study
- A realist evaluation of a collaborative model to support research co-production in long-term care settings in England: the ExCHANGE protocol
- Rehabilitation to enable recovery from COVID-19: a rapid systematic review
- Knowledge needs and use in long-term care homes for older people: a qualitative interview study of managers’ views
- Bridging the second gap in translation: a case study of barriers and facilitators to implementing Patient-initiated Clinics into secondary care
- What is the nature and value of a risk management tool in a large-scale complex programme of collaborative applied health research?
- Collaborative research and the co-production of knowledge for practice: an illustrative case study
- Inside the “Black Box” of a Knowledge Translation Program in Applied Health Research
