Dr Jo Day
Senior Research Fellow
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)
