Rebecca Whear
Senior Research Fellow
Expertise
Evidence Synthesis, Health Services Research
Biography
I joined ARC South West (previously PenARC and PenCLAHRC) in August 2009. I am part of the Evidence Synthesis Team that helps to manage the PenARC question prioritisation process and conducts systematic reviews for relevant questions identified from this process. My main areas of interest include improving healthcare for patients and the NHS, the mental health and behaviour of children and young people, Dementia and more recently the support of parents going through neonatal care. I am also interested in the ways research can be communicated better for various audiences.
As part of the team I help to run systematic review clinics for those working on their own systematic reviews, and deliver teaching in this area. My main skills are focused on the conduct of systematic reviews in health services research. However, I have also been involved with setting research agendas. The reviews we conduct aim to work with clinicians and service users to answer the questions most relevant to them and their practices and to help bridge the gap between research and practice.
Projects
- Health and social care interventions in the 80 years old and over population: an evidence and gap map
- Neonatal Oral Antibiotics at Home (NOAH)
- iGEN (Intergenerational practices and intergenerational learning in health and social care): Exploring the evidence from the perspective of older people
- Characteristics, quality and volume of the evidence synthesis infodemic: a meta-research study
- COVID-NURSE: Impact of Covid-19 and other conditions requiring isolation on the provision of fundamental nursing care in hospital
- Improving continence in children and young people with neurodisability (ICoN study)
- What are the effects of ‘robopets’ on the health and wellbeing of residents in care homes? A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative evidence
- Effects of animals on the health and wellbeing of residents in care homes
- Teacher-led interventions on social and emotional behaviour in primary school children
