Mixed methods health researcher specialising in evaluating community organisations and wellbeing/ loneliness interventions e.g social prescribing.
Sheffield, England
Joined October 2012
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South Yorkshire Eating Disorders Association are looking for a new CEO- please share the information:
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Our evaluation showed that green social prescribing helps people's mental health and reached people experiencing health inequalities. theguardian.com/environment/…
Excited to be recruiting a Research Associate for our new study exploring how we can better support the Voluntary Sector Workforce
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This book is underpins my political views and why I do the research I do- we are all happier and healthier if living in a more equal society- it is a statistical not just a moral argument Heartbreaking that the UK is more unequal now than in the 1930s.
"What we weren’t prepared for when we first wrote the book [The Spirit Level] was how much worse things could get:" Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett on the state of UK inequality, 15 years on. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Come and work on our exciting project seeking to improve the health of people in Doncaster. And its a lovely, supported team to!
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Our new article on undertaking public involvement when developing grants and how we can better support researchers to do it well-researchinvolvement.biomedce…
Our reflections on our first year working as embedded researchers within Doncaster Council to address health inequalities: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
We have a research vacancy on an exciting qualitative project with a strong patient focus that will change practice.
🚨 We have a vacancy for a #Qualitative #Research #Associate to join our team. Come and join our important @NIHRresearch RfPB funded study and work with @vlp0904 @Richard__Cooper and @LexiKF on #Gestational #Trophoblastic #Disease. jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdy…
Our interim report on a national evaluation of green social prescribing. Thank you to all our community partners who supported the research. Lots of learning for future initiatives
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What a really good take on the realities of co-production. Certainly going to think about this terminology going forward.
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One of the green social prescribing projects that is part of our national evaluation. Lovely seeing the photos as brings the numbers alive!
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If anyone from the voluntary sector would be interested attending please get in touch. We can pay travel.
A team of researchers from the Universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield are holding a workshop in Leeds City Centre on 23rd March to discuss the potential impact of a healthy lifestyle course aimed at parents of young children.
Find out more here links.henry.org.uk/3YwLDVw
Our new paper exploring service users' perspectives of social prescribing. Now social prescribing is more established, its time to think about the nuances of support
"...social prescribing schemes may exacerbate inequalities if consideration is not given to the ways in which people are (dis)advantaged..."
Great new paper from @JillCthompson @EllieHolding1 @LexiKF @annettehaywood
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Lovely to meet the Next Steps Cohort and discuss their future research ideas. One of the highlights of my role is supporting people getting into research @NIHR_RDSYH
Lovely to meet our Next Steps cohort and presenters today @ScHARRSheffield @ScHARRpubhealth @NIHRCRN_yorks @DrHampshaw @LexiKF @cathhomer
The Community Development ad Health Course is an amazing course- so many of our community health workers and volunteers got into their roles following the course. Strength-based approaches at its best! Certainly something to celebrate!
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This would be an amazing project to work on! Great team, interesting topic, innovative social care research.
Come work with us on a great NIHR HS&DR project - Equal access to flexible support planning for adults with learning disability(EquALD) @aliciaoc55 Chris Hatton @AndrewB007h @RobinUoBham @NCF_Liz tinyurl.com/5n7xxauu tinyurl.com/mudvecaw
Want to make a difference to people with learning disabilities? We are currently advertising a PhD opportunity on making community activities more inclusive. Contact us for more information! findaphd.com/phds/project/ma…
This was a great study to be part of. Patients and stakeholders were involved throughout the review. The findings are being used by healthcare staff developing services to support people to self-manage minor health problems. Thank you to everyone who provided input.
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sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Sharing our learning on a cross-sector partnership research study- where the HS, social housing provider&universities worked together to undertake an evaluation @NIHRSPHR @EllieHolding1 @wdh @MidYorkshireNHS @allofusinmind