Expertise
Public health, child health, knowledge mobilisation, implementation science, service design and evaluation
Biography
I joined PenARC in 2016 as a mixed methods researcher to work on various research and evaluation projects across child and adult health and social care. My research interests primarily focus on translating research into practice to improve services. I am also interested in knowledge mobilisation, implementation science, and methods of working with others to build research capacity and form local research collaborations.
My research is applied and co-productive in nature. I have worked on a number of research projects involving developing, delivering and evaluating group-based interventions, and work mostly with research focused on supporting vulnerable individuals including children and families and the elderly. I have a keen interest in more creative research methodologies, community engagement and ways of working with ‘hard-to-reach’ individuals and communities, and a particular interest in knowledge brokering, collaborative research and co-production methods engaging a range of stakeholders.
Publications
- Barriers and facilitators in the delivery of a proportionate universal parenting program model (E-SEE Steps) in community family services
- The Impact of a Public Health Crisis on the Well-Being of UK Senior Care Home Staff: A Qualitative Interview Study
- Healthy Parent Carers programme: mixed methods process evaluation and refinement of a health promotion intervention
- Healthy Parent Carers: feasibility randomised controlled trial of a peer-led group-based health promotion intervention for parent carers of disabled children
- Implementation of training to improve communication with disabled children on the ward: a feasibility study.
- The longitudinal relationship between child emotional disorder and parental mental health in the British Child and Adolescent Mental Health surveys 1999 and 2004
- Healthy Parent Carers peer-led group-based health promotion intervention for parent carers of disabled children: protocol for a feasibility study using a parallel group randomised controlled trial design
- Could Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy prevent a lifelong recurrent course of depression or anxiety by addressing key mechanisms of vulnerability in high-risk adolescents?
- Assessing the Feasibility of a Parent Life Coaching Intervention to Support Parents and Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence and Abuse
- Making Sense of Evidence: Using Research Training to Promote Organisational Change
Other team members
Dr Bekkah Bernheim
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Jennie Hayes
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sarah O'Rourke
PhD Student
Sara Eddy
PhD Student
Dr Sarah Brand
Senior Research Fellow in Implementation Science
Dr Nick Axford
Implementation Lead and Associate Professor in Health Services Research
Charlotte Hewlett
Research Manager
Dr Jo Day
Research Fellow