Expertise
Public health, implementation science, knowledge mobilization, dementia care
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Public Health in the University of Exeter’s College of Medicine and Health. I used to work as a Consultant in Public Health for Devon County Council but in 2016 I took up my current role. From 2014 to 2017 I was an NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellow.
I study knowledge mobilisation and implementation science and look at how people use (or do not use) different types of knowledge in different settings. This includes healthcare organisations, care homes and nursing homes for older people, and voluntary-sector organisations. Much of my work involves older people and especially those who are frail, those whose lives are affected by dementia, and those who provide services or care for older people. I use both qualitative and quantitative methods and am interested in theories and philosophies of knowledge and knowledge use.
Projects
- INTEGRATED – Integrated Parenting and Financial Wellbeing Support
- The Development of Research Knowledge and Culture in Care Homes
- The Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework Study
- The Peninsula Mental Health Research Initiative (PenMHRI)
- WHELD into Practice: improving Wellbeing and mental HEaLth for care home residents with Dementia and reducing unnecessary sedative medications.
- The University of Exeter and Care Homes Knowledge (ExCHANGE) Collaboration
- Social Prescribing – Cornwall and Plymouth Researcher in Residence
- D-PACT: Dementia – PersonAlised Care Team
- Social Prescribing – Effective Mechanisms for Social Prescribing
- 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
- How common is patient and public involvement (PPI)? Cross-sectional analysis of frequency of PPI reporting in health research papers and associations with methods, funding sources and other factors
- A realist evaluation of a collaborative model to support research co-production in long-term care settings in England: the ExCHANGE protocol
- Categories of context in realist evaluation
- Patient Initiated Clinics
- Knowledge needs and use in long-term care homes for older people: a qualitative interview study of managers’ views
- What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review
- Testing of a novel Valsalva Assist Device with supine and modified positions in health volunteers
- Are physiotherapists employing person-centred care for people with dementia? An exploratory qualitative study examining the experiences of people with dementia and their carers
- Alcohol and dementia: a complex relationship with potential for dementia prevention
- Making Sense of Evidence: Using Research Training to Promote Organisational Change
- Relationship between perceptions of ageing and frailty in English older adults
- Dissemination and implementation research in dementia care: a systematic scoping review and evidence map
- The experiences of physiotherapists treating people with dementia who fracture their hip
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery and dementia risk in the Cardiovascular Health Study
- Physiotherapeutic interventions for people with dementia and hip fracture – a scoping review of the literature
- A realist review and collaborative development of what works in the social prescribing process
- Variation in ambulance call rates for care homes in Torbay, UK
- Knowledge, knowledge mobilisation and the third sector
- What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A protocol for a realist review
- Vitamin D and memory decline: two population-based prospective studies
- Older adults’ perceptions of ageing and their health and functioning: a systematic review of observational studies
- “Thinking you’re old and frail”: A qualitative study of a frailty in older adults
- Serum Leptin and Risk of Cognitive Decline in Elderly Italians
- Editorial: Avoiding Depression, Dementia and Frailty: Do You Feel Lucky?
- Economic inequalities in burden of illness, diagnosis and treatment of five long-term conditions in England: panel study
- History of alcohol use disorders and risk of severe cognitive impairment: A nineteen-year prospective cohort study
- Interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medications in people with dementia resident in care homes: a systematic review
- Vitamin D and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease
- Initiating discussion in end of life care: clinician’s perspectives
- Frailty, wealth and subjective well-being in later life
- Adherence to Mediterranean diet, cognitive function and dementia: a systematic review
- The influence of problematic child-teacher relationships on future psychiatric disorder in a population survey with three year follow up
- Improving later life. Understanding the oldest old
- The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (3rd edition)
- Cost-effectiveness of oromucosal cannabis-based medicine (Sativex) for spasticity in multiple sclerosis
- The case for addressing explosive weapons: Conflict, violence and health
- Vitamin D and cognitive function
- Vitamin D, cognitive dysfunction and dementia in older adults
- Common health predictors of early retirement: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Variation in childhood and adolescent obesity prevalence defined by international and country-specific criteria in England and the United States
- Income and the midlife peak in common mental disorder prevalence
- Depression among older adults in the United States and England
- Vitamin D and cognitive impairment in the elderly US population
- Vitamin D and risk of cognitive decline in elderly persons
- Baby boomers nearing retirement: the healthiest generation?
- Association of Bisphenol A With Diabetes and Other Abnormalities
- Association of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration With Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities in Adults
Other team members
Sara Eddy
PhD Student
Kath Wilkinson
Research Fellow
Dr Nick Axford
Implementation Lead and Associate Professor in Health Services Research
Charlotte Hewlett
Research Manager