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)
Publications
- The Impact of a Public Health Crisis on the Well-Being of UK Senior Care Home Staff: A Qualitative Interview Study
- A realist evaluation of a collaborative model to support research co-production in long-term care settings in England: the ExCHANGE protocol
- Rehabilitation to enable recovery from COVID-19: a rapid systematic review
- Knowledge needs and use in long-term care homes for older people: a qualitative interview study of managers’ views
- Bridging the second gap in translation: a case study of barriers and facilitators to implementing Patient-initiated Clinics into secondary care
- What is the nature and value of a risk management tool in a large-scale complex programme of collaborative applied health research?
- Collaborative research and the co-production of knowledge for practice: an illustrative case study
- Inside the “Black Box” of a Knowledge Translation Program in Applied Health Research
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