I’m a Senior Research Associate working across Open Lab and the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. My research interests include the everyday experiences of older people, and the development of innovative (digital) approaches to address societal challenges such as loneliness, isolation, health and care in later life.
Over the last 12 years, I’ve worked with older people and health care professionals on a range of qualitative and mixed methods studies to explore experiences of everyday life related to housing, health and care.
Current projects:
- Feasibility/pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) in care homes
- Innovate UK and Anchor Hanover - Emerging and Enabling Technologies Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
- Exploring the journeys and experiences of people interacting with Care and Repair Newcastle (CARN), in collaboration with colleagues in Newcastle City Council
Recent projects:
- Online UK passport applications: the experiences of older adults in the North East of England, in collaboration with the Home Office
- Caring as a social determinant of health: Evidence review and implementation resource for Public Health England (PHE)
- Exploring the role of technology in optimising social connections in later life within a geographically local community context
- Exploring patient barriers to the diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis in primary care
- Pilot trial of an integrated approach to improve care for people with long term conditions (ENHANCE)
- Hip Injection Trial (HIT) for patients with hip osteoarthritis
- Patient Experiences of Gout study
- Longitudinal study of Ageing in a Retirement Community (LARC)
2019
Older voices: supporting community radio production for civic participation in later life
2019 – 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Characteristics of patients with giant cell arteritis who experience visual symptoms
2019 – Rheumatology International
2017
What is the impact of giant cell arteritis on patients’ lives?: A UK qualitative study
2017 – BMJ Open
Affective concordance in couples: A cross-sectional analysis of depression and anxiety consultations within a population of 13,507 couples in primary care
2017 – BMC Psychiatry
Where does good quality qualitative health care research get published?
2017 – Primary Health Care Research & Development
Diagnostic delay for giant cell arteritis - a systematic review and meta-analysis
2017 – BMC Medicine
2016
"You want to get on with the rest of your life": a qualitative study of health-related quality of life in gout
2016 – Clinical Rheumatology
A joint effort over a period of time: factors affecting use of urate-lowering therapy for long-term treatment of gout
2016 – BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
2015
Mapping patients' experiences from initial symptoms to gout diagnosis: a qualitative exploration
2015 – BMJ Open
"Why me? I don't fit the mould … I am a freak of nature": a qualitative study of women's experience of gout
2015 – BMC Women's Health
2014
Exploring the age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities: evidence from England
2014 – Ageing and Society
2013
Creating home-like places in a purpose-built retirement village in the United Kingdom
2013 – Environmental Gerontology: Making Meaningful Places in Old Age
2012
Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village
2012 – Ageing & Society