Jennifer Liddle
Innovation Fellow
I am a Senior Research Associate working across Open Lab and the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. My research interests include the development of innovative (digital) approaches to address societal challenges such as loneliness, isolation, health and care in later life.
I have worked with older people and health care professionals on a range of qualitative and mixed methods studies to explore experiences of everyday life. Recent projects included a study of social connectedness with older people living in the West End of Newcastle and an Emerging and Enabling Technologies Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Anchor Hanover.
My current work as an Innovation Associate in the EPSRC-funded Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC) at Open Lab is exploring:
- new approaches to measure social interaction using wearable digital technologies
- digital citizenship in later life
- how technology can support non-age biased learning, growth and engagement opportunities across the life course
PhD students:
Digital citizenship in later life: insights from participatory action research with older content creators
The assessment and management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica from the Physiotherapist's perspective
Diversifying Community Radio: the creation of the Later Life Audio and Radio Co-operative
Older Voices: Supporting community radio production in later life using digital technologies
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2025
Nature-based interventions for older adults: a systematic review of intervention types and methods, health effects, and pathways
2025 – Age and Ageing
Routine data collection in home care: a national survey of home care providers in England
2025 – Quality in Ageing and Older Adults
Missing the bus: Impacts of loss of bus services on the wellbeing of older adults
2025 – Journal of Transport and Health
2024
UK homecare providers’ views about, and experiences of, digitalisation: A national survey
2024 – Digital Health
Talking ‘bout Your Generation: Lessons Learned from Exploring Tabletop Role-Playing and Visual Arts-based Methods to Promote Reflection on the Diversity of ‘Older Adults’ in HCI
2024 – 53rd British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference 2024
Community-based physical and social activity for older adults with mild frailty: a rapid qualitative study of a collaborative intervention pilot
2024 – BMC Geriatrics
2023
Experiences of living with hip osteoarthritis and of receiving advice, education and ultrasound-guided intra-articular hip injection in the hip injection trial. A qualitative study
2023 – Musculoskeletal Care
Hands-on workshop on tabletop role-playing for inclusive design: Imagining sustainable futures for 'older adults'
2023 – Mindtrek '23: Proceedings of the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference
Data Collection in Care Homes for Older Adults: A National Survey in England
2023 – Journal of Long-Term Care
2022
Integrating case-finding and initial management for osteoarthritis, anxiety and depression into primary care long-term condition reviews: results from the ENHANCE pilot trial
2022 – Family Practice
Measuring older people's socioeconomic position: a scoping review of studies of self-rated health, health service and social care use
2022 – Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
2021
Experiences of a National Early Warning Score (NEWS) intervention in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study
2021 – BMJ Open
“It’s just a great muddle when it comes to food”: a qualitative exploration of patient decision making around diet and gout
2021 – Rheumatology Advances in Practice
What are the consequences of caring for older people and what interventions are effective for supporting unpaid carers? A rapid review of systematic reviews
2021 – BMJ Open
2020
Implementation of the National Early Warning Score in UK care homes: a qualitative evaluation
2020 – British Journal of General Practice
Connecting at Local Level: Exploring Opportunities for Future Design of Technology to Support Social Connections in Age-Friendly Communities
2020 – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Digitalising the Age-Friendly City: Insights from Participatory Action Research
2020 – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The Later Life Audio and Radio Co-operative: considering radio as a technology to promote citizen dialogue in later life
2020 – DSAI 2020: 9th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info Exclusion
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
Home from home? A mixed-methods study of relocation within a purpose-built retirement community
2012 – Journal of Housing for the Elderly