Dr Euan Sadler PhD, MA, MSc, BSc (Hons), FHEA
Associate Clinical Professor of Older People and Frailty
Dr Euan Sadler is an Associate Clinical Professor of Older People and Frailty within Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Examining the implementation of effective integrated care approaches to improve health, wellbeing and social support of older people with frailty
Euan is a social scientist and physiotherapist. His position is a joint appointment between the University of Southampton and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. In his role, Euan is leading and collaborating on a programme of research to improve the implementation of person centred integrated care and support for older people living with frailty. Euan also works alongside frailty teams in Southern Health supporting them to improve integrated care services for older people living with frailty in Hampshire, and in demonstration of impact. He contributes to the development of the clinical academic practice strategy and the clinical academic programme for nurses and allied health professionals across the University and Trust.
After completing his physiotherapy training, Euan specialised in community rehabilitation for older people with a range of long-term conditions, including frailty and those with multimorbidity. He completed his PhD in Gerontology at the Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London, where he conducted a mixed methods project examining the role of spirituality in successful ageing.
Before moving to the University of Southampton he led and collaborated on a number of research programmes at King’s College London. This included an ethnographic process evaluation of a multi-site RCT study examining the impact of a stroke caregiver training intervention; studies to develop and evaluate complex interventions to improve resilience and self-management support after stroke; and a multi-stakeholder engagement study to co-produce a data-driven intervention to improve long-term outcomes for stroke survivors with multimorbidity. As senior research fellow in the Centre for Implementation Science at King’s he started to develop a research programme to improve the implementation of person centred integrated care approaches to improve health and social support for older people with frailty and multimorbidity, which he is continuing to lead and collaborate on at the University of Southampton.
He leads the frailty education on the undergraduate Adult Nursing BSc programme in the School, contributes to teaching research methods and is research project supervisor for undergraduate, masters and doctoral level students.
Euan’s research methods expertise and interests focus on ethnographic approaches in applied health research; theoretically informed qualitative research and evidence synthesis; the contribution of social science, systems and stakeholder engagement approaches in implementation science; design and evaluation of complex interventions; and co-production in health services research.