Research interests
- Qualitative/ethnographic research to examine service user, carer and provider understandings and practices of care and self-management support for people with frailty and other long-term conditions.
- Person centred integrated care for people with frailty and other long-term conditions.
- Development and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health and social support outcomes for people with frailty and other long-term conditions.
- Social science perspectives on the lived experiences of frailty and other long-term conditions.
- Implementation science.
- Health system approaches.
- Asset-based models of care.
- Co-design and Co-production approaches in health and adult social care.
- Process evaluations of complex interventions.
- Social science informed digital health interventions to support people with frailty and other long-term conditions to live well.
- Realist Methodology.
PhD Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students undertaking social science informed qualitative/ ethnographic and mixed methods studies in health and adult social care research, in particular studies to improve our understanding of the lived experience of frailty and multimorbidity, and person centred integrated care to improve health and social support for older people living with frailty and complex needs.
I am currently co-supervising 4 PhD students:
Farida Butt. An ethnographic case study of medicines related care within an integrated care pathway for older people with frailty (King’s College London).
Samuel Alugsi. Exploring the relationship between health system responsiveness and the implementation of person centred integrated care for older people with frailty: An ethnographic case study (Bournemouth University, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust & NIHR ARC Wessex match-funded PhD studentship).
Jane Tippett. A critical exploration of the role of the nurse in the trauma team: An ethnographic case study.
Louise Perkins. Doula support throughout pregnancy and birth for women with tocophobia: the experiences of women and doulas.
Research Projects
DONOR: (Digital cOachiNg fOr fRailty) Implementation of a digital health coaching intervention for older people with frailty in Wessex
This project explores how a digital approach can be used alongside support from health coaches to help lifestyle management for people living with frailty in its early stages.
Exploring the meanings, experiences and impacts of frailty from the perspectives of older people. A systematic review and narrative synthesis of qualitative studies.
Cochrane Review of case management for integrated care of older people with frailty in community settings.
A qualitative study to investigate service user, carer and provider perspectives on integrated care and integrated care pathways for older people with frailty in Lambeth and Southwark, south London, funded by Guy's and St Thomas' and Maudsley charity King’s Improvement Fellowship.
Integrating Mental and Physical Health Care Systems (IMPHS), funded by the Maudsley Charity. This programme of research evaluates the implementation of a range of integrated physical and mental health services for people with mental health conditions in South London.
MOTH Project 2: Exploring the factors that facilitate and hinder the implementation of digital tools for self-management of long-term conditions within existing healthcare structures and pathways.
This project explores the barriers and facilitators to implementing digital tools for self-management of long-term conditions (LTC) with NHS commissioners, General Practitioners and LTC Specialists. A review of policy recommendations for the implementation of these digital tools is also being undertaken.
MOTH Project 3: Non-digital support for maintaining physical activity in people with long-term conditions – within Maintenance Of physical acTivity beHaviour.
This project will develop a new intervention to support people with one or more LTCs to stay active, after taking part in an NHS and/or third sector Exercise Referral Scheme, to inform a future larger trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the intervention.
Evaluating patients’ experiences of digital pain management interventions, (NIHR ARC Wessex funded internship awarded to Justin Strain, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust).
Research group
Ageing and Dementia
Research Theme
Health Needs
Research project(s)
This project explores the barriers and facilitators to implementing digital tools for self-management of long-term conditions (LTC) with NHS commissioners, General Practitioners and LTC Specialists. A review of policy recommendations for the implementation of these digital tools is also being undertaken.
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