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Dr Kellyn Lee BSc (Hons), MRes, PhD

Research Fellow in Ageing and Dementia

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Dr Kellyn Lee is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and Research Fellow in Ageing and Dementia within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. She is also Co-Director of the Doctoral Training Centre – Dementia Care.

Material Citizenship is a training programme that instils confidence into carers and their managers, leading to empowerment and the delivery of true personalised care

Kellyn’s research expertise and interests centre on moving care practices forward to a rights-based approach and creating a confident and sustainable social care workforce. Kellyn joined the University of Southampton in 2015 to undertake her doctoral research. The study was funded by the Alzheimer’s Society and focused on risk enablement in care homes. With a background in psychology and experience of conducting research in ageing and dementia, her doctoral work combined psychological ideas relating to the importance of object-person relations and sociological ideas of residential care for people with dementia.

Within her PhD Kellyn developed a conceptual framework - Material Citizenship. This focuses on functional objects as an often overlooked but crucial element in care practice. She has since designed and developed the Material Citizenship Skills Enhancement Programme for care staff which can be delivered face-to-face or via an online platform and featured in The Guardian Society. Kellyn is currently working with industry partners to roll out Material Citizenship within their care homes and domiciliary care services. To access an animation giving details on what Material Citizenship is and what it does click here.

Qualifications

PhD Health Sciences (Southampton)
MRes Science (Portsmouth)
BSc (Hons) Psychology (Portsmouth)

PhD supervision

Leah Hewer-Richards (2018 –present) FIND: an exploration of how Faecal Incontinence impacts the provision of Dementia care. Funded by the Alzheimer’s Society. Supervision team: Professor Jackie Bridges, Dr Ruth Bartlett, Dr Kellyn Lee.

Research

Publications

Contact

Research interests

Material Citizenship
Industry partnerships
Enterprise
Social care workforce
Community initiatives to support informal carers
Policy and practice change

Current projects

Material Citizenship – implementation programme
Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care – a practice development programme that aims to promote compassionate care for older people in an acute care setting
Multimorbidity and Older Cancer Survivors - supporting self-management of multimorbidity during cancer recovery in old age: development and feasibility of an intervention

Previous projects

GPS technologies - Walking Assessments: Adapting the practice of telehealth care workers (2018-2019)
Using GPS Technologies for safe walking (2017)
An Independent Review of a Dementia Care Pathway (2016-2017)
Project Generate – Community Art Workshops for People with Dementia (2014-2015)
Hampshire Creative Arts Project for People with Dementia (2013-2014)The Prevalence of Food Allergy in Europe and the World (2012-2013)
The PEOPPLE (Putting Evidence for Older People into Practice in Living Environments) Project: researching the needs of the older community as identified by the older community themselves (2011–2012)

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Articles

Lee, K., Frankland, J., Griffiths, P., Hewer-Richards, L., Young, A., & Bridges, J. (2020). Association between Quality of Interactions Schedule ratings and care experiences of people with a dementia in general hospital settings: a validation study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Lee, K. (2020). Inclusion of people with dementia in research can help nurses understand how to deliver successful reminiscence interventions. Evidence-Based Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2020-103271
Chase, M., Lloyd , C. E. M., Peters, B. J., Chase , E., & Lee, K. (2020). Joining the dots: day to day challenges for practitioners in delivering integrated dementia care. Health and Social Care in the Community. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13140
Corbett, T., Cummings, A., Lee, K., Calman, L., Fenerty, V., Farrington, N., Lewis, L., Young, A., Boddington, H., Wiseman, T., Richardson, A., Foster, C., & Bridges, J. (2020). Planning and optimising CHAT&PLAN: a conversation-based intervention to promote person-centred care for older people living with multimorbidity. PLoS ONE, 15(10), [e0240516]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240516
Fletcher, J. R., Lee, K., & Snowden, S. (2019). Uncertainties when applying the Mental Capacity Act in dementia research: a call for researcher experiences. Ethics and Social Welfare, 13(2), 183-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2019.1580302
Moonesinghe, H., MacKenzie, H., Venter, C., Kilburn, S., Turner, P. J., Weir, K., & Dean, T. (2016). Prevalence of fish and shellfish allergy: a systematic review. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 117(3), 264-272.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anai.2016.07.015
Weir, K., & Costall, A. (2015). A personal approach: an empirical study of the process of studying my son's problem with computer games. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 14(5), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406915618048

Conferences

Lee, K. (2018). You can bring in what you like: decision-making relating to personal possessions and access to functional objects in care homes . 48. Abstract from The 28th Alzheimer Europe Conference (#28AEC), Barcelona, Spain.
Lee, K., Bartlett, R., & Luff, R. (2017). Object Ownership, use and risk: the practice of material citizenship for people with a dementia in care homes. Poster session presented at 27th Alzheimer Europe Conference, Berlin, Germany.
Lee, K., Bartlett, R., & Luff, R. (2017). Objects, dementia and risk through a social citizenship lens: an ethnographic study of the perception of risk associated with people with a dementia having certain objects in care homes . 189. Abstract from British Society of Gerontology 46th Annual Conference, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Moonesinghe, H. R., Kilburn, S., Mackenzie, H., Turner, P. J., Venter, C., Lee, K., & Dean, T. (2014). Prevalence of fish and shellfish allergy: a systematic review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2013.12.724
Mackenzie, H., Venter, C., Kilburn, S., Moonesinghe, H. R., Lee, K., & Dean, T. (2014). Prevalence of peanut allergy: a systematic review. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 133(2, Supplement), AB202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2013.12.723

Reports

Bridges, J., Lee, K., Griffiths, P., & Frankland, J. (2019). Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC): The implementation and evaluation of a sustainable team-based workplace learning intervention.
Dean, T., MacKenzie, H., Kilburn, S., Moonesinghe, H., Lee, K., Maslin, K., & Venter, C. (2013). Literature searches and reviews related to the prevalence of food allergy in Europe. European Food Safety Authority.

Thesis

Lee, K. (2019). “Could be a risk couldn’t it”: Decision-making, access to, and the use of functional objects for people with a dementia living in a care home. University of Southampton.

Dr Kellyn Lee
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