SCHARR - Communicable Research Podcast
By ScHARR
In this series we’ll hear from researchers at SCHARR and the work they undertake to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr
twitter.com/SCHARRSheffield
Published CC BY 4.0
Music credit
Creation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721
SCHARR - Communicable Research PodcastSep 06, 2022
SCHARR Communicable Research #28 - Dr Rebecca Mawson - Reducing Inequalities in Sexual Health
Our latest guest on the Communicable Research podcast is Dr Rebecca Mawson. Rebecca started her professional career after studying medicine at the University of Leeds going on to completing foundation training in Leeds and Dewsbury. She then travelled halfway across the globe to work in New Zealand in obstetrics and gynaecology. Rebecca then completed her GP training in Harrogate in 2014 before moving back to her home town of Sheffield where she joined our university.
Her main area of interest is around addressing inequalities in sexual and reproductive health provision in primary care. Rebecca completed her MD in 2022 which explored this topic in relation to general practice. She started her NIHR Clinical Lectureship post in 2023 and has focused on various areas of sexual and reproductive health including contraception access and experience of under-represented populations, menopause care and HIV in primary care. Rebecca also has a special interest in primary care research around endometriosis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
Guest Rebecca Mawson
Host Andy Tattersall
SCHARR Communicable Research #27 - Dr Jennifer Burr - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the Research Ethics Process
In this episode of the SCHARR Communicable Research podcast we discuss the topic of research ethics and in particular how current research aligns with equality, diversity and inclusion practices.
We are joined by Dr Jennifer Burr who is a Senior University Teacher at Sheffield and the Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee (UREC). Jennifer has been leading this work at Sheffield and we will discuss the importance of ED&I as part of research ethics proposals.
Hosted and produced by Andy Tattersall
Music credit
Creation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) licence. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721
SCHARR Communicable Research #26 - Dr Duncan Gillespie, Dr Nick Woodrow, Mark O’Brien and Scott Chapman - Quitting Cigarettes: Making Cessation Support Inclusive and Equitable
For this episode of the SCHARR Communicable Research podcast, Andy Tattersall is joined by his colleagues Dr Duncan Gillespie and Dr Nick Woodrow alongside Mark O’Brien and Scott Chapman to discuss their collaboration between SCHARR and the North Yorkshire Council Living Well Smokefree Service.
Smoking remains the largest avoidable cause of premature death and disability in the UK. There are approximately 70,000 smokers within North Yorkshire, with higher rates in areas of greater deprivation, and above national average rates of smoking during pregnancy. This podcast discusses the work and research that has been undertaken to develop and evaluate a ‘hybrid’ stop-smoking service model, where support for people trying to stop smoking is offered in person and remotely.
Evaluation of the North Yorkshire Council Living Well Smokefree ServiceEvaluation of the North Yorkshire County Council Living Well Smokefree Service - Sheffield Addictions Research GroupEvaluation of the North Yorkshire County Council Living Well Smokefree Service - Sheffield Addictions Research GroupAbout PHIRST
North Yorkshire Council Living Well Smokefree Service
Hosted and produced by Andy Tattersall
Music credit
Creation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) licence. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721
SCHARR Communicable Research #25 - Professor Chris Burton, Dr Emily Wood and Professor Steve Goodacre - The NHS at 75: What lies ahead for health research and the National Health Service?
Welcome to this special, bonus edition of the SCHARR Communicable Research Podcast. Andy Tattersall is joined by a trio of experts from SCHARR to discuss the NHS at 75 and what potentially lies ahead for the organisation in the next 25 years and its 100th birthday in 2048, in relation to healthcare service and the research that supports it.
In this podcast we will discuss the NHS’s priorities for the coming decades and the challenges it faces. Those being a changing demographic, the legacy of Covid, and a quickly evolving technological landscape.
Andy is joined by three academics at SCHARR who all have strong links to the NHS in their roles as a mental health nurse researcher who has previously worked in the NHS frontline services, an emergency care doctor and a GP. Dr Emily Wood, Professor Steve Goodacre and Professor Chris Burton.
Professor Steve Goodacre | Medicine and Population Health | The University of Sheffield
Dr Emily Wood | Medicine and Population Health | The University of Sheffield
Professor Chris Burton | Medicine and Population Health | The University of Sheffield
SCHARR Communicable Research #24 - Dr Jill Carlton - Learning from the Impact of Hypoglycaemia on Society
Welcome to the latest SCHARR Communicable Research podcast and today we are joined by Dr Jill Carlton who is a Senior Research Fellow at SCHARR within the School of Medicine and Population Health.
Jill joined SCHARR as a research associate in 2005 and conducts research in the development and evaluation of patient reported outcome measures and outcomes research, with a particular focus on quality of life.
In this podcast we are going to discuss work she has undertaken with colleagues at Sheffield and elsewhere to understand the burden and consequences for people living with diabetes and healthcare systems in general as part of the Hypo-RESOLVE project which is an international collaboration.
Host and Production: Andy Tattersall
SCHARR Communicable Research #23 Professor Andrew Lee - Health Misinformation and Infodemics
In the latest episode of this podcast series we’ve welcomed back Professor Andrew Lee. Andrew joined SCHARR in 2008 and is a Professor of Public Health. He qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh and following paediatric and tropical medicine training went on to work overseas running primary health care and tuberculosis control programmes in Afghanistan. Andrew often describes himself as a boundary spanner and is dual trained in general practice and public health in the UK.
He worked as a Public Health Consultant in Nottingham, and as a director of primary care and population health with the NHS, and as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control with the Health Protection Agency, Public Health England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
In addition to his academic role, Andrew is also currently a Senior Consultant in Global Health with the UKHSA as well as Co-Editor-in-Chief for Public Health, a journal of the Royal Society for Public Health.
ScHARR Communicable Research #22 Dr Tanefa Apekey - Reducing Health Inequalities through Community-based Co-development of Healthy Hating and Lifestyle Resources.
In this latest episode we look at nutrition as Andy Tattersall is joined by Dr Tanefa Apekey. Tanefa is a registered nutritionist in Public Health and has a PhD in Human Nutrition and MPhil in Food Science. Prior to joining ScHARR, Tanefa worked in the Nutrition and Dietetics team at Leeds Beckett University as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer and a Reader.
Dr Tanefa A. Apekey | ScHARR | The University of Sheffield
ScHARR Communicable Research #21 - Dr Robert Akparibo and Professor Richmond Aryeetey - Obesity in Ghana and Africa
In this latest ScHARR Communicable Research Podcast we are joined by Dr Robert Akparibo from ScHARR and and Professor Richmond Aryeetey from The University of Ghana.
Dr. Robert Akparibo is a Senior University Tutor and Associate Professor in Global Health and Nutrition Epidemiology based within the Section of Public Health, at ScHARR. He is a Registered Nutritionist with the UK Academy for Nutrition and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academic. Over the last few years, Dr Akparibo and his colleagues have been exploring the nutrition transition in Africa with the aim of understanding what drives this. In one area he has investigated the food environment in Ghana and the influences of this on dietary behaviours and practices, and the implication of these behaviours on Non communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/robert-akparibo
Professor Richmond Aryeetey is a Public Health Nutrition Specialist and Head of the Population, Family, and Reproductive Health Department at the University of Ghana. He has been with the School of Public Health since 2007. He has a PhD in Human Nutrition from Iowa State University. His research focuses on Food systems and Nutrition policy, with emphasis on the diet and nutrition of infants and young children. Professor Aryeetey is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science and is a Co-Chair of the Task Team for Ghana’s first Food-Based Dietary Guidelines. He is also a Co-Chair of the WHO Guidelines Development Committee on the upcoming Global Guidelines on Complementary feeding.
Food Security in Ghanaian Urban Cities: A Scoping Review of the Literature Urban physical food environments drive dietary behaviours in Ghana and Kenya: A photovoice study
ScHARR Communicable Research - Episode 20 - Dr Penny Breeze and Fran Bernhardt - Junk Food Advertising and Obesity
Welcome to the latest episode of the ScHARR Communicable Research Podcast and for this episode we are going to explore the topic of junk food advertisements. To discuss this, we are joined by Dr Penny Breeze and Fran Bernhardt.
Penny joined ScHARR as a PhD student and has been working as a health economics modeller ever since. Penny's research interests are in methods for longitudinal data analysis for the use in decision-analytic modelling. Specifically in complex public health decision problems for obesity and diabetes prevention. Penny co-authored a paper which looked at the health, cost and equity impacts of restrictions on the advertisement of what can be best described as junk foods across the transport for London network. This was a health economic modelling study.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/penny-breeze
We are also joined by Fran Bernhardt who is a Children's Food Campaign Coordinator at Sustain where she specialises in restricting the marketing of unhealthy food to children. Fran advises the Mayor of London's team to write and implement their groundbreaking Healthier Food Advertising Policy across the Transport for London network (AKA "the junk food ad ban"). In addition, she now supports over 100 local authorities across the UK to change their advertising policies, and has successfully implemented 6 new healthier food advertising policies at local government level since the TfL restrictions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/franbernhardt/
ScHARR Communicable Research - Episode 19 - Professor Cindy Cooper - Using Randomised Controlled Trials to help people with Dementia and Children with Phobias
In this episode of the ScHARR Communicable Research podcast Andy Tattersall is joined by Professor Cindy Cooper. Professor Cooper is Director of Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) and Professor of Health Services Research and Clinical Trials. We’re going to discuss the challenges of running Randomised Controlled Trials, in particular looking at two studies relating to children, adolescents and people living with dementia .
Cindy’s research interests include trials methodology, particularly pilot and feasibility studies, psycho-social aspects of long term conditions, evaluation of psychotherapeutic interventions, as well as public and patient involvement in research. Cindy is Chair of three NIHR funded Project Steering Committees and a member of the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) Executive Group. She has extensive experience of designing and implementing evaluations of complex health interventions in large multi-centre trials and other study designs.
ScHARR Communicable Research - Episode 18 - Dr John Richmond and Jeffrey Tochkin - Public Health and Climate Change
In this latest ScHARR Communicable Research Andy Tattersall is joined by Dr John Richmond and Jeffrey Tochkin to discuss the important topic of health systems and climate change research.
John Richmond is a Lecturer and Programme Director of the MPH in management and leadership, based in the Public Health group at ScHARR. John earned his PhD in Management from Warwick Business School and completed his Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Operations Management at Warwick evaluating a large-scale quality improvement intervention. During the pandemic John led a pan-Canadian study of healthcare emergency response to Covid-19. John has over 10 years of health management and leadership experience in public and private healthcare in Canada, USA, and UK. John is also one of our other guest’s PhD supervisor.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/john-g-richmond
https://twitter.com/richmondreport
Jeffrey Tochkin is Acting Director of Emergency Management at Health Emergency Management British Columbia, Canada and has worked in Healthcare Emergency Management for over 14 years. Jeff has authored and published articles in the Journal of Emergency Management, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, BMJ Leader and Academic Emergency Medicine Educational and Training. He has also presented at several National and International Conferences on topics relating to Emergency Management.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/pgr-students/jeffrey-tochkin
Funded by the Worldwide Universities Network project Health System Resilience for Extreme Weather Emergencies
ScHARR Communicable Research - Episode 17 - Professor Rebecca Palmer - Helping stroke survivors to talk
Rebecca Palmer is a speech and language therapist who specialises in stroke. Rebecca has more than 20 years of experience working in the field of stroke rehabilitation, both in research and clinically in stroke care. She gained a PhD in the treatment of dysarthria using speech recognition technology from the University of Sheffield in 2005. From 2005 to 2010 Rebecca worked as a specialist SLT in the stroke unit at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
As part of a HEFCE-NIHR Senior Academic Clinical Lectureship, her focus was on applied clinical research and she was the chief investigator of the Big CACTUS trial investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of aphasia computer treatment versus usual stimulation or attention control long-term post-stroke.
ScHARR Communicable Research - Episode 16 - Professor John Brazier - The Past, Present and Future of Health Economics
In this special edition of the ScHARR Communicable Research Podcast I am joined by Professor John Brazier ahead of his forthcoming retirement from the University of Sheffield.
John is a Professor of Health Economics in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) and was the first Director of the Economic Evaluation Policy Research Unit, known as EEPRU. This is a joint Sheffield and York Unit funded by the Department of Health and Social Care in England to undertake applied and methodological research to inform health policy in England.
He has more than 30 years’ experience of conducting economic evaluations of health care interventions for policy makers, with a special interest in the measurement and valuation of health for economic evaluation. He has published over 300 peered reviewed papers.
John is perhaps best known for his work in developing a preference-based measure of health for the SF-36 (SF-6D), and with colleagues has further developed and extended these methods to a number of specific conditions and most recently a new generic measure aimed at capturing health and well-being outcomes in health and social care for service users and their carers (EQ-HWB).
Validating the SF-36 health survey questionnaire: new outcome measure for primary care
ScHARR’s Communicable Research is a series of podcasts from The School of Health and Related Research at The University of Sheffield. In this series we’ll hear from researchers at ScHARR and the work they undertake to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges. We’ll also hear from academics within the department as to how they communicate their research and the methods they use.
If you want to know more about ScHARR, then you can find us on the web at the University of Sheffield, www.shef.ac.uk/scharr and on Twitter at @ScHARRSheffield, we are also on Facebook, so please feel free to follow us for updates there.
Music credit
Creation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721
ScHARR Communicable Research - Episode 15 - Mark Clowes - Searching for evidence
In this latest episode of ScHARR’s Communicable Research Andy Tattersall is joined by Mark Clowes who is a fellow Information Specialist within the school. Mark joined ScHARR in 2015 and is currently focused on information retrieval for systematic reviews.
After completing an MSc in Information Management at the University of Sheffield’s iSchool, Mark specialised as an academic liaison librarian supporting nursing and allied health; originally at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, before moving on to Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Leeds. In 2012 he completed a teaching qualification leading to accreditation as an Associate of the Higher Education Academy.
Literature searching short course
Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review book
Music credit Creation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721
ScHARR Communicable Research - Episode 14 - Colin Angus - Effective research communications with data visualisation
For this latest episode I am joined by Colin Angus who is a senior research fellow in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group.
Colin joined ScHARR in 2011 and completed a MSc in Health Economics and Decision Modelling within the department two years later before taking up his current post.
That post involved working on the design, development and adaptation of complex health economic models and their use to appraise key policy questions in the field of alcohol research.
Colin has become well versed in using the data from his research as an effective way of communicating that work. In addition, for the last two years he has shared numerous engaging and insightful posts on social media and through mainstream media in relation to the Covid19 pandemic.
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 13 - Dr Chris Blackmore - Delivering public engagement activities
Thanks for joinging us for the latest ScHARR Communicable Research Podcastin which I am joined by Dr Chris Blackmore who is a University Teacher located in the Mental Health group of Health Services Research within ScHARR.
Chris joined the University of Sheffield in 2002 to work on the SEPTIMUS project which developed and evaluated online Psychotherapy training resources. Since that time, he has been a tutor and Course Director on the course which became the MSc in Psychotherapy Studies. He has a wide interest in online learning, and in particular on the role of emotions in online learning, which was the topic of his PhD.
Chris is a keen advocate of public engagement and has delivered public engagement talks, but also he has been involved in publicly facing activities and projects as part of the University's Festival of the Mind, among other things.
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 12 - Fiona Campbell - Intergenerational Research at the Only Connect! conference
In this episode of ScHARR Communicable Research podcast Fiona Campbell speaks to collaborators and advocates in relation to Intergenerational Research. The podcast was recorded in Falmouth at the Only Connect! conference in July 2022. In the podcast Fiona interviews some of the iGEN project team including Professor Jo Thompson Coon from the University of Exeter, Alison Clyde from Generations Working Together, consultants Iona Lawrence, Ellie Robinson-Carter, in addition to poet and advocate Ronald Amanze who wrote a poem about his experiences of loneliness
I was invited to contribute my thoughts
To a podcast on the subject of loneliness
Needing time to process my reply
I didn’t know what to say
Then later someone inquired
Ronald where have you been
And I just smile and said
I’ve been here, didn’t you see me
It’s lonely out here
Ronald Amanze
Jo Thompson Coon wrote a blog post about the Only Connect! Conference which you can read here. https://evidsynthteam.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/relationship-building-is-conscious-not-accidental-susan-langford-magic-me/
Fiona Campbell is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School for Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. She has a clinical nursing background in oncology nursing, district nursing and health visiting and has worked in this capacity both in the UK and developing country settings. These experiences led to a keen interest in the use of research to inform and improve health care and public health. She trained in systematic review methodology and has conducted and published reviews for NICE, HTA and the Cochrane Collaboration. Her work has been used to inform NICE guidance for treatments for hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol use, hospital errors and approaches to increasing levels of physical activity. She has designed, led and published work on methodological aspects of systematic reviewing and teaches systematic review methodology to postgraduate students.
iGEN (Intergenerational practices and intergenerational learning in health and social care): Exploring the evidence from the perspective of older peopleEvidence mapping review of intergenerational interventions and a systematic review to explore their effect on social and mental wellbeing of children and young people. NIHR Research Award
https://generationsworkingtogether.org/
https://www.ionaconsultancy.com/
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 11 - Health inequalities: to what extent are decision-makers and economic evaluations on the same page? Greg Fell talks to Seb Hinde and Dr Matt Franklin
Health inequalities: to what extent are decision-makers and economic evaluations on the same page? Greg Fell talks to Seb Hinde and Dr Matt Franklin
Within this Podcast, Seb Hinde (Health Economist, University of York) and Matt Franklin (Health Economist, University of Sheffield) discuss with Greg Fell (Director of Public Health, Sheffield) the extent to which decision-makers and economic evaluation frameworks are 'on the same page' when it comes to defining and quantifying health inequalities to help inform the commissioning of care services regionally, with a focus on the current care commissioning landscape across health and adult social care within England.
The discussion is based on a forthcoming paper titled "Health inequalities: to what extent are decision-makers and economic evaluations on the same page? An English case-study" published within Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, and which is being presented at the HSR UK and EuHEA 2022 conferences.
Hinde, S., Howdon, D., Lomas, J. et al. Health Inequalities: To What Extent are Decision-Makers and Economic Evaluations on the Same Page? An English Case Study. Appl Health Econ Health Policy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-022-00739-8
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 10 - Dr Duncan Gillespie and Dr Emma Hock - Smoke Free Campuses
In this latest episode Andy Tattersall takes to the road with his guests Dr Duncan Gillespie and Dr Emma Hock to discuss smoke free campuses whilst walking around the University of Sheffield campus.
Further reading from sources mentioned in the podcast
- Estimates of the cost of smoking https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/hiding-plain-sight-treating-tobacco-dependency-nhs
- Modelling of whether England will meet the smokefree 2030 target https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/smoking-and-health-2021-coming-age-tobacco-control
- Living review of smoking and COVID-19 https://www.qeios.com/read/UJR2AW.15
- Policies for Tobacco and E-Cigarette Use: A Survey of All Higher Education Institutions and NHS Trusts in England https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article/22/7/1235/5581761
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 9 - Dr Jaqui Long - Clinically unnecessary’ use of emergency and urgent care
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 9 - Dr Jaqui Long - Clinically unnecessary’ use of emergency and urgent care
In this latest episode of the ScHARR Communicable Research podcast we are joined by Dr Jaqui Long. Jaqui is a Research Associate in the Health and Care Research Unit and is currently working on the DEUCE study, which aims to understand people's decision-making in relation to use of emergency and urgent care services.
Jaqui Long (Research Associate)
BA Hons, RSHom, PhD
Bio
Jaqui is a Research Associate in the Health and Care Research Unit, and started work here in August 2017. Currently Jaqui is working on the DEUCE study, which aims to understand people's decision-making in relation to use of emergency and urgent care services.
The study has three elements:
- A realist review to identify what is already known about how people make decisions in relation to use of emergency and urgent care
- In-depth qualitative interviews and focus groups with selected groups of people to understand their experiences and decisions in seeking this help
- A national survey to explore people's attitudes towards seeking help from different providers of emergency and urgent care.
Jaqui is mostly involved in the second part of the study, the interviews and focus groups, but is also part of the review team.
Prior to coming to ScHARR, Jaqui was a Research Assistant at De Montfort University in Leicester, working on an NIHR-funded feasibility study to develop and test an intervention to support parents with excessively crying babies.
Jaqui's PhD was in the School of Healthcare at the University of Leeds and was a qualitative exploration of how mindfulness affected people's experiences of living with a long term condition. Jaqui undertook interviews with people with a range of physical and/or mental health problems who had previously learnt mindfulness through the Breathworks 'Living Well with Pain and Illness', particularly exploring people's perspective on how it had changed their thinking and behaviour over the long-term.
Before moving into research, Jaqui worked for many years in the voluntary sector in the recruitment and training of volunteers, and in managing training programmes. Jaqui is also a qualified homeopath and has worked part-time in private practice for over 10 years.
Links to research discussed in this podcast can be accessed via these links:
Survey papers
Tendency to contact general practice instead of self-care: a population vignette study | BJGP Open
Review paper
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 8 - Dr Laura Fenton, Professor John Holmes and Dr Abigail Stevely - Youth Drinking in Decline
In this latest episode of ScHARR’s Communicable Research podcast we're joined by Dr Laura Fenton, Professor John Holmes and Dr Abigail Stevely from the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group. In this podcast we’re talking about the topic of alcohol consumption and its decline among young people.
A ScHARR led report funded by the Wellcome Trust from 2018 that was co-authored by Professor Holmes found that young people in England are drinking less. They looked at evidence from multiple surveys that showed a consistent pattern over 10-15 years of reduced participation in drinking, reduced consumption levels among drinkers, reduced prevalence of drunkenness and less positive attitudes towards alcohol.
Alcohol Policy research at ScHARR
Wellcome report - Youth Drinking in Decline
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 7 - Suzanne Ablard - Advanced Practitioner roles within the NHS
In this episode we're talking to Suzanne Ablard who works as a Research Associate within the Health Services Research section at ScHARR. Suzanne works in the area of Emergency Care Research and we discussed the work she is presently involved in looking at Advanced Practitioner roles within the NHS.
in 2014 Suzanne joined the Health Services Research Section of ScHARR and has worked on a number of research studies in the field of Emergency Care Research, including; identifying alternative care pathways for frequent users of the ED and an evaluation of GP services co-located with the ED across Yorkshire and the Humber. Suzanne graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2013 with an MA in Social Research and prior to that was awarded a BSC in Applied Psychology.
Suzanne's research interests involve developing new and innovative pathways of care for patients attending the Emergency Department.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/suzanne-ablard
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 6 - Dr Andrew Lee - Communicating public health research through the media
For this episode of ScHARR Communicable Research we are joined by Dr Andrew Lee.
Andrew qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh and following undertaking paediatric and tropical medicine training he then worked overseas running primary health care and tuberculosis control programmes in Afghanistan.
Andrew has previously worked as a Public Health Consultant in Nottingham and as a director of primary care and population health with the NHS. In addition, Andrew was a consultant in Communicable Disease Control with Public Health England.
Andrew joined ScHARR in 2008 and is based within the Public Health section and is a Reader of Global Public Health. He also is the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Public Health, and Public Health in Practice journals of the Royal Society for Public Health.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Andrew has been active on the web across platforms such as Twitter and The Conversation, as well as other media channels discussing various topics relating to the issue.
This podcast is a discussion as to how Andrew has found the experience of communicating his expertise and what tips he can share with those wishing to do the same.
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 5 - Infertility in The Gambia with Dr Julie Balen, Prof Susan Dierickx and Prof Allan Pacey
In this episode Andy Tattersall explores the emotive topic of infertility in The Gambia. He is joined by Dr Julie Balen from ScHARR’s Public Health group who is collaborating with Professor Susan Dierickx from the Research Centre of Gender Diversity and Intersectionality based in Belgium. We’ll also hear from Professor Allan Pacey who is an international expert in the field of Andrology and head of department in Oncology and Metabolism at The University of Sheffield.
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 4 - Dr Chris Blackmore - The mental health of students
For this episode of ScHARR’s Communicable Research, we are joined by Dr Chris Blackmore who works in the Mental Health group within ScHARR.
Chris joined the University of Sheffield in 2002 to work on the SEPTIMUS project which developed and evaluated online Psychotherapy training resources. Chris was a tutor and Course Director on the course which became the MSc in Psychotherapy Studies.
He has developed a wider interest in online learning, and in particular on the role of emotions in online learning, which was the topic of his doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2016. Since completing his doctoral research, Chris has become interested in the potential of learning analytics and the use of data on wellbeing to enhance and personalize students' learning.
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 3 - Professor John Holmes - Alcohol drinking guidelines.
In this latest episode of the ScHARR Communicable Research Podcast I am speaking with Professor John Holmes about the topic of alcohol drinking guidelines.
John is a Professor of Alcohol Policy and the Director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group within ScHARR.
His research focus is on alcohol epidemiology and the analysis of alcohol policy options. He has an interest in patterns, trends and inequalities in alcohol consumption or alcohol-related harm and uses mathematical modelling to address alcohol policy questions.
This podcast was originally recorded in 2019 as a pilot for this series but is still relevant for today.
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 2 - Dr Kelly Mackenzie - Sedentary behaviour in the workplace and public health
In this latest episode of Communicable Research, we're talking to Dr Kelly Mackenzie who works within the Public Health section at ScHARR. We'll be chatting about the issue of sedentary behaviour in the workplace and public health.
Kelly started her academic journey at the University of Leeds with her first degree in Medicine in 2007. At the same time Kelly completed an intercalated degree in Healthcare Ethics. Kelly went on to gain five years of clinical experience working in a variety of medical specialities, which included six months working in Melbourne, Australia.
Kelly completed a Masters in Physical Activity, after which she joined the Public Health Speciality Registrar Training Programme in the East Midlands. Kelly went on to undertake a Masters in Public Health and then completed a 12-month Academic Public Health Fellowship, which she carried out at ScHARR.
During this fellowship, Kelly conducted further primary research into sedentary behaviours in NHS staff and the use of the flipped classroom in postgraduate medical teaching. She then won a National Institute for Health Research Doctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR DRF).
Kelly completed the Fellowship in 2020 at ScHARR, at which point she received an honorary contract to continue work in ScHARR and re-joined the Public Health Specialty Training scheme.
ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 1 - Colin Angus - Using Twitter as an academic
Over this series of occasional podcasts we’ll hear from researchers at The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at The University of Sheffield and the work they undertake to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges.
We’ll also hear from academics within the department and on occasion elsewhere, how they communicate their research and the methods they use.
Follow ScHARR on Twitter
Follow ScHARR on Facebook
This Episode
Andy Tattersall talks to ScHARR Senior Research Fellow Colin Angus about his experiences of using Twitter as a platform to communicate his research from an academic's perspective.
Colin Angus web page
@VictimOfMaths on Twitter
Recorded and produced by
Andy Tattersall web page
@Andy_Tattersall on Twitter
Music credit - airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721