RCN Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick

Professor Kate Seers
School of Health and Social Studies
Room S0.64
RCN Research Institute
Warwick Medical School
University of Warwick
COVENTRY CV4 7AL
Tel: +44(0)24 7615 0614
Email: Kate.seers@warwick.ac.uk
PA Paul Kent: p.d.kent@warwick.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/shss/rcn/

Special areas of research activity:

RCN Research Institute

Patient and public involvement and patient perspectives
Dr Sophie Staniszewska (sophie.staniszewska@warwick.ac.uk)
Patient reported outcomes
Dr Kirstie Haywood (k.l.haywood@warwick.ac.uk)
Knowledge translation; evidence based practice
Professor Kate Seers (kate.seers@warwick.ac.uk)

School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick

Health inequalities focusing on the material and behavioural factors that influence health status and health behaviour of children and their families (Claire Blackburn)
Social aspects of sustainable urban form, in particular how the built environment (architecture and urban design) influences people's wellbeing, quality of life and mental health. Ageing research, including dementia-friendly design (Libby Burton)
Interactions between social class, gender and men’s health, together with how men construct masculine identities within the context of pregnancy and childbirth and when experiencing infertility (Alan Dolan)
Research related to physical, emotional and sexual violence towards women and children and the issues this raises for promoting their safety. Domestic violence and child contact and the ways in which digital information and communication technologies are being used to abuse women and children (Christine Harrison)
Research interests embrace the wide array of practical, methodological and theoretical challenges relating to the development, application and evaluation of patient reported outcomes, across a range of conditions and settings, including: long-term conditions (for example, rheumatology; chronic fatigue; older people), recovery from episodes of ill-health or injury (for example, traumatic hip fracture), and using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical practice settings (Kirstie Haywood)
Medical anthropology, sociology of health in relation to Local Voices on Global Health Issues, international health, rights to health, health inequalities, accessibility, acceptability of health care provision, reproductive health, parents and children’s experiences of health and illness end of life care (Gillian Hundt)
Research interests focus on the relationships between socio-economic circumstances, human functioning, health and health related behaviours and factors that influence these relationships (Wolfgang Markham)
Research interests lie in how the built environment can be designed or produced to enhance local social sustainability, particularly the wellbeing and health of residents and other users. Researching the needs of older people, with and without dementia, in the built environment (Lynne Mitchell)
Research interests include pain and its management, evidence based health care and knowledge translation and complex interventions. Research in these areas has used quantitative and qualitative systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, qualitative methodologies, often using mixed methods (Kate Seers)
Research interest include patient and public involvement (PPI), particularly around the capture and measurement of the impact of patient and public involvement on health and social care research and health and social care services. The development of testing of instruments to measure PPI impact and the development of reporting guidance to enhance the quality of the PPI evidence-base. PPI in areas such as patient-reported outcomes, particularly in relation to the development of methods that promote collaborative forms of involvement. The role of PPI in implementation of research evidence. Patient experiences, in relation to understanding the nature of experiences and the use of experiences data to influence service configuration. Patient experiences and how they are evaluated, in relation to both theoretical understanding and in developing better methods for evaluating experience that reflect the way in which patients want to report experiences and that capture the full range of experiences (Sophie Staniszewska)
The right to health, focusing on where, when and how civil society organisation use a human rights approach to address health inequalities; the right to health and plural health seeking behaviour; the right to health in remote areas; participatory research approaches (Maria Stuttaford)
The impact of domestic violence on communities, individuals, families, children and young people; male victims of intimate partner violence; child contact in the context of post-separation violence (Ravinder Thiara)
Qualitative and mixed methods research, patient and staff experience, acute care, orthopaedic trauma, older people, core concepts underpinning professional practice (Liz Tutton)
Main research interests and specialisms lie at the intersection of gender, ethnicity and politics. Areas of particular interest include the civic engagement and political participation of women from migrant and ethnic minority communities in Britain and France; gender and policy; and migration and integration regimes in Britain and France (Khursheed Wadia)

PhD supervision

Informal Enquiries about PhD supervision in RCN RI
Professor Kate Seers
Tel: +44 (0)24 7615 0614
Email: Kate.seers@warwick.ac.uk

Admissions
Professor Gillian Hundt, Director of Graduate Studies
Email: gillian.hundt@warwick.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/study/researchdegrees/

Postgraduate research training opportunities

MSc Research Methods in Health Sciences

The MSc Research Methods in Health Sciences is carefully structured, developed and delivered by experts in their fields, often drawing on individual research experience. Teaching is through seminars and lectures and includes a dissertation - an extensive piece of work which you will choose, research and write with individual supervision from your tutor. Taught Master's courses take a year to complete as a full-time student and two years part time.

Contact: Mandie Drew
Tel: 024 7657 5670
Email: cpdenquiries@warwick.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/study/cpd/subject_index/research/rmhs/