UK Higher Education Institutions and their research interests - England (West Midlands)

In March 2012, we wrote to every UK Higher Education Institution which offers a healthcare related course, asking them for details of their areas of research interest. The list below provides details of those who responded from England (West Midlands).

University of Birmingham

Special areas of research activity:

  1. End of life care
    Professor Collette Clifford (c.m.clifford@bham.ac.uk)

Website: University of Birmingham

 

Birmingham City University

Special areas of research activity

  1. Learning, teaching and scholarship of health
  2. Applications of technology to health care
  3. Professional practice and organisational development in health
  4. Applied medical and health sciences

For all of the above initial contact should be made via email at Robert.ashford@bcu.ac.uk or sue.clarke@bcu.ac.uk

  1. Centre for Community Mental Health
    Dawn McCarrick (Centre Administrator), email: dawn.mccarrick@bcu.ac.uk or see http://www.ccmh.uce.ac.uk/

Website: Birmingham City University

 

Keele University

Special areas of research activity

  1. Palliative and end of life care
    Dr Kate Lillie email: a.k.lillie@nur.keele.ac.uk
  2. Palliative and end of life care, bereavement, loss, learning disability
    Professor Sue Read email: s.c.read@nur.keele.ac.uk
  3. Respiratory medicine, asthma
    Dr Alison Pooler email: a.pooler@nur.keele.ac.uk
  4. Children's perception and understanding of health and illness
    Jacquie Collin, email: j.collin@nur.keele.ac.uk 
  5. User and carer involvement
    Sue Ashby and Professor Sue Read, email: s.m.ashby@nur.keele.ac.uk and s.c.read@nur.keele.ac.uk
  6. Older people and chronic disease management
    Sue Ashby, email: s.m.ashby@nur.keele.ac.uk

Website: Keele University

 

RCN Research Institute

Special areas of research activity:

RCN Research Institute

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

School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick

  1. Health inequalities focusing on the material and behavioural factors that influence health status and health behaviour of children and their families (Claire Blackburn)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. Qualitative and mixed methods research, patient and staff experience, acute care, orthopaedic trauma, older people, core concepts underpinning professional practice (Liz Tutton)
  14. 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)

Website: RCN Research Institute

 

University of Wolverhampton

Special areas of research activity

  1. Inequalities and Global Issues in Health and Social Care
  2. Mental Health and Long Term Conditions
  3. Quality and Partnerships in Health and Social Care Practice
  4. Community Health and Integrated Care

Website: University of Wolverhampton

  

Previous and non-responders

This is an annual review. For completeness, we list below the Universities who, whilst not responding to the 2012 survey, did respond to a previous survey. Any university without a link has not responded to this survey since its inception in 2008.

  1. Coventry University
  2. Staffordshire University
  3. University of Worcester

 

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