About my research
I am a public health academic focused on non medical interventions to improve mental health and wellbeing. I work on international and national research, including equine assisted interventions, nature and health, arts and health, co production and lived experience.
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- Horses reducing anxiety in 8-18 year olds
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- Coming home: older patients’ and their relatives’ experiences of well-being in the transition from hospital to home after early discharge
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- The meaning and impact on well-being of bespoke dancing sessions for those living with Parkinson’s
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- Being well? A meta-ethnography of older patients and their relatives’ descriptions of suffering and well-being in the transition from hospital to home
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- An international qualitative feasibility study to explore the process of using social innovation (co-production) strategies with older people: the SAIL project
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- Being well? A meta-ethnography of older patients and their relatives' descriptions of suffering and well-being in the transition from hospital to home
- How using your body can positively impact your mental health
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- The public health role of caseloading midwives in advancing health equity in childbearing women and babies living in socially deprived areas in England: The Mi-CARE Study protocol
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- The Horse Course: Reducing Domestic Violence in the Family
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- Health, active ageing and tourism
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- The Role of Finding Out in Type 2 Diabetes Management among West-African Immigrants Living in the UK
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- A ‘new (ab)normal’?: Scrutinising the work-life balance of academics under lockdown
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- The application of social innovation as it relates to older people and the implications for future policymaking: a scoping review
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- Powerless responsibility: A feminist study of women’s experiences of caring for their late preterm babies
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- Donning the ‘Slow Professor’: A Feminist Action Research Project
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- ‘It Can’t Really be Answered in an Information Pack…’: A Realist Evaluation of a Telephone Housing Options Service for Older People
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- The Archive and the Digital Age: Field Notes from the Pedagogical Front
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- Exploring the Experiences of West African Immigrants Living with Type 2 Diabetes in the UK
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- Liking and consumption of vegetables with more appealing and less appealing sensory properties: Associations with attitudes, food neophobia and food choice motivations in European adolescents
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- Promotion of novel plant-based dishes among older consumers using the ‘dish of the day’ as a nudging strategy in 4 EU countries
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- A Study Exploring the Implementation of an Equine Assisted Intervention for Young People with Mental Health and Behavioural Issues
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- Caring values in undergraduate nurse students: A qualitative longtitudinal study
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- An Exploration of the Mechanism of Action of an Equine-Assisted Intervention
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- “His tummy's only tiny” – Scientific feeding advice versus women's knowledge. Women's experiences of feeding their late preterm babies
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- Repeated exposure and conditioning strategies for increasing vegetable liking and intake: systematic review and meta-analyses of the published literature
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- Supply-side review of the UK specialist housing market and why it is failing older people
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- Using the arts: learning from a community consultation on health and wellbeing
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- 5.10-P14Understanding lifestyle contribution in the management of type 2 diabetes among African immigrants living in the UK
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- Lifestyle coaching for mental health difficulties: scoping review
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- The supports needs of people living with Buruli ulcer
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- Engaging with a healthy tourism “offer”: strategies to improve place perceptions
- Consumption of a High Quantity and a Wide Variety of Vegetables Are Predicted by Different Food Choice Motives in Older Adults from France, Italy and the UK
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- Case study: Wellness, tourism and small business development in a UK coastal resort: Public engagement in practice
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- What does care farming provide for clients? The views of care farm staff
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- What are we eating? Consumer information requirement within a workplace canteen
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- Efficacy of Telephone Information and Advice on Welfare: the Need for Realist Evaluation
- Evaluating a natural horsemanship program in relation to the ISES first principles of horse training
- Progress in tourism and destination wellbeing research
- Exploring well-being as a tourism product resource
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- Workplace foodservice; perception of quality and trust
- Increasing vegetable intakes: rationale and systematic review of published interventions
- An Exploration of an Equine-Facilitated Learning Intervention with Young Offenders
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- An exploration of the perceptions of caring held by students entering nursing programmes in the United Kingdom: A longitudinal qualitative study phase 1
- An exploration of the fruit and vegetable “foodscape” in a university setting for staff
- Principles of Lifeworld Led Public Health Practice in the UK and Sweden: Reducing Health Inequalities
- Reducing social isolation and promoting well being in older people
- Tourism engaging with the public health agenda: Can we promote ‘wellville’ as a destination of choice?
- A European Union and Canadian Review of Public Health Nursing Preparation and Practice
- Can humanization theory contribute to the philosophical debate in public health?
- "The Potential is Unlimited!" Nurse Leader Perspectives on the Integration of HOBIC in Ontario
- Surfing the net for public health resources
- The emergence of public health open educational resources
- Innovating to achieve sustainable wellbeing inside the built environment
- An emerging model for publishing and using open educational resources in public health
- Lifeworld-led care: Is it relevant for well-being and the fifth wave of public health action?
- Enabling nursing students to focus on the Ottawa Charter and the nurses role in tackling inequalities in health through international exchange
- Enhancing cultural competence: Trans-Atlantic experiences of European and Canadian nursing students
- Using practice development methodology to develop children’s centre teams: Ideas for the future
- Determinants of coronary heart disease risk for women on a low income: literature review