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Profile

I am an Information Specialist in the Academic Unit of Health Economics (AUHE) and is a member of the Test Evaluation Group. I joined AUHE in June 2015 after 7 years of working in the NHS as a Clinical Librarian. I am responsible for delivering literature searches for projects and provides support with reference management and current awareness tools. I also have a broad background in biomedical research having worked as a Research Assistant on a number of projects at Universities in Australia and the UK.

You can find out more about our information services and support for research on the website

Current and Recent Research

I provide advice and literature searches as part of the following external research collaborations:

• (Yorkshire and the Humber Region) Advisor
• Early Economic Evaluations for the Test Evaluation Group (TEG)

Below is a selection of research projects I provide Information Specialist services for:

Current Projects (selected)

• (ALlergy AntiBiotics And Microbial resistAnce): Penicillin allergy status and its effect on antimicrobial prescribing, patient outcomes, and antimicrobial resistance(NIHR PGfAR)
• : Caring Optimally: promoting effective Mouth MInuTes in care homes (NIHR PGfAR)
• Community Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance (UKRI/GCRF)
• PROSPER Personalised care planning to improve quality of life for older people with frailty (NIHR PGfAR)
•  REcruiting and RetAining nurses, and carers in Care Homes: what works, for which staff, under what circumstances, and at what cost? The REACH Realist Review (NIHR HS&DR)
• The Self-harm, Assessment, Formulation, Engagement Trial of Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (NIHR HTA)

Past projects (selected)

• AMIPS Improving equitable access to essential medicines in Ghana through bridging the gaps in implementing medicines pricing policy (NIHR Global Health, Policy and Systems Research Programme)
• Community dialogues in Bangladesh: preventing and controlling antibiotic resistance in Bangladesh (ESRC)
• CONTRAST: Establishing components of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people: an evidence synthesis (NIHR HS&DR)
• : Considering Risk and benefits In Multiple Sclerosis treatment selection (MS Society)
• Diagnostic accuracy study of a MALDI-MS biomarker of acute kidney injury after fractured neck of femur surgery (Chief Scientists Office, Scotland)
• Do networked information technologies improve patient safety? A realist synthesis (NIHR HS&DR)
• Self-harm and suicidal content online: a review of the evidence. (Samaritans Online Harms Programme 2020)
• SINC-Urban How Socially INClusive are sustainable Urban developments in Nigeria and Vietnam (QR GCRF / Research England)
• Systematic review of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of digital supportive interventions for people with cancer that cannot be cured (Macmillan, joint project with 绿帽换妻 Beckett University)
• LU Pump priming projects:-
  • A scoping review of the diagnostic literature for venous leg ulceration
  • A meta-analysis of cognitive-based behaviour change techniques as interventions to improve medication adherence: project update and novel application of the Behaviour Change Technique (BCT) Taxonomy
  • SmartyPants 绿帽换妻 Crucible project

Qualifications

• MSc Information Management, 绿帽换妻 Metropolitan University
• BSc (Hons) Microbiology, University of Western Australia

Professional memberships

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Student education

Teaching Responsibilities:

• Information skills on postgraduate and undergraduate modules (search methods, health databases, systematic review protocols, research dissemination tools and reference management software, (eg MEDLINE, Web of Science, EndNote, ResearchGate)
• Systematic review short courses at the University of 绿帽换妻 and 
• Mixed Methods Review course

Research groups and institutes

• 绿帽换妻 Institute of Health Sciences
• Test Evaluation Group
• Evidence Synthesis Group
• Health economics
• Academic Unit of Health Economics