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Sue trained as a Mental Health Nurse in West London in 1995 working in an Older Adults Day Hospital and then a Community Mental Health Team completing her Specialist Practitioner qualification in 2002. From there Sue worked in a variety of clinical settings with people with dementia and complex needs. Providing assessment, diagnosis and ongoing treatment for people at home, in long term care and in hospital. Sue has also managed a Regional Training and Development team providing accredited health and social care qualifications for staff working in domically, residential and community based services and has taught in both further…
Dr Adam Wagner is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics theme, based at the Health Economics Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He originally trained as a Statistician (PhD from the University of Strathclyde) and has also completed an MSc in Health Economics at UEA (funded by the CLAHRC EoE). Adam provides health economic and statistical support for the CLAHRC East of England. Since 2010, he has worked in health services research, with a particular focus on health and social care services supporting women and men with learning (intellectual) disabilities and acquired brain injuries. While continuing this…
Chris Skedgel is Senior Lecturer in Applied Health Economics in the Health Economics Group at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. His primary research interest is around the role of public preferences over the allocation of limited resources in promoting societal value and distributive justice in healthcare. This includes the development of stated preference methods for eliciting valid and reliable societal preference weights as well as processes for incorporating public preferences into priority-setting. He also conducts economic evaluations to consider the 'value-for-money' of new interventions and has worked in disease areas including cancer, haematology, rheumatology, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular…
Dr Jurgen Grotz joined the University of East Anglia, School of Health Sciences as Senior Research Associate in Patient and Public Involvement in Research for CLAHRC, East of England in August 2017. With over two decades of experience in applied community research his largely interdisciplinary work has a strong focus on participative approaches and public engagement, working across the academic, public, voluntary and community sectors. He has recently co-edited the prestigious Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations (2016).
After graduating with degrees in Economics and Health Economics at the Universities of Southampton and York David worked as a health economist a number of Universities. A key component of David’s academic career has been the design, implementation and analysis of economic evaluations alongside clinical studies, particularly randomized controlled trials. He has been involved in numerous trials as the health economist. David has also been involved with a number of health economic models as well as NICE technology appraisals. A feature of his research career has been involvement in multi-disciplinary research. He has collaborated with a number of clinical and…
Christina is Professor of Rehabilitation Research in the School of Health Sciences. An occupational therapists by background her clinical career started in the UK where she specialised as a hand therapist. Christina currently leads a programme of research on musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb. She has held several NIHR training fellowships and is an NIHR Training advocate for occupational therapy.
Professor Fiona Poland is co-lead of the Public and Patient Involvement Theme for CLAHRC EoE. Fiona's career-long concern has been to use the power of qualitative research methods to address the health and wellbeing concerns of individuals and communities. She has worked to promote collaborations and respectful working across voluntary, statutory, academic and policy boundaries especially in community settings, and to improve the lives of those who live and work with dementia. Her research projects and publications explore how and how far community connections and participation may affect access to resources for health and wellbeing. She was twice Chair and…
Professor Garry Barton has a chair in Health Economics and is a member of the Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia and his main area of expertise is in the application and development of the methods of economic evaluation. Methodological work which Professor Barton has undertaken includes the comparison of two measures of utility (the EQ-5D and SF-6D) which can be used to measure the benefits of interventions, where the practicality, construct validity, and responsiveness of these two measures were assessed. As a health economist, Garry is a co-applicant on…
My main areas of work have involved evidence based mental health, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in dementia. I have developed areas of dementia health service research in primary care, care homes and acute hospital settings. Current research themes are focused on enhancing care for patients with established with dementia and improving early intervention and prevention strategies. My research work is currently funded by the National Institute of Health Research, industry and charitable foundations. I have a national and international network of research collaborators and I am recognised internationally as a leading researcher in older peoples’ mental health.
Jennifer Whitty joined UEA in April 2016 as Professor of Health Economics. She leads the Health Economics Group and the Public Health and Health Services Research Theme at the Norwich Medical School. Her research focusses on evaluating patient-centred outcomes in health and healthcare to inform evidence-based decisions. Jennifer has particular interests in preference elicitation methods (including the Discrete Choice Experiment), and evaluating interventions related to pharmacy and medicines use, nursing, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. She also undertakes economic evaluation alongside clinical trials. Jennifer collaborates with a number of researchers in these fields who are based in Europe and Australia, where…
Professor Ric Fordham is Professor in Public Health Economics at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. He is also Director of Health Economics Consulting at UEA. Ric trained at York, Leeds, LSE, Western Australia and Cambridge universities and has worked extensively in Health Economics for over 25 years internationally as well as in the UK. His main interests are: Economics of public health; technology appraisal; innovation diffusion and ‘return on investment'; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA). He retains a strong research interest in the economics of bone and joint disease. Recent research has…
Lisa Irvine is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Group at UEA. She has expertise in conducting economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and population surveys, applied to a variety of conditions, primarily in public health, mental illness, and care for the elderly. As part of CLAHRC, her projects include an economic evaluation of the EQUIP trial, and comparison of health resource use measurement in clinical trials.
Dr Lee Hooper is a NIHR Career Development Fellow, carrying out research to identify the early stages of dehydration in older people. She is a dietitian and nutritionist with a long term interest in the nutrition and hydration of older people. She is an expert systematic reviewer and has developed, managed and authored many systematic reviews. Lee has been an editor for the Cochrane Heart Group for 12 years, was an editor of the Cochrane Oral Health Group for 5 years, and regularly referees systematic reviews for top medical and nutrition journals. Lee has a BSc in Biochemistry, PhD (University…
Dr Anne Killet's research interests are in the respectful care of older people, and in children and young people and mental well-being, with a particular interest in participative or collaborative approaches to research. Anne has recently been carrying out research into the organisational arrangements of care of older people using this approach. Anne led the CLAHRC study, 'Understanding PPI in older people's research - how best to enable meaningful PPI in research with older people living in residential settings' (CLAHRC EoE PPI Theme). Previous research projects examined collaborative community interventions and the impact of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and how this…
Diane is a Lecturer in Nursing Sciences (Adult) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Diane is a nurse by background with current research focusing on hydration and nutritional care in older people living in care homes.
Dr Asmaa Abdelhamid is Senior Research Associate in Norwich Medical School. In addition to her clinical background as a community paediatrician, she has a wide range of research skills and experience especially research synthesis and evidence based medicine. She has worked on and published many systematic and other reviews. Research interests are broad and include preventive medicine and research synthesis. Asmaa worked on CLAHRC project 'Eating and Drinking Well IN dementiA' (EDWINA) which included a systematic review on the interventions to improve oral food and/or drink intake in people with dementia.
Professor Tracey Sach has a chair in Health Economics and is a member of the Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia and her main area of expertise is in the methods and application of economic evaluation in health. Tracey has undertaken methodological work exploring how to measure costs and outcomes in economic evaluations. This has included work comparing methods for measuring productivity costs; research comparing two measures of utility (the EQ-5D and SF-6D); and projects testing the use of contingent valuation methods to estimate a monetary willingness to pay value.…
Jackie Buck is Lecturer in Adult Nursing, School of Health Sciences, at the University of East Anglia where she is the academic lead for Research Teaching on the MSc in Adult Nursing. Her research interests are communication and decision making in health care, improving quality of life of older people living at home and support for end-of-life care in the community. Jackie qualified with a BSc in Nursing Studies from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 1998. Following a varied clinical career that included coronary care and care of the elderly, she completed an MSc in Health Services and Public…
Dr Harriet Cooper joined the CLAHRC East of England in October 2015 with a background in medical humanities and disability studies, having recently completed a PhD thesis on literary and cultural representations of disabled children at Birkbeck, University of London. Her project for the CLAHRC Public and Patient Involvement Theme is provisionally entitled ‘Rights-based Rehabilitation: a qualitative research project co-produced with disabled people’. It will explore disabled people’s experiences of and perspectives on rehabilitation. As an academic who is moving into the social sciences following a period of cross-disciplinary humanities research, Harriet has a longstanding interest in the differences between…
Since qualifying as a mental health nurse in 2010, I have always worked with people who have dementia; on an acute dementia ward, as a memory assessor, dementia liaison nurse at a general hospital and as a community dementia nurse. Even in my relatively short time as a nurse, opportunities for higher education have grown noticeably. Initially I undertook a Postgraduate Certificate in Dementia Leadership, shortly afterwards I successfully completed the MSc in Clinical Research at the UEA. During the MSc I constructed a systematic review in Dementia Diagnostic Counselling and this led to my successful appointment to the CLAHRC…