Category: Team
This category is used to when creating a ‘Post’ that acts as as a profile page for a new member of the CLAHRC. Child categories will also help to ensure a profile appears in the right location
Sophie Walsh
Sophie is based at the Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development. Her PhD is focusing on Effective patient-clinician interaction to improve treatment outcomes for patients with psychosis
Sarah Robertson
Sarah’s PhD is investigating quality of life for people with dementia in a care home setting, by comparing and exploring the perspectives of paid staff, family relatives and people with dementia.
Anne-Marie Brady
Ann Marie is a PhD student working on a project funded examining the psychological adjustment of children and adolescents living with long-term health conditions.
Dr Jessica Deighton
Dr Jess Deighton is Lecturer in School-Based Mental Health Research, Evaluation, and Evidence-Based Research at UCL and Head of Resilience Research and Evaluation at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
Her research has three core components: 1) the measurement of mental health well-being – in particular developing and validating tools for measurement of mental health in children; 2) the evaluation of interventions and multifaceted programmes to support mental health and well-being in children, primarily in educational settings; 3) the interplay between mental health, physical health and educational outcomes.
She leads the national evaluation of BIG Lottery’s HeadStart programme and is also a senior researcher for the North Thames CLAHRC and the Department of Health Child Policy Research Unit. Her recent work also includes the development of guidance materials for schools and colleges around the measurement of mental health and well-being, and the development and evaluation of schools based resources to improve mental Health.
Dr Tanya Lereya
Dr Georgia Black
Dr Black is a qualitative health services researcher with some particular methodological research interests:
-effective use of new and developed qualitative data collection and analysis methods
-use of theory in applied health qualitative research
-data synthesis and metasynthesis
-interview quality and design
Dr Alistair Connell
Ali qualified as a doctor in 2010. After completing his Core Medical Training in August 2014, he was appointed Clinical Fellow at the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance, joining a project using large datasets to predict patient decline in hospital. Under the supervision of Prof Hugh Montgomery and Prof Rosalind Raine, he has now started a PhD examining the effects of the implementation of a digitally-enabled care pathway for patients with Acute Kidney Injury. His clinical interests include nephrology and critical care.
Dr Esther Kwong
Esther’s PhD is focusing how to use Patient Reported Outcomes in evaluating acute and emergency care.
Jenny Shand
Jenny’s project The Economics of Multi-Sectoral Working aims to provide an analysis of the economics of multi-sectoral working, reviewing evaluation methodologies and financial mechanisms that incentivise organisations to take a whole system perspective to achieve system wide quality and cost improvement.
