Belene’s project is focusing on how long-term conditions impact on access to and outcomes of hip and knee replacement surgery
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
Dr Susie Edwards
Susie Edwards PhD is the Manager of the NIHR CLAHRC North Thames. Susie’s own research background is in biochemistry, and since leaving the lab she has worked in a number of different research management roles.
Mary Thomas
Mary is the Research Manager with the NIHR CLAHRC North Thames, having initially joined the CLAHRC as acting Manager (maternity cover). Previously, Mary worked at UCL as a Project Manager on an NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research addressing social inequalities in uptake of bowel cancer screening, and in a number of research and administrative roles within UCL. Mary has a Masters in Demography & Health, and undergraduate degrees in English and Fine Art.
Professor Steve Morris
Professor Morris’ research interests are primarily in the cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve health across a range of disease areas and population groups, and the determinants of health service use.
Dr Estela Capelas Barbosa
Estella is a health economist with an interest in social welfare and health inequalities.
Paul McLaughlin
Paul McLaughlin is a mental health matron who spent a year with the CLAHRC to increase his research skills and pursue a clinical academic career. Paul qualified as a mental health nurse in 1999 and completed a Masters in Interprofessional Practice in 2007, both at City University in London. He is a visiting lecturer at City University, completing a PG Dip in Academic Practice in 2009, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. At the commencement of the clinical academic fellowship in 2015, Paul was working as a ward matron in East London NHS Foundation Trust, where he has worked since he was a student.
His research focus was developing alternatives to forced treatment on acute psychiatric wards.
Janine Ellul
Janine qualified as an adult nurse in 2001 with a Bsc (Hons) in European Nursing Studies. This led to a varied career in a range of areas from acute medicine to sexual health and family planning. In 2009 she decided to become a health visitor, completing her Pgdip in Public health. Training and working as a health visitor in the East End of London, in some of the most deprived areas of the country, sparked her interest in safeguarding children.
Her most recent career move has led her to join the Safeguarding children team at Barts Health NHS trust, the largest trust in the country.
During her year with us Janine investigated issues around neglect and contrasting perceptions of neglect among parents and professionals
Dr Lisa Wood
Lisa is a Principal Clinical Psychologist working within acute psychiatric inpatient services within the North East London Foundation Trust. She is also a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology on the University of Essex Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme. Lisa has been working clinically with people experiencing long-term mental health difficulties (in particular psychosis) for over 10 years. Lisa has always incorporated research within her professional practice. Her research interests are in developing psychological therapies for people who experience psychosis and are also in acute crisis.
Lisa’s fellowship project is to adapt psychological therapies for psychosis to be suited to the acute inpatient setting, and is linked to the CLAHRC’s Empowering mental health service users and families theme. The fellowship year will be spent doing some preparatory work for a post-doctoral research project examining this area in detail.
Emma Green
Emma is a student pursuing a PhD titled “An exploration of an asset-based approach to the management of diabetes in young people: a qualitative participatory approach” supervised by Professor Angela Harden and Dr Darren Sharpe. It is embedded in the CLAHRC’s wider project examining the co-design of community-based services responsive to the needs of children and young people, which involves young people in all stages of the research process.
Jennifer Martin
Jennifer has a BSc hons in Human Biology, Sociology and Psychology and an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has a background in non-clinical public health with experience working in Nepal and Zimbabwe. She is part of the Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition team based at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Her PhD is exploring the Reverse translation of the women’s groups using the Participatory Learning and Action Cycle from resource-limited setting to the UK. She will be adapting this model to address infant nutrition in the Bangladeshi population of Tower Hamlets, east London.
