Research Advisor, Research Design Service for the East of England, National Institute for Health Research

Professional Qualifications and professional memberships
 

2007 PhD, University of Liverpool

1998 MSc Nursing, University of Liverpool

1988 Registered Sick Children’s Nurse, Red Cross Children’s War Memorial Hospital, South Africa

1982 Registered General Nurse, BG Alexander College, Johannesburg, South Africa

Research Interests
 

Medicines management

Supportive care in children with cancer

Systematic review methods

Development of evidence-based guidelines

Method comparison studies

Career summary
 

April 2010-present, Research Advisor, Research Design Service (RDS), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

January 1998 – March 2010: Research Associate, Evidence-Based Unit, Institute of Child Health, University of Liverpool

1995 - 1997: Care Pathways Co-ordinator for Cardiac and Cardiac Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust

1992 - 1994: Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse, Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust

1990 – 1992: Paediatric Nurse, St Thomas’ Hospital, London

1983 – 1992: Clinical Nurse, Acute Settings, Johannesburg General Hospital and Red Cross Children’s Hospital, South Africa

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Medicine (Child Health), University of Liverpool (Awarded 2007)

MSc in Nursing, University of Liverpool (Awarded 1998)

My research areas of interest include:-
 
*   medicines management, in particular 

• the problems of administering safe doses to children where required dose forms are not available (NIHR funded suite of studies in progress)
• the safe and effective delivery of medicines in the elderly and in those with cognitive impairment (systematic review in progress; grant applications in progress).

*   supportive care in paediatrics including:

• mouth care in children undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy (we have undertaken systematic reviews, audits and developed national guidelines on mouthcare);
• the treatment and prevention of nausea and vomiting in children undergoing chemotherapy (we have undertaken a Cochrane systematic review in this area)
• temperature measurement in children (published in the Lancet and BMJ).

As a research advisor for the NIHR Research Design Service, I advise on a range of research methods, but have a particular interest in systematic review methods.

Selected publications
 

Richey RH, Craig JV, Shah UU, Ford JL, Barker CE, Peak M, Nunn AJ, Turner M. (2012) The manipulation of drugs to obtain the required dose: systematic review protocol. Journal of Advanced Nursing. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05916.x.

Glenny AM, Gibson F, Auld E, Coulon S, Clarkson JE, Craig JV, Eden OB, Worthington HV, Pizer B on behalf of the UKCCSG-PONF Mouth Care Group. (2010) The development of evidence-based guidelines on mouthcare for children, teenagers and young adults treated for cancer. European Journal of Cancer May;46(8):1399-412

Gibson F, Auld EM, Bryan G, Coulson S, Craig JV, Glenny A-M (2010) A systematic review of oral assessment instruments: what can we recommend to practitioners in children's and young people's cancer care? Cancer Nursing Jul-Aug;33(4):E1-E19.

Riley RD, Dodd SR, Craig JV, Thompson JR, Williamson PR. (2008) Meta-analysis of diagnostic test studies using individual patient data and aggregate data. Statistics in Medicine 27(29):6111-36

Craig JV, Smyth RL (Editors) (2012) The Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses. Third Edition. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.