Our monthly series of lively interactive seminars provide a regular focus for staff, students, clinicians and interested members of the public to connect with current debates on research and evidence and to build scholarly activity.
Our seminars are free, and open to all. You can find out about upcoming seminars by emailing HSC.News@uea.ac.uk, or following our social media accounts.
All seminars are held online, through your browser with nothing extra to download.
Seminars are also recorded. If you are unable to make the live event and would like the recording sent to you, you can email HSC.News@uea.ac.uk. Past recordings are also listed below.
Recent Seminars:
Tuesday 26 March
11am – 12pm
Using apples and oranges to make a peach: The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium (ProPASS)
The pooling and co-analysis of data from existing cohort studies is a cost- and time-efficient methodology for advancing knowledge of the health benefits of physical activity. In this presentation, I introduce the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium (ProPASS), the world’s largest existing repository of device-measured physical activity and health indicators. I will highlight the work that I have led on the harmonisation of demographic, behavioural and health-related data, as well as summarising key achievements to date for the consortium and future plans.
Dr Andy Atkin is Associate Professor in Behavioural Epidemiology in the School of Health Sciences and External Research Associate for the General Medical Council. Andy’s primary research interests lie in understanding the distribution and determinants of physical activity and sedentary behaviours across the life course. He is the data harmonisation lead and member of the Working Group for the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium (ProPASS).
Tuesday 20 February
1 - 2pm
Involving older adults actively in research and improvement in care systems
In the presentation I will talk about the active involvement of older adults in shaping research about aging environments and systems of care. Older people who have moved into long term care are still not routinely treated as 'the public' in public involvement activities to develop research. Yet this group are 'the public', outcomes for whom are the focus of research related to care homes. I will draw on examples of research on a minimum data set for English care homes and a non-pharmacological intervention for people with dementia with sleep difficulties. The presentation will consider some of the effects and sequalae of the approach of researchers, older people and activity facilitators working together to bring relevant public involvement into the research, the challenges of honouring values to work well with people, and will locate the work critically in the public involvement literature.
Dr Anne Killett (Associate professor, Occupational Therapy, Director of Research, School of Health Sciences) has been researching social care and older people since 2008. Coming from a career as an occupational therapist she is passionate about the active involvement influencing research of those most affected by the research. Her latest funding acknowledges this, with an 18 month award from the UK NIHR to study the public involvement role in research of older people living in care homes. Research with care homes and their residents and workforce should model the respectful, inclusive, personalised relationships essential for good care.
Explore our previous seminar highlights listed below.
Wednesday 15 November
Intentional rounding in hospital wards to improve regular interaction and engagement between nurses and patients: a realist evaluation.
Prof. Ruth Harris
Tuesday 12 September
Anxiety in dementia caregiving: Targeting one factor at a time
Elien Van Hout
Wednesday 5 July
Steps to Addressing Racial Inequity in Palliative Care: Lessons Learnt from the Thinking Ahead Study
Dr Zoebia Islam
Tuesday 13 June
Prison-based research during COVID: the Avoidable Harm Story
Dr Jane Senior
Wednesday 3 May
The peculiarity and practicalities of an insider/outsider relationship in an ethnographic research study
Dr John Donaghy
Wednesday 19 April
The use of social network in public health interventions: a Norfolk case study
Dr Sara Karrar
Tuesday 21 February
Developing an online intervention for people who care for someone with dementia online during COVID restrictions using (adapted) experience based co-design
Dr Jane Cross & Fiona Scheibl
Thursday 24 January
Factors affecting family carers’ anticipatory grief in Motor Neurone Disease
Ana Paula Trucco
9 November 2022
What happened in Care homes during the pandemic? Results from three studies
Prof Nancy Preston
10 October 2022
Meeting the healthcare challenges for people with disabilities in Nepal
Adam Barry et al
27 July 2022
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Are we missing a trick?
Dr Karen Heslop-Marshall
29 June 2022
Integrating safety science in clinical simulation to improve performance variability in clinical practice
Ken Spearpoint
23 May 2022
How experienced professionals show empathy in sensitive healthcare conversations: Insights & evidence from conversation science
Prof Ruth Parry, Loughborough University Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, LOROS Hospice Leicestershire and Rutland
6 April 2022
Language(s) for health: challenges and opportunities in a multilingual world
Dr Maria Garraffa, Associate Professor in Speech and Language Therapy, UEA
3 February 2022
Nurses' Contributions to Mental Health Research
Dr Sheri Oduola, Mental Health Nurse and Lecturer in Nursing Sciences, UEA
December 2021
Clinician driven innovation in the NHS
Dr Peter Young
18 November 2021
Student PT experiences of integrating a Biosychosocial approach on clinical teaching
Dr Rachel Chester and Prof Nicola Spalding
20 October 2021
A Critical Analysis of Practice Education in Health and Social Care
Dr Jane Hibberd
1 September 2021
Diversity leadership in healthcare: A question of care, quality and safety
Prof Laura Serrant OBE
21 July 2021
Lost voices in research: Including adults with capacity and communication difficulties in ethically-sound research
Dr Karen Bunning and Dr Anne Killett
10 March 2021
Systems transformation of the communication and language pathway in the early years model in Greater Manchester: Working from the inside out using video-based coaching with leadership teams.
Deborah James, Professor of Educational Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University
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10 February 2021
HSC Placement Innovations in Response to Covid-19
Charmaine Chandler, Dr Lisa Taylor, Kelly Walker and Emma Ferris
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Physiotherapy Virtual telehealth placement presentation
Peer Enhanced E-Placement (PEEP) An Innovative, technological and Pedagogical Model presentation
26 January 2021
Did Lockdown 1.0 change lifestyle behaviours? Findings from the COVID-19 health and wellbeing tracker study.
Dr Felix Naughton
1 December 2020
Decolonising COVID
Dr Katherine Deane
17 November 2020
Social dimensions of disaster impact: tracing the parallels between extreme climatic events and the pandemic crisis
Prof Roger Few, ClimateUEA Hijack
19 October 2020
Making the invisible, visible: The evolution of specialist nursing in the UK
Prof Alison Leary, Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling, London South Bank University
22 September 2020
Social care personal assistants: who are they, what do they do, what potential do they have for offering person-centred care and are there any downsides?
Dr John Woolham, NIHR SSCR Senior Research Fellow, Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London
January 2020
Narrative Healthcare– Is it time we taught poetry and prose to all healthcare students?
Christie Watson, bestselling author of The Language of Kindness
December 2019
Implementing Digital Interventions: My 13 Year Journey
Zarnie Khadjesari, Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion, School of Health Sciences, UEA
13 November 2019
Volunteering in health and social care - the potential, the challenge
Dr Jurgen Grotz, Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, UEA
29 October 2019
Intuitive Eating: empowering children and young people to develop healthy relationships with food and their bodies
Katie McGhee, Senior Lecturer in Child Health Nursing & Deputy Director of Education, School of Health Sciences, UEA
2 July 2019
Patient Involvement in the Assessment of Pre-registration Adult Nursing Students Practice
Dr Nickey Rooke, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, School of Health Sciences, UEA
19 June 2019
Apathy Subtypes and their Impact in Neurodegenerative Disease
Dr Ratko Radakovic, Senior Research Associate (Motor Neurone Disease), School of Health Sciences, UEA
22 May 2019
Facilitating Implementation of Evidence-based Interventions - from Art to Science
Prof Nick Sevdalis, Professor of Implementation Science & Patient Safety, Director of the Centre for Implementation Science at King’s College London
10 April 2019
'What's going on in his head?’ The story of his own traumatic brain injury and recovery
James Piercy, Communication & Engagement Officer, John Innes Centre
19 March 2019
Why Me? Why would anyone want to give their time to Patient and Public Involvement in Health Research? What is it in the first place and what is it good for?
Dr Jurgen Grotz
21 February 2019
Childhood Immunisation: Achievements and Challenges
Helen Bedford, Professor of Childrens' Health, UCL, Great Ormond Institute of Child Health
30 January 2019
The wrong kind of knowledge and the wrong kind of knower? An exploration of the status of knowledge in the experience of Healthcare Assistant (HCA) transition to Registered Nurse
Dr Kevin Bryant, King’s Teaching Fellow, Associate Tutor in BioSciences, School of Health Sciences, UEA
12 December 2018
Community Health: Physical activity, Health inequity and marginalised groups
Dr Sarah Hanson, Lecturer in Nursing Sciences, School of Health Sciences, UEA
21 November 2018
Evaluating the costs and benefits of health care from a patient's perspective: getting to the heart of the matter"
Professor Jennifer Whitty, Professor of Health Economics, Norwich Medical School, UEA
5 November 2018
N-of-1 Design PPD Training. undertaking within-person investigations
Dr Felix Naughton
1 November 2018
The Power of Volunteering
Colin Rochester: Rediscovering Voluntary Action: how we challenge the dominant paradigm
David Horton-Smith: Voluntary Associations: how we change the world
Jurgen Grotz: Beyond tokenism and tick box approaches: how we govern the NHS
31 October 2018
Full and equal equality: what consensus can there be in the case of people labelled as having an intellectual disability under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
Marcus Redley, Senior Research Associate, School of Health Sciences, UEA
17 October 2018
Developing new methods to evaluate complex health interventions: analysing context, texts and disruptions
Dr Jamie Murdoch, Research Fellow in Process Evaluation Methodology, School of Health Sciences, UEA
11 July 2018
More than just the facts: What roles can scientists play in shaping policy?
Dr Andrew Atkin, Lecturer in Behavioural Epidemiology, School of Health Sciences
13 June 2018
Places and Spaces: learning about re-learning, in home-based rehabilitation, for people with aphasia
Dr Ciara Shiggins, Academic Fellow, School of Health Sciences
31 May 2018
The INSPIRED COPD Outreach ProgramTM: From research and proof-of-concept to spread and scale-up across Canada
Prof Graeme Rocker, Professor of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
23 May 2018
Supporting the health and wellbeing of the ambulance sector workforce: the UK and beyond
Prof Kristy Sanderson, Professor in Applied Health Research, School of Health Sciences
18 April 2018
‘Behaviour that Challenges’ (BtC) in dementia: can we prevent ‘diagnostic overshadowing’ in research, practice and policy?
Prof Esme Moniz-Cook, Professor of Psychology Ageing & Dementia Care Research, Faculty of Health Science, University of Hull, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (Hon), Humber NHS FT, Clinical Lead – Dementia; Division 4, Yorkshire and Humber LCRN, Founder chair now co-chair INTERDEM.
21 February 2018
Improving Dementia Care in General Hospitals
Prof Martin Orrell, Director, Institute of Mental Health, Head of Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology University of Nottingham
31 January 2018
Evidence-based practice “on-the-go”- using the Viatherapy app to support clinical decision-making in upper limb rehabilitation after stroke
Dr Nicola Hancock, Lecturer in Physiotherapy, Researcher with the Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation Alliance, ABIRA, School of Health Sciences, UEA
13 December 2017
Body balance with light touch - human individuals and pairs and robots
Dr Leif Johannsen, Senior Lecturer - Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation, School of Health Sciences, UEA
8 November 2017
Enabling Person-Centred Care: Developing the Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) with Advanced COPD
Dr Morag Farquhar, Senior Lecturer in Nursing Sciences (Adult), School of Health Sciences, UEA
18 October 2017
Mobile Health (mHealth) Technologies to promote smoking behaviour change
Dr Felix Naughton, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, School of Health Sciences, UEA
20 September 2017
Living with Dementia and My Passion for Research Involvement
Wendy Mitchell
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3 July 2017
Development of the Brachial Assessment Tool (BrAT) a new patient-reported outcome measure for Brachial Plexus Injury
Bridget Hill. PhD, MAPA, Research Fellow, Epworth Monash Rehabilitation Medicine Unit, Melbourne
28 June 2017
'Talking for Walking': Reproducing Body Normality in a Turkish Rehabilitation Hospital
Dr Dikmen Bezmez, Marie Curie Individual Fellow, Norwich Medical School, UEA
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Koc University, Istanbul
21 June 2017
Dr Alpar Lazar, Lecturer in Dementia and Complexity in Later Life, School of Health Sciences
24 May 2017
Dementia diagnosis in primary care: Who is undiagnosed, why are they undiagnosed and does it matter?
Dr George Savva, Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences
26 April 2017
Drawing on social connection in ageing and dementia: understanding what helps people maintain social inclusion
Prof Fiona Poland, Professor of Social Research Methodology and Dr Linda Birt, Senior Research Associate, School of Health Sciences, UEA
15 March 2017
Exploring implementation fidelity within complex behaviour change interventions: a journey from physiotherapy to public health research
Dr Elaine Toomey, Health Behaviour Change Research Group, National University of Ireland Galway
9 March 2017
How do people with dementia and their carers make assistive technology work for them: innovation, personalisation and bricolage
Dr Grant Gibson, Lecturer in Dementia Studies, University of Stirling
February 2017
Concussion in Sport: toward a better assessment
Dr Michael Grey, Reader in Rehabilitation Neuroscience, School of Health Sciences