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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Equitable Palliative care In the Community through Primary Care (EPIC-PC): a realist study to propose a new integrated neighbourhood team approach to palliative and end of life care	National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)	1 February 2025	1 February 2028
The Deep End Leeds	National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)	9 August 2024	1 January 2028
Establishing the relationship between staff and ward characteristics and patient safety incidents on adult mental health wards - #StaffedWards.	National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)	1 July 2025	31 December 2027
A realist synthesis to explain how, for whom and in what circumstances post-incident support (debriefing) works following restrictive intervention use in mental health inpatient settings: Debriefing after Restrictive InterVEntions (DRIVE-MH)	National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)	1 October 2024	30 September 2025

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
What does shared decision-making mean to children aged 8-12 years with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia?
Values Based Recruitment: What works for whom, why, and in what circumstances?		-	-
Understanding the prevalence, care and management of frailty in care home residents		-	-
Trans-venous occlusion of incompetent pelvic veins as a treatment for chronic pelvic pain in women: a pilot randomised control trial
Towards modelling an asthma e-health communication tool for young people: a scoping exercise of current practice
The safety and quality of the management of medicines when people with dementia move between the care home and hospital setting - PhD study
The RECO study: Realist Evaluation of service models and systems for CO- existing serious mental health and substance use conditions
The GEM study: Games for educating midwives in Sub-Saharan Africa
The detection and management of pain in patients with dementia in acute care settings: development of a decision tool		-	-
The challenges of shared decision making and antipsychotic polypharmacy in forensic settings an interview and observational study		-	-
The CAPTURE study: Cancer Pain-Assessment Toolkit for Use in RoutinE in oncology outpatient services		August 2021	February 2026
Supporting young mothers (aged 14-25) in the first two years of life
SPICES: Seclusion and Psychiatric Intensive Care Evaluation Study		-	-
Social Prescribing: A way forward in assisting self-management of osteoarthritis (OA)		-	-
Relationship between care home staffing and quality of care: a mixed methods approach		-	-
Re-imagining professionalism in mental health	Economic and Social and Humanities Research Council (ESRC)
Providing the foundation for effective decision support for skin problems in primary care		-	-
Providing a standardised approach to virtual clinical follow up of total joint replacement		-	-
Prescribing and use of opioids for chronic non-malignant pain: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies		-	-
Patient Safety Translational Research Centre - Safe Use of Medicines Theme
Organising general practice for care homes: A multi-method study		-	-
OPTIMAL CARE (Optimising palliative care through electronic coordination).	National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)	September 2020	September 2024
NICHE-leeds		Nov 2018	-
My First 1000 Days: A feasibility study of centering-based group care to improve physical, psychological, developmental, and social outcomes of caregivers and infants		January 2023	February 2026
Midland and North of England Stillbirth Study
Medication adherence Validation and feasibility testing of a novel questionnaire to identify barriers to medication adherence
Let’s talk about the S word: developing an interactive training resource to engage and meet the sexuality and intimacy needs of care home residents.		1st January 2019	30th December 2021
Leeds Older women Urinary Incontinence Self-Management (LOUISA)
Investigating the barriers and facilitators to the prescribing and use of medicines in managing neuropathic pain- PhD study
Innovation to enhance health in care homes: Rapid evidence synthesis		-	-
Improving the safety and continuity of medicines management at care transitions (ISCOMAT) for people with heart failure		-	-
Implementing the six core strategies (6CS) – UK Working in partnership to minimise harm to patients and staff.
Identifying and managing perinatal mental health in male partners using the Born and Bred in Yorkshire (BaBY) cohort: White Rose collaboration in gender and perinatal mental health
Fostering and sustaining UK, multidisciplinary, family-focused care across the life-course: A White Rose collaboration in long-term condition management
Finding Ivy: a life worthy of life		1 April 0022	Ongoing
Evaluation of patient preferences for and cost effectiveness of community intravenous antibiotic services (CIVAS)		-	-
Engaging Partners in Childbirth for Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV (EPOCH Study): preliminary work for a randomised controlled trial
Effects of a demand-led evidence briefing service on the uptake and use of research evidence by commissioners of health		-	-
Early facilitated discharge in acute mental health		-	-
Developing a service user centred co-designed patient safety intervention for acute mental health wards: A mixed methods process evaluation
Delivering Digital Drugs		-	-
Culturally adapted Family Intervention (CaFI) for African Caribbeans with schizophrenia and their families		-	-
CONTRAST Establishing components of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people: an evidence synthesis.
COMPARE Establishing components of programmes to reduce restrictive practices: an evidence synthesis
Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a multifaceted podiatry intervention for falls prevention in older people		-	-
Children and young people with CKD: a qualitative study of their views on desirable components for a developmentally appropriate, CKD-specific information and support software application
Children and young people aged 8-15 years with severe allergic eye disease: Development and refinement of a developmentally appropriate Quality of Life measure
Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescribing Study (CHIPPS)		-	-
Cancer care co-ordinators and support workers supporting specialist cancer nursing services		-	-
Barriers and facilitators to deprescribing for older people living in care homes – PhD study
Assessing research capacity and capability (RECAP) in HCPs: A collaborative pilot study in Leeds Children’s Hospital
Apps for adolescents with chronic rheumatic disease (CRD): a qualitative study of young people’s, parents’ and professionals’ views on required components of a mobile health-app to support self-care
An exploration of the perspectives of chronic pelvic pain amongst women from South Asian backgrounds		-	-
An evaluation of the Birth Matters Clinic
Administration of medicines in care homes (with nursing) for older people by care assistants		-	-
Addressing what matters to frail older people and their informal carers in primary care based clinical encounters and contacts		-	-
Acceptability of an online dietary recall tool in women with gestational diabetes		-	-
A review of evidence on skin care for healthy babies at term and to inform the development of practice guidelines
A realist synthesis to explain how, for whom and in what circumstances different community mental health crisis services work. (MH-CREST)