A5051572555- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Physical Activity and Health
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Dental Health and Care Utilization
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
Northumbria University
2022
Newcastle University
2007-2021
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital
2018
Durham University
2009-2016
University Hospital of North Tees
2012-2016
University of Cambridge
2015
Teesside University
2015
University of Tasmania
2008
Background Qualitative olfactory (smell) dysfunctions are a common side effect of post-viral illness and known to impact quality life health status. Evidence is emerging that taste smell loss symptoms Covid-19 may emerge persist long after initial infection. The aim the present study was document post alterations smell. Methods We conducted exploratory thematic analysis user-generated text from 9000 users AbScent Smell Taste Loss moderated Facebook support group March 24 30th September 2020....
Exergaming has been proposed as an innovative method for physical activity promotion. However, large effectiveness studies are rare. In January 2011, dance mat systems were introduced in secondary schools two districts England with the aim of promoting opportunity activity. The this natural experiment was to examine effect introducing exergaming on and health-related outcomes 11–13 year old students using a non-randomised controlled design mixed methods. Participants recruited from five...
Eating can be a significant challenge for cancer survivors; however, to date there is no systematic way of assessing and addressing food related quality life in this group. The purpose our study was develop framework doing so. Over the course 6 years participant-led workshops, we worked alongside 25 head neck (HNC) survivors their partners, employing video-reflexive ethnographic (VRE) methods. current reports on data from two summative workshops series where with participants cohere emergent...
Patient decision aids are increasingly regarded as important components of clinical practice that enable shared making (SDM) and evidence based patient choice. Despite broad acceptance their value, there remains little successful implementation in primary care settings.Health practitioners from five general surgeries northern England participated focus group sessions around the themes aids, practitioner preferences SDM. Participants included (n = 19), nurses 5) auxiliary staff 3)....
Stroke is a leading cause of disability. Early treatment acute ischaemic stroke with rtPA reduces the risk longer term dependency but carries an increased causing immediate bleeding complications. To understand challenges knowledge translation and decision making about in hyperacute hence to inform development appropriate support we interviewed patients, their family health professionals. The emergency setting symptomatic effects hyper-acute shaped form, content manner making. Decision...
Background Consumption of fruit and vegetables is important for health, but often lower than recommended tends to be socio-economically patterned with consumption in more deprived groups. In 2008, the English Department Health introduced Change4Life convenience store programme. This aimed increase retail access fresh deprived, urban areas by providing existing stores a range support branded point-of-sale materials equipment. Methods We undertook mixed-methods study programme North East...
Physical activity is critical to improving health and well-being in children. Quantitative studies have found a decline the transition from primary secondary education. Exergames (active video games) might increase physical adolescents. In January 2011 exergame dance mat systems were introduced all schools across two local authority districts UK. We performed quasi-experimental evaluation of natural experiment using mixed methods design. The quantitative findings this work been previously...
This article examines the experience of eating and changes to vital materiality food through lens flavour. A trans-disciplinary approach is used gain insight from gastronomy neurobiology flavour perception. Technological shifts in processing beverages are highlighted which show complex influences on We demonstrate value broadening visceral geographic understanding biosocial nature senses answer questions about need for new methods enquiry role AFNs. propose a ‘source senses’ geographies food.
In this article we explore; regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated spaces health consumption. We use the case study probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding consumer products, to consider how hope and truth play out across different care - supermarket, media laboratory. Drawing on work within both sociological geographic literatures think about hope, probiotics, explores ambiguous promise through an analysis biomedical popular representation. The...
Abstract Background Qualitative olfactory (smell) dysfunctions are a common side effect of post-viral illness and known to impact quality life health status. Evidence is emerging that taste smell loss symptoms Covid-19 may emerge persist long after initial infection. The aim the present study was document post alterations smell. Methods We conducted exploratory thematic analysis user-generated text from 9000 users AbScent Smell Taste Loss moderated Facebook support group March 24 30th...
Dr Duika L Burges Watson and Helen J Moore from Durham University look at how community gardening could be a positive option for individuals who wish to confront weight issue. But is it likely facilitated by 'Big Society' or 'nudge'? The Foresight report in the UK identified quantified growing concerns about obesity.1 It has also been credited with shifting discourse away stigmatizing focus on individual responsibility consideration of environmental determinants.2 'obesogenic' environment...
Communicating treatment risks and benefits to patients their carers is central clinical practice in modern healthcare. We investigated the challenges of risk communication by clinicians offering thrombolytic therapy for hyperacute stroke where must be administered rapidly maximise benefit.Semistructured interviews with 13 from three acute units involved decision making and/or information provision about thrombolysis. report on clinicians' accounts communicating carers. Framework analysis was...
Abstract Distance is a key idea in contemporary literatures on geography and the government of risk, it central to work presented this paper, which focuses Western media representations an innovative ‘first-generation’ non-contraceptive microbicide, Carraguard. A preventive technology that has been developed under auspices US Population Council Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, Carraguard represented ways produce certain noteworthy cultural geographies HIV/AIDS. Via analysis selection such...
Purpose This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of “choice” as it appears in UK policy documents relating to food and public health. A dominant approach improving health has been promotion education with the intention change behaviour encourage healthier eating. Given emphasis on evidence-based making within UK, continued abstraction choice without definition or explanation provoked us conduct this analysis, which focuses 1976 present. Design/methodology/approach The technique was...
SummaryAn International Altered Taste Consortium (I-eAT) is proposed that seeks to utilise gastronomic and biopsychosocial insights understand help people who experience taste alterations. eating experiences a changed of common disabling trans-diagnostic, multi-causal entity which has for too long been poorly understood supported in health research practice. The phrase employed (using "taste" its most commonly sense refer the overall multi-sensory flavour experience) emphasise lived sensory...