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Health Services Research Programme Seminars

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6th October

Patient and public involvement in health research design: A review of the evidence.

Dr Jonathan Boote, Research Fellow, Research Design Service for Yorkshire and Humber, ScHARR, University of Sheffield

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13th October

Talking to machines: Speech technology in rehabilitation, health and social care.

Professor Mark Hawley, Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group, Health Services Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

20th October

The relationship between Research Design Services and Clinical Trials Units with examples from our own experience.

Professor Elaine McColl, Director of Newcastle CTU, University of Newcastle.

27th October

Half Term – No Seminar.

3rd November

Recruitment projections and Lasagna's Law: Literature review and qualitative research.

Daniel Hind, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials, Research Unit, HSR, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

10th November

Rethinking informed consent: Why do patients enter clinical trials?

Dr Clare Relton, Honorary Research Fellow, Public Health, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

17th November

Watching them grow and knowing you have done that: A qualitative study of well- being and allotment gardening.

Professor Nigel King, University of Huddersfield

24th November

Pilot studies and feasibility studies: Their definitions and uses in practice and policy.

Dr Cindy Cooper, Senior Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Unit, HSR, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

1st December

Improving care for older people who fall: A programme of research in emergency care.

Professor Helen Snooks, Professor of Health Services Research, Centre for Health Information Research and Evaluation, Institute of Life Science, School of Medicine, Swansea University.

All the seminars will be held on Tuesday lunchtimes, in the Lecture Rooms 1&2 on the First Floor of ScHARR at Regent Court (Regent Street entrance) at 12.30pm. Coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your own sandwiches. All staff and students welcome

Seminars organised by Annette Haywood, ScHARR

( For further information please contact Joanne Turner on 0114 222 0751 or e-mail j.e.turner@sheffield.ac.uk

Using Web2.0 to Aid Research and Collaboration

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The next HEDS lunchtime seminar is on Wednesday
the 13th May at 12:30-1:30 in Lecture Rooms 1 &2.
Andy Tattersall
will be presenting on "Using Web2.0 to Aid Research and
Collaboration."
The seminar is part of the library open day, which is
open to all ScHARR staff and PhD students.

What is Web2.0?

Health Service Research Seminars - April to June

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28th April
A Public Perspective: How Does Disease Adaption Influence Health State Valuations?
Helen Cowan, PhD Student, HEDS, ScHARR, University of Sheffield..


5th May
Randomised Controlled Trials of Guided Self-Help Provided by Graduate Primary Care Mental Health Workers.
Mike Lucock, Associate Director of Psychological Therapies Research, and co-authors Rebecca Kirby and Nigel Wainwright, South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust.


12th May
Walking as an Aid to Smoking Cessation: A Feasibility Study in the NHS Stop Smoking Service.
Emma Everson, Research Associate, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

19th May
Case Tracking in Psychological Therapies
Chris Leach, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust, and Visiting Professor, University of Huddesfield.


26th May
Half Term – No Seminar.

2nd June
Can Nurses Apply Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Skills in Palliative Care Patients' Homes?
Stirling Moorey, Trust Head of Psychotherapy, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.


9th June
Why do Patients enter Clinical Trial? A Review of the Evidence Plus a Model for Understanding 'Informed Consent' in both Routine Healthcare and Clinical Trials.
Clare Relton, Research Associate, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.


16th June
Use of IT Without Understanding it: A Basis for Inclusive IT Based Data Collection and Intervention.
Peter Cudd, Research Associate, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.


23rd June
Implementing Evidence Based Psychological Treatments Effectively in NHS Settings: The Case of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
Michaela Swales, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer-Practitioner, North Wales NHS Trust & Bangor University.


Seminars organised by Annette Haywood, ScHARR
 For further information please contact Joanne Turner on 0114 222 0751 or e-mail j.e.turner@sheffield.ac.uk

Health Services Research Seminars - January - March

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All the seminars will be held on Tuesday lunchtimes, in the Lecture Rooms 1&2 on the First Floor of ScHARR at Regent Court (Regent Street entrance) at 12.30pm. Coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your own sandwiches.


20th January
Therapist Effects in Randomised Controlled Trials – What to do about them.
Stephen Walters, Reader in Medical Statistics, Health Services Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.


27th January
The Future Bathroom – A study of Design with and for Older People with Age Related Disability.
Professor Gail Mountain, Professor of Occupational Therapy Research, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University.

3rd February
Evaluation of Physical Activity Levels Among Adolescents in the South West and North West: Consideration of Health Issues.
Spencer Boyle, PhD Student, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.


10th February
The New Coordinated System for Gaining NHS Permissions for Research (CSP).
Dr Caroline Pickstone, Senior Manager, and John Griffiths, South Yorkshire CLRN, University of Sheffield.* Please note this seminar to be held in John Pemberton Lecture Theatre 2nd Floor, ScHARR.


17th February
Evaluation of Supplementary Prescribing in Nursing and Pharmacy.
Dr Richard Cooper, Lecturer in Public Health, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

24th February
Towards an Advanced Lifestyle Monitoring System for Aged and Vulnerable People.
Fabian Cardineux, Research Associate, Health Services Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield. *Please note this seminar will be held in the Trent Institute Room, 2nd Floor ScHARR.

3rd March
How the Bayesian Methods can be used to Assist Decision Making for Clinical Purposes.
Melody Zhigang, Research Assistant, Imperial College, London.

10th March
School-Linked Sexual Health Services for Young People: What Happens in the UK, and how does it Compare with Experience in other Countries? Interim Findings from a Survey and Systematic Review.
Dr Jenny Owen, Lecturer in Health Studies, and Colleagues from the School-Linked Sexual Health Services for Young People Project. ScHARR, University of Sheffield

For further information please contact Joanne Turner on 0114 222 0751 or e-mail j.e.turner@sheffield.ac.uk

HEDS Seminar Programme Spring/Summer 2009

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The HEDS Seminar Programme for Spring and Summer 2009 have been released and are listed below. The details are:

Date and time
Speaker
Title
Venue

Thursday 12 February 2009
12.30 – 1.30pm
Sean Sullivan University of Washington
TBA
Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

Thursday 19 March 2009
12.30 – 1.30pm
Michael Pidd Lancaster University
DGHPSim: smart simulation approaches for investigating healthcare policy as well as developing better practice
Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

Thursday 23 April 2009
12.30 – 1.30pm
Mila Petrova University of Warwick
Searching electronic databases for publications on health-related values
Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

Thursday 21 May 2009
12.30 – 1.30pm
Dr Ruth Garside
PenTAG, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
TBA
Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

Thursday 18 June 2009
12.30 – 1.30pm
Andrew Jones
University of York
TBA
Joint HEDS and Economics seminar
Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

Thursday 16 July 2009
12.30 – 1.30pm
Amanda Burls
University of Oxford
The ethics of prioritisation in HTA
Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

For further information please contact Donna Rowen D.Rowen@sheffield.ac.uk or John Brazier J.E.Brazier@sheffield.ac.uk

Autumn HSR Seminar Programme

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All the seminars will be held on Tuesday lunchtimes, in the Lecture Rooms 1&2 on the First Floor of ScHARR at Regent Court (Regent Street entrance) at 12.30pm. Coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your own sandwiches.

Seminars organised by Lorraine Ellis, ScHARR ( For further information please contact Joanne Turner on 0114 222 0751 or e-mail j.e.turner@sheffield.ac.uk

CWiPP seminar programme for Autumn 2008

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Below is the CWiPP seminar programme for Autumn 2008. We have some great speakers on a diverse range of topics and it should be a great seminar series. For further information contact Donna Rowen d.rowen@sheffield.ac.uk

or Aki Tsuchiya a.tsuchiya@sheffield.ac.uk

CWiPP, the Centre for Well-being in Public Policy considers how people´s health and well-being can be defined, measured and improved in ways that help policy-makers determine the best use of scarce resources, and to investigate the determinants of well-being insofar as these are relevant to policy formulation. For further details on CWiPP see https://webmail.shef.ac.uk/horde/util/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shef.ac.uk%2Fcwipp%2F&Horde=6bb968c5a5d80bc882dac26acc793215

Thursday 25th September 1300-1430

Professor Stephen Wood Institute for Work Psychology, University of Sheffield

High Involvement Management, Work Enrichment, Well-being and Productivity: An Analysis using WERS2004

Richard Roberts Building, seminar room RRB-A87

Wednesday 8th October
1230-1400

Professor Danny Dorling Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

Ignorance, Want, Idleness, Disease and Squalor: some suggestions for mapping the modern equivalents of these old evils

Portobello Centre, seminar room PC-SRB57B

Date to be confirmed: either 28th or 29th October

Dr Caroline Oates and Dr Jo Padmore Management School, University of Sheffield

Researching a new typology of green consumers

TBA

Thursday 6th November
1230-1400

Dr Paula Lorgelly
Public Health and Health policy,
University of Glasgow

TBA

Regent Court, lecture rooms 1 & 2


For further information please contact Donna Rowen D.Rowen@sheffield.ac.uk or Aki Tsuchiya A.Tsuchiya@sheffield.ac.uk

HEDS seminar programme for Autumn 2008

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Thursday 9th October 12.30-2pm


Benjamin Craig
University of South Florida
and Jan J. V. Busschbach
Erasmus MC and Viersprong Institute for Studies on Personality Disorders

Removing Bias from United Kingdom Values of EQ-5D States

Lecture rooms 1 & 2, Regent Court

Thursday 20th November
12.30-2pm

Graham Mowatt
University of Aberdeen


Indirect and mixed treatment comparisons in NICE Interventional Procedures Reviews

Lecture rooms 1 & 2, Regent Court

Thursday 4th December
12.30-2pm

Richard Edlin
University of Leeds

TBA

Lecture rooms 1 & 2, Regent Court

Thursday 11th December
12.30-2pm

Raymond Pawson University of Leeds

Reducing plague by drowning witches: On the importance of understanding and evaluating the mechanisms that generate behavioural change in public health interventions

Room F41, Hicks Building

For further information please contact Donna Rowen D.Rowen@sheffield.ac.uk or John Brazier J.E.Brazier@sheffield.ac.uk

HEDS Seminars

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The remaining HEDS seminars for this semester:

Joint HEDS and Economics seminar

Speaker: Nigel Rice, University of York

Title: Does health care spending improve health outcomes?

Evidence from English Programme Budgeting data

Date: Thursday 17th July Time: 12.30-1.30pm

Venue: Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

Speaker: Ignacio Abasolo, Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife

Title: To be confirmed

Date: Thursday 31st July Time: 12.30-1.30pm

Venue: Lecture rooms 1 and 2, Regent Court

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.

Health Services Research Programme - Research Seminars Programme April - June 2008

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All the seminars will be held on Tuesdays, in Lecture rooms 1 and 2, on the 1st floor of ScHARR at Regent Court (Regent Street entrance) at 12.30pm. Coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your own sandwiches.

8th April
The UK Mental Health Research Network.
Professor Hugh Middelton, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, and Consultant Psychiatrist, Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Trust.

15th April

Public Health Evidence Synthesis – Opportunities and Challenges.
NICE Public Health Collaborating Team, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.
Different venue and time: John Pemberton Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor ScHARR, 1pm – 2pm.

22nd April
Interprofessional Education for Health and Social Care: Capturing Complexity.
Dr Elaine Sharland, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Sussex.

29th April
Title to be confirmed.
Professor Michael Barkham, Clinical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield.

6th May

NO SEMINAR


13th May
The Impact of Sheffield Multiple Heritage Service on the Self Esteem, Well-Being and Behaviour of Mixed Race Young People.
David Phillips, Reader in Social Policy, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.

20th May
Emergency Department Crowding in the US – Causes, Consequences, and a Search for Solutions.
Professor Ellen Weber, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield.

27th May
Title to be confirmed.
Elizabeth Gibbons, Senior Research Fellow, Patient-reported Outcome Measurement Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford.

3rd June
NEECap: A Community Intervention Trial of the Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Emergency Care Practitioners.
Dr Suzanne Mason, Reader in Emergency Medicine, Medical Care Research Unit, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

Seminars organised by Caroline Dryden
( For further information please contact Joanne Turner on 0114 222 0751
or e-mail j.e.turner@sheffield.ac.uk.

PLEASE NOTE THE SEMINARS ARE EVERY TUESDAY LUNCHTIME

HSR Seminars at ScHARR 2008

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Research Seminars
Jan-Mar 2008

All the seminars will be held on Mondays, in the Lecture Rooms 1&2 on the First Floor of ScHARR at Regent Court (Regent Street entrance) at 12.30pm.
Coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your own sandwiches.


28th January 2008
Mick Bond (Public Health)
Research Manager Derbyshire County PCT/Research Associate ScHARR

"The interface between MREC decision making on commercial drug trials, local prescribing policy and management approval"


4th February 2008
Sabrina Schulte PhD Student – Dubai

"Effectiveness of integrated vs Standard care for patients with dual diagnosis (mental health and addiction problems)"


11th February 2008
Nikki Fernandez – Astra Zeneca

"Title to be confirmed"


18th February 2008
Clare Relton – ScHARR

"A pilot 'Cohort RCT' of treatment by a homeopath for women with menopausal hot flushes"


25th February 2008
Stephen Senn - University of Glasgow

"Issues in Blinding Studies"


3rd March 2008
Nick Fox –

"'Health, identity and embodiment: findings from a programme of research'"


10th March 2008
Spencer Boyle

"Title to be confirmed"

PLEASE NOTE THAT AFTER THE EASTER BREAK
THE SEMINAR WILL MOVE FROM MONDAY'S TO TUESDAY LUNCHTIMES.
Seminars organised by Caroline Dryden ScHARR)
( For further information please contact Joanne Turner on 0114 222 0751 or e-mail j.e.turner@sheffield.ac.uk.

ScHARR Mental Health Seminar

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"How do mainstream secondary pupils with Asperger syndrome/high
functioning autism socially spend their school day?"

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By Jenny Wainscot & Jenna Williams
Mental Health Group, ScHARR, University of Sheffield

12.30-1.30pm on Tuesday 11th December 2007
Lecture Rooms 1 & 2, First Floor, ScHARR, Regent Court, University of Sheffield

This seminar talk reports research that Jenny has spent the last year
working on for her BMedSci dissertation with Dr. Paul Naylor, Dr. Paul
Sutcliffe and Prof. Digby Tantam and the contribution to it that Jenna
has made since July.

Asperger syndrome (AS) is characterised by difficulties with social
relationships and social communication, poor coordination and a
restricted range of interests. People with AS have average or above
average intelligence and for this reason are normally educated in
mainstream schools. The manifestations of the disorder however, may
result in pupils with AS experiencing difficulties in the mainstream
setting with respect to forming and maintaining friendships and in
engaging in social communication with peers. These difficulties could
lead to pupils with the disorder being potential targets of bullying
This research investigated the social relationships of pupils with AS,
their use of the school environment and their experiences of being
bullied by comparison with a group of typically developing peers.

Mental Health Seminar

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Mental Health Research Seminar

Gay affirmative therapy:
a theoretical framework and defence
by
Dr. Darren Langdridge
The Open University

12.30-1.30pm on Friday 16th November 2007
Ground Floor Seminar Room, ScHARR, Regent Court,
University of Sheffield

Gay affirmative therapy (GAT) has recently emerged in an attempt to rectify previously discriminatory psychotherapeutic practice with lesbians, bisexuals and gay men. GAT aims to achieve this by providing a framework for practice which is affirmative of lesbian, gay and bisexual identities. This “positive framework” is clearly challenging for psychotherapies which seek to avoid imposing specific expectations on their clients and a number of humanistic and existential psychotherapists have challenged the applicability of such a framework for their practice. This paper examines these arguments and suggests that Ricoeur’s formulation of hermeneutic phenomenology may provide a solution. It is argued that incorporating a version of a hermeneutic of suspicion and critique of the illusions of the subject into psychotherapeutic practice would enable therapists to recognise and work with the twin impact of the psychotherapist and social world on the construction of a client’s sexual identity.

Presenter biography
Dr. Darren Langdridge is a lecturer in social psychology at the Open University, a Chartered Psychologist and UKCP accredited existential psychotherapist. Darren has extensive experience in working clinically with sexual minority clients as well as writing and conducting research on ‘new sexualities’, amongst other topics. He is the author (or editor) of a number of books and numerous papers/chapters including, most recently, Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method (Pearson Education) and (with Dr. Meg Barker) Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism (Palgrave).

Public Health Lecture - Born in Bradford: A birth cohort study

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Born in Bradford: A birth cohort study

Public Health Lecture

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Professor Neil Small, Bradford University

12.30-1.30pm on Tuesday 16th October 2007
St George’s Lecture Theatre 2, Frederick Mappin Building,
University of Sheffield

Born in Bradford is recruiting 10000 babies and their parents. Recruitment began in March 2007 and we have 3000 mothers, 1000 fathers and nearly 1000 babies already recruited. Half of births in Bradford are to parents of Pakistani origin. This presentation will identify the public health context in which the study was developed - it will summarise steps taken to establish the cohort and will identify main research aims. The future plans for the cohort will be summarised including thoughts regarding studies on infant growth, diabetes, neurological illness and on the relationship between ethnicity, deprivation, social capital and early child development.(see http://www.borninbradford.nhs.uk/)
Neil Small is Professor of Health Research in Bradford University and is the academic lead for Born in Bradford. He is a sociologist by background and, prior to discovering how life can be easily be taken over by setting up big cohort studies, he studied chronic and life limiting illness.

Mental Health Research Seminar - Social perception in children with autism and Asperger Syndrome

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Mental Health Research Seminar

Social perception in children with autism and Asperger Syndrome

By Steven Stagg,

Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London

12.30-1.30pm on Tuesday 16 October 2007

Ground Floor Seminar Room, ScHARR, Regent Court,University of Sheffield

Steven holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology (Open University) and a master’s in research methods (London University). He is currently studying for his PhD in the subject of this talk about which he says: “One of the major criteria used to diagnose Autism is impairment in social functioning manifest in lack of eye-contact and diminished interaction with others. Recent eye-tracking studies have proved inconclusive in confirming this, showing both a preference for human figures over objects in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (van der Geest, Kemner, Camfferman, Verbaten, & van Engeland, 2002) and abnormal attention to social stimuli (Klin, Jones, Schultz, Volkmar, & Cohen, 2002). This talk centres on a recent study carried out towards my PhD to see if children with ASD show normal patterns of eye-movement when faced with a complex choice of social stimuli and whether children diagnosed with High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome show equivalent performance.”

Health Economics and Decision Science - Seminar Programme Autumn 2007

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You can tell when it's the end of the summer when the football season starts, party political conferences appear and the Health Economics and Decision Science Autumn Seminar Programme returns.

We have some great speakers and encourage you to attend.

Karl Claxton

University of York

PPRS is dead: long live value based pricing!

Thursday 20th September 12.30-1.30pm

Lecture theatres 1 and 2, Regent Court

Hugh Gravelle

University of York(Joint seminar with Economics)

Wednesday 17th October 4.00-5:30pm

Room 118, Management Building

Joanna Coast

University of Birmingham

Assessing capability in health care: philosophy & methodology

Thursday 15th November 12.30-1.30pm Lecture theatres 1 and 2, Regent Court

For further information please contact Donna Rowen d.rowen@sheffield.ac.uk or John Brazier j.e.brazier@sheffield.ac.uk.

HSR Research Seminars for Autumn 07

The latest batch of Health Services Research Research Seminars Autumn 2007 are only just round the corner.

All the seminars will be held on Mondays, in the first floor lecture rooms, Regent Court (Regent Street entrance) at 12.30pm. Coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your own sandwiches. All ScHARR staff and students are invited to these meetings.

1st October
Dr Danny Hind, (ScHARR)University of SheffieldThe external validity of cancer therapeutics trials

22nd October
NO SEMINAR.

5th November
Professor Kamaldeep Bhui, Professor of Cultural Psychiatry & Epidemiology, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary’s University of London

12th November
Mr Michael Macintosh,
University of Sheffield A qualitative study of organisational influences on the activity of chest pain units during the ESCAPE trial

19th November
Dr Petra Meier (ScHARR),
University of Sheffield
Drug Treatment Processes and Evaluation

26th November
Dr Lorraine Ellis, University of Sheffield
Professional doctorates