Smoking relapse prevention, tobacco harm reduction, substance misuse, addiction, mental health and young people, developing and testing complex interventions, clinical trials, qualitative research methods, systematic reviewing and meta-synthesis.

• Director of the Lifespan Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health
• Lead of the UEA Addiction Research group
• Non-Executive Director - James Paget University Hospital NHS Trust

• Doctor of Philosophy, School of Social Work & Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia. Submitted June 2003, examined October 2003
• 1997-2000. BSc Hons. (Starred First Class) Psychosocial Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Caitlin Notley is Director of the Lifespan Health Research Centre. The centre conducts world-leading, innovative and embedded research on the impact of health behaviours on well-being, healthspan, risk of disease, inequality mitigation, rehabilitation and care. Our research strengths focus on cognitive and mental health, developing and testing interventions to enhance healthspan, and nutrition and preventative medicine. 

Professor Notley is also lead of the Addiction Research Group:  https://www.uea.ac.uk/medicine/research/addiction . The group produces high quality multidisciplinary research evidence to impact upon people who are affected by addiction, including service users, carers, health professionals and policy makers. The research approach emphasises responsiveness to social, cultural and pressing health needs, and supporting high risk or disadvantaged groups.

Professor Notley is a social scientist, and an expert in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies applied across health and social sciences. She has extensive experience of developing and testing behavioural interventions to promote and enhance healthspan, particularly in the field of tobacco smoking cessation. She also has experience of running qualitative studies as stand alone projects or alongside clinical trials. Her particular areas of research expertise are tobacco smoking cessation, relapse prevention and tobacco harm reduction. She also works in the fields of substance dependency, misuse and addiction, mental health and young people, health needs assessment and qualitative systematic reviewing. Her research focuses on vulnerable populations, including pregnant and post-partum women and groups experiencing multiple health inequalities. 

Currently Professor Notley leads research projects funded by The National Institute for Health Research, Cancer Research UK and the Medical Research Council. Current projects include a national randomised controlled trial of a postpartum smoking relapse prevention interventon (NIHR), smoking cessation in hospital emergency departments, e-cigarette use, trajectories and dual use (CRUK), and smoking cessation intervention development within Neonatal units (NIHR).

Professor Notley is Director of the Lifespan Health Resarch Centre, leading centre strategy, providing mentorship, and collaborating widely to generate research to enhance healthspan.

Director - Lifespan Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Lead of the Addiction research group

Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Research Executive

Previous academic lead for MBBS Module 11 - Mental Health and Psychiatry. Involvement in teaching and assessment (Module 11). MBBS PBL tutor. Teaching research methods and involvement in supervision of research dissertations and MBBS analytical reviews. Personal advisor to MBBS students (years 1-5) and supervision of PhD students, MSc students, Foundation year Doctors on academic and public health placements, and Public Health trainees on a research placement.

I led the redevelopment of the MBBS Mental health module (2016-2017 and again in 2021), defining learning outcomes, reviewing PBL cases and contibuting to exam question writing. As part of my previous substance misuse curriculum development post I contributed significantly to curriculum development and design, having undertaken mapping of the MBBS curriculum, and made recommendations and changes to teaching. These recommendations have aligned UEA’s teaching to national learning objectives for substance misuse teaching.

I have facilitated PBL groups, contributed to student assessment through marking MBBS research protocols, final year research projects and SSS presentations. I have also undertaken consultation skills training.

I am invited as a guest lecturer to undertake specialist teaching in research methods for undergraduate and post graduate students.

Teaching Activities

• SSS assessment and exam marking
• Supervision of Addictions focused PhD students

Professor of Addiction Sciences

Previous Appointments

2021 - 2024        Director, University of East Anglia ‘Citizens Academy’

2017 - 2020        Senior Lecturer in Mental Health – Norwich Medical School, Department of Population Health and Primary Care, University of East Anglia.

2012-2018 UK Society for the Study of Addiction Research Fellow - Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

2009-2013 Research Advisor National Institute for Health Research, Research Design Service for the East of England – specialising in qualitative methodologies 

2009-2011 Lecturer in Substance Misuse - School Of Medicine Health Policy & Practice, University of East Anglia.

2007-2011 Qualitative Lead researcher, 'A randomised controlled trial, economic evaluation and qualitative study of supervised consumption in patients managed with opiate maintenance treatment', School Of Medicine Health Policy & Practice, University of East Anglia.

2008 Research Associate, ‘Needs Assessment of Norfolk Drugs Misusers not in Treatment’, School Of Medicine Health Policy & Practice, University of East Anglia.

2008 Associate Tutor, School of Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia.

2007 Research Associate ‘Young Peoples Needs Assessment for Norfolk Drug and Alcohol Partnership’, School Social Work & Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia.

2005 - 2006 Research Associate, ‘Evaluation of Family Resolutions Pilot Project’ Centre for Research on the Child and Family, School of Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia.

2005 - 2006 Research Associate ‘National Evaluation of Children’s Trusts Pathfinders’, Centre for Applied Research In Education, School of Education, University of East Anglia.

2004-2005 Research Associate, ‘A Process and Outcome Evaluation of In-Court Conciliation at First Appointment in Contact Cases’, Centre for Research on the Child and Family, School of Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia.

2000-2004 Associate Tutor, School of Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia.

2002-2004 Editor’s Assistant, Journal of Therapeutic Communities
2002-2003 Assistant Editor, Journal of Child & Family Social Work
 

Professional Qualifications and professional memberships
 

December 2011 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice, University of East Anglia
July 2000 BSc (Hons), University of East Anglia (starred 1)
August 2003 PhD, University of East Anglia
 

Selected recent publications 2024

1. Jackson SE, Brown J, Notley C, Shahab L, Cox S. Characterising smoking and nicotine use behaviours among women of reproductive age: a 10-year population study in England. BMC Med. 2024 Apr 18;22(1):99. doi: 10.1186/s12916-024-03311-4. PMID: 38632570; PMCID: PMC11025250.
2. Belderson P, Ward E, Pope I,Notely, C et al Selecting an e-cigarette for use in smoking cessation interventions and healthcare services: findings from patient and public consultation for the COSTED trial. BMJ Open 2024;14:e078677. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078677
3. Pope, I,  Clark, L, Clark, A, Ward, E, Belderson, P, Stirling, S, Parrott, S, Li, J, Coats, T, Bauld, L, Holland, R, Gentry, S, Agrawal, S, Bloom, B, Boyle, A, Gray, A, Morris, G, Livingstone-Banks, J, Notley, C. Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED):  a multi-centre, randomised controlled trial. Emergency Medicine Journal. Accepted 01-2024. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2023-213824
4. West, R., Cox, S., Notley, C.J., Du Plessis, G. and Hastings, J. (2023), Achieving consensus, coherence, clarity and consistency when talking about addiction. Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16393
5. Oldroyd C, Greenham O, Martin G, Allison M, Notley C. Systematic review: Interventions for alcohol use disorder in patients with cirrhosis or alcohol-associated hepatitis. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2023 Oct;58(8):763-773. doi: 10.1111/apt.17665. Epub 2023 Aug 21. PMID: 37602505.
6. Notley , C, Brown, T.J, Bauld, L, Clark, A, Duneclift,, S, Gilroy,, V, Harris, T, Hardeman, W, Holland, R, Howard, G, Mann, M.S, Naughton, F, Smith, D, Turner, D, Ussher,M. The Babybreathe^tm trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention to prevent postpartum return to smoking. BMJ Open 2023;13:e076458. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2023-076458
7. Houghton, B., Kouimtsdis, C., Duka, D., Notley, C., Paloyelis, Y. & Bailey, A., Insights for successful recruitment of people who actively use heroin to a pharmacotherapy trial: a case study. Journal of Substance Use. 26 Sep 2023.
8. Pope I, Suresh C, Ward E, Belderson P, Notley C. Biochemical Verification of Tobacco-Use as an Inclusion Criterion in Smoking Cessation Trials- Lessons From the Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department. Tob Use Insights. 2023 Aug 14;16:1179173X231193898. doi: 10.1177/1179173X231193898. PMID: 37588031; PMCID: PMC10426292.

1. Sideropoulos V, Vangeli E, Naughton F, Cox S, Frings D, Notley C, Brown J, Kimber C, Dawkins L. Mobile phone text messages to support people to stop smoking by switching to vaping: co-development, co-production, and initial testing. JMIR Formative Research. 27/08/2023:49668
2. Notley, C, Barry, S & Parrott, S. Do respiratory physicians not care about adults who smoke? Clinical Medicine. August 2023.
3. Ward E, Dawkins L, Holland R, Pope I, Notley C. Medicalisation of vaping in the UK? E-cigarette users’ perspectives on the merging of commercial and medical routes to vaping. Perspectives in Public Health. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/17579139231185481.
4. Hanson, S. Belderson, P. Ward, E. Naughton, F. Notley, C. Lest we forget. Illuminating lived experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. Social Science & Medicine, 332, August 2023.
5. Naughton, F, Hope, A, Siegele-Brown, C, Grant, K, Bartin, G, Notley, C, Mascolo, C, Coleman, T, Shepstone, L, Sutton, S, Prevost, T, Crane, D, Greaves, F & High, J. An automated, online feasibility randomised controlled trial of a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention for smoking cessation (Quit Sense) Nicotine and Tobacco Research. February 2023.
6. Notley C, Clark L, Belderson P, et al Cessation of smoking trial in the emergency department (CoSTED): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 2023;13:e064585. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064585