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Biography
Linda is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Health Sciences, who collaborates on projects across the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is a social scientist predominantly using qualitative methodologies to examine how social structures and systems affect people living with long term conditions and the experiences of informal and formal carers.
Her current projects include the THRIVE study, which investigates the experiences of registered nurses working in care homes during COVID. The project aims to learn how to support resilience and mental welling in this professional group. She is also part of a research group examining how to implement learning and practice from the NIHR The Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescribing Study (CHIPPS). Within a multidisciplinary research group she is completing a rapid response study to COVID-19 investigating the physical and psychosocial experiences of people with inflammatory arthritis as they moved through shielding into the current COVID environment.
She is a founding member of the Inclusion Research Theme and since October 2019 she has worked within the Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East of England in the Inclusive Involvement in Research for Practice-led Health and Social Care theme. This enables her to develop her research interest in innovative ways to support people who may feel disenfranchised from research to be more actively involved in all aspects.
She gained her PhD at UEA and her thesis investigated the roles, obligations and cultural expectations experienced by working age men who were combining paid employment with unpaid informal care. Prior to working in academia Linda qualified as a general nurse and following a career change, she worked for 12 years in Further Education developing and delivering health and social care training.
Research methods: Qualitative, process evaluation, framework analysis, phenomenological research
Knowledge areas: older people, dementia, inflammatory arthritis, care home research, co-production, volunteering
Teaching Interests
Associate Tutor in HSC teaching predominately qualitative research methods
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Social Prescribing for people to Live Enjoyably with Dementia In Daily life
Cross, J., Khondoker, M., Poland, F., Grant, K., Pond, M., Shepstone, L., Swart, A. M. & Birt, L.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/12/22 → 30/11/27
Project: Research
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FluCare: Evaluating a Complex Intervention to Increase Care Home Staff Influenza Vaccination Rates
Patel, A., Birt, L., Clark, A., Jones, A., Wright, D., Goodall, K., Hammond, M., Katangwe-Chigamba, T., Stirling, S., Wagner, A., Wright, A., Blacklock, J., Blyth, A. & Sims, E.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/09/21 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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Learning from proactive deprescribing experiences within the Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescribing Study to develop national policy regarding deprescribing in care homes for older people
Wright, D., Scott, S., Birt, L. & Blacklock, J.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/04/21 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Cost and economic evidence for asset-based approaches to health improvement and their evaluation methods: a systematic review
Wreford, A., Birt, L., Whitty, J. A., Hanson, S., Conquer, S. & Wagner, A. P., 15 Mar 2024, In: BMC Public Health. 24, 814.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Operationalising the Recovery College model with people living with dementia: A realist review
Handley, M., Wheeler, C., Duddy, C., Wong, G., Birt, L., Fox, C., Moniz-Cook, E., Hackmann, C., Teague, B. & West, J., Aug 2024, In: Aging and Mental Health. 28, 8, p. 1078-1089 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Care-home Nurses' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Managing ethical conundrums at personal cost: A qualitative study
Birt, L., Lane, K., Corner, J., Sanderson, K. & Bunn, D., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 55, 1, p. 226-238 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of pharmacist independent prescribers in care homes: Cluster randomised controlled trial
Holland, R., Bond, C., Alldred, D., Arthur, A., Barton, G., Birt, L., Blacklock, J., Blyth, A., Cheilari, S., Daffu-O’Reilly, A., Dalgarno, L., Desborough, J., Ford, J. C., Grant, K., Harry, B., Hill, H. J., Hughes, C., Inch, J., Maskrey, V., Myint, P., & 8 others, 14 Feb 2023, In: BMJ-British Medical Journal. 380, e071883.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Protocol for a realist evaluation of Recovery College dementia courses: Understanding coproduction through ethnography
Birt, L., West, J., Poland, F., Wong, G., Handley, M., Litherland, R., Hackmann, C., Moniz-Cook, E., Wolverson, E., Teague, B., Mills, R., Sams, K., Duddy, C. & Fox, C., 7 Dec 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 12, e078248.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Elizabeth Brown Prize for best platform presentation at the BGS Spring meeting 2022
Birt, Linda (Recipient), 20 Apr 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Qualitative Health Research (Journal)
Linda Birt (Editorial board member)
2000 → …Activity: Editorial work › Publication editorial role