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Sheri Oduola is a mental health nurse, academic and researcher. She is a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences. Prior to joining UEA, she was a project manager on a range of NIHR Biomedical Research Centre funded programmes including the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) Consent for Contact (C4C) programme, which is a searchable register through which researchers can identify potential participants who have given broad consent to be contacted for research studies. She was also a research manager at the NIHR Mental Health Research Network for South London and South East region.
After completing her nurse education, Sheri worked as a mental health nurse in range of clinical settings at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, including psychiatric intensive care, acute/forensic inpatient and community mental health. Her clinical work has primarily focused on supporting people with psychotic disorders.
Sheri completed an MSc in Health Services Research and a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology, both at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Her main research interests and expertise are in:
Epidemiology of psychosis and severe mental illness
• Quantitative research methodology, with expertise in cohort studies, cross-sectional surveys, experimental studies and electronic healthcare records
• Social factors in the aetiology, course and outcome of psychosis
• Ethnicity and mental disorders
• Pathways to care and health service utilisation
• Sociology of mental illness
Sheri teaches across nursing and allied health professions curricula and supervises postgraduate students’ research projects/theses.
She is a visiting Lecturer and Researcher at King’s College London, SLaM Biomedical Research Centre and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS trust. She is a member of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK.
Key Responsibilities
Academic Lead for Research, MSc Nursing
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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RDS PPI funding application
National Institute for Health and Care Research
16/11/22 → 28/02/23
Project: Research
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MEDIcation optimisATion in severE mental illness (MEDIATE)
National Institute for Health and Care Research
22/11/21 → 21/03/23
Project: Research
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Medication optimisation in severe mental illness (MEDIATE): protocol for a realist review
Maidment, I., Wong, G., Duddy, C., Upthegrove, R., Oduola, S., Allen, K., Jacklin, S., Howe, J. & MacPhee, M., 24 Jan 2022, In: BMJ Open. 12, e058524.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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REalist Synthesis Of non-pharmacologicaL interVEntions for antipsychotic-induced weight gain (RESOLVE) in people living with severe mental illness (SMI)
Maidment, I. D., Wong, G., Duddy, C., Upthegrove, R., Oduola, S., Robotham, D., Higgs, S., Ahern, A. L. & Birdi, G., 9 Mar 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Triple trauma, double uncertainty, and a singular imperative to address the mental health crises within asylum-seekers and refugees system: a commentary on Hvidtfeldt et al. (2021)
Oduola, S. & Dykxhoorn, J., Oct 2022, In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 57, 10, p. 2157–2159 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Change in incidence rates for psychosis in different ethnic groups in south London: findings from the Clinical Record Interactive Search-First Episode Psychosis (CRIS-FEP) study
Oduola, S., Das-Munshi, J., Bourque, F., Gayer-Anderson, C., Tsang, J., Murray, R. M., Craig, T. K. J. & Morgan, C., Jan 2021, In: Psychological Medicine. 51, 2, p. 300-309 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ethnic variations in duration of untreated psychosis: report from the CRIS-FEP study
Oduola, S., Craig, T. K. J. & Morgan, C., Jun 2021, In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 56, 6, p. 931–941 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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