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Our latest guest on the Communicable Research podcast is Dr Rebecca Mawson. Rebecca started her professional career after studying medicine at the University of Leeds going on to completing foundation training in Leeds and Dewsbury. She then travelled halfway across the globe to work in New Zealand in obstetrics and gynaecology. Rebecca then completed her GP training in Harrogate in 2014 before moving back to her home town of Sheffield where she joined our university.

Her main area of interest is around addressing inequalities in sexual and reproductive health provision in primary care. Rebecca completed her MD in 2022 which explored this topic in relation to general practice. She started her NIHR Clinical Lectureship post in 2023 and has focused on various areas of sexual and reproductive health including contraception access and experience of under-represented populations, menopause care and HIV in primary care. Rebecca also has a special interest in primary care research around endometriosis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. 

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In this episode of the SCHARR Communicable Research podcast we discuss the topic of research ethics and in particular how current research aligns with equality, diversity and inclusion practices.

We are joined by Dr Jennifer Burr who is a Senior University Teacher at Sheffield and the Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee (UREC). Jennifer has been leading this work at Sheffield and we will discuss the importance of ED&I as part of research ethics proposals. 

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For this episode of the SCHARR Communicable Research podcast, Andy Tattersall is joined by his colleagues Dr Duncan Gillespie and Dr Nick Woodrow alongside Mark O’Brien and Scott Chapman to discuss their collaboration between SCHARR and the North Yorkshire Council Living Well Smokefree Service. 

Smoking remains the largest avoidable cause of premature death and disability in the UK. There are approximately 70,000 smokers within North Yorkshire, with higher rates in areas of greater deprivation, and above national average rates of smoking during pregnancy. This podcast discusses the work and research that has been undertaken to develop and evaluate a ‘hybrid’ stop-smoking service model, where support for people trying to stop smoking is offered in person and remotely.

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Welcome to this special, bonus edition of the SCHARR Communicable Research Podcast. Andy Tattersall is joined by a trio of experts from SCHARR to discuss the NHS at 75 and what potentially lies ahead for the organisation in the next 25 years and its 100th birthday in 2048, in relation to healthcare service and the research that supports it.

In this podcast we will discuss the NHS’s priorities for the coming decades and the challenges it faces. Those being a changing demographic, the legacy of Covid, and a quickly evolving technological landscape.

Andy is joined by three academics at SCHARR who all have strong links to the NHS in their roles as a mental health nurse researcher who has previously worked in the NHS frontline services, an emergency care doctor and a GP. Dr Emily Wood, Professor Steve Goodacre and Professor Chris Burton.

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Welcome to the latest SCHARR Communicable Research podcast and today we are joined by Dr Jill Carlton who is a Senior Research Fellow at SCHARR within the School of Medicine and Population Health.

Jill joined SCHARR as a research associate in 2005 and conducts research in the development and evaluation of patient reported outcome measures and outcomes research, with a particular focus on quality of life.

 In this podcast we are going to discuss work she has undertaken with colleagues at Sheffield and elsewhere to understand the burden and consequences for people living with diabetes and healthcare systems in general as part of the Hypo-RESOLVE project which is an international collaboration. 



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In the latest episode of this podcast series we’ve welcomed back Professor Andrew Lee. Andrew joined SCHARR in 2008 and is a Professor of Public Health. He qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh and following paediatric and tropical medicine training went on to work overseas running primary health care and tuberculosis control programmes in Afghanistan. Andrew often describes himself as a boundary spanner and is dual trained in general practice and public health in the UK.

He worked as a Public Health Consultant in Nottingham, and as a director of primary care and population health with the NHS, and as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control with the Health Protection Agency, Public Health England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

In addition to his academic role, Andrew is also currently a Senior Consultant in Global Health with the UKHSA as well as Co-Editor-in-Chief for Public Health, a journal of the Royal Society for Public Health.



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