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Dr Amanda Edmondson
Researcher

School/Department: Healthcare, School of
Email: a.edmondson@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Amanda is an experienced health services qualitative researcher with a particular interest in health and wellbeing. She has undertaken research related to topic areas such as deprescribing in older adults, sexual health, sexual assault, suicide, self-harm, diabetes, and cancer using various methods of data collection and analyses. Amanda’s first post-doctoral research position involved leading a multi-centre psychological wellbeing study in teenage and young adults diagnosed with cancer at the University of Leeds. Since then she has project managed and/or collaborated on various externally funded projects. Examples include: A multisite Randomised Evaluation of Sexual Health Promotion Effectiveness informing Care and Treatment (RESPECT) NIHR HTA funded feasibility trial A systematic review of the treatment of mental health and substance misuse problems in Sexual Assault Referral Centres (NIHR funded) An international review to understand conversations about work in healthcare and identify opportunities to make work conversations a part of everyday health interactions, funded by Public Health England A pilot study exploring the care of diabetes in a secure forensic service (Research for Change funding) A photovoice study exploring healthy lifestyles for people with serious mental illness (Research for Change funding) An evaluation of creative approaches to mental health and wellbeing (Health Foundation Q funding) Amanda reviews manuscripts for Qualitative Health Research, BPS Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, Psychology and Psychotherapy. She is also a reviewer for the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).
Publications
TWIDDY, M., BIRTWISTLE, J., EDMONDSON, A., CROFT, J., GORDON, K., MEADS, D., BURKE, D., GRIFFITHS, B., ROSE, A., SAGAR, P., STOCKEN, D., MB BROWN, J. and HARJI, D., 2022. British Journal of Surgery. ISSN 0007-1323
EDMONDSON, A.J., BORTHWICK, R., HUGHES, E. and LUCOCK, M., 2022. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. ISSN 1351-0126
ROODT, C.A., KEELEY, P., TURNER, M., EDMONDSON, A. and KENDAL, S., 2022. Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences, 3 (2), pp. 55-64. ISSN 2632-0843
CHADWICK, Z., EDMONDSON, A. and MCDONALD, S., 2022. Support for Learning, 37 (1), pp. 44-61. ISSN 0268-2141
WALKER, T., EDMONDSON, A., RILEY, F., HARPER, M., LUCOCK, M. and WRIGHT, N., 2021. Health Science Reports, 4 (4): e462. ISSN 2398-8835
ROODT, C.A., TURNER, M., EDMONDSON, A., KEELEY, P. and KENDAL, S., 2021. Journal of Patient Experience, 8. ISSN 2374-3743
BARTYS, S., MARTIN, R., PARKER, C., EDMONDSON, A. and BURTON, K., 2021. Evidence and Policy. ISSN 1744-2648
HUGHES, E., MITCHELL, N., GASCOYNE, S., MOE-BRYNE, T., EDMONDSON, A., COLEMAN, E., MILLETT, L., ALI, S., COURNOS, F., DARE, C., HEWITT, C., JOHNSON, S., KAUR, H.D., MCKINNON, K., MERCER, C., NOLAN, F., WALKER, C., WAINBERG, M. and WATSON, J., 2020. BMC Public Health, 20: 1736. ISSN 1471-2458
STEFANIDOU, T., HUGHES, E., KESTER, K., EDMONDSON, A., MAJEED-ARISS, R., SMITH, C., ARISS, S., BROOKER, C., GILCHRIST, G., KENDAL, S., LUCOCK, M., MAXTED, F., PEROT, C., SHALLCROSS, R., TREVILLION, K. and LLOYD-EVANS, B., 2020. PLoS ONE, 15 (4): e0231260. ISSN 1932-6203
HUGHES, E., MITCHELL, N., GASCOYNE, S., MOE-BYRNE, T., EDMONDSON, A., COLEMAN, E., MILLETT, L., ALI, S., DARE, C., HEWITT, C., JOHNSON, S., LLEWELLYN, C., MERCER, C., NOLAN, F., WALKER, C. and WATSON, J., 2019. Health Technology Assessment, 23 (65), pp. 1-136. ISSN 1366-5278
RICHARDSON, C., AKHTAR, I., SMITH, C., EDMONDSON, A., MORRIS, A., HARGREAVES, J., RHODES, C. and TAYLOR, J., 2019. Research Involvement and Engagement, 5 (1): 21. ISSN 2056-7529
EDMONDSON, A.J. and PINI, S., 2019. Nurse Researcher, 27 (2), pp. 8-13. ISSN 1351-5578
BROOKER, C., EDMONDSON, A. and HUGHES, L., 2019. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 64, pp. 45-48. ISSN 1752-928X
HUGHES, E., EDMONDSON, A.J., ONYEKWE, I., QUINN, C. and NOLAN, F., 2018. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27 (3), pp. 966-974. ISSN 1445-8330
EDMONDSON, A.J., BRENNAN, C. and HOUSE, A.O., 2018. BMC Psychiatry, 18 (1): 98.
EDMONDSON, A.J., BIRTWISTLE, J.C., CATTO, J.W.F. and TWIDDY, M., 2017. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 11 (4), pp. 453-461. ISSN 1932-2259
EDMONDSON, A.J., BRENNAN, C.A. and HOUSE, A.O., 2016. Journal of Affective Disorders, 191, pp. 109-117. ISSN 0165-0327
HALES, H., EDMONDSON, A., DAVISON, S., MAUGHAN, B. and TAYLOR, P.J., 2015. Crisis, 36 (1), pp. 21-30. ISSN 0227-5910
HALES, H., FREEMAN, M., EDMONDSON, A. and TAYLOR, P., 2014. Crisis, 35 (1), pp. 10-17. ISSN 0227-5910