Emma Everson-Hock PhD (Sheffield)

Systematic Reviewer for ScHARR-TAG (Technology Assessment Group)

HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
UK

Office:

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5205
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

E-mail: e.everson-hock@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I have a track record of research in preventative health behaviour, with a specific research interest in smoking cessation and physical activity, multiple health behaviour change and physical activity and mental health. I completed my PhD in physical activity and smoking abstinence in young smokers at Sheffield Hallam University in 2007, and also worked on a two-year MRC-funded research contract at the University of Exeter, investigating walking as an aid to cessation: a feasibility study within the NHS stop smoking service (Walk-2-Quit). I joined ScHARR in 2008 as a systematic reviewer on the NICE Public Health Collaborating Centre, and have been involved systematic reviews on looked after children and young people , smoking in pregnancy and the prevention of pre-diabetes. At present, I am working as a systematic reviewer for the Technology Assessment Group (ScHARR-TAG) and also maintain an interest in primary research into health behaviour change. I also jointly organise the seminar series for the Centre for Health and Wellbeing in Public Policy, with Josie Messina – see http://www.shef.ac.uk/cwipp/research/seminars.html.

Research interests

• Systematic review
• Systematic review methodology
• Health behaviour change
• Physical activity and wellbeing

Teaching interests

• Systematic review methods
• Research methods
• Health psychology
• Exercise psychology

I am interested in supervising Research Students in topics/areas such as health behaviour and health behaviour change, exercise psychology and addiction. I am particularly interested in mixed methods projects examining physical activity and wellbeing and/or addiction in specific subpopulations.

Current projects

• Clinical and cost-effectiveness of methods of managing varicose veins
• Sheffield Physical Activity Booster Trial process evaluation

Key publications

Everson-Hock, E.S., Jones, R., Guillaume, L., Clapton, J., Goyder, E., Chilcott, J., Payne, N., Duenas, A., Sheppard, L.M. & Swann, C. (2011). The effectiveness of training and support for carers and other professionals on the physical and emotional health and well-being of looked-after children and young people: a systematic review. Child: Care, Health and Development, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2011.01247.x.

Taylor, A.H., Everson-Hock, E.S. & Ussher, M. (2010). Integrating the promotion of physical activity within a smoking cessation programme: Findings from collaborative action research in UK Stop Smoking Services. BMC Health Services Research, 10: 317.

Baxter, S., Everson-Hock, E., Messina, J., Guillaume, L., Burrows, J. & Goyder, E. (2010). Factors relating to the uptake of interventions for smoking cessation among pregnant women: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntq072.

Everson-Hock, E.S., Taylor, A.H., Ussher, M. & Faulkner, G. (2010). A qualitative perspective on multiple health behaviour change: views of smoking cessation advisors who promote physical activity. Journal of Smoking Cessation, 5, 7-14.

Wright, K.A., Everson-Hock, E.S. & Taylor, A.H. (2009). The effects of physical activity on physical and mental health among individuals with bipolar disorder: A systematic review. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 2, 86-94.

Everson, E.S., Daley, A.J. & Ussher, M. (2008). The effects of moderate and vigorous exercise on desire to smoke, withdrawal symptoms and mood in abstaining smokers. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 1, 26-31.