Dr Alice Dunning

PhD, BSc

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Fellow

a.dunning@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0748

Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Dr Alice Dunning
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Profile

I am an applied health researcher with a background in health psychology. I joined ScHARR in March 2022 as a Research Fellow on the EquALD project funded by the NIHR. EquALD is a programme of research which will improve understanding of how Individual Support Funds (ISFs) for adults with learning disabilities are used and what people and organisations are doing to make ISFs successful. The study will use co-production to develop two toolkits: to support systems within social care to develop, deliver and maintain successful ISFs; and to support adults with learning disabilities to decide whether to take up an offer of ISFs.

I was awarded my BSc in Psychology in 2017, during my degree I undertook a placement with the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group as an honorary Research Assistant. My PhD was funded by NIHR CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber and the University of Leeds. My PhD used mixed methods to establish the feasibility and effectiveness of using a self-affirmation intervention with nursing staff to help improve levels of wellbeing and patient safety. I worked as a Research Associate for the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham on a project looking at working cultures, mental health and suicide among junior doctors. More recently, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Bradford Institute for Health Research on the Redeploy project which explored the impact of redeployment during Covid-19 on nurse wellbeing, job performance and retention. The project supported the development of policy and practice recommendations for future redeployment.

Qualifications: PhD, BSc

Research interests: I am a mixed-methods researcher, who specialises in qualitative research. I am passionate about research which has a real world impact. I am interested in health inequalities, improving the experience of adults with learning disabilities and supporting wellbeing.

Publications

Journal articles

Teoh KR-H, Dunning A, Taylor AK, Gopfert A, Chew-Graham CA, Spiers J, Appleby L, Van Hove M, Buszewicz M & Riley R (2024) Working conditions, psychological distress and suicidal ideation: cross-sectional survey study of UK junior doctors. BJPsych Open, 10(1), e14.
Spiers J, Kokab F, Buszewicz M, Chew-Graham CA, Dunning A, Taylor AK, Gopfert A, van Hove M, Teoh KR-H, Appleby L , Martin J et al (2022) Recommendations for improving the working conditions and cultures of distressed junior doctors, based on a qualitative study and stakeholder perspectives. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1).
Dunning A, Teoh K, Martin J, Spiers J, Buszewicz M, Chew-Graham C, Taylor AK, Gopfert A, Van Hove M, Appleby L & Riley R (2022) Relationship between working conditions and psychological distress experienced by junior doctors in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey study. BMJ Open, 12(8).
Mattila E, Hansen S, Bundgaard L, Ramsey L, Dunning A, Silva MN, Harjumaa M, Ermes M, Marques MM, Matos M , Larsen SC et al (2022) Users’ experiences with the NoHoW web-based toolkit with weight and activity tracking in weight loss maintenance: long-term randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(1).
Al-Ghunaim TA, Johnson J, Biyani CS, Alshahrani KM, Dunning A & O'Connor DB (2022) Surgeon burnout, impact on patient safety and professionalism: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The American Journal of Surgery, 224(1), 228-238.
Spiers J, Buszewicz M, Chew-Graham C, Dunning A, Taylor AK, Gopfert A, Van Hove M, Teoh KR-H, Appleby L, Martin J & Riley R (2021) What challenges did junior doctors face while working during the COVID-19 pandemic? A qualitative study. BMJ Open, 11(12).
Dunning A, Louch G, Grange A, Spilsbury K & Johnson J (2021) Exploring nurses’ experiences of value congruence and the perceived relationship with wellbeing and patient care and safety: a qualitative study. Journal of Research in Nursing, 26(1-2), 135-146.
Johnson J, Dunning A, Sattar R, Arezina J, Karkowsky EC, Thomas S & Panagioti M (2020) Delivering unexpected news via obstetric ultrasound: a systematic review and meta‐ethnographic synthesis of expectant parent and staff experiences. Sonography, 7(2), 61-77.
Johnson J, Johnson O, Heyhoe J, Fielder C & Dunning A (2018) Parent Experiences and Preferences When Dysmelia Is Identified During the Prenatal and Perinatal Periods: A Qualitative Study Into Family Nursing Care for Rare Diseases. Journal of Family Nursing, 24(2), 271-293.
Heyhoe J, Reynolds C, Dunning A, Johnson O, Howat A & Lawton R (2018) Patient involvement in diagnosing cancer in primary care: a systematic review of current interventions. British Journal of General Practice, 68(668), e211-e224.
Johnson J, Louch G, Dunning A, Johnson O, Grange A, Reynolds C, Hall L & O'Hara J (2017) Burnout mediates the association between depression and patient safety perceptions: a cross-sectional study in hospital nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(7), 1667-1680.

Preprints

Mattila E, Hansen S, Bundgaard L, Ramsey L, Dunning A, Silva MN, Harjumaa M, Ermes M, Marques MM, Matos M , Larsen SC et al (2021) Users’ Experiences With the NoHoW Web-Based Toolkit With Weight and Activity Tracking in Weight Loss Maintenance: Long-term Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..

Research group: HCRU