Rachel Hawkins
BSc (Hons), MSc
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
PhD student


Rhawkins4@sheffield.ac.uk
The Innovation Centre
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Rachel Hawkins
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
The Innovation Centre
217 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
The Innovation Centre
217 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Qualifications
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BSc (Hons) Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
MSc Health Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Trainee Health Psychologist (British Psychological Society Qualification in Health Psychology independent route)
- Research interests
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PhD title: Reducing emergency admission in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Health Psychology, Behavioural Science
- Healthcare professional behaviour in service delivery: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, cancer screening
- Qualitative methods
- Complex interventions
- Prevention and early detection of chronic disease
- Reducing inequalities in accessing care: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, cancer screening: barriers to access, alternative cervical screening methods - self-sampling; with LGBTQIA+, Black, Asian and Ethnic minority and socio-economically deprived communities.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- P284 Assessing Patient Experience in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease service. Can we measure an effect from socioeconomic deprivation – experience from the AWARE-IBD programme?. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 17(Supplement_1), i431-i432.
- ‘We just need to find space for them to practice so that we can help to make a stronger society’: Perceived barriers and facilitators to employing health psychologists in UK public health and clinical health settings. British Journal of Health Psychology.
- The behaviours identified and the behaviour change techniques planned in health partnerships for antimicrobial stewardship. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being.
- Healthcare professionals’ views following implementation of risk stratification into a national breast cancer screening programme. BMC Cancer, 22(1).
- Implementing Risk-Stratified Breast Screening in England: An Agenda Setting Meeting. Cancers, 14(19), 4636-4636.
- P284 Assessing Patient Experience in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease service. Can we measure an effect from socioeconomic deprivation – experience from the AWARE-IBD programme?. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 17(Supplement_1), i431-i432.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Project Coordinator, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Cancer Prevention and Early Detection theme
- Patient and public involvement, community-based research with reach, co-creation methods, priority setting
- Honorary researcher, University of Manchester
- Manchester Centre for Health Psychology
- Member of the Health Equity Network