Dr Richard Cooper
PhD, MA, LLB, BSc, PGCertHE, FRSPH, SFHEA, MRPharmS
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Director of Education
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
richard.cooper@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0768
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Room 2037, 2nd Floor, Regent Court (ScHARR)
Full contact details
Dr Richard Cooper
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Room 2037, 2nd Floor
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Room 2037, 2nd Floor
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I studied pharmacy as a first degree and undertook various community pharmacist roles before studying law, then health care ethics at the University of Leeds; my PhD was undertaken at the University of Nottingham and involved an empirical study of ethics in healthcare.
I have been at the University of Sheffield since 2007 and am a Senior Lecturer in Public Health.
- Research interests
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My research interests span a number of methodologies (but particularly qualitative and mixed methods) and themes including:
- Misuse, abuse and addiction to medicines
- Over-the-counter and prescription medicine supply and prescribing
- Medical sociology
- Pharmacy
- Medical ethics
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Pharmacists and pandemic misinformation. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 30(6), 489-491.
- What influences cancer treatment service access in Ghana? A critical interpretive synthesis. BMJ Open, 12(10). View this article in WRRO
- Use of DOACs in primary care: an integration of patient and practitioner perspectives. BJGP Open. View this article in WRRO
- Patients’ and clinicians’ perceptions of oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: a systematic narrative review and meta-analysis. BMC Family Practice, 22. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring the implementation of public involvement in local alcohol availability policy: the case of alcohol licensing decision-making in England. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Chronic pain and opioid analgesic use : a case report. Clinical Case Reports, 9(7). View this article in WRRO
- Headteachers' and chairs of governors' perspectives on adolescent obesity and its prevention in English secondary school settings.. J Public Health (Oxf), 43(2), e213-e223. View this article in WRRO
- Role of patients’ organizations in Health Technology Assessment: a Habermasian system and lifeworld perspective. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. View this article in WRRO
- Pharmacists’ prescribing in Saudi Arabia : cross-sectional study describing current practices and future perspectives. Pharmacy, 8(3). View this article in WRRO
- Pestle and mortal: the demise of community pharmacy in the UK. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 28(3), 205-206. View this article in WRRO
- Staff perceptions of prescription and over-the-counter drug dependence services in England : a qualitative study. Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, 14. View this article in WRRO
- Codeine Addiction and Internet Forum Use and Support: Qualitative Netnographic Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health, 6(4). View this article in WRRO
- Dietary patterns of university students in the UK: a cross-sectional study. Nutrition Journal, 17(90). View this article in WRRO
- Benefits and tensions in delivering public health in community pharmacies – a qualitative study of healthy living pharmacy staff champions. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 25(5), 351-357. View this article in WRRO
- Investigation of social, demographic and health variations in the usage of prescribed and over-the-counter medicines within a large cohort (South Yorkshire, UK). BMJ Open, 6, e012038-e012038. View this article in WRRO
- 'I can't be an addict. I am.' Over-the-counter medicine abuse: a qualitative study.. BMJ Open, 3(6). View this article in WRRO
- Over-the-counter medicine abuse - a review of the literature.. J Subst Use, 18(2), 82-107. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Opioid Analgesics, Stigma, Shame and Identity In Ballantyne P & Ryan K (Ed.), Living Pharmaceutical Lives (pp. 154-168). Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring health and illness In van Teijlingen E & Humphris G (Ed.), Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine Elsevier
- Misuse and Abuse of Over-the- Counter Medicines In Schepis T (Ed.), The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic: Incidence, Treatment, Prevention, and Policy USA: ABC-Clio.
- The Ethics of Prescribing In Bath-Hextall F (Ed.), New Prescriber Wiley-Blackwell
- Information technology, ethics and pharmacy medicine sales In Robinson S & Strain J (Ed.), Ethics for Living and Working (pp. 15-30). Troubador Publishing
All publications
Journal articles
- Pharmacists and pandemic misinformation. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 30(6), 489-491.
- What influences cancer treatment service access in Ghana? A critical interpretive synthesis. BMJ Open, 12(10). View this article in WRRO
- Use of DOACs in primary care: an integration of patient and practitioner perspectives. BJGP Open. View this article in WRRO
- Patients’ and clinicians’ perceptions of oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: a systematic narrative review and meta-analysis. BMC Family Practice, 22. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring the implementation of public involvement in local alcohol availability policy: the case of alcohol licensing decision-making in England. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- Chronic pain and opioid analgesic use : a case report. Clinical Case Reports, 9(7). View this article in WRRO
- Headteachers' and chairs of governors' perspectives on adolescent obesity and its prevention in English secondary school settings.. J Public Health (Oxf), 43(2), e213-e223. View this article in WRRO
- Role of patients’ organizations in Health Technology Assessment: a Habermasian system and lifeworld perspective. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. View this article in WRRO
- Pharmacists’ prescribing in Saudi Arabia : cross-sectional study describing current practices and future perspectives. Pharmacy, 8(3). View this article in WRRO
- Pestle and mortal: the demise of community pharmacy in the UK. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 28(3), 205-206. View this article in WRRO
- Staff perceptions of prescription and over-the-counter drug dependence services in England : a qualitative study. Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, 14. View this article in WRRO
- Codeine Addiction and Internet Forum Use and Support: Qualitative Netnographic Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health, 6(4). View this article in WRRO
- Learning from transnational differences in how risk of harm is viewed in human research ethics. European Journal of Public Health, 28(suppl_4). View this article in WRRO
- Dietary patterns of university students in the UK: a cross-sectional study. Nutrition Journal, 17(90). View this article in WRRO
- Benefits and tensions in delivering public health in community pharmacies – a qualitative study of healthy living pharmacy staff champions. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 25(5), 351-357. View this article in WRRO
- Investigation of social, demographic and health variations in the usage of prescribed and over-the-counter medicines within a large cohort (South Yorkshire, UK). BMJ Open, 6, e012038-e012038. View this article in WRRO
- Do we have sufficient information to optimally inform regulatory or other policy decisions about medications containing codeine?. Addiction, 110(10), 1690-1691. View this article in WRRO
- Deprivation, clubs and drugs: results of a UK regional population-based cross-sectional study of weight management strategies.. BMC Public Health, 14, 444. View this article in WRRO
- 'I can't be an addict. I am.' Over-the-counter medicine abuse: a qualitative study.. BMJ Open, 3(6). View this article in WRRO
- Surveillance and uncertainty: Community pharmacy responses to over the counter medicine abuse. Health and Social Care in the Community, 21(3), 254-262. View this article in WRRO
- Over-the-counter medicine abuse - a review of the literature.. J Subst Use, 18(2), 82-107. View this article in WRRO
- Further challenges to medical dominance? The case of nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing.. Health (London), 16(2), 115-133.
- Making the case for ethical decision-making models. Nurse Prescribing, 10(12), 607-611. View this article in WRRO
- In praise of the prescription: The symbolic and boundary object value of the traditional prescription in the electronic age. Health Sociology Review, 20(4), 462-474. View this article in WRRO
- Patients' and staffs' experiences of an automated telephone weather forecasting service.. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 15(Suppl 2), 41-46. View this article in WRRO
- A challenge to medical dominance? The case pharmacist and nurse supplementary prescribing. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 17(Supp 2), B30.
- 'Islands' and 'doctor's tool': the ethical significance of isolation and subordination in UK community pharmacy.. Health (London), 13(3), 297-316. View this article in WRRO
- Solo doctors and ethical isolation.. J Med Ethics, 35(11), 692-695. View this article in WRRO
- The safety climate of pharmacist supplementary prescribing in England. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 16(Supp 1), A21.
- Stakeholders' views of UK nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing. J HEALTH SERV RES PO, 13(4), 215-221.
- Nonmedical prescribing in the United kingdom: developments and stakeholder interests.. J Ambul Care Manage, 31(3), 244-252. View this article in WRRO
- Ethical decision-making, passivity and pharmacy.. J Med Ethics, 34(6), 441-445. View this article in WRRO
- Nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing in the UK - A thematic review of the literature. HEALTH POLICY, 85(3), 277-292. View this article in WRRO
- Supplementary prescribing by community and primary care pharmacists: an analysis of PACT data, 2004-2006.. J Clin Pharm Ther, 33(1), 11-16. View this article in WRRO
- Learning to prescribe - pharmacists' experiences of supplementary prescribing training in England.. BMC Med Educ, 8, 57. View this article in WRRO
- Ethical, religious and factual beliefs about the supply of emergency hormonal contraception by UK community pharmacists. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 34(1), 47-50. View this article in WRRO
- The views of pharmacists in England on their supplementary prescribing training. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 16(SUPPL. 1), A6-A7. View this article in WRRO
- Stakeholders' views of pharmacist supplementary prescribing - benefits, barriers, facilitors and challenges. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 15(Supp 2), B25.
- Community and primary care nurse prescribing - an analysis of PACT data - 2002-2006. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 15(Supp 2), B62.
- A new prescription for empirical ethics research in pharmacy: a critical review of the literature.. J Med Ethics, 33(2), 82-86. View this article in WRRO
- Ethical issues in the use of electronic health records for pharmacy medicines sales.. J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc., 5, 7-19.
- Dilemmas in Dispensing, Problems in Practice? Ethical Issues and Law in UK Community Pharmacy. CLINICAL ETHICS, 2(2), 103-108.
- Strategies for reducing pain at dressing change in chronic wounds: Protocol for a Mapping Review. BMJ Open.
Chapters
- Opioid Analgesics, Stigma, Shame and Identity In Ballantyne P & Ryan K (Ed.), Living Pharmaceutical Lives (pp. 154-168). Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring health and illness In van Teijlingen E & Humphris G (Ed.), Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine Elsevier
- Misuse and Abuse of Over-the- Counter Medicines In Schepis T (Ed.), The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic: Incidence, Treatment, Prevention, and Policy USA: ABC-Clio.
- The Ethics of Prescribing In Bath-Hextall F (Ed.), New Prescriber Wiley-Blackwell
- Information technology, ethics and pharmacy medicine sales In Robinson S & Strain J (Ed.), Ethics for Living and Working (pp. 15-30). Troubador Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- Determinants of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among healthcare professionals in Ghanaian hospitals: A presentation of preliminary qualitative findings. PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY, Vol. 29 (pp 644-644)
- Factors Influencing Low Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana. DRUG SAFETY, Vol. 41(11) (pp 1152-1153)
- No more pharmacology? Pharmacists' and stakeholders' views on supplementary prescribing course content. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Vol. 65(6) (pp 976-976)
- The Safety Climate of Pharmacist Supplementary Prescribing in England. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Vol. s1(16) (pp A21). Liverpool
- Nostalgia for the Past: Prescribing and Dispensing Practices in Macedionia. Nostalgia for the Past: Prescribing and Dispensing Practices in Macedonia
Reports
- Doncaster Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme: Evaluation Report View this article in WRRO
- 'Respectable Addiction' - a qualitative study of over the counter medicine abuse in the UK. View this article in WRRO
- An Evaluation of Supplementary Prescribing in Nursing and Pharmacy. Final Report for the Department of Health View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- Pharmacists and pandemic misinformation. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 30(6), 489-491.
- Research group
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Post-graduate Research Students
- Chloe Tuck - Social and economic influences on cancer service utilisation and their implications for health policy in Ghana
- Menghan Wang - Use and Misuse of Sleeping Medication by University Students in England
- Narjis Al Shurafa - What is the perceived role of primary care pharmacists in Saudi Arabia in diabetes care?
- Hina Kanabar - What are the factors that inform the doctor to start insulin in the type 2 diabetic patient?
- Artur Kowalski - An investigation of the effects of introducing supervised injection rooms in the UK.
- Andrea Madrid Menendez - What are the values that shape the relationship between alternative/traditional medicine practitioners and their patients? (Successfully completed)
- Rodney Nagumo - Adverse drug reaction reporting practices amongst Ghanaian healthcare professionals (Successfully completed)
- Yetenta Osasu - Prescribing, consumption and monitoring of direct oral anticoagulants in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation (Successfully completed)
- Helen Radford - Dealing with disaster: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of healthcare staff following a mass casualty incident in England.
- Jess White - Patient experiences of Addiction to Medicine and Associated Treatment in the United Kingdom
- Genevieve David (Successfully completed)
- Emma Howard-Drake (Successfully completed)
- Ellie Sprake (Successfully completed)
- Neda Milevska-Kostova (Successfully completed)
- Penny Siebert (Successfully completed)
- Ryosuke Yokoe (Successfully completed)
- Rachel Tattersall (Successfully completed)
- Hina Patel (Successfully completed)
- Grants
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- Opioid Analgesic Dependence Study 2016-19 Principal Investigator. £199,000
- Exploring the Misuse and Abuse of Over the Counter (OTC) Medicines in the UK. Principal Investigator. Jul 08-Dec 10
- Over-the-Counter Medicine Abuse: a pilot study. 2011-2012
- HTA Project: NIHR131023 - Pain relief strategies for dressing change in chronic wounds: a mixed-methods systematic review and survey of UK practice 2021-23 £221,413 (co-investigator)
- European Master in Public Health | Europubhealth+ 2019-2025 Project Reference: 610563-EPP-1-2019-1-FR-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB EU Grant: €4,272,000 (co-applicant)
- Teaching activities
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I am the Director of Education in ScHARR, and contribute to a variety of teaching and assessment on Master of Public Health degree modules, as well as the MBChB Medical Degree; I co-ordinate and teach the Qualitative Research Design and Analysis module (HAR6531); I teach and assess medical ethics, qualitative research, substance misuse and addiction to prescription/OTC medicine on the MBChB.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Registered pharmacist (GPhC regn 2038210)
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health
- Associate editor: Pharmaceutical Issues Journal of Substance Use
- Editorial board member journal: Pharmacy
- Member of the Society for the Study of Addiction
- Member of the British Sociological Association
- Member of the Institute of Medical Ethics
- Regular peer reviewer for a variety of journals and funding bodies
- External reviewer - European Public Health Education (APHEA)
- Editorial board member: International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
Links
The extent and nature of opioid analgesic dependence in primary care Respectable Addiction: Society for the Study of Addiction In Praise of the Prescription: BSA Med Soc Conference Chester Health, Ethics and the Built Environment: BSA Med Soc Conference Leiceste Addiction, misuse and dependency: A focus on over-the-counter and prescribed me…