Dr Jill Thompson
BSc (Hons), MA, PhD
Nursing and Midwifery, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Senior Lecturer
+44 114 222 2075
Full contact details
Nursing and Midwifery, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Room 104
362 Mushroom Lane
91Ö±²¥
S10 2TS
- Profile
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I am a Senior Lecturer and medical sociologist at the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery.
My research interests focus on children’s experiences of health and health access in both national and international contexts, and I have undertaken work in Ghana, Fiji and Nepal.
I also have a particular focus on migrant children’s health and the use of technologies to improve children’s health experiences.
- Research interests
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I am a qualitative researcher with a particular interest in participatory methodologies and realist approaches.
Current projects
- Mixed-Realities Play Kit to Prepare Children Aged 4-10 for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Funded by INNOVATE UK and TUOS KEI
- Promoting sustainable livelihoods: unpacking possibilities for empowerment with young migrants in Ghana. Funded by BA Youth Futures.
- Promoting disaster resilience in children: developing a network to research culturally appropriate, sustainable public health interventions in Fiji and Samoa. Funded by Academy of Medical Sciences GCRF
Previous projects include:
- Identifying the additional needs of migrant children. (91Ö±²¥ Children’s Hospital Funded)
- Engaging young people and migrant families in enhancing quality care in the management of long-term health conditions. (GNCT funded)
- A realist synthesis to explain how, for whom, and in what circumstances different community mental health crisis services work (NIHR funded).
- Hidden Voices: Exploring the impact of migration on children’s perspectives of health (World University Network Funded).
- Assessment and Satisfaction of services for Juvenile Huntington’s Disease (RfPB funded).
- Exploring the impact of community-based peer support on promoting health literacy’ (COPES) (PHR funded)
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 108, 104495-104495.
- . Qualitative Health Research.
- . International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97, 101900-101900.
- . Social Science & Medicine, 338, 116338-116338.
- . International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
- . Health and Social Care in the Community, 2023.
- . Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 11(15), 1-161.
- . Insights into Imaging, 13.
- . Health Expectations.
- . Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 61, 199-206.
- . International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19.
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing.
- . Health & Social Care in the Community.
- . Palliative Medicine, 33(8), 969-984.
- . Health Education Journal, 78(1), 96-107.
- . Sociology, 52(6), 1200-1216.
- . Public Health, 158, 71-85.
- . Health Expectations, 20(6), 1342-1349.
- . BMC Health Services Research, 16(1), 420-420.
- . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 70(2), 207-214.
- . Journal of Public Health Research, 3(3).
- . Trials, 15(1).
- . Qual Health Res, 24(1), 46-54.
- Promoting Health Literacy through Community Based Peer Support: what works for whom under which circumstances and why?. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, 12, 728-728.
- Promoting Health Literacy through Community Based Peer Support: integrating qualitative and quantitative research in evidence synthesis.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, 12, 726-727.
- . Health (London), 16(6), 602-618.
- . Trials, 12(6).
- . J SOCIOL, 46(1), 63-82.
- . Health Expect, 12(2), 209-220.
- . Research Involvement and Engagement, 10(1).
- . Sociological Research Online.
- Transgender and non-binary peoples experiences of cervical cancer screening: a scoping review. Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN).
- . BMJ Innovations.
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing.
- The Importance of Multimodal Play and Storytelling to a Mixed Realities Play-Kit for Preparing 4 to 10-year-olds for an MRI scan. Multimodality and Society.
- . Journal of the British Academy, 11s3, 43-67.
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(22), 15229-15229.
- . Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1-13.
- . Global Health Promotion, 175797591988845-175797591988845.
- Migrant children within Europe: a systematic review of children’s perspectives on their health experiences. Public Health.
- . Health & Social Care in the Community.
Chapters
- Reproducing Power Asymmetries Through Voice, Collaboration and Change: Opportunities for Children to Re-Shape Contemporary Global Challenges In Frankel S (Ed.), Establishing Child Centred Practice in a Changing World (pp. 9-23). Emerald
- , Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity (pp. 183-197). Emerald Publishing Limited
Conference proceedings papers
- . European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 28(Suppl_1) (pp 128-128). Edinburgh, UK, 17 May 2018 - 19 May 2018.
- . Journal of Vascular Surgery, Vol. 62(5) (pp 1258-1265)
- Promoting Health Literacy through Community Based Peer Support: a participatory approach to a realist review.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, Vol. 12 (pp 727-728)
- Research group
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I am interested in supervising students in my research areas and would welcome students contacting me.
Current PhD students
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Bethany Taylor
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Eleni Chambers
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- Teaching interests
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I am Deputy Programme lead for the BMedSci Health and Human Sciences degree. On this degree I teach units in health promotion, sociological approaches to health and research methods.