Outputs (49)

Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel (2023)
Journal Article
Tupper, E., Morris, S., Lawlor, E. R., Summerbell, C., Panter, J., Jago, R., & Pollard, T. (2024). Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel. Health & Place, 85, Article 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103147

The Healthy New Town programme in England set out to 'put health into place' by supporting the design and construction of healthy places to live, including by creating safe environments for active travel. To explore the impact of this approach, this... Read More about Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel.

Implementation and impact of a social prescribing intervention: an ethnographic exploration (2023)
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Pollard, T., Gibson, K., Griffith, B., Jeffries, J., & Moffatt, S. (2023). Implementation and impact of a social prescribing intervention: an ethnographic exploration. British Journal of General Practice, https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp.2022.0638

Background: Social prescribing involves referral of patients from primary care to link workers, who work with them to access appropriate local voluntary and community sector services. Aim: Our aim was to explore how a social prescribing intervention... Read More about Implementation and impact of a social prescribing intervention: an ethnographic exploration.

Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study (2023)
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Moffatt, S., Wildman, J., Pollard, T. M., Gibson, K., Wildman, J. M., O’Brien, N., …Mohammed, W. (2023). Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study. Public Health Research, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.3310/aqxc8219

Background: Link worker social prescribing enables health-care professionals to address patients’ nonmedical needs by linking patients into various services. Evidence for its effectiveness and how it is experienced by link workers and clients is lack... Read More about Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study.

A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022)
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Marley, C. L., Pollard, T. M., Barton, R. A., & Street, S. E. (2022). A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(12), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03260-z

It is widely believed that juvenile male mammals typically engage in higher rates of rough and tumble play (RTP) than do females, in preparation for adult roles involving intense physical competition between males. The consistency of this sex differe... Read More about A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals.

Constituting link working through choice and care: an ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing (2022)
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Griffith, B., Pollard, T., Gibson, K., Jeffries, J., & Moffatt, S. (2023). Constituting link working through choice and care: an ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing. Sociology of Health & Illness, 45(2), 279-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13569

Link worker social prescribing has become a prominent part of NHS England’s personalisation agenda. However, approaches to social prescribing vary, with multiple discourses emerging about the potential of social prescribing and different interpretati... Read More about Constituting link working through choice and care: an ethnographic account of front-line social prescribing.

Stakeholders’ experiences of what works in planning and implementing environmental interventions to promote active travel: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis (2022)
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Lawlor, E., Ellis, K., Adams, J., Jago, R., Foley, L., Morris, S., …Panter, J. (2023). Stakeholders’ experiences of what works in planning and implementing environmental interventions to promote active travel: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Transport Reviews, 43(3), 478-501. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2022.2119298

Infrastructure for active travel (AT) is receiving attention as a low-cost, sustainable transport option that promotes physical activity. However, the planning and implementation of new AT infrastructure often brings challenges. This review synthesis... Read More about Stakeholders’ experiences of what works in planning and implementing environmental interventions to promote active travel: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis.

Children's experiences of the journey between home and school: A qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography (2022)
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Morris, S., Lawlor, E., Foley, L., Summerbell, C., Panter, J., Adams, J., …Pollard, T. (2022). Children's experiences of the journey between home and school: A qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography. Health & Place, 76, Article 102819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102819

This paper uses meta-ethnography to synthesise qualitative and ethnographic studies of children's (aged 5–13) experiences of socio-material environments on their school journey. Most of the 21 papers (18 studies) identified from the systematic search... Read More about Children's experiences of the journey between home and school: A qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography.

‘He called me out of the blue’: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention (2022)
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Gibson, K., Moffatt, S., & Pollard, T. (2022). ‘He called me out of the blue’: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44(7), 1149-1166. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13482

Social prescribing, a way of connecting patients to local services, is central to the NHS Personalised Care agenda. This paper employs ethnographic data, generated with 19 participants between November 2018 and July 2020, to explore the socio-tempora... Read More about ‘He called me out of the blue’: An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention.

Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Morris, S. L., Wildman, J. M., Gibson, K., Moffatt, S., & Pollard, T. (2022). Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 302, Article 114963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114963

The COVID-19 pandemic and ‘lockdown’ restrictions have affected people's health and wellbeing globally. Those who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality due to living with long term conditions (LTCs) are at greater risk of negative impacts o... Read More about Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health (2022)
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McGuire, L., Morris, S., & Pollard, T. (2022). Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health. Health & Place, 75, Article 102773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102773

Community gardening is increasingly framed and promoted as a way to foster healthful behaviours, as a wellbeing practice, and as a public health tool. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with community gardening organisers (n = 9) in the N... Read More about Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health.