Outputs (30)

Innovative Pathways: Rethinking Higher Education Through Inclusion and Participation (2025)
Digital Artefact
Walker, J., Spencer Grey, S., Oxley, L., & Cowperthwaite, L. (2025). Innovative Pathways: Rethinking Higher Education Through Inclusion and Participation. [Blog post]

Opening paragraph:
Higher education should be a space of opportunity for all, yet for many people, particularly those without formal qualifications, from disadvantaged backgrounds, or balancing work and caring responsibilities, it remains an unreach... Read More about Innovative Pathways: Rethinking Higher Education Through Inclusion and Participation.

Exploring health visitors' role in partnering with parents to reduce alcohol-related developmental disorders in England: a mixed-methods study (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walker, J. (2025, May). Exploring health visitors' role in partnering with parents to reduce alcohol-related developmental disorders in England: a mixed-methods study. Presented at Institute of Health Visiting Evidence-Based Practice Conference, Manchester

Extract: Health Visitors' Role in Discussing Alcohol

Addressing alcohol consumption from the antenatal period through the first 5 years aligns with Making Every Contact Count.
This rarely happens due to organisational and individual-level barrier... Read More about Exploring health visitors' role in partnering with parents to reduce alcohol-related developmental disorders in England: a mixed-methods study.

Restorative Supervision and the impact on the workforce. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walker, J., & Jennison, L. (2024, April). Restorative Supervision and the impact on the workforce. Presented at MSc Healthcare Leadership Leading People and Developing their Resilience - a two day conference, University of Hull/ Hull Online

We will discuss leadership styles in the context of Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN).
Restorative Supervision will be applied to the role of the leader and the SCPHN with a focus on the A-EQUIP model.

An alternative route: widening participation into higher education for prospective health and care professionals (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hatfield, J., Walker, J., Spencer Grey, S., Oxley, L., & Cowperthwaite, L. (2025, March). An alternative route: widening participation into higher education for prospective health and care professionals. Presented at RCN Education Forum National Conference and Exhibition 2025, Strathclyde University , 99 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RD

The University of Hull’s level 4 university certificate in health and social care is a year-long, part-time programme
designed to widen participation in higher education for students without formal qualifications. It provides
a flexible learning pa... Read More about An alternative route: widening participation into higher education for prospective health and care professionals.

UK Preconception Partnership response to the consultation on the NICE guideline on Maternal and child nutrition (2025)
Report
Schoenaker, D., Godfrey, K., Hanson, M., Winterbottom, J., Daly, M., Bul, K., Walker, J., David, A. L., Chawla, M., Khare, M., Boath, A., & Vounzoulaki, E. (2025). UK Preconception Partnership response to the consultation on the NICE guideline on Maternal and child nutrition. NICE: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Introduction to Guideline:
This guideline covers nutrition and weight management in pregnancy for anyone who may become pregnant, is planning to become pregnant or is already pregnant, and nutrition in children up to 5 years. Care of babies and chil... Read More about UK Preconception Partnership response to the consultation on the NICE guideline on Maternal and child nutrition.

Exploring Preconception Health: Insights from a Pilot Survey (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walker, J., & Currie, S. (2024, November). Exploring Preconception Health: Insights from a Pilot Survey. Presented at 2024 UK Preconception EMCR Network Conference, DMU Trinity House, De Montfort University, Leicester

Overview: Importance of preconception health for future health outcomes. Limited awareness and routine care globally.
Objective: Gain insights from healthcare professionals about preconception care provisions, barriers, and recommendations.

Del... Read More about Exploring Preconception Health: Insights from a Pilot Survey.

Tackling inequalities in preconception health and care: barriers, facilitators and recommendations for action from the 2023 UK preconception EMCR network conference (2024)
Journal Article
Schoenaker, D., Hall, J., Stewart, C., Hanley, S. J., Cassinelli, E. H., Benton, M., Azzari Wynn-Jones, A., Chawla, M., Currie, S., & 2023 UK Preconception EMCR Network conference workshop participants. (2024). Tackling inequalities in preconception health and care: barriers, facilitators and recommendations for action from the 2023 UK preconception EMCR network conference. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 15, 24-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204017442400031X

Reducing inequalities in preconception health and care is critical to improving the health and life chances of current and future generations. A hybrid workshop was held at the 2023 UK Preconception Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Network con... Read More about Tackling inequalities in preconception health and care: barriers, facilitators and recommendations for action from the 2023 UK preconception EMCR network conference.

An alternative route: widening participation into higher education for prospective health and care professionals. (2024)
Journal Article
Hatfield, J., Walker, J., Spencer Grey, S., Oxley, L., & Cowperthwaite, L. (2024). An alternative route: widening participation into higher education for prospective health and care professionals. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 18(10), 371-403. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2024.18.10.372

Access to higher education in health and social care is vital for supporting local communities and the future workforce. Traditionally, efforts to widen participation in higher education targeted socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. However, it is... Read More about An alternative route: widening participation into higher education for prospective health and care professionals..

Independent External Evaluation of A Pilot of Wearable Technology Devices to facilitate clinical decision making within a Virtual Frailty Ward: Final Report [Confidential] (2024)
Report
Spencer Grey, S.-A., Hatfield, J., Walker, J., Houghton, P., Butler, S., & Oxley, L. Independent External Evaluation of A Pilot of Wearable Technology Devices to facilitate clinical decision making within a Virtual Frailty Ward: Final Report [Confidential]. Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

The evaluation team used a collaborative developmental double loop learning approach to evaluation, whereby insights and learning are fed back in real time to enable changes to occur to improve the service or initiative as it develops.
Whilst the pi... Read More about Independent External Evaluation of A Pilot of Wearable Technology Devices to facilitate clinical decision making within a Virtual Frailty Ward: Final Report [Confidential].

Improving nursing and midwifery student attrition and experience through collaborative working providing restorative supervision (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jennison, L., Walker, J., & Lachanudis, L. (2024, July). Improving nursing and midwifery student attrition and experience through collaborative working providing restorative supervision. Presented at University of Hull Teaching Excellence Academy International Teaching and Learning Conference 2024: Integrating Educational Thinking, online

Using restorative supervision (RS) to support students before they become registered professionals has been proven to support student’s progression and reduce attrition rates with their academic studies. One particular model is the A-EQUIP (NHS Engla... Read More about Improving nursing and midwifery student attrition and experience through collaborative working providing restorative supervision.