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Dr Hayley Alderson

Senior Research Fellow, NIHR ARC North East North Cumbria (NENC) Embedded Children and Families Social Care LCRN

  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Newcastle University
Background

Background:

I am a Senior Research Fellow, NIHR ARC North East North Cumbria (NENC) Embedded Children and Families Social Care LCRN based within the Population Health Sciences Institute. 

I have been working in Academia since January 2016 and since being at Newcastle I have been involved as a co-applicant on grants generating £1,172,388.82. My role within these grants has included study PI, Co-applicant and study co-ordinator, member of the steering group and qualitative researcher.

Prior to working in academia I was a drug and alcohol practitioner and I have worked within a variety of substance misuse settings (criminal justice, residential and in the community) between 2004- 2016. I also have experience of working alongside a team of Social Workers within the Emergency Duty Team addressing Health and Social Care problems across North Yorkshire and York.


Qualifications:

Ba (Hons) Criminology and Psychology- University of Northampton- 2004

MSc Criminology- Teesside University- 2007

PhD- Newcastle University- 2016 


Research Interests:

Substance Misuse

Criminal Justice

Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse

Mental Health

Young People





Research

I am currently the PI on 3 projects, including (i) OUTCOMES: Domestic Abuse: Understanding the impact of Outcome 16 on racially minoritised women’s participation in Domestic Abuse investigations, (ii) PROTECT 2: “PaRental intimate partner viOlence and abuse: understanding what effective supporT looks like from the pErspective of practitioners supporting viCtims and survivors, and how it can be best implemented”, (iii) the evaluation of a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Behaviour Change Programme, and Co-PI on 3 projects (i) A Homeworking Programme Wellbeing and Mental Health Evaluation and (ii) a Project evaluating Services in Recovery: Scoping the future of support for women and girls facing multiple disadvantage post Covid and (iii) an evaluation of the Wear Together Project.

 

I am also currently involved in 7 other project in various capacities, such as co-investigator for (i) KFC: ‘keeping Families Connected’, (ii) RELATE: ‘Leaving care: supporting positive Relational transitions of carE LeAvers and their birTh familiEs’, (iii) WELLBEING: ‘Working with social care to develop an intErvention to prevent mentaL heaLth proBlems in chIldreN accessinG early help and child welfare services’, (iv) VISTA: ‘Integrating social care in response to Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: supporting the adult and child victim’, (v) Community Asset Mapping: Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Services and (vi) Exploring the non-clinical Drug and Alcohol Harms and Service Experiences of British South Asian Youth. I am part of the research team on (vii) EXIT: ‘Innovation for Looked after Children Experiencing Post-16 Transition’ and (viii) RIVA: ‘Evaluating models of health-based Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs) within maternity services’.

 

I was the PI on a Catherine Cookson project: ‘Understanding the journey of Looked After Children and care leavers in developing a Patient and public involvement group to participate in national research’; a Behavioural Insights Project ‘To improve uptake of support for services for Drug and Alcohol misuse in Hartlepool and to reduce prevalence in children and young people’, Bottled Up 2: “Identifying and supporting children to reduce alcohol harm” and “PROTECT COVID- 19: Exploring lived experiences of the impact of intimate partner violence and abuse on children, affected family members and perpetrators during the COVID- 19 global pandemic”. I was Co-PI on an Alcohol Change project ‘Mapping alcohol use through the care system’ and I was a co-investigator and part of the qualitative team on SILVER: ‘Smart Interventions for Local Vulnerable Residents’ and PROTECT: ‘PaRental intimate partner viOlence and abuse: measuremenT of the risk of Exposing Children and the menTal health impact’. I was the study co-ordinator for an NIHR funded pilot feasibility trial called SOLID: Supporting Looked After Children and Care Leavers in Decreasing Drugs and Alcohol and “Bottled up: Identifying and supporting children and families to reduce alcohol harm”. I was part of the review team for SAFE SPACE: A systematic review of the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions at improving the psychological, social and physical health of the family members affected by a significant other’s substance misuse. I was part of the team working on ATTUNE: ‘Understanding Pathways to Stimulant Use’.

 

Previously I have worked as a research Interventionist within Newcastle University on PAReNTS: ‘Brief interventions to reduce hazardous and harmful drinking in parents referred to children’s social care: a feasibility study’; AESOPS: a randomised controlled trial of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of opportunistic screening and stepped care interventions for older hazardous alcohol users in primary care; ACCEPT: A pilot feasibility trial of alcohol screening and brief intervention in the police custody suite setting; and SIPS JNR: Developing and Evaluating Interventions for Adolescent Alcohol use Disorders Presenting Through Emergency Departments.



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Teaching

Teaching:

I have been involved in teaching single sessions on the following modules;

MSc Fundamentals of Research module- Newcastle University

MSc Health Policy- Newcastle University

MSc Public Health Interventions- Newcastle University.

Tutor, Essential Junior rotation in Public Health, Medical school, Newcastle University


I have also delivered guest lectures in partner universities Durham and Teesside on the following courses;

Tutor, BSc Criminology (Drugs and Society module)-Teesside University

Guest Lecturer MSc Contemporary Issues in drug use- Teesside University

Guest Lecturer MSc Social Work- Durham University

Publications