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Staff Profile

Dr Jenny Liddle

Innovation Fellow

  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Newcastle University
    Urban Sciences Building (Open Lab)
    Newcastle Helix
    NE4 5TG
Background

I am a Senior Research Associate working across the Population Health Sciences Institute and Open Lab at Newcastle University. My research interests include the development of innovative (digital) approaches to address societal challenges such as loneliness, isolation, health and care in later life. 

 

I have worked with older people and health care professionals on a range of qualitative and mixed methods studies to explore experiences of everyday life. Recent projects included an evaluation of the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) in care homes and a review of systematic reviews for Public Health England on the consequences of caring for older people and effective interventions to support unpaid carers. 

 

My current work as a Research Fellow in the NIHR-funded Applied Research Collaboration North East and North Cumbria (ARC NENC) is exploring:

  • community-based physical and social activity for older adults with mild frailty
  • how to optimise (new) residential care models for older people
  • new approaches to measure social interaction using wearable digital technologies

    Teaching

    PhD students:

     

    Arlind Reuter (PhD Awarded 2021)

    Digital citizenship in later life: insights from participatory action research with older content creators

     

    Anne O’Brien

    The assessment and management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica from the Physiotherapist's perspective


    Sena Odabaş

    Women Living Alone in Later Life: Between Social Exclusion and Precarity


    Publications