Dr Katie Paddock-Hall

My profile

Biography

BA (Hons) (Cantab), MSc, PhD, CPsychol

I am a Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology, with a particular interest in Social Psychology. My research interests include taking a multi-stakeholder approach to explore the experiences of health and health services.

My post-doctoral study at the University of Liverpool, funded by the ESRC, explored the experiences and perspectives of consent and recruitment practices in critical care settings across England. Using a mixed-methods approach, we recruited critical care patients, family members, and healthcare practitioners. The findings of this study have informed good practice guidance for recruitment and consent procedures, in consultation with an advisory group of former critical care patients/relatives, clinicians, and ethicists. 

In collaboration with a team of former critical care patients/relatives, clinicians, and critical care charities, I developed an informative animation about how research is conducted in intensive care units. This animation was funded by the Knowledge Exchange & Impact, Public Engagement Voucher Scheme at the University of Liverpool.

For my PhD study, funded by the MRC, I explored how moving to a care home can impact an older person’s sense of identity, through interviews and observations with residents, visitors, and care home staff.

Academic and professional qualifications 

PhD (MRC studentship), University of Manchester, 2011-2016

Title: The impact of the transition to a care home on residents’ sense of identity

MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology (Merit), London School of Economics, 2009-2010

BA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences - Psychology (2.1), University of Cambridge, 2006-2009
 

External examiner roles

External Examiner for The University of London International Foundation Programme (IFP):

  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology

Membership of professional associations

British Psychological Society, Chartered membership (CPsychol)

  • Member of the BPS Division of Academics, Researchers, and Teachers in Psychology
  • Member of the BPS Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section

Teaching

Subject areas

Educational Psychology; Research Methods (qualitative); Social Psychology

Research outputs

Paddock K, Swift E (In Press) Psychological approaches and ideas in Education in ‘Psychology of Education: Theory, Research and Evidence-Based Practice’ Ed. by Janet Lord

Paddock K, Woolfall K, Frith L, et al. (2021). Strategies to enhance recruitment and consent to intensive care studies: a qualitative study with researchers and patient–public involvement contributors. BMJ Open 2021;11:e048193. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048193

Paddock K, Brown Wilson C, Walshe C, Todd C (2018). Care Home Life and Identity: A Qualitative Case Study. The Gerontologist, DOI: 10.1093/geront/gny090

Clarkson P, Hays R, Tucker S, Paddock K, Challis D (2018). Healthcare support to older residents of care homes: a systematic review of specialist services. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults. Vol. 19 Issue: 1, pp.54-84, DOI: 10.1108/QAOA-08-2017-0029

Wilberforce M, Hughes J, Symonds E, Pryce F, Fillingham J, Paddock K, Bowns I, Challis D (2016). Practitioner roles and responsibilities: evidence from a pilot study of time use. British Journal of Occupational Therapy. DOI: 10.1177/0308022616630329

Paddock K, Todd C, Brown Wilson C, Walshe C (2016). The impact of the transition to a care home on residents’ sense of identity. PhD thesis. University of Manchester. Manchester eScholar ID: uk-ac-man-scw:299944