Janet Richardson

Professor Janet Richardson

Job title: Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health, Education and Society)
Address: Room 210, 8 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586535
Email: janet.richardson@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Professor of Health Service Research

Roles on external bodies

Member of the editorial boards for:

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy; Complementary Therapies in Medicine published in USA.

International Editorial Advisory Board - Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine published in New Zealand

National Library for Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Library

Teaching interests

Service development and evaluation

Supportive and complementary therapies in long-term conditions

Coaching in healthcare
Sustainable healthcare

Research interests

Sustainability Society and Health

Exploring aspects of healthcare waste and behaviour-change to reduce, re-use and recycle; involving communities in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change and other environmental / community factors on health and well-being. see: www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/340

Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Health Care

Finding, appraising and integrating evidence into decision-making and service development in health and supportive care.

Grants & contracts

CURRENT AWARDS

Short Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the National Cancer Action Team (Feb - May 2010)

ANCHoR Study: Multi-centre randomised controlled clinical trial of acupressure in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting with Universities of Manchester (Lead) and Liverpool. HTA funded 2008 - 2010.

PREVIOUS RESEARCH AWARDS AS LEAD APPLICANT (Since 2001)

DTI / ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership in association with Penny Brohn Cancer Care. (£148,000) To provide evidence-based information on cancer and complementary therapies to people affected by cancer. 2006 - 2009

Department of Health (£89,500) To update an information resource in complementary therapy for cancer, mental health, coronary heart disease and stroke, and chronic diseases. March 2006 - September 2007 (The CAMEOL database project). See www.rccm.org.uk/cameol

Rowcroft Hospice, Torbay (£13,000) to evaluate the impact of changes in Day Hospice services (January 2006 - January 2008).
Department of Health (£297,800) To develop an information resource in complementary therapy for cancer, mental health, coronary heart disease and stroke, and chronic diseases (March 2003 - March 2006).

Department of Health (£15,000) To develop a Complementary and Alternative Medicine Journals Database (February 2004 - September 2004).

Department of Health (£15,000) To develop a complementary and alternative medicine researcher network - a 'virtual faculty' of researchers and research-practitioners including a database of expertise (March 2003).

King's Fund (£150,000) to further develop a database of published and unpublished research in complementary therapies, on behalf of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine (July 2001 - September 2003).

Department of Health (£20,000) to support the development of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine CISCOM database (May 2002).

Links

National Library for Health Complementary and Alternatively Medicine Specialist Library

http://www.library.nhs.uk/cam

Research Council for Complementary Medicine

http://www.rccm.org.uk

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Evidence On-Line

http://www.rccm.org.uk/cameol