Profiles
Dr Kerryn Husk
PenARC Senior Research Fellow
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
Qualifications
BSc Sociology/Politics - 2006
MSc Social Research - 2007
PhD Social Research - 2012
Professional membership
Roles on external bodies
NIHR Health Services & Delivery Research programme, Funding Committee member (2020-present)
NIHR Health Services & Delivery Research programme, Researcher-led panel (2018-2020)
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) - Affiliate Member
University of Exeter Medical School - Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Public Health England - Honorary Senior Public Health Research Fellow
Journals
Associate Editorial Board, BMC Public Health, 2017-Present
Editorial Board, Sociological Research Online, 2017 - Present
Associate Editorial Board, Sociology, 2015 - 2019
Key publications
2016 'Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence' Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (5) , DOI Open access
2017 'Supplementary search methods were more effective and offered better value than bibliographic database searching: a case study from public health and environmental enhancement' Research Synthesis Methods 2018, (9) 195-223 , DOI Open access
2018 'Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital' BMJ Paediatrics Open 2, (1) , DOI Open access
2018 'Social prescribing: where is the evidence? Commissioned editorial' British Journal of General Practice 69, (678) 6-7 , DOI Open access
2019 'What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review' Health and Social Care in the Community 28, (2) 309-324 , DOI Open access
Resources For Children & Young People’s Social Prescribing [Online]. Publisher Site
Research interests
I work for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South West Peninsula. My interests are based around primary care, complex interventions and evidence synthesis. Currently I am interested in issues around evidencing and developing non-NHS delivered interventions, including social prescribing pathways, outlined here.
Key publications
2016 'Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence' Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (5) , DOI Open access
2017 'Supplementary search methods were more effective and offered better value than bibliographic database searching: a case study from public health and environmental enhancement' Research Synthesis Methods 2018, (9) 195-223 , DOI Open access
2018 'Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital' BMJ Paediatrics Open 2, (1) , DOI Open access
2018 'Social prescribing: where is the evidence? Commissioned editorial' British Journal of General Practice 69, (678) 6-7 , DOI Open access
2019 'What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review' Health and Social Care in the Community 28, (2) 309-324 , DOI Open access
Resources For Children & Young People’s Social Prescribing [Online]. Publisher Site
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'Physical activity and the prevention, reduction, and treatment of alcohol and other drug use across the lifespan (The PHASE review): A systematic review' Mental Health and Physical Activity 100360-100360 , DOI Open access
2020 'Qualitative systematic review of the acceptability, feasibility, barriers, facilitators and perceived utility of using physical activity in the reduction of and abstinence from alcohol and other drug use' Mental Health and Physical Activity 100355-100355 , DOI Open access
2019 'Mapping, guiding, and assessing social prescription services in the UK: Kerryn Husk' European Journal of Public Health 29, (Supplement_4) , DOI
2019 'What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review' Health and Social Care in the Community 28, (2) 309-324 , DOI Open access
2019 'G240 Prevalence and patterns of mental health-related paediatric hospital admissions' Archives of Disease in Childhood 104, (Suppl 2) , DOI
2018 'Social prescribing: where is the evidence? Commissioned editorial' British Journal of General Practice 69, (678) 6-7 , DOI Open access
2018 'What approaches to peri-conception care for women with pre-existing medical conditions work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A protocol for a realist review' SM Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics CRD42018116948, Open access
2018 'Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital' BMJ Paediatrics Open 2, (1) , DOI Open access
2018 'Physical activity and the prevention, reduction, and treatment of alcohol and/or substance use across the lifespan (The PHASE review): protocol for a systematic review' Systematic Reviews 7, (1) , DOI Open access
2017 'Supplementary search methods were more effective and offered better value than bibliographic database searching: a case study from public health and environmental enhancement' Research Synthesis Methods 2018, (9) 195-223 , DOI Open access
2017 'Prescribing gardening and conservation activities for health and wellbeing in older people' Maturitas 110, A1-A2 , DOI Open access
2017 'A realist review and collaborative development of what works in the social prescribing process' The Lancet 390, (S62) , DOI
2017 'The proportion of the population of England that self-identifies as lesbian, gay or bisexual: producing modelled estimates based on national social surveys' BMC Research Notes 10, (1) , DOI Open access
2017 'Social prescribing offers huge potential but requires a nuanced evidence base' BMJ Opinion Publisher Site
2017 'Producing modelled estimates of the size of the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) population of England: : PHE gateway number: 2016534' Public Health England. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/producing-estimates-of-the-size-of-the-lgb-population-of-england (Accessed: 1/2/2017).
2016 'Paediatricians: are they just little adults?' Emergency Medicine Journal 33, (12) 918-918 , DOI
2016 'Green Exercise. Linking Nature, Health and Well-being, Jo Barton, Rachel Bragg, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty (Eds.). Routledge, London, UK (2016)' Mental Health and Physical Activity 11, 74-74 , DOI
2016 'Exploring the relationship between childhood obesity and proximity to the coast: A rural/urban perspective' Health & Place 40, 129-136 , DOI Open access
2016 'What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A protocol for a realist review' Systematic Reviews 5, (1) 1-7 , DOI Open access
2016 'Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence' Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (5) , DOI Open access
2015 'What accounts for ‘England's green and pleasant land’? A panel data analysis of mental health and land cover types in rural England' Landscape and Urban Planning 142, (0) 38-46 , DOI
2015 'Beyond Greenspace: An ecological study of population general health and indicators of natural environment type and quality' International Journal of Health Geographics 17, (14) , DOI
2015 'Indoor fungal diversity and asthma: a metaanalysis and systematic review of risk factors' Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 135, (1) 110-122
2015 'Understanding how environmental enhancement and conservation activities may benefit health and wellbeing: a systematic review' BMC Public Health 15, (864) , DOI Open access
2014 '“I don’t really like the pub […]”: reflections on young people and pre-loading alcohol' Drugs and Alcohol Today 14, (2) 58-66 , DOI
2014 'Barriers to and enablers of a workplace support website among SMEs' International Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Research 2, 64-75
2014 'Environmental conservation activities for health: building on systematic review methods to consider a disparate, dispersed, and limited evidence base' The Lancet 384, S46-S46
2014 'Review of Whiteness Fractured' Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal 19, (2)
2014 'What are the health and well-being impacts of community gardening for adults and children: a mixed method systematic review protocol' Environmental Evidence 3, 20-20
2013 'Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults' , DOI
2013 'Can we, should we, measure ethnicity?' International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16, 285-300
2013 'Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults (Protocol)' The Cochrane Library Art. No.: CD010351., (2) , DOI
2013 'Students and Alcohol: An Exploration of the Student Experience and the University as a Risk Environment' Plymouth University Student Experience Group and Plymouth City Violence Delivery Group
2012 'Book Review: Malcolm Williams and W Paul Vogt The Sage Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods' Sociology 46, 1230-1231
2012 'Controlling pre-loaders: alcohol related violence in an English night time economy' Drugs and Alcohol Today 12, (2) 89-97 , DOI
2012 'Cornish ethnicity and undercounting: utilising the 2001 England and Wales Census to develop an accurate measurement methodology' Methodological Innovations 7, 1-12
2012 'Elucidating a Cornish Ethnie: The Argument for Mixed Method' Sociological Research Online 17, 9-9
2012 'The Legitimation of Ethnicity: The Case of the Cornish' Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 12, 249-267
2011 'Ethnicity and social exclusion: research and policy implications in a Cornish case study' Social and Public Policy Review 5, 7-25
2010 'Estimating the Cornish from the 2001 England and Wales census: adjustment and re-analyses' Local population studies 78-83
2010 'Review of Ethnicity (Key Concepts)' Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal 15, (3)
2009 'Accessing education in Cornwall: exploring the structure/agency debate amongst potential students' Cornish Studies Seventeen
Conference Papers
'What approaches to peri-conception care for women with pre-existing medical conditions work, for whom, and in what circumstances? The development of a protocol for a realist review as part of a PhD study' Royal College of Midwives Conference 2018
Other Publications
Resources For Children & Young People’s Social Prescribing [Online]. Publisher Site