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
Member, NIHR HS&DR Researcher-led panel 2018-2021
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 - 2020
Associate Editorial Board, Sociology, 2015 - 2019
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 are highlighted
Journals
Articles
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
PEARL
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
PEARL
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,
PEARL
2018
'Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital'
BMJ Paediatrics Open
2,
(1)
, DOI
PEARL
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
PEARL
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
PEARL
2017
'Prescribing gardening and conservation activities for health and wellbeing in older people'
Maturitas
110,
A1-A2
, DOI
PEARL
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
PEARL
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
PEARL
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
PEARL
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
PEARL
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
PEARL
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
0
'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