Profiles
Dr Kerryn Husk
Associate Professor of Health Services (Research)
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
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.
Qualifications
- BSc Sociology/Politics - 2006
- MSc Social Research - 2007
- PhD Social Research - 2012
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/Office for Health Improvement and Disparities - Honorary Senior Public Health Research Fellow
Journals
- Editorial Board, Sociological Research Online, 2017 - Present
- Associate Editorial Board, BMC Public Health, 2017-2021
- Associate Editorial Board, Sociology, 2015 - 2019
Key publications
Resources For Children & Young People’s Social Prescribing [Online]. Publisher Site
(2021) 'Link worker perspectives of early implementation of social prescribing: a ‘Researcher-in-Residence’ study' Health and Social Care in the Community Publisher Site , 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
(2018) 'Social prescribing: where is the evidence? Commissioned editorial' British Journal of General Practice 69, (678) 6-7 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital' BMJ Paediatrics Open 2, (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
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Resources For Children & Young People’s Social Prescribing [Online]. Publisher Site
(2021) 'Link worker perspectives of early implementation of social prescribing: a ‘Researcher-in-Residence’ study' Health and Social Care in the Community Publisher Site , 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
(2018) 'Social prescribing: where is the evidence? Commissioned editorial' British Journal of General Practice 69, (678) 6-7 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital' BMJ Paediatrics Open 2, (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
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2021) 'Health and wellbeing outcomes and social prescribing pathways in community‐based support for autistic adults: A systematic mapping review of reviews' Health and Social Care in the Community , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Social prescribing, evidence and progress; the view from England' Eur J Public Health 31, (Supplement_3) , DOI
(2021) '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 (vol 19, 100355, 2020)' MENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 20,
(2021) 'Link worker perspectives of early implementation of social prescribing: a ‘Researcher-in-Residence’ study' Health and Social Care in the Community Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(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 0-0 , 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
(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) '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) '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 0, (5) 0-0 , 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 14, (0) 0-0 , 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
Reports
(2021) Therapeutic Nature: Nature-based social prescribing for diagnosed mental health conditions in the UK: Final Report for Defra. London Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Publisher Site
(2021) A handbook for Nature on Prescription to promote mental health. Version 1. University of Exeter Publisher Site
Posters
'G240 Prevalence and patterns of mental health-related paediatric hospital admissions' , DOI
'A realist review and collaborative development of what works in the social prescribing process' , DOI
'Paediatricians: are they just little adults?' , DOI
Other Publications
Resources For Children & Young People’s Social Prescribing [Online]. Publisher Site