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Dr Sarah Kendal

  • Position: Research Fellow
  • Areas of expertise: Applied health research: nursing; mental health; qualitative approaches; public engagement; co-production; participatory methods.
  • Email: S.Kendal@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 1263
  • Website: Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID

Profile

I am an applied health researcher with over 2 decades of  clinical practice in mental health nursing. I completed a PhD in mental health nursing at Manchester University in 2009 and I have been a research fellow at the University of Leeds Faculty of Medicine and Health since 2019. I previously worked at the Universities of Manchester and Huddersfield.

Research interests

My core research themes are: participatory methods for public engagement; complex interventions development and evaluation; applied health; health service improvement.

 

Current project: STA:RTUPP https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1866/sta-rtupp-second-time-around-re-irradiation-treatment-using-photons-or-protons

 

Recent projects include WardSonar (Baker et al. https://journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/UDBQ8402), the development and evaluation of a digital tool to improve patient safety on mental health wards;  MiMOS (Hughes et al. https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/YTRW7448), an evaluation of the effectiveness of sexual assault referral centres; CONTRAST (Baker et al. https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/YVKT5692), a review of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people in institutional settings.

 

Groups and affiliations

 

Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James (LIMR) https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-institute-research-st-james

 

Patient Centred Outcomes Research Group (PCOR)  https://pcor.org.uk/dr-sarah-kendal/ .

 

School of Healthcare https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/directory/research-projects?query=&categoryID=5&searchDirCategoryID=-1  

Qualifications

  • PhD (mental health nursing)
  • Masters in Health Science (Public health and health promotion)
  • BA(Hons) Latin, Archaeology, Comparative Religion
  • RMN (mental health nursing)
  • PGCert Teaching and Learning Higher Ed