Lyndsey Withers
Biographic Data
| ID | 2255837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyndsey Withers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyndsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Withers |
| SIGNATURE | WITHERS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0027-2626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Implementing recommendations to optimise professional support in the medical workplace
Barriers and facilitators to hepatitis C screening and treatment for people with lived experience of homelessness
Optimising the delivery of remediation programmes for doctors
Evaluation of a community dental clinic providing care to people experiencing homelessness
BACKGROUND: People who experience homelessness have higher dental treatment needs compared to the general population. However, their utilization of dental services and levels of treatment completion are low. Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise, a not-for-profit organization in the United Kingdom, established a community dental clinic to improve access to dental care for this population. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact and acceptability of the c…
Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities
There is an urgent need to 'get creative' with the way we tackle social and nutritional inequalities. The Food as a Lifestyle Motivator (FLM) project has explored the use of creative participatory approaches to engage 'harder to reach' communities in dialogues to improve their well-being and life skills. Preliminary findings have confirmed that food can be a powerful catalyst for social inclusion with the potential to empower 'marginalised' indiv…
Employing participatory methods to engage an under-researched group
In this article, we report on our experience of working on an exploratory project where the primary objective was to involve homeless service users with food-based participatory qualitative approaches. The project FLM aimed to explore food experiences and behaviours in a sample of users of homelessness services in a south west UK coastal city, in order to create solutions to improve their wellbeing. A mixture of qualitative methods was used, incl…
Employing participatory methods to engage an under-researched group
In this article, we report on our experience of working on an exploratory project where the primary objective was to involve homeless service users with food-based participatory qualitative approaches. The project FLM aimed to explore food experiences and behaviours in a sample of users of homelessness services in a south west UK coastal city, in order to create solutions to improve their wellbeing. A mixture of qualitative methods was used, incl…
Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities
There is an urgent need to 'get creative' with the way we tackle social and nutritional inequalities. The Food as a Lifestyle Motivator (FLM) project has explored the use of creative participatory approaches to engage 'harder to reach' communities in dialogues to improve their well-being and life skills. Preliminary findings have confirmed that food can be a powerful catalyst for social inclusion with the potential to empower 'marginalised' indiv…
Employing participatory methods to engage an under-researched group
In this article, we report on our experience of working on an exploratory project where the primary objective was to involve homeless service users with food-based participatory qualitative approaches. The project FLM aimed to explore food experiences and behaviours in a sample of users of homelessness services in a south west UK coastal city, in order to create solutions to improve their wellbeing. A mixture of qualitative methods was used, incl…
Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities
There is an urgent need to 'get creative' with the way we tackle social and nutritional inequalities. The Food as a Lifestyle Motivator (FLM) project has explored the use of creative participatory approaches to engage 'harder to reach' communities in dialogues to improve their well-being and life skills. Preliminary findings have confirmed that food can be a powerful catalyst for social inclusion with the potential to empower 'marginalised' indiv…
Evaluation of a community dental clinic providing care to people experiencing homelessness
BACKGROUND: People who experience homelessness have higher dental treatment needs compared to the general population. However, their utilization of dental services and levels of treatment completion are low. Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise, a not-for-profit organization in the United Kingdom, established a community dental clinic to improve access to dental care for this population. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact and acceptability of the c…
Optimising the delivery of remediation programmes for doctors
Barriers and facilitators to hepatitis C screening and treatment for people with lived experience of homelessness
Implementing recommendations to optimise professional support in the medical workplace
Citizen journalism (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Participatory action research (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · MEDLINE (2 works)