Jill Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9256-1208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Using WELLBYs to demonstrate the social value of social prescribing at a national level
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
Decision‐Making Processes of Young African Migrants Seeking to Enhance Their Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana
Young people are increasingly migrating within their own countries and across different countries to enhance their livelihoods. These migrations are often driven by economic factors, with young people seeking to take advantage of opportunities that are less available at their places of origin. At the centre of these migrations are the range of decisions young people go through, which are often not entirely taken by themselves alone. In this conte…
Young migrants on the move
Qualitative forms of enquiry offer valuable opportunities to generate rich data that deepens our understandings of contemporary social issues, such as migration. Qualitative methods are often championed for enabling the engagement of so-called hard-to-reach or vulnerable groups in research and through using techniques that support the building of research relationships and rapport with participants. However, possibilities for building rapport can…
Rethinking Empowerment
Concepts of empowerment pervade popular discourses on youth and the term is often applied uncritically as a means to leverage young people's perspectives on matters that affect their lives. Despite such focus, little critical work exists that unpacks young people's own meanings of the term, or indeed considers the possible unintended consequences that may emerge from these framings. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 59 young African mig…
Children and young people's perspectives on disasters – Mental health, agency and vulnerability
Disasters such as flooding, earthquakes and hurricanes can have devastating impacts on children and young people’s lives, with evidence highlighting significant social and mental health consequences lasting many years. Yet other research highlights how children and young people actively contribute to disaster responses, supporting their families and communities to manage and overcome such impacts. Despite this evidence, very little research has b…
Moving on' for Adults With a Learning Disability and Their Families
Ending familial co-residence, termed 'moving on' by participants, is an increasingly relevant life transition for people with a learning disability due to increasing life expectancy and policy developments. Nevertheless, there is an absence of research exploring this transition experience in a United Kingdom (UK) context. This constructivist grounded theory study therefore aimed to explore, conceptualise, and theorise the 'moving on' experiences …
The importance of multimodal play and storytelling in medtech for children
This article examines the research and development of a mixed realities play-kit to prepare children for an MRI scan to be undertaken without the need for a General Anaesthetic. The kit uses three different types of play; augmented, virtual reality and physical to help children become familiar with the look of an MRI scanner, the noises it makes, the role of the radiographer, what to expect when they go to hospital and to practise staying still. …
The Gap Year—Intentional Use of Early Assurance Improves Performance in Medical School Curriculum
Purpose: According to the Association of American Medical Colleges National 2021 Matriculating Student Questionnaire, nearly 66.3% of first-year medical (M1) students take at least 1 gap year.1 Data from Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) showed an increase in gap year participation from 32% in 2019 to 67% in 2022; when considering traditional admission students, this number rises to 81%. Recognizing this trend, while aiming to improve di…
“Survive, learn to live with it … or not”
Violence against women is a global public health concern, with high levels of prevalence and debilitating consequences for victims, including a higher risk of revictimization. Quantitative evidence shows a strong association between previous experiences of sexual victimization, particularly in childhood, and future victimization. However, there is limited rigorous qualitative scholarship that advances understanding about revictimization experienc…
Service Users’ Perspectives of a National Social Prescribing Programme to Address Loneliness and Social Isolation
Loneliness is considered to be a global public health challenge, impacting a range of physical and mental health conditions. Social prescribing, whereby service users are signposted into community-based activities and social groups by a community link worker, has been suggested as one mechanism to reduce service users’ loneliness and social isolation. This paper reflects on service users’ experiences of accessing a national social prescribing sch…
African migrant children's mental health
The Health Experiences of Young Internal Migrants in Ghana—Identifying Priorities for Sustainable Health Promotion
The Sustainable Development Goals underscore the importance of migration to the achievement of health, and global migration presents both opportunities and challenges for the development of health promotion. Despite such recognition, very little work has focused on health promotion with young migrants, including how migration shapes opportunities for positive health. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study that sought to advance know…
Children's perspectives and experiences of the Covid‐19 pandemic and UK public health measures
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on how we live our lives; yet, the implications for children and the effects on children's everyday lives have been relatively underacknowledged. Understanding children's views on COVID-19 and related restrictions on their lives provides an important opportunity to understand how children have responded to the pandemic, including the impacts on their social and emotional well-being. OBJEC…
Connecting communities
Loneliness is a global public health concern linked to a range of negative health outcomes (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018. The Lancet. 391(10119), 426). Internationally, this has led to the development of a number of interventions, but these are rarely implemented or evaluated on a large scale. This paper is one of the first of its kind to describe elements of an evaluation of a large-scale national social prescribing scheme to reduce loneliness, dep…
Impact of social prescribing to address loneliness
Loneliness is considered a global public health issue because of its detrimental impact on physical and mental health but little is known about which interventions can reduce loneliness. One potential intervention is social prescribing, where a link worker helps service-users to access appropriate support such as community activities and social groups. Some qualitative studies have identified that social prescribing may help to reduce service-use…
Privileges of Power
The widespread privileging of children's voices in recent times has triggered expansion of differing forms of qualitative enquiry that aim to 'give children a voice.' Engaging children in research and eliciting their voices on matters that affect them is often showcased as being a more 'authentic' way to capture children's lived realities and afford their agency. Yet, the uptake of voice in qualitative enquiry, and how it may contribute to the pr…
Exploring Difference or Just Watching the Experts at Work? Interrogating Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in a Cancer Research Setting Using the Work of Jurgen Habermas
Patient and public involvement (PPI) has emerged as a key consideration for organisations delivering health research and has spawned a burgeoning literature in the health and social sciences. The literature makes clear that PPI in health research encompasses a heterogeneous set of practices with levels of participation and involvement ranging from relatively minimal contributions to research processes to actively driving the research agenda. In t…
Understanding food vulnerability and health literacy in older bereaved men
BACKGROUND: Older people are sometimes challenged in maintaining a healthy diet but, because of age and disadvantage, are also more vulnerable to the adverse health consequences of poor nutrition. It has been claimed that older adults have low levels of health literacy regarding food and struggle to discern which foods are healthy from the vast range available in developed counties. However, nutrition and eating behaviour are modifiable risk fact…
Exploring the Impact of Patient and Public Involvement in a Cancer Research Setting
An enduring theme in the literature exploring patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has been the focus on evaluating impact, defined usually in terms of participants' practical contribution to enhancing research processes. By contrast, there has been less emphasis on the perspectives and experiences of those involved in PPI. Drawing on qualitative data with people involved in the National Cancer Research Network in the United Kingdom, …
Using long-term ecosystem service and biodiversity data to study the impacts and adaptation options in response to climate change
Credibility and the 'professionalized' lay expert
Contemporary health policy in England places increasing emphasis on patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and health research. With regard to the latter, it has been suggested that PPI brings 'different' perspectives to research decision-making spaces, based on what has been referred to as 'experiential expertise'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study of PPI in cancer research settings in England. We argue that partici…
Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research
Researchers in the area of health and social care (both in Australia and internationally) are encouraged to involve consumers throughout the research process, often on ethical, political and methodological grounds, or simply as 'good practice'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study in the UK of researchers' experiences and views of consumer involvement in health research. Two main themes are presented. First, we explore the 'kno…
Health researchers’ attitudes towards public involvement in health research
Objective To investigate health researchers’ attitudes to involving the public in research. Background Public involvement in research is encouraged by the Department of Health in the UK. Despite this, the number of health researchers actively involving the public in research appears to be limited. There is little research specifically addressing the attitudes of health researchers towards involving the public: how they interpret the policy, what …
The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia
The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia
Credibility and the 'professionalized' lay expert
Contemporary health policy in England places increasing emphasis on patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and health research. With regard to the latter, it has been suggested that PPI brings 'different' perspectives to research decision-making spaces, based on what has been referred to as 'experiential expertise'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study of PPI in cancer research settings in England. We argue that partici…
Privileges of Power
The widespread privileging of children's voices in recent times has triggered expansion of differing forms of qualitative enquiry that aim to 'give children a voice.' Engaging children in research and eliciting their voices on matters that affect them is often showcased as being a more 'authentic' way to capture children's lived realities and afford their agency. Yet, the uptake of voice in qualitative enquiry, and how it may contribute to the pr…
Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research
Researchers in the area of health and social care (both in Australia and internationally) are encouraged to involve consumers throughout the research process, often on ethical, political and methodological grounds, or simply as 'good practice'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study in the UK of researchers' experiences and views of consumer involvement in health research. Two main themes are presented. First, we explore the 'kno…
Connecting communities
Loneliness is a global public health concern linked to a range of negative health outcomes (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018. The Lancet. 391(10119), 426). Internationally, this has led to the development of a number of interventions, but these are rarely implemented or evaluated on a large scale. This paper is one of the first of its kind to describe elements of an evaluation of a large-scale national social prescribing scheme to reduce loneliness, dep…
Impact of social prescribing to address loneliness
Loneliness is considered a global public health issue because of its detrimental impact on physical and mental health but little is known about which interventions can reduce loneliness. One potential intervention is social prescribing, where a link worker helps service-users to access appropriate support such as community activities and social groups. Some qualitative studies have identified that social prescribing may help to reduce service-use…
Exploring Difference or Just Watching the Experts at Work? Interrogating Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in a Cancer Research Setting Using the Work of Jurgen Habermas
Patient and public involvement (PPI) has emerged as a key consideration for organisations delivering health research and has spawned a burgeoning literature in the health and social sciences. The literature makes clear that PPI in health research encompasses a heterogeneous set of practices with levels of participation and involvement ranging from relatively minimal contributions to research processes to actively driving the research agenda. In t…
Exploring the Impact of Patient and Public Involvement in a Cancer Research Setting
An enduring theme in the literature exploring patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has been the focus on evaluating impact, defined usually in terms of participants' practical contribution to enhancing research processes. By contrast, there has been less emphasis on the perspectives and experiences of those involved in PPI. Drawing on qualitative data with people involved in the National Cancer Research Network in the United Kingdom, …
Rethinking Empowerment
Concepts of empowerment pervade popular discourses on youth and the term is often applied uncritically as a means to leverage young people's perspectives on matters that affect their lives. Despite such focus, little critical work exists that unpacks young people's own meanings of the term, or indeed considers the possible unintended consequences that may emerge from these framings. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 59 young African mig…
Moving on' for Adults With a Learning Disability and Their Families
Ending familial co-residence, termed 'moving on' by participants, is an increasingly relevant life transition for people with a learning disability due to increasing life expectancy and policy developments. Nevertheless, there is an absence of research exploring this transition experience in a United Kingdom (UK) context. This constructivist grounded theory study therefore aimed to explore, conceptualise, and theorise the 'moving on' experiences …
Using long-term ecosystem service and biodiversity data to study the impacts and adaptation options in response to climate change
The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia
Health researchers’ attitudes towards public involvement in health research
Objective To investigate health researchers’ attitudes to involving the public in research. Background Public involvement in research is encouraged by the Department of Health in the UK. Despite this, the number of health researchers actively involving the public in research appears to be limited. There is little research specifically addressing the attitudes of health researchers towards involving the public: how they interpret the policy, what …
Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research
Researchers in the area of health and social care (both in Australia and internationally) are encouraged to involve consumers throughout the research process, often on ethical, political and methodological grounds, or simply as 'good practice'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study in the UK of researchers' experiences and views of consumer involvement in health research. Two main themes are presented. First, we explore the 'kno…
Using long-term ecosystem service and biodiversity data to study the impacts and adaptation options in response to climate change
Credibility and the 'professionalized' lay expert
Contemporary health policy in England places increasing emphasis on patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and health research. With regard to the latter, it has been suggested that PPI brings 'different' perspectives to research decision-making spaces, based on what has been referred to as 'experiential expertise'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study of PPI in cancer research settings in England. We argue that partici…
Exploring the Impact of Patient and Public Involvement in a Cancer Research Setting
An enduring theme in the literature exploring patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has been the focus on evaluating impact, defined usually in terms of participants' practical contribution to enhancing research processes. By contrast, there has been less emphasis on the perspectives and experiences of those involved in PPI. Drawing on qualitative data with people involved in the National Cancer Research Network in the United Kingdom, …
Understanding food vulnerability and health literacy in older bereaved men
BACKGROUND: Older people are sometimes challenged in maintaining a healthy diet but, because of age and disadvantage, are also more vulnerable to the adverse health consequences of poor nutrition. It has been claimed that older adults have low levels of health literacy regarding food and struggle to discern which foods are healthy from the vast range available in developed counties. However, nutrition and eating behaviour are modifiable risk fact…
Exploring Difference or Just Watching the Experts at Work? Interrogating Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in a Cancer Research Setting Using the Work of Jurgen Habermas
Patient and public involvement (PPI) has emerged as a key consideration for organisations delivering health research and has spawned a burgeoning literature in the health and social sciences. The literature makes clear that PPI in health research encompasses a heterogeneous set of practices with levels of participation and involvement ranging from relatively minimal contributions to research processes to actively driving the research agenda. In t…
Connecting communities
Loneliness is a global public health concern linked to a range of negative health outcomes (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018. The Lancet. 391(10119), 426). Internationally, this has led to the development of a number of interventions, but these are rarely implemented or evaluated on a large scale. This paper is one of the first of its kind to describe elements of an evaluation of a large-scale national social prescribing scheme to reduce loneliness, dep…
Impact of social prescribing to address loneliness
Loneliness is considered a global public health issue because of its detrimental impact on physical and mental health but little is known about which interventions can reduce loneliness. One potential intervention is social prescribing, where a link worker helps service-users to access appropriate support such as community activities and social groups. Some qualitative studies have identified that social prescribing may help to reduce service-use…
Privileges of Power
The widespread privileging of children's voices in recent times has triggered expansion of differing forms of qualitative enquiry that aim to 'give children a voice.' Engaging children in research and eliciting their voices on matters that affect them is often showcased as being a more 'authentic' way to capture children's lived realities and afford their agency. Yet, the uptake of voice in qualitative enquiry, and how it may contribute to the pr…
Children's perspectives and experiences of the Covid‐19 pandemic and UK public health measures
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on how we live our lives; yet, the implications for children and the effects on children's everyday lives have been relatively underacknowledged. Understanding children's views on COVID-19 and related restrictions on their lives provides an important opportunity to understand how children have responded to the pandemic, including the impacts on their social and emotional well-being. OBJEC…
The Health Experiences of Young Internal Migrants in Ghana—Identifying Priorities for Sustainable Health Promotion
The Sustainable Development Goals underscore the importance of migration to the achievement of health, and global migration presents both opportunities and challenges for the development of health promotion. Despite such recognition, very little work has focused on health promotion with young migrants, including how migration shapes opportunities for positive health. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study that sought to advance know…
The importance of multimodal play and storytelling in medtech for children
This article examines the research and development of a mixed realities play-kit to prepare children for an MRI scan to be undertaken without the need for a General Anaesthetic. The kit uses three different types of play; augmented, virtual reality and physical to help children become familiar with the look of an MRI scanner, the noises it makes, the role of the radiographer, what to expect when they go to hospital and to practise staying still. …
The Gap Year—Intentional Use of Early Assurance Improves Performance in Medical School Curriculum
Purpose: According to the Association of American Medical Colleges National 2021 Matriculating Student Questionnaire, nearly 66.3% of first-year medical (M1) students take at least 1 gap year.1 Data from Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) showed an increase in gap year participation from 32% in 2019 to 67% in 2022; when considering traditional admission students, this number rises to 81%. Recognizing this trend, while aiming to improve di…
“Survive, learn to live with it … or not”
Violence against women is a global public health concern, with high levels of prevalence and debilitating consequences for victims, including a higher risk of revictimization. Quantitative evidence shows a strong association between previous experiences of sexual victimization, particularly in childhood, and future victimization. However, there is limited rigorous qualitative scholarship that advances understanding about revictimization experienc…
Service Users’ Perspectives of a National Social Prescribing Programme to Address Loneliness and Social Isolation
Loneliness is considered to be a global public health challenge, impacting a range of physical and mental health conditions. Social prescribing, whereby service users are signposted into community-based activities and social groups by a community link worker, has been suggested as one mechanism to reduce service users’ loneliness and social isolation. This paper reflects on service users’ experiences of accessing a national social prescribing sch…
African migrant children's mental health
Children and young people's perspectives on disasters – Mental health, agency and vulnerability
Disasters such as flooding, earthquakes and hurricanes can have devastating impacts on children and young people’s lives, with evidence highlighting significant social and mental health consequences lasting many years. Yet other research highlights how children and young people actively contribute to disaster responses, supporting their families and communities to manage and overcome such impacts. Despite this evidence, very little research has b…
Moving on' for Adults With a Learning Disability and Their Families
Ending familial co-residence, termed 'moving on' by participants, is an increasingly relevant life transition for people with a learning disability due to increasing life expectancy and policy developments. Nevertheless, there is an absence of research exploring this transition experience in a United Kingdom (UK) context. This constructivist grounded theory study therefore aimed to explore, conceptualise, and theorise the 'moving on' experiences …
Decision‐Making Processes of Young African Migrants Seeking to Enhance Their Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana
Young people are increasingly migrating within their own countries and across different countries to enhance their livelihoods. These migrations are often driven by economic factors, with young people seeking to take advantage of opportunities that are less available at their places of origin. At the centre of these migrations are the range of decisions young people go through, which are often not entirely taken by themselves alone. In this conte…
Young migrants on the move
Qualitative forms of enquiry offer valuable opportunities to generate rich data that deepens our understandings of contemporary social issues, such as migration. Qualitative methods are often championed for enabling the engagement of so-called hard-to-reach or vulnerable groups in research and through using techniques that support the building of research relationships and rapport with participants. However, possibilities for building rapport can…
Rethinking Empowerment
Concepts of empowerment pervade popular discourses on youth and the term is often applied uncritically as a means to leverage young people's perspectives on matters that affect their lives. Despite such focus, little critical work exists that unpacks young people's own meanings of the term, or indeed considers the possible unintended consequences that may emerge from these framings. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 59 young African mig…
Using WELLBYs to demonstrate the social value of social prescribing at a national level
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Qualitative research (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social science (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Focus group (5 works)