Sophia Syke
Biographic Data
| ID | 906822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia Syke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia |
| FAMILY NAME | Syke |
| SIGNATURE | SYKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London South Bank University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3758-2898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Supports and Constrains the Implementation of Robust and Rapid Evaluation Within Local Government Public Health Systems
BACKGROUND: Since 2013, local government in England has held statutory responsibility for public health and concurrently faced financial pressures and limited research capacity. The National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) established Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST) to bridge this gap, commissioning rapid, co-produced evaluations of complex interventions. MAIN BODY: Drawing on 5 years of PHIRST South Bank…
Gaps and opportunities in mental health support for young people
Background Young people aged 16–25 are reporting rising rates of poor mental health, exacerbated by service gaps. Key life transitions such as moving from school to college, or into the workforce can increase vulnerability. Method A mixed-methods evaluation was conducted of a multi-component, mental health intervention in the East of England. The evaluation aimed to: (1) Assess the fidelity, dose, and reach of the intervention; (2) Understand the…
An evaluation of a community-based intervention in England aiming to reduce inequalities in exercise participation
Introduction Exercise referral schemes are a common intervention that seek to address physical inactivity. There is limited evidence on whether they can address the inequalities in inactivity associated with income, age, and gender. A novel intervention that sought to address barriers to the uptake of physical activity schemes including access, cost, and specific health and social needs of participants was evaluated in a mixed methods study. Meth…
Involving lived experience in regional efforts to address gambling-related harms
Integrating a range of LE perspectives in a public health approach to gambling harms reduction requires local access to involvement for people with LE via diverse routes that are free from stigma and present people with LE with options in how they can engage and be heard in decision-making, and how they operate in relation to industry influence. Involving LE in gambling harms reduction requires enabling people to develop the affective and critica…
Tradwives
Globalizing anti-globalism and modernizing the anti-modern, Tradwives are communities of right-wing women who commercialize social media to commodify traditional heteronormative renditions of femininity that are equal parts ideology and aesthetic. As social media influencers, Tradwives grow social networks and expand audiences by monetizing right-wing ideologies and curating particular versions of wife and mother. A netnographic analysis designed…
Public health practitioners as policy advocates
Effecting policy change is a key strategy in tackling wider determinants of health. In England, public health sits within Local Authorities (LAs) and responsibility for ensuring health is considered across directorates increasingly falls to public health practitioners. While international professional standards expect competence in understanding policy processes, the advocacy role has been under-explored. This paper explores the professional skil…
Settings for the development of health literacy
Advances in conceptualizing settings in health promotion include understanding settings as complex and interlinked systems with a core commitment to health and related outcomes such as health literacy. Traditional settings for the development of health literacy include health care environments and schools. There is a need to identify and conceptualize non-traditional and emerging settings of twenty-first-century everyday life. The aim of this con…
What works in advocating for food advertising policy change across an english region – a realist evaluation
Effecting policy change in this area requires the commitment of an extended period and the valuing of short-term policy outcomes, such as increasing political will. The importance of a resourced and well-supported policy advocate to lead this work is fundamental and the commercially sensitive nature of this policy change means that a complex interplay of mechanisms is required which may be dominated by a strategically staggered approach to stakeh…
Involving Children in Health Literacy Research
Despite the volume and breadth of health literacy research related to children, children's involvement in that research is rare. Research with children is challenging, but the principles of involvement and engagement underpin all health promotion work, including health literacy. This commentary reflects on the process of setting up a Children's Advisory Group to consult on an institutional ethnography study of health literacy work from children's…
Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy
Critical health literacy enables individuals to use cognitive and social resources for informed action on the wider determinants of health. Promoting critical health literacy early in the life-course may contribute to improved health outcomes in the long term, but children's opportunities to develop critical health literacy are limited and tend to be school-based. This study applies a settings-based approach to analyse the potential of public lib…
Differences in digital health literacy and future anxiety between health care and other university students in England during the Covid-19 pandemic
Although digital health literacy is well developed in university students, a significant proportion of students still face difficulties with evaluating online information which may frustrate public health efforts. This could be addressed by ensuring health students' curriculum in particular encompasses digital health literacy
Multidimensional eHealth Literacy for Infertility
Infertility is a major public health issue and increasingly, the internet is used as a source of information and advice. The aim of this study is to understand the eHealth literacy of individuals and couples in relation to infertility. A non-probability sample of 27 participants was recruited from existing support groups, online advertising and snowballing representing the diverse population groups for whom involuntary childlessness is an issue. …
Enhancing Care Transitions for Older People through Interprofessional Simulation
An interprofessional simulation course successfully brought together health and social care professionals across settings to develop integrated care skills and improve care transitions for older people with complex needs from hospital to home
Enhancing care transfers from hospital to home for older people with complex needs
Introduction: Care transfers for older people with complex needs should be person-centred with effective multi -disciplinary teamwork (MDT) across hospital and community settings (Bolsch et al. 2005). This paper presents a project to enhance care transfers within Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC), which is a federation that promotes integrated care in south London, through bringing together general practices, acute hospitals, mental he…
Understanding critical health literacy
BACKGROUND: Interest in and debates around health literacy have grown over the last two decades and key to the discussions has been the distinction made between basic functional health literacy, communicative/interactive health literacy and critical health literacy. Of these, critical health literacy is the least well developed and differing interpretations of its constituents and relevance exist. The aim of this study is to rigorously analyse th…
Tradwives
Globalizing anti-globalism and modernizing the anti-modern, Tradwives are communities of right-wing women who commercialize social media to commodify traditional heteronormative renditions of femininity that are equal parts ideology and aesthetic. As social media influencers, Tradwives grow social networks and expand audiences by monetizing right-wing ideologies and curating particular versions of wife and mother. A netnographic analysis designed…
Understanding critical health literacy
BACKGROUND: Interest in and debates around health literacy have grown over the last two decades and key to the discussions has been the distinction made between basic functional health literacy, communicative/interactive health literacy and critical health literacy. Of these, critical health literacy is the least well developed and differing interpretations of its constituents and relevance exist. The aim of this study is to rigorously analyse th…
Understanding critical health literacy
BACKGROUND: Interest in and debates around health literacy have grown over the last two decades and key to the discussions has been the distinction made between basic functional health literacy, communicative/interactive health literacy and critical health literacy. Of these, critical health literacy is the least well developed and differing interpretations of its constituents and relevance exist. The aim of this study is to rigorously analyse th…
Enhancing care transfers from hospital to home for older people with complex needs
Introduction: Care transfers for older people with complex needs should be person-centred with effective multi -disciplinary teamwork (MDT) across hospital and community settings (Bolsch et al. 2005). This paper presents a project to enhance care transfers within Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC), which is a federation that promotes integrated care in south London, through bringing together general practices, acute hospitals, mental he…
Enhancing Care Transitions for Older People through Interprofessional Simulation
An interprofessional simulation course successfully brought together health and social care professionals across settings to develop integrated care skills and improve care transitions for older people with complex needs from hospital to home
Multidimensional eHealth Literacy for Infertility
Infertility is a major public health issue and increasingly, the internet is used as a source of information and advice. The aim of this study is to understand the eHealth literacy of individuals and couples in relation to infertility. A non-probability sample of 27 participants was recruited from existing support groups, online advertising and snowballing representing the diverse population groups for whom involuntary childlessness is an issue. …
Involving Children in Health Literacy Research
Despite the volume and breadth of health literacy research related to children, children's involvement in that research is rare. Research with children is challenging, but the principles of involvement and engagement underpin all health promotion work, including health literacy. This commentary reflects on the process of setting up a Children's Advisory Group to consult on an institutional ethnography study of health literacy work from children's…
Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy
Critical health literacy enables individuals to use cognitive and social resources for informed action on the wider determinants of health. Promoting critical health literacy early in the life-course may contribute to improved health outcomes in the long term, but children's opportunities to develop critical health literacy are limited and tend to be school-based. This study applies a settings-based approach to analyse the potential of public lib…
Differences in digital health literacy and future anxiety between health care and other university students in England during the Covid-19 pandemic
Although digital health literacy is well developed in university students, a significant proportion of students still face difficulties with evaluating online information which may frustrate public health efforts. This could be addressed by ensuring health students' curriculum in particular encompasses digital health literacy
Public health practitioners as policy advocates
Effecting policy change is a key strategy in tackling wider determinants of health. In England, public health sits within Local Authorities (LAs) and responsibility for ensuring health is considered across directorates increasingly falls to public health practitioners. While international professional standards expect competence in understanding policy processes, the advocacy role has been under-explored. This paper explores the professional skil…
Settings for the development of health literacy
Advances in conceptualizing settings in health promotion include understanding settings as complex and interlinked systems with a core commitment to health and related outcomes such as health literacy. Traditional settings for the development of health literacy include health care environments and schools. There is a need to identify and conceptualize non-traditional and emerging settings of twenty-first-century everyday life. The aim of this con…
What works in advocating for food advertising policy change across an english region – a realist evaluation
Effecting policy change in this area requires the commitment of an extended period and the valuing of short-term policy outcomes, such as increasing political will. The importance of a resourced and well-supported policy advocate to lead this work is fundamental and the commercially sensitive nature of this policy change means that a complex interplay of mechanisms is required which may be dominated by a strategically staggered approach to stakeh…
Involving lived experience in regional efforts to address gambling-related harms
Integrating a range of LE perspectives in a public health approach to gambling harms reduction requires local access to involvement for people with LE via diverse routes that are free from stigma and present people with LE with options in how they can engage and be heard in decision-making, and how they operate in relation to industry influence. Involving LE in gambling harms reduction requires enabling people to develop the affective and critica…
Tradwives
Globalizing anti-globalism and modernizing the anti-modern, Tradwives are communities of right-wing women who commercialize social media to commodify traditional heteronormative renditions of femininity that are equal parts ideology and aesthetic. As social media influencers, Tradwives grow social networks and expand audiences by monetizing right-wing ideologies and curating particular versions of wife and mother. A netnographic analysis designed…
Gaps and opportunities in mental health support for young people
Background Young people aged 16–25 are reporting rising rates of poor mental health, exacerbated by service gaps. Key life transitions such as moving from school to college, or into the workforce can increase vulnerability. Method A mixed-methods evaluation was conducted of a multi-component, mental health intervention in the East of England. The evaluation aimed to: (1) Assess the fidelity, dose, and reach of the intervention; (2) Understand the…
An evaluation of a community-based intervention in England aiming to reduce inequalities in exercise participation
Introduction Exercise referral schemes are a common intervention that seek to address physical inactivity. There is limited evidence on whether they can address the inequalities in inactivity associated with income, age, and gender. A novel intervention that sought to address barriers to the uptake of physical activity schemes including access, cost, and specific health and social needs of participants was evaluated in a mixed methods study. Meth…
What Supports and Constrains the Implementation of Robust and Rapid Evaluation Within Local Government Public Health Systems
BACKGROUND: Since 2013, local government in England has held statutory responsibility for public health and concurrently faced financial pressures and limited research capacity. The National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) established Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST) to bridge this gap, commissioning rapid, co-produced evaluations of complex interventions. MAIN BODY: Drawing on 5 years of PHIRST South Bank…
Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Health care (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medical education (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Health literacy (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Biostatistics (4 works)