Cambridge
0845 196 2527
sarah.redsell@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PhD Health Psychology
• BSc (Hons.)Psychology
• CPsychol.
• Registered Health Visitor (RHV)
• Registered General Nurse (RGN)

Career Outline

Sarah obtained a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Loughborough in 1993. She is a Registered General Nurse (RGN) (London, 1984) and a Registered Health Visitor (RHV) (Nottingham 1994). She completed a PhD in Health Psychology at the University of Nottingham in 2000. She took up a post as a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester in 2000 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001. Sarah worked part-time as Principal Research Fellow in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy from 2004-2012 undertaking research projects around child and public health. She took up the post of Professor of Public Health at Anglia Ruskin University in January 2013.

Research Interest

Sarah has undertaken a wide range of research projects which include exploring new nursing roles, involving children in healthcare and childhood obesity prevention. Her research is supported by funding from charities and the NHS. Sarah currently leads a distinctive research programme around childhood obesity prevention working with a multidisciplinary team comprising academics from the Universities of Nottingham (Professors Cris Glazebrook and Min Yang and Dr Judy Swift) and Lincoln (Professor Aloysius Niro Siriwardena) and clinicians (Dr Dilip Nathan, Pippa Atkinson). The Early Prediction and Prevention of Obesity during Childhood (EPPOC) research programme is exploring ways of identifying and intervening with parents of infants who are at risk of developing childhood obesity. More details about the research can be found on the University of Nottingham website.

Sarah is also working within an interdisciplinary team that is developing and evaluating an intervention to improve motor skills in premature infants. Helping Premature Infants ON to better motor skills (HOP-ON) project has been funded by Action Medical Research/Henry Smith Institute. This research project currently supports one of her PhD students who is developing a scale to assess the quality of motor movement in premature infants. More details about the HOP-ON study can be found on the University of Nottingham website.

Sarah has an emerging research interest in empowering children and young people to identify and engage in issues around their health and healthcare. In 2010 she co-authored a book with Adrian Hastings at the University of Leicester entitled 'Listening to Children and Young People in Healthcare Consultations'. She is currently supervising two PhD students at the University of Nottingham who are using innovative methodologies to undertake research with children and young people.

Selected Publications

Weng SF, Redsell SA, Swift JA, Yang M, Glazebrook C. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the risk factors for childhood overweight that can be identified during infancy. Archives of Diseases in Childhood. Published on-line 30th October 2012, m.adc.bmj.com/content/early/2012/09/26/archdischild-2012-302263.full
Highly accessed paper

Redsell SA, Swift JA, Nathan D, Siriwardena AN, Atkinson P, Glazebrook C. UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing childhood obesity. Maternal and Child Nutrition. Published on-line 2nd July 2012, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00427.x/pdf

Redsell SA, Atkinson P, Nathan D, Siriwardena AN, Swift J, Glazebrook C. Primary prevention of childhood obesity: views from primary care. Paper presented at the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health Annual Conference, Warwick UK, 5-7th April 2011. Abstract published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2011, Suppl 1, 96, A9-A11.

Redsell SA, Atkinson P, Nathan D, Siriwardena AN, Swift JA, Glazebrook C. Preventing childhood obesity during infancy in UK primary care: a mixed-methods study of HCPs' knowledge, beliefs and practice. BMC Family Practice, 2011, 12:54 www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/12/54 Highly accessed paper.

Redsell SA, Atkinson P, Nathan D, Siriwardena AN, Swift J, Glazebrook C. Parent?s beliefs about appropriate size, growth and feeding during infancy: implications for the prevention of childhood obesity. BMC Public Health, 2010, 10:711 www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/711 Highly accessed paper

Redsell SA, Atkinson P, Nathan D, Siriwardena AN, Swift J, Glazebrook C.UK parents' beliefs about infant growth and feeding in relation to obesity prevention. Poster presented at The 3rd Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies (EAPS) Copenhagen, Denmark, October 23-26, 2010. Abstract published in Paediatric Research, 2010, 210, 409.

Publications that explore issues associated with the involvement of children and young people in healthcare.

Hemingway P, Redsell SA. Children and young people?s participation in healthcare consultations in the emergency department. International Emergency Nursing, 2011, 196 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2011.06.003

Redsell SA, Hastings AM. Eds. Listening to Children and Young People in Healthcare Consultations, 2010, Radcliffe Publishing, Abingdon, Oxon, UK.

McPherson AC, Redsell SA. Factors affecting children's involvement in asthma consultations: a questionnaire survey of general practitioners and primary care asthma nurses. Primary Care Respiratory Journal, 2009, 18, 1, 15-20 www.thepcrj.org/journ/vol18/18_1_15_20.pdf