Nicola Small, PhD, MSc, BA (Hons)

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Research Associate, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research

Research interests

Nicola is a health services researcher at the University of Manchester with research interests including, understanding and measuring patient experience, and health inequalities.

Nicola's NIHR SPCR Launching Fellowship 2020 enabled her to complete some early intervention work with significant patient and public involvement exploring how best to utilise patient reported outcome measure (PROM) feedback in older people with multiple long-term conditions in primary care. 

Nicola's doctoral research involved understanding and measuring empowerment in patients with long-term conditions in primary care. She led on the development and preliminary validation of the Empowerment Scale (ES) - a patient reported outcome measure (PROM) freely available to use, and is her most cited work to date with worldwide impact. Her PROM has recieved huge International research and knowledge transfer since it was first preliminary validated in a sample of older people with multiple long-term conditions in the United Kingdom. Nicola's PROM has now been cross-culturally validated globally with different long-term condition populations, and 11 languages:

  • Spain: elderly patients with heart failure
  • Portugal: elderly patients with long-term conditions
  • Canada (Quebec): elderly patients with myotonic dystrophy
  • United States: obese, African adolescents and parents in underserved populations
  • Belgium, Sweden and Denmark: adolescents with congenital heart disease
  • China: elderly patients with long-term conditions

 

Teaching

Joint Lead for Social Responsibility for the Division

Academic advisor, mentor and mentee

Journal reviewer to: Health Expectations, BMC Series, BMJ Open, BJGP

My collaborations

  • Professor Caroline Sanders, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care
  • Dr Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Divisin of Population Health , Health Services Research and Primary Care
  • Professor Peter Bower, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care 
  • Dr Brian McMillan, Divison of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care
  • Professor William Dixon, Divison of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences
  • Professor John McBeth, Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences
  • Professor Karina Lovell, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
  • Professor Penny Bee, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
  • Dr Peter Coventry, Health Sciences, University of York
  • Professor Carolyn Chew Graham, Primary Care Health Sciences, Keele University
  • Professor Joanne Protheroe, Primary Care Health Sciences, Keele University

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Division Social Responsibility Joint Lead

NIHR Academy member

Society for Academy Primary Care member and mentee

MRC Hub for Trials member

Regional Representative for North West UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA)

Methodological knowledge

Health services research

Health psychology

Psychometric

Scale development

Systematic review

Mixed method

Randomised controlled trial

SWAT (study-within-a-trial)

Patient and public involvement

Co-production

Ethics and research governance

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester

Health Psychology (MSc with Distinction, Stage 1, BPS accredited), Staffordshire University

Psychology with Art (BA Degree with Honours, BPS accredited), University of Chester

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

External positions

Review Editor for Health Policy and Organization Frontiers in Health Services, Health Policy and Organization Frontiers in Health Services

Jun 2021 → …

Regional representative, UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA) Representative for the North West

2019 → …

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Digital Futures
  • Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing
  • Health Inequalities

Keywords

  • Patient and public involvement and engagement
  • mixed methods research
  • qualitative research methods
  • patient reported outcome measures
  • multimorbidity
  • elderly
  • patient empowerment
  • digital health
  • psychometrics
  • feedback
  • patient experience
  • co-design
  • co-production
  • systematic review

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