Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr
NIHR School for Primary Care Research Fellow
Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research
Nicola is a health services researcher based in the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care at the University of Manchester with research interests in understanding patient experience. Nicola's NIHR SPCR Launching Fellowship 2020 enabled her to complete some early intervention work with significant public involvement exploring how best to utilise patient reported outcome measure (PROM) feedback in older people with multiple long-term conditions in primary care. This research is informing further research to co-produce a new intervention with her public partners as co-applicants with a team of empowerment and implementation experts.
Nicola's doctoral research involved the understanding and measurement of 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:
Scale reduction and refinement development work is currently underway. This study is using Rasch Analysis, and cognitive interviewing techniques, to shorten and refine the items in the 47-item ES, and to test it's psychometric properies in a UK empowerment feasability study to refine the measurement properties of the ES for acceptable future use in health interventions and trials.
Chair to Proportionate Review University Research Ethics Commitee
Joint Lead for Social Responsibility for the Division
Academic advisor, mentor and mentee
Journal reviewer to Health Expectations, BMC Series, BMJ Open, BJGP
Proportionate University Research Ethics Committee Chair
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)
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
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
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):
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 output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Small, Nicola (Recipient), Mar 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Small, Nicola (Recipient), 12 May 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Small, Nicola (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Small, Nicola (Recipient), Jul 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Nadine Mirza (Invited speaker), Nicola Small (Invited speaker) & Magdalena Nowakowska (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Small, N. (Contributor), Brooks, H. (Contributor), Grundy, A. (Contributor), Pedley, R. (Contributor), Gibbons, C. (Contributor), Lovell, K. (Contributor) & Bee, P. (Contributor), figshare , 13 Apr 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3742370.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Understanding_experiences_of_and_preferences_for_service_user_and_carer_involvement_in_physical_health_care_discussions_within_mental_health_care_planning/3742370/1
Dataset
Coventry, P. (Contributor), Small, N. (Contributor), Panagioti, M. (Contributor), Adeyemi, I. (Contributor) & Bee, P. (Contributor), figshare , 24 Nov 2015
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3621212.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Living_with_complexity_marshalling_resources_a_systematic_review_and_qualitative_meta-synthesis_of_lived_experience_of_mental_and_physical_multimorbidity/3621212/1
Dataset
Aylett, E. (Contributor), Small, N. (Contributor) & Bower, P. (Contributor), figshare , 16 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4167467.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Exercise_in_the_treatment_of_clinical_anxiety_in_general_practice_a_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis/4167467/1
Dataset
Supervisor: Bower, P. (Supervisor) & Chew-Graham, C. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Phd