Staff profiles
Katarzyna Machaczek
Research Fellow
Phone 0114 225 5654
E-mail k.machaczek@shu.ac.uk
Katarzyna Machaczek is a research fellow in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research. She gained her BSc and MSc in Public Health.
Research Interest:
Katarzyna's research interest include:
- Patient Safety, in particular communication between doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
- Human factors for patient safety.
Prevention of depression and other mental health problems.
Current and most recent projects
2012 Collaborator - Social Capital, Resilience and Health in the City of Hull. PI Professor Geoff Green. Grant value - £40,000. Funding Body - NHS Hull.
2012 Collaborator - Second Life for the Third Age. PI Dr Ben Heller. Grant value - £10,000. Funding Body - a National Institute of Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in applied Research and Care (CLARHC).
2010/2011 Principal Investigator - Improving the long-term persistence of effects of interventions aimed at encouraging the routine practice of physical activity among individuals in the pre-clinical stage of anxiety and depression. Grant value - £50,000. Funding Body - Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust.
2010/2011 Collaborator - Engaging coping strategies for enhanced use of assistive technology PI Dr Alaster Yoxall. Grant value - £2,500. Funding Body - Engineering for life, SHU.
2010/2011 Collaborator - Second lives for the third age. [Evaluating the feasibility of relating physical interface (Second Lives for the Third Age, SLTA) to emotional wellbeing and mental health.] PI Dr Ben Heller. Grant value - £5,000. Funding Body - Engineering for life, SHU.
2011 Principal Investigator - Identify gaps in nurses' professional competencies for conducting patient handover and to address their competency gaps through providing nurses with an innovative VET programme and guidebook on how to conduct handover safely and effectively. Grant value - £860. Funding Body - ECORYS, Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation, the European Commission.
2010 Collaborator - Every Contact Counts: Economic Evaluation. PI Professor Malcolm Whitfield. Grant value - £24,000. Funding Body - NHS Yorkshire & the Humber.
2008-2010 Project Manager - Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to City Level Public Health Planning & Investment in Europe, PI Professor Malcolm Whitfield. Grant value - £355,000. Funding Body - Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation, the European Commission.
2008-2010 Collaborator - Bridging the Gap of General Practitioners Competence on European Market, PI, UK, Professor Malcolm Whitfield. Grant value - £355,000. Funding Body - Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation, the European Commission.
Articles and reports
Machaczek K., Whitfield M., Ismail M., (2010) Patient Relationship, GPs' competency areas in health promotion and disease prevention. In Guidebook for teachers of family medicine on health promotion and disease prevention. The College of Family Physicians in Poland.
Whitfield M., Machaczek K., Ismail M., (2010) Child
and Maternal Health. GPs' competency areas in health promotion and
disease prevention. In Guidebook for teachers of family medicine on health
promotion and disease prevention. The College of Family Physicians in Poland.
Whitfield M., Machaczek K., Quishat D., Okasheh R., (2010) Scoping the economic case for the Health Behaviour Competence Framework. NHS Yorkshire and the Humber.
Payne K., de Normanville C., Stansfield K., Barnett N., Machaczek K., Qutishat D., Okasheh R., Ion V., Wicks H., Smewing Ch., (2010) Prevention and Lifestyle Behaviour Change A Competence Framework.
Machaczek K., Carr A., Whitfield M., (2010) A randomised controlled trial of the use of motivational enhancement techniques to improve engagement in and adherence to programmed physical activity in people with mental health problems and high CVD risk. The 3rd International Conference on - Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2010) - Navigating the Fragmented Innovation Landscape'. Conference Proceedings.
Conference presentations
Machaczek K., Green G., Whitfield, M., (2011) Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to City Level Public Health Investment in European Cities; The 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Exercise and Sports Science (APCESS 2011) Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.
Machaczek K., Carr A., Whitfield M., (2010) A randomised controlled trial of the use of motivational enhancement techniques to improve engagement in and adherence to programmed physical activity in people with mental health problems and high CVD risk. The 3rd International Conference on 'Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2010) - Navigating the Fragmented Innovation Landscape'. Conference Proceedings, Turku, Finland.
Whitfield M.; Machaczek K, (2010) Developing an evidence-based approach to city level Public Health Investment in Europe. 18 Annual Forum, The UK Public Health Association, Bournemouth, UK.
Smith T., Machaczek K., (2007) What is the evidence for the impact of Leadership development and enhanced performance of healthcare organisations? Leadership and Management Development Symposium, European Health Management Association Conference. Lyon, France.
