Staff profiles
Dr Susan Nancarrow
PhD, MAppSc (Research), BAppSc
Phone 0114 225 5915
E-mail s.a.nancarrow@shu.ac.uk
Dr Susan Nancarrow is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research. She joined the university in August 2001. Susan qualified as a podiatrist at Queensland University of Technology in 1993 and has a research masters (also from QUT) and a PhD from the Australian National University.
Susan has recently returned to Sheffield Hallam University after a two year secondment to Trent Research and Development Support Unit (RDSU) as the primary care research coordinator, based at The University of Sheffield. Prior to moving to Sheffield in 2001, she worked in Australia a range of clinical and management roles, including aboriginal health, multidisciplinary team leader for a community health service and as part of a primary care team in northern India. Susan is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, University of Canberra, Australia.
Susan has been actively involved in research since 1996 when she started investigating lower limb complications associated with diabetes. Later, her interest in health services research developed as a result of work with a community health organisation, and through her PhD studies. Her current research interests are around workforce development and workforce flexibility, particularly as they relate to primary care, allied health and older peoples' services. She is also actively involved in building research capacity within the allied health professions within the NHS and social care.
Susan is the principal investigator on a £300,000, SDO funded workforce research project investigating the impact of workforce flexibility on the costs and outcomes of older peoples' services (The COOP Workforce Project). Much of her recent research has involved the investigation of workforce dynamics, particularly in the context of multidisciplinary services, community rehabilitation, and the care of older people. She has undertaken a number of research projects and consultancies in this field.
Other projects with which she is involved include a project funded by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to develop measures for effective service user and carer participation. Susan was recently a collaborator on a Department of health funded scoping review to identify the evidence base for research capacity development in health and social care (Re:CAP).
Susan has published widely in the area of workforce change, and in particular, in the development of support workers in older peoples' services. Together with her colleague, Hazel Mackey she edited 'Enabling Independence: A guide for rehabilitation workers' (Blackwell, 2006) which is the first interdisciplinary text for this audience.
