Dr Katarzyna Karolina Machaczek PhD, MSc, BSc

Department of Nursing and Midwifery

Health And Wellbeing

NIHR. Research Capability Funding, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. The application and evaluation of an innovative Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) care pathway for the integration of physical activity into depression management. Machaczek, K.; Goyder, E.; Weich, S.; Allmark, P.; Shea, Mark.; Principal Investigator. 2017-2018. £20,000

NIHR. RDSYH Public Involvement Funding Award. Principal Investigator. 2016. £400

NIHR CLAHRC. Developing a decision aid to support informed family planning decisions for parents of children with a rare genetic condition (DECIGEN). Co-applicant, replacing a co-applicant who had left the project due to sickness (PI: Dr Hilary Piercy). 2014-2016 £201,698

Higher Education Innovation Funding [HEIF]. Developing a strategic platform to facilitate and focus collaborative working on translational research and knowledge exchange projects with four major Health and Social Care Organisations. Joint PI with Prof Childs. 2014- 2015. £165,000

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDasH). Developing Research Capacity at Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH). Principal Investigator. 2014-2015. £20,000

The Wellcome Trust. How might improving Financial Capability (FC) enhance health at an individual and population level?. Collaborator (PI: Dr Peter Allmark). 2014. £5,000 B. Braun Medical Ltd. Developing an in-house health economics capacity at B. Braun Medical Ltd. Joint PI with Prof Malcolm Whitfield. 2013-2014. £27,000

Hull City Council. Social Capital, Resilience and Health in the City of Hull. Co-applicant (PI: Professor Geoff Green). 2012. £40,000

NIHR CLAHRC. Second Life for the Third Age. Co-applicant (PI: Dr Ben Heller). 2012. £16,000

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. 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. Principal Investigator. 2011-2012. £50,000

Engineering for Life. Engaging coping strategies for enhanced use of assistive technology. Co-applicant (PI: Dr A. Yoxall). 2011. £2,500

Engineering for Life. 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.] Co-applicant (PI: Dr B. Heller). 2010-2011. £5,000

The European Commission. Lifelong Learning Programme. 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. Travel Grant. Principal Investigator. 2011. £860

NHS Yorkshire & the Humber. Every Contact Counts: Economic Evaluation. Co-applicant (PI: Professor Malcolm Whitfield). 2010. £24,000

The European Commission. Lifelong Learning Programme. Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to City Level Public Health Planning & Investment in Europe. Co-applicant (PI: Professor Malcolm Whitfield). 2008-2010. £355,000

The European Commission. Lifelong Learning Programme. Bridging the Gap of General Practitioners Competence on European Market. Collaborator (PI: Dr A. Windak). 2008-2010. £355,000

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. http://www.makingeverycontactcount.co.uk/docs/Prevention and Lifestyle Behaviour Change A Competence Framework.pdf

The NIHR CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Ecorys (Leonardo UK National Agency, ECOTEC Research and Consulting)

B Braun Medical Ltd

Journal articles

Quirk, H., Hock, E., Harrop, D., Crank, H., Peckham, E., Travis-Turner, G., ... Copeland, R. (2020). Understanding the experience of initiating community-based group physical activity by people with serious mental illness: a systematic review using a meta-ethnographic approach. European Psychiatry. http://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2020.93

Allmark, P., & Machaczek, K. (2018). Realism and pragmatism in a mixed methods study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74 (6), 1301-1309. http://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13523

Machaczek, K., Allmark, P., Goyder, E., Grant, G., Ricketts, T., Pollard, N., ... Green, G. (2018). A scoping study of interventions to increase the uptake of physical activity (PA) amongst individuals with mild-to-moderate depression (MMD). BMC Public Health, 18, 392. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5270-7

Grant, G., Pollard, N., Allmark, P., Machaczek, K., & Ramcharan, P. (2017). The social relations of a health walk group: an ethnographic study. Qualitative Health Research, 27 (11), 1701-1712. http://doi.org/10.1177/1049732317703633

Gee, M., Piercy, H., & Machaczek, K. (2017). Family planning decisions for parents of children with a rare genetic condition: a scoping review. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 14, 1-6. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2017.08.001

Piercy, H., Machaczek, K., Ali, P., & Yap, S. (2017). Parental experiences of raising a child with medium chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase deficiency. Global Qualitative Nursing research, 4, 1-8. http://doi.org/10.1177/2333393617707080

Grant, G., Machaczek, K., Pollard, N., & Allmark, P. (2017). Walking, sustainability and health: findings from a study of a Walking for Health group. Health and Social Care in the Community, 25 (3), 1218-1226. http://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12424

Cooper, D.M., Whitfield, M., Newton, D., Chiarella, J., & Machaczek, K. (2016). Introduction of a non-ported peripheral intravenous catheter with multi-use blood control septum offers improvements in the overall efficiency of the procedure and is clinically well accepted. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 15 (3), 177-193. https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=78336

Allmark, P., & Machaczek, K. (2015). Financial capability, health and disability. BMC Public Health, 15 (1), 785. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1589-5

Whitfield, M., Machaczek, K., & Green, G. (2013). Developing a model to estimate the potential impact of municipal investment on city health. Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 90 (1 Supp), 62-73. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-012-9763-x

Mcseveny, K., Heller, B., Light, A., & Machaczek, K. (2013). ‘You could, couldn’t you?’: a preliminary investigation of older people’s interaction with a bespoke virtual environment using a gesture interface. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 5 (3), 235-249. http://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.5.3.235_1

Machaczek, K., Whitfield, M., Kilner, K., & Allmark, P. (2013). Doctors' and nurses' perceptions of barriers to conducting handover in hospitals in the Czech Republic. American Journal of Nursing Research, 1 (1), 1-9. http://doi.org/10.12691/ajnr-1-1-1

Conference papers

Machaczek, K., Gee, M., Allmark, P., Weich, S., Goyder, E., & Shea, M. (2018). An innovative approach to integrating physical activity (PA) into the management of mild-to-moderate depression (MMD) (Abstract only). Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 15 (S1), S54. http://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2018-0535

Book chapters

Machaczek, K., Whitfield, M., & Ismail, M. (2010). Patient relationship. In Windak, A., Tomasik, T., & Domagala, A. (Eds.) Guidebook for teachers of family medicine on health promotion and disease prevention. (pp. 56-59). Krakow: Zdrowie i Zarządzanie: http://www.gapproject.klrwp.pl/products_g.html

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. In Suomi, R., & Ilveskoski, I. (Eds.) Navigating the fragmented innovation landscape. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS): http://tucs.fi:8080/publications/insight.php?id=bSuIl10a

Reports

Whitfield, M., & Machaczek, K. (2010). Scoping the economic case for the 'Health Behaviour Change' Competence Framework. Yorkshire and the Humber NHS. http://www.yorksandhumber.nhs.uk/document.php?o=7728

Payne, K., De Normanville, C., Stansfield, K., Barnett, N., Machaczek, K., Qutishat, D., ... Smewing, C. (2010). Prevention and lifestyle behaviour change : a competence framework. NHS Yorkshire and The Humber. http://www.makingeverycontactcount.co.uk/docs/Prevention%20and%20Lifestyle%20Behaviour%20Change%20A%20Competence%20Framework.pdf

Presentations

Machaczek, K., & Green, G. (2011). Developing an evidence-based approach to city level public health investment in European cities. Presented at: The 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Exercise and Sports Science (APCESS 2011), Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China, 2011

Whitfield, M., & Machaczek, K. (2010). Developing an evidence-based approach to city level public health investment in Europe. Presented at: 18th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum, Bournemouth, UK, 2010

Smith, T., & Machaczek, K. (2007). What is the evidence for the impact of Leadership development and enhanced performance of healthcare organisations? Presented at: Leadership and Management Development Symposium, European Health Management Association Conference, Lyon, France

I currently supervise two postgraduate students.

I am interested in supervising research students in topic areas such as health promotion, physical activity behaviour amongst different patient groups, and the impact of mindfulness on a range of mental and physical conditions.