Caring from a Distance: using new and familiar means of keeping in touch with family and friends in care homes during COVID-19

Caroline White, Jane Wray, Clare Whitfield and Emma Wolverson:

are carrying out a new study 'Caring from a Distance: using new and familiar means of keeping in touch with family and friends in care homes during COVID-19' via an online survey

A fifty mile round trip to change a lightbulb’: An exploratory study of carers’ experiences of providing help, care and support to families and friends from a distance

Caroline White, Jane Wray and Clare Whitfield have published:

White C, Wray J, Whitfield C (2020) A fifty mile round trip to change a lightbulb: An exploratory study of carers’ experiences of providing help, care and support to families and friends from a distance

Health and Social Care in the Community doi: 10.1111/hsc.12988

aDolescents gEnder surVey, rEsponsible coupLes evaluatiOn, and capacity building Project in India (DEVELOP): a study protocol

Anand Ahanhari, Mark Hayter & Clare Whitfield have published:

aDolescents gEnder surVey, rEsponsible coupLes evaluatiOn, and capacity building Project in India (DEVELOP): a study protocol F100Research

‘Other Girls’: A Qualitative Exploration of Teenage Mothers’ Views on Teen Pregnancy in Contemporaries

Catriona Jones, Clare Whitfield, Julie Seymour & Mark Hayter have co-authored:

‘Other Girls’: A Qualitative Exploration of Teenage Mothers’ Views on Teen Pregnancy in Contemporaries Sexuality & Culture doi: 10.1007/s12119-019-09589-4

ADolescents GEnder SurVey, REsponsible CoupLes EvaluatiOn, and Capacity Building Project in India (DEVELOP)

GCRF pump priming funding has been obtained as follows:

Project team

• Members involved from the University of Hull: Prof Mark Hayter (PI), Dr Anand Ahankari (co-I), and Dr Clare Whitfield (co-I)

• University of Hull is leading on this project with the help of following partners from India, 1. SWISSAID, 2. Halo Medical Foundation, 3. Prof Shruti Tambe, University of Pune, India

• Additionally two academics are also involved in this programme: Dr Parveen Ali (University of Sheffield), and Dr Pavel Ovseiko (University of Oxford). 

Project summary

In India, gender discrimination and related violence cause serious health, wellbeing and development challenges affecting girls and women–particularly in deprived communities. Work to address these problems in communities are a key aim of local, regional and national health and social agencies in India. To address these challenges, the team at the University of Hull is partnering with three institutes in India who are working to improve gender equality and tackle gender related violence through community based projects. The UK team will help the Indian partners to design projects to involve young boys and girls in gender equality practices. Further, an evaluation of the on-going ‘responsible couples’ project will allow them to develop a national level initiative to reduce violence against women/girls. The project will also develop the research skills of local health staff, and help them design a future research and development projects to improve gender equality in India.

Mark Hayter

Anand Ahankari

Clare Whitfield

Providing Support and Care at a Distance

Do you provide help, support or care to an adult family member or friend who lives at a distance from you?

If so, we would like to invite you to take part in a research project called ‘Providing Support and Care at a Distance’. The research will help us to better understand the experiences and needs of people providing help and support at a distance from the person they care about. These experiences may be different to those of people who care for someone they live with or who lives locally.

You are invited to take part in the research if:

• You are aged 18 or over
• You provide help, care or support to another adult (aged 18 or over), living in the UK, who lives at a distance from you (that is, it takes at least 1 hour to travel to see them), or you have provided this kind of support in the past 2 years.

The person you support may need help due to old age; dementia; a learning, physical or sensory disability; mental health needs; ill health or frailty. They may live in their own home or a care home.
You can take part in the research by completing a confidential online questionnaire. This is available at this link. If you prefer, the researchers can send you a paper copy of the questionnaire along with an SAE for your response (please see below for our contact details). The questionnaire will ask you about the kinds of help and support you provide; any challenges you experience; the things that help you provide support from a distance. All questions are optional; you can provide as little or as much information as you wish.
The research is being carried out at the University of Hull by Caroline White, Jane Wray and Clare Whitfield. Please email Caroline White  or phone: 01482 463830 if you would like more information about the research or if you would like to receive a copy of the questionnaire. You can also follow us on Twitter at @dist_care

Clare Whitfield FHEA

Dr Clare Whitfield, Lecturer, has been awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Faculty poster at 2016 summer Learning & Teaching Conference

Peter Draper writes: The Faculty made a big contribution to the University Learning and Teaching conference this year, as  three teams displayed posters with details of their work.  The title of Jan Hunter and Michelle Chappell’s work was ‘Academic support tutor (AST): what has changed’?  Clare Whitfield, Michelle Kennedy and Julie MacDonald presented a poster entitled ‘Support provided to international students studying in FHSC’.  The work behind both of these posters was undertaken during the Fast Track Teaching and Learning programme.

Additionally, Jennifer Loke and Emma Bush worked with Bryant K Lee (HYMS) to present their poster ‘Caring Behaviours: A mixed methods approach to establish the effects of a blended approach to learning’.

Congratulations to all of these colleagues on their excellent presentations.

Michelle Kennedy, Julie MacDonald
and Clare Whitfield

Jan Hunter

Emma (left) and Jennifer (centre)
with Bryant Lee (HYMS) and their poster

With other Faculty colleagues

Community Garden project involving Clare Whitfield

Dr Clare Whitfield

Clare Whitfield is involved in the Giroscape Garden Project.

Read about it here.

Funding success for Jennifer Loke, Carol Purcell,Clare Whitfield and Emma Bush

Jennifer, Carol, Clare and Emma have been successful in obtaining an Innovations in Student Learning Fund for:

Dr Jennifer Loke

Dr Carol Purcell

 Caring Behaviours: Effects of blended approach using high fidelity simulation learning and podcasting 

Dr Clare Whitfield

New publication

Clare Whitfield, Julie Jomeen, Mark Hayter and Eric Gardiner Have published:

Sexual health information seeking: a survey of adolescent practices Journal of Clinical Nursing doi: 10.1111/jocn.12192