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Dr Andrew Turner

Title: Senior Research Fellow
Subject group/area: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Health
Telephone: +44 (0)24 7688 7459
Email: a.turner@coventry.ac.uk
Room: WF113
Main Duties:
  • Applied Research in Living  and coping with a long-term health conditions and the Expert Patient Programme at undergraduate and postgraduate level
  • Postgraduate research (PhD supervision)
Other responsibilities:
  • Member School Research Degrees Committee
Education:
  • PhD Psychology
  • BA (Hons) Applied Social Sciences
Employment:
  • Senior Research Fellow, Coventry University
Research:
  • Expert Patient and self-managememnt
  • Developing health  & Lifestyle interventions for general population
  • Help to Overcome Problems Effectively (HOPE) programme, a  health  & lifestyle for patients and their carers 
  • Long-term psychosocial consequences of playing professional football
Selected professional activities:
  • British Medical Association Fellowiship 1999
  • Regular media interviews and reports
  • Journal of Health Psychology, Patient Education & Counseling, Psychology & Health
  • Member of British Psychological Society
Selected publications:

Turner AP, & Barlow JH. (2007). The Expert Patients Programme: A resource for GPs treating chronic disease and co-existing common mental health problems? Mental Health Review Journal. 12, 4-6

Edwards, R., Barlow, J. & Turner, A. Experiences of Diagnosis and Treatment among People with Multiple Sclerosis. Accepted for publication Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.

Edwards, R., Turner, A., Hammond, C. & Barlow, J. (2007). Generating Interest in the Chronic Disease Self-management Course: What Makes a Successful Press-release? Health Psychology Update, 16, 1 & 2, 39-44.

Turner AP.Hammond, CH; Barlow JH.  (2007). Coventry University students’  experience of mental health problems.  Accepted for publication. Counselling Quarterly.

Barlow, JH, Turner, AP, Hammond CH, & Gailey L. (2007). Living with late deafness: Insight from between worlds. Accepted for publication International Journal of Audiology.

Turner, AP, Barlow, JH, Buszewicz, M, Rait, G, & Atkinson, A (2006). Lay beliefs about the causes of osteoarthritis among primary care patients. Accepted for publication Arthritis Care & Research.   
Selected Awards/Grants:

Barlow JH; Wallace, L; Turner AP Health Foundation Clinician/patient self-management and service redesign: An evaluation of The Health Foundation’s Co-creating Health initiative. 01/03/2007- 01/10/2010    £749,721

Baxter A, Wallace, LW Turner AP Warwick West Midlands Primary Care Network. Barriers homeless young people face in addressing NHS policy01/04/2007-01/10/2007.£6,000.

Hipwell, A, Turner AP, Barlow JB,  Adebajo, A. Phillips J (2007). Facilitators and barriers associated with psycho-educational self-management interventions among South Asian people with musculoskeletal conditions. Arthritis Research Campaign, Educational Research Fellowship (£110,892)

Turner, AP, Barlow, JH. A preliminary evaluation of Association  for Young ME telephone and support worker services. Association for Young ME  (£3,000)

Turner, AP, Barlow, JH, & Singh S. Patients' experiences of a community-based cardiac rehabilitation  programme: a qualitative study.  Coventry Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme via Lottery Fund. (£6000)

Turner, AP, Barlow, JH, Peapell, E. Is lay-led self-management relevant and suitable for Asians who have a chronic disease. Warwick West Midlands Primary Care Research Network. (February, 2005, £4,975)

Turner, Barlow, Wright, Coventry University, PhD studentship: Reducing health inequalities among participants on self-management courses. 1.11.04 – 31.10.07.  £42,000)

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