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Professor Darren Flynn

Professor

Department: Nursing, Midwifery & Health

Professor of Applied Health and Social Care Research, and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Practitioner Health Psychologist; Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS); Associate Fellow of the BPS (AFBPsS); Applied Psychology Practice Supervisor; and Accredited Coordinating Supervisor for the Stage 2 Qualification in Health Psychology (qualified to supervise trainee health psychologists for registration with the HCPC as Practitioner Health Psychologists).

I have over 20 years’ experience of providing health psychology expertise and leadership to complex multi-phase, multi-disciplinary applied and translational research across the entire sphere of influence in health psychology (i.e. application of psychological theory/methods to behavioural management of health conditions; health promotion; psychological factors associated with health; and quality improvement in both healthcare practice and policy) across a range of topics: acute stroke, type 2 diabetes, heart failure, fatty liver disease and mental health conditions.

I am a mixed methods researcher with expertise in complex systematic reviews, survey design, preference-based methods (Delphi technique and discrete choice experiments), qualitative interviewing, interactive group workshops, and statistical analysis (in particular time series analysis).

Darren Flynn

I am particularly interested in co-design and evaluation of person-centred care / personalised care interventions (shared decision making, social prescribing, personalised care planning, and supported self-management), complex health and lifestyle behaviour change interventions for people living with mental and physical health multimorbidity, delivery of training to healthcare professionals to equip them with the knowledge/skills to deliver behavioural interventions to their patients, risk communication, and health literacy.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Barriers and Facilitators to the Design and Delivery of Social Prescribing Services to Support Adult Mental Health: Perspectives of Social Prescribing Service Providers, Cooper, M., Flynn, D., Scott, J., Ashley, K., Avery, L. 30 Sep 2024, In: Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Conceptualising Social Prescribing in Urgent and Emergency Care, Cooper, M., Nazar, H., Flynn, D., Redelsteiner, C., Agarwal, G., Scott, J. 21 Oct 2024, In: Future Healthcare Journal
  • Exercise-based interventions targeting balance and falls in people with COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Loughran, K., Emerson, J., Avery, L., Suri, S., Flynn, D., Kaner, E., Rapley, T., Martin, D., McPhee, J., Fernandes-James, C., Harrison, S. 2024, In: European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society
  • Exploring service providers’ perceptions of the barriers and enablers to recruitment of service users into social prescribing research, Cooper, M., Scott, J., Avery, L., Ashley, K., Flynn, D. 22 May 2024, In: Cogent Psychology
  • Identifying the active ingredients of training interventions for healthcare professionals to promote and support increased levels of physical activity in adults with heart failure: A systematic review, Ashley, K., Tang, M., Flynn, D., Cooper, M., Errington, L., Avery, L. 2 Apr 2024, In: Health Psychology Review
  • Patient and clinician priorities for information on treatment outcomes for advanced ovarian cancer: a Delphi exercise, Baxter, K., Agnew, H., Morgan, J., Holland, C., Flynn, D., Edmondson, R. 1 Sep 2024, In: Journal of Gynecologic Oncology
  • Stroke survivor views on ambulance redirection as a strategy to increase access to thrombectomy in England, Alton, A., Flynn, D., Burgess, D., Ford, G., Price, C., James, M., McMeekin, P., Allen, M., Shaw, L., White, P. 1 Jun 2024, In: British Paramedic Journal
  • Habitual physical activity levels of adults with heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis, Jordan, C., Charman, S., Batterham, A., Flynn, D., Houghton, D., Errington, L., Macgowan, G., Avery, L. 1 Sep 2023, In: Heart
  • Identifying behavioural barriers and facilitators to engaging men in a community-based lifestyle intervention to improve physical and mental health and well-being, Bell, O., Flynn, D., Clifford, T., West, D., Stevenson, E., Avery, L. 6 Mar 2023, In: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Interventions for improving clinical outcomes and health-related quality-of-life for people living with skeletal dysplasias: an evidence gap map, Moy, N., Flynn, D., Henriquez, J., Connelly, L., Vale, L., Paolucci, F. 1 Oct 2023, In: Quality of Life Research

Holly Hare Exploring Social Prescribing to Support Older People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Q-methodology Study Start Date: 01/03/2022 End Date: 11/10/2024

  • Psychology PhD June 15 2007
  • Practitioner Health Psychologist


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