In this episode of ScHARR Communicable Research podcast Fiona Campbell speaks to collaborators and advocates in relation to Intergenerational Research. The podcast was recorded in Falmouth at the Only Connect! conference in July 2022. In the podcast Fiona interviews some of the iGEN project team including Professor Jo Thompson Coon from the University of Exeter, Alison Clyde from Generations Working Together, consultants Iona Lawrence, Ellie Robinson-Carter, in addition to poet and advocate Ronald Amanze who wrote a poem about his experiences of loneliness

I was invited to contribute my thoughts

To a podcast on the subject of loneliness

Needing time to process my reply

I didn’t know what to say

Then later someone inquired

Ronald where have you been

And I just smile and said

I’ve been here, didn’t you see me

It’s lonely out here

Ronald Amanze

Jo Thompson Coon wrote a blog post about the Only Connect! Conference which you can read here. https://evidsynthteam.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/relationship-building-is-conscious-not-accidental-susan-langford-magic-me/

Fiona Campbell is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School for Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. She has a clinical nursing background in oncology nursing, district nursing and health visiting and has worked in this capacity both in the UK and developing country settings. These experiences led to a keen interest in the use of research to inform and improve health care and public health. She trained in systematic review methodology and  has conducted and published reviews for NICE, HTA and the Cochrane Collaboration. Her work has been used to inform NICE guidance for treatments for hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol use, hospital errors and approaches to increasing levels of physical activity. She has designed, led and published work on methodological aspects of systematic reviewing and teaches systematic review methodology to postgraduate students.

Fiona Campbell

Fiona Campbell on Twitter

Jo Thompson Coon

Evidence mapping review of intergenerational interventions and a systematic review to explore their effect on social and mental wellbeing of children and young people. NIHR Research Award

https://generationsworkingtogether.org/

https://www.ionaconsultancy.com/

https://ellierobinson-carter.com/

https://twitter.com/ronaldamanze

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