Dr Becky Field

PhD (Heath Services Research)

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Associate

b.field@sheffield.ac.uk

Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Dr Becky Field
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Profile

I am a research associate in Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS), working as a qualitative researcher on the SIPHER consortium.

I completed a PhD in June 2020. My PhD research focused on acceptance and rejection of psychosocial interventions by people living with early dementia after diagnosis. This involved qualitative research methods, interviewing people living with early dementia, family members and staff working with them. My supervisors were Professor Gail Mountain and Dr Elizabeth Coates.

I first joined ScHARR (Health Services Research) as a Research Associate in February 2013 after completing an MSc in Clinical Research at ScHARR in 2012. I then worked on an NIHR programme grant evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of an occupational therapy intervention for people living with dementia and their family carers, followed by projects evaluating and developing services in the NHS. Prior to joining ScHARR, I was employed as a state registered occupational therapist in the National Health Service (NHS). I have worked in a variety of clinical settings, but mostly in community brain injury rehabilitation.

Current projects and research interests

I work as part of the SIPHER (Systems Science in Public Health and Health Economic Research) consortium, funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership, to provide insight into how people value different policy and societal outcomes affecting health and well-being.

My research interests are how public policy and health services can support health and well-being, particularly in relation to dementia, older people, active aging and occupational therapy.

Qualifications: PhD (Heath Services Research), MSc Clinical Research, University Diploma, Occupational Therapy, BA Hons.

Research interests: My research interests are how public policy and health services can support health and well-being. I am interested in qualitative research methodologies, including deliberative methods. I am particularly interested in dementia, older people, active aging, occupational therapy, assistive technology, knowledge translation/implementation and involving AHPs in research.

Publications

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Journal articles

Aldawood A, Hind D, Rushton S & Field B (2024) Theories, models and frameworks to understand barriers to the provision of mobility-assistive technologies: a scoping review. BMJ Open, 14(5), e080633-e080633.
Lanfranchi V, Jones N, Read J, Fegan C, Field R, Simpson E, Revitt C, Cudd P & Ciravegna F (2022) User attitudes towards virtual home assessment technologies. Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology. View this article in WRRO
Field B, Coates E & Mountain G (2021) What influences uptake of psychosocial interventions by people living with early dementia? A qualitative study. Dementia.
Field B, Read J, Jones N, Fegan C & Lanfranchi V (2020) Occupational therapists need to be involved in developing and evaluating technological solutions to support remote working. British Journal of Occupational Therapy. View this article in WRRO
Field B, Mountain G, Burgess J, Di Bona L, Kelleher D, Mundy J & Wenborn J (2019) Recruiting hard to reach populations to studies: breaking the silence: an example from a study that recruited people with dementia. BMJ Open, 9(11). View this article in WRRO
Field B, Coates E & Mountain G (2019) Influences on uptake of a community occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and their family carers. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 82(1), 38-47. View this article in WRRO
Di Bona L, Field B, Read J, Jones N, Fowler Davis S, Cudd P & Evans L (2019) Weaving a clinical academic career: Illuminating the method and pattern to follow. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 82(1), 60-64. View this article in WRRO
Di Bona L, Wenborn J, Field B, Hynes SM, Ledgerd R, Mountain G & Swinson T (2017) Enablers and challenges to occupational therapists’ research engagement: A qualitative study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy. View this article in WRRO
Hynes SM, Field B, Ledgerd R, Swinson T, Wenborn J, di Bona L, Moniz-Cook E, Poland F & Orrell M (2016) Exploring the need for a new UK occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and family carers: Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia (COTiD). A focus group study. Aging & Mental Health, 20(7), 762-769. View this article in WRRO
Field B, Booth A, Ilott I & Gerrish K (2014) Using the Knowledge to Action Framework in practice: a citation analysis and systematic review. Implementation Science, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
Ilott I, Gerrish K, Booth A & Field B (2012) Testing the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research on health care innovations from South Yorkshire. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, n/a-n/a. View this article in WRRO
Field B, Smith KE, Hill O'Connor C, Wickramasekera N & Tsuchiya A () Exploring social preferences for health and wellbeing across the digital divide. A qualitative investigation based on tasks taken from an online discrete choice experiment. Value in Health.
Wenborn J, Mountain G, Moniz-Cook E, Poland F, King M, Omar R, O’Keeffe A, Morris S, Pizzo E, Michie S , Vernooij-Dassen M et al () Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia intervention for people with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers in the UK: the VALID research programme including RCT. Programme Grants for Applied Research, 1-76.
Jones NL, Read J, Field B, Fegan C, Simpson E, Revitt C, Lanfranchi V & Ciranvenga F () Remote home visits: Exploring the concept and applications of remote home visits within health and social care settings. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 030802262110002-030802262110002.

Conference proceedings papers

Field B, Coates E & Mountain G (2019) INTERVENTIONS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OFFER PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AFTER DIAGNOSIS: INFLUENCES ON UPTAKE. BRITISH JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, Vol. 82 (pp 59-59)
Field B (2017) Identifying influences on take-up of a community occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and their family carers. BRITISH JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, Vol. 80 (pp 36-37)

Reports

Read J, Ariss S, Nasr N, Franklin M, Dawson J, Scott E, Field R, Lowrie K, Simmonds R & Cook L (2018) Sheffield City Region Test Bed, ‘Perfect Patient Pathway’ Final Evaluation Report View this article in WRRO

Teaching interests: I am involved in marking dissertations and supervising masters students within ScHARR.

Teaching activities: Deputy module lead for Practical Aspects of Clinical Research, MSc Clinical Research; assignment and dissertation marking MSc Clinical Research, MSc Public Health; seminar facilitation for undergraduate medical students.

Professional activities and memberships: Member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) ; Publications Group RCOT member & current chair; RCOT Specialist Section - Older People; State registered Occupational Therapist, Health Professions Council (OT31235) ; British Association of Occupational Therapy (BT0217931); Member of Interdem and NIHR Dementia Portfolio Working Group Dementia ECR network

Key publications

Field B et al (2020) "Occupational therapists need to be involved in developing and evaluating technological solutions to support remote working" (awaiting publication; accepted by the British Journal of Occupational Therapy)

Field B, Coates E and Mountain G (2019) ‘Influences on uptake of a community occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and their family carers’, British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 82(1), pp. 38–47. doi: 10.1177/0308022618804479.

Field B, Mountain G, et al Recruiting hard to reach populations to studies: breaking the silence. An example from a study that recruited people with dementia. BMJOpen 9(11) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030829

Field B, Booth A, Ilott I, Gerrish K Using the Knowledge to Action Framework in practice: a citation analysis and systematic review Implementation Science 9(1):Dec 2014

Di Bona, L, Field B, Read, J et al (2018) Weaving a clinical academic career: illuminating the method and pattern to follow British Journal of Occupational Therapy 82(1) p. 030802261878425. doi: 10.1177/0308022618784258.

Di Bona, L Wenborn J, Field, B Hynes, S, Ledgerd R, Mountain G and Swinson T (2017) Enablers and challenges to occupational therapists research engagement: a qualitative study British Journal of Occupational Therapy 1-9 published online 11 Aug 2017 doi:10.1177/0308022617719218

Hynes SM, Field B, et al (2016) Exploring the need for a new UK occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and family carers: Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia (COTiD). A focus group study. Aging & Mental Health 20(7):762-769

Ilott I, Gerrish K, Booth A, Field B (2013) Testing the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research on health care innovations from South Yorkshire Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 19 (5). 915 – 924

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