Ms Ellie Holding

BA Hons, MSc

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Fellow

e.holding@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0849

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G033a, Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Ms Ellie Holding
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
G033a
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Profile: I joined ScHARR in 2014 as a Research Associate in the Public Health section working on the Yorkshire Health Study through the CLAHRC YH Public Health and Inequalities Theme. Since then I have worked on a number of research projects in the areas of housing, child health, health care service delivery and social prescribing. My research interests include evaluations of complex interventions which seek to reduce health inequalities, particularly in relation to the impact of housing related issues on vulnerable populations. For example, I was recently PI to a NIHR SPHR funded evaluation of a housing intervention in two local hospitals.

Before joining ScHARR I completed an MSc in Public Health and Health Related Research at Newcastle University and worked as a Research Assistant in the Institute of Health and Society on a qualitative project on the impact of the Bedroom Tax on health and well-being in one of the most deprived areas in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Qualifications: MSc, BA Hons

Research interests: My research interests lie in the interaction between socioeconomic, cultural and behavioural factors and health inequalities, particularly in the case of residents of deprived communities. I have a particular interest in the impact of welfare reform and housing on vulnerable populations.

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Journal articles

Er V, Crowder M, Holding E, Woodrow N, Griffin N, Summerbell C, Egan M & Fairbrother H (2024) Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study. Health Promotion International, 39(4).
Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Holding E, Crowder M, Griffin N, Er V, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Scott S, Summerbell C , Rigby E et al (2024) ‘It depends on where you were born…here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: young people’s perspectives on a North-South health divide and its drivers in England, UK. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2018.
Holding E, Gettings R, Foster A, Dowrick L, Hampshaw S, Haywood A, Homer C, Booth A & Goyder E (2024) Developing the embedded researcher role: Learning from the first year of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC), Doncaster, UK. Public Health in Practice, 7, 100516-100516.
Dodd-Reynolds C, Griffin N, Kyle P, Scott S, Fairbrother H, Holding E, Crowder M, Woodrow N & Summerbell C (2024) Young people's experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK. BMC Public Health, 24(1). View this article in WRRO
Holding E, Foster A, Lumley E, Gilbertson J, Roxby S, Portman D, Holliday J, Peace A, Del Rosario I, Kahn W , Blank L et al (2023) Exploring the impact of a housing support service on hospital discharge: a mixed-methods process evaluation in two UK hospital trusts. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2023. View this article in WRRO
Griffin N, Crowder M, Kyle P, Holding E, Woodrow N, H F, Dodd-Reynolds C, Summerbell C & Scott S (2023) ‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England.. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 3.
Thompson J, Holding E, Haywood A & Foster A (2023) Service Users’ Perspectives of a National Social Prescribing Programme to Address Loneliness and Social Isolation: A Qualitative Study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2023, 1-8.
Bond M, Haywood A, Holding E, Goyder E, Bissell P, Stephenson J & Holt R (2022) Impacts of an intensive community‐based support for patients with severe or morbid obesity in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study. Public Health Challenges, 1(4).
Foster A, Holding E, Lumley E, Roxby S, Portman D, Holliday J, Peace A, Del Rosario I, Khan W, Brenman A , Gillett M et al (2022) Learning from the challenges of undertaking an evaluation of a multi-partner housing support initiative delivered within a hospital setting. Public Health in Practice, 4, 100333-100333.
Holding E, Crowder M, Woodrow N, Griffin N, Knights N, Goyder E, McKeown R & Fairbrother H (2022) Exploring young people's perspectives on mental health support: a qualitative study across three geographical areas in England, UK. Health and Social Care in the Community.
Griffin N, Wistow J, Fairbrother H, Holding E, Sirisena M, Powell K & Summerbell C (2022) An analysis of English national policy approaches to health inequalities: ‘transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’ and its consultation process. BMC Public Health, 22.
Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Crowder M, Holding E, Griffin N, Er V, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Lock K, Scott S , Summerbell C et al (2022) ‘It all kind of links really’ : young people’s perspectives on the relationship between socioeconomic circumstances and health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), 3679-3679.
Stephenson J, Haywood A, Bond M, Gillibrand W, Bissell P, Holding E & Holt R (2022) Health‐related outcomes in patients enrolled on surgical and non‐surgical routes in a weight management service. Health Science Reports, 5(2).
Holding E, Fairbrother H, Griffin N, Wistow J, Powell K & Summerbell C (2021) Exploring the local policy context for reducing health inequalities in children and young people: an in depth qualitative case study of one local authority in the North of England, UK. BMC Public Health, 21(1).
Stephenson J, Smith CM, Goyder EC, Holding E, Haywood A, Crum A, Blackburn J, Cooke J, Relton C & Bissell P (2021) Cohort profile update: The Yorkshire Health Study.. Int J Epidemiol.
van der Graaf P, Blank L, Holding E & Goyder E (2021) What makes a ‘successful’ collaborative research project between public health practitioners and academics? A mixed-methods review of funding applications submitted to a local intervention evaluation scheme. Health Research Policy and Systems, 19(1).
Foster A, Thompson J, Holding E, Ariss S, Mukuria C, Jacques R, Akparido R & Haywood A (2020) Impact of social prescribing to address loneliness: a mixed methods evaluation of a national social prescribing programme. Health & Social Care in the Community.
Fairbrother H, Holding E, Powell K, Griffin N, Wistow J & Summerbell C (2020) Reducing inequalities in child health: a case study in an English local authority. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Supplement_5).
Holding E, Thompson J, Foster A & Haywood A (2020) Connecting communities: A qualitative investigation of the challenges in delivering a national social prescribing service to reduce loneliness. Health & Social Care in the Community. View this article in WRRO
Blank L, Holding E, Jordan H, Ferrari E & Goyder E (2020) Exploring the factors that influence the public health impact of changes to the traditional housing officer’s role : insights from a logic modelling approach. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
Holding E, Blank L, Crowder M & Goyder E (2019) Bridging the gap between the home and the hospital : a qualitative study of partnership working across housing, health and social care. Journal of Interprofessional Care (Informa). View this article in WRRO
Blank L, Holding E, Crowder M, Butterworth S, Ferrari E & Goyder E (2018) Taking preventative health messages into the wider caring professions: the views of housing staff and tenants. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
Li J, Green M, Kearns B, Holding E, Smith C, Haywood A, Cooper C, Strong M & Relton C (2016) Patterns of multimorbidity and their association with health outcomes within Yorkshire, England: Baseline results from the Yorkshire Health Study. BMC Public Health, 16(649). View this article in WRRO
Moffatt S, Lawson S, Patterson R, Holding E, Dennison A, Sowden S & Brown J (2016) A qualitative study of the impact of the UK ‘bedroom tax’: Table 1. Journal of Public Health, 38(2), 197-205.
Holding E, Blank L, Crowder M, Ferrari E & Goyder E () Exploring the relationship between housing concerns, mental health and wellbeing : a qualitative study of social housing tenants. Journal of Public Health. View this article in WRRO
Woodrow N, Fairbrother H, Crowder M, Goyder E, Griffin N, Holding E & Quirk H () Exploring inequalities in health with young people through online focus groups: navigating the methodological and ethical challenges. Qualitative Research Journal.
Griffin N, Philips S, Hillier-Brown F, Fairbrother H, Wistow J, Holding E, Powell K & Summerbell C () A critique of the English national policy from a social determinants of health perspective using a realist and problem representation approach: the 'Childhood Obesity: a plan for action' (2016, 2018, 2019). BMC Public Health.

Conference proceedings papers

Fairbrother H, Burn A, Crowder M, Goyder E, Holding E, Kraftl P & Woodrow N (2024) OP13 Tackling housing insecurity: a qualitative study with children, parents, and professionals working in local authorities in England, UK*. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A6.3-A7)
Holding E, Woodrow N, Aminu H, Arnott B, Fairbrother H, Cripps H, Wilson L & Goyder E (2024) P01 Improving parent-infant relationships through one to one support: findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of the Nottinghamshire parent-infant relationship initiative, UK. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A47.1-A47)
Haywood A, Thompson J, Foster A, Dayson C, Holding E, Garside R, Hunt H, Shearn K, Dobson J & Husk K (2024) OP118 Preventing and tackling mental ill health through green social prescribing: findings from a realist-informed, mixed methods evaluation. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A43.1-A43)
Holding E, Gettings R, Foster A, Dowrick L, Hampshaw S, Haywood A, Homer C, Booth A & Goyder E (2024) P45 Exploring the benefits and challenges of embedded research within a local authority context: reflections from the first year of the national institute for health and care research (NIHR), health determinants research collaboration (HDRC), Doncaster, UK. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A67.2-A68)
Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Crowder M, Holding E, Griffin N, Er V, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Knight N & Lock K (2023) OP21 ‘It depends on where you were born, essentially, because here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: a qualitative study exploring young people’s perspectives on health inequalities in the UK. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
Dodd-Reynolds C, Griffin N, Kyle P, Scott S, Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Crowder M, Holding E, Er V, Egan M , Lock K et al (2023) OP134 Young people’s experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
Holding E, Foster A, Lumley E, Brennan A, Gillett M & Goyder E (2021) Facilitating hospital discharge through housing support: a mixed-methods evaluation of a housing association support service in two UK hospitals. The Lancet, Vol. 398 (pp S53-S53)
Fairbrother H, Crowder M, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Er V, Goyder E, Griffin N, Holding E, Lock K, Scott S , Summerbell C et al (2021) Young people's perspectives on inequalities in health in England: a qualitative study. The Lancet
Fairbrother H, Crowder M, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Er V, Goyder E, Griffin N, Holding E, Lock K, Scott S , Summerbell C et al (2021) Exploring young people's perspectives of inequalities in health: a qualitative study. European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 31(Supplement 3). Virtual conference, 10 November 2021 - 12 November 2021.
Goyder EC, Blank L, Haywood A & Holding E (2018) P32 Realising the potential of the wider public health workforce: cautionary tales from the evaluation of programmes to extend the role of frontline staff. Poster presentations

Reports

Haywood A, Dayson C, Garside R, Foster A, Lovell R, Husk K, Holding E, Thompson J, Shearn K, Hunt H , Dobson J et al (2023) National Evaluation of the Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill Health through Green Social Prescribing Project

School of Medicine and Population Health