Donna Franklin

BSc (Hons), Grad Dip (Psych), MSc (Pychology)

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Associate

d.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

I have a background in both clinical and health psychology, having completed a Masters in Health Psychology in 2008, exploring a cultural eating anxiety distress expressed amongst British Pakistani Muslim adolescent females, after having previously completed three years of a doctorate in Clinical Psychology.

After this, I joined the University of Nottingham’s Institute of Mental Health, becoming part of the Narrative Experiences ONline (NEON) research programme as both researcher and Lived Experience Advisory Group member. As part of the three-armed pragmatic clinical trial, I have contributed to a wide variety of programme activities (curation, publication and systematic reviews) related to the innovative use of recovery narratives for the treatment and care of psychosis and other common mental health problems.

From there, I joined the McPin Foundation working across two projects, as co-lead of the Lived Experience Advisory Group for the "AddRessing the ImpAct of COVID-19 paNdEmic on the access to and experience of care of people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups with severe mental illness" (ARIADNE) study, a multi-site experience-based co-designed (EBCD) project developing mental health service design actions to facilitate better access, experience and outcomes for racialised communities and second, a systems change developmental evaluation of the Black Thrive Lambeth Employment Project.

In March 2023, I joined the University of Sheffield as a research associate in SCHARR, leading an evaluation implementation of the NHS’s first anti-racism framework, the Patient Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF).

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Social Sciences

Graduate Diploma Psychology

MSc Health Psychology

Research interests: My research interests lie in the positive mental health and wellbeing of minoritised individuals, with a particular focus on mental health service provision that is anti-racist, evidence-based and equitable. I am interested in the concept of positive growth as an outcome following the experience of trauma.

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Ali Y, Rennick-Egglestone S, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Ng F, Yeo C, Franklin D, Perez Vallejos E, Ben-Zeev D, Kotera Y & Slade M (2024) Perception and appropriation of a web-based recovery narratives intervention: qualitative interview study. Frontiers in Digital Health, 6. View this article in WRRO
Winsper C, Bhattacharya R, Bhui K, Currie G, Edge D, Ellard D, Franklin D, Gill P, Gilbert S, Khan N , Miller R et al (2024) The impact of reduced routine community mental healthcare on people from minority ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives. The British Journal of Psychiatry. View this article in WRRO
Winsper C, Bhattacharya R, Bhui K, Currie G, Edge D, Ellard DR, Franklin D, Gill PS, Gilbert S, Miller R , Motala Z et al (2023) Improving mental healthcare access and experience for people from minority ethnic groups: an England-wide multisite experience-based codesign (EBCD) study. BMJ Mental Health, 26. View this article in WRRO
Slade M, Rennick-Egglestone S, Blackie L, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Franklin D, Hui A, Thornicroft G, McGranahan R, Pollock K, Priebe S , Ramsay A et al (2019) Post-traumatic growth in mental health recovery: qualitative study of narratives. BMJ Open, 9(6). View this article in WRRO
Kotera Y, Rennick-Egglestone S, Ng F, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Ali Y, Newby C, Fox C, Slade E, Bradstreet S, Harrison J , Franklin D et al () Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice. JMIR Mental Health, 10, e44601-e44601.

All publications

Journal articles

Ali Y, Rennick-Egglestone S, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Ng F, Yeo C, Franklin D, Perez Vallejos E, Ben-Zeev D, Kotera Y & Slade M (2024) Perception and appropriation of a web-based recovery narratives intervention: qualitative interview study. Frontiers in Digital Health, 6. View this article in WRRO
Winsper C, Bhattacharya R, Bhui K, Currie G, Edge D, Ellard D, Franklin D, Gill P, Gilbert S, Khan N , Miller R et al (2024) The impact of reduced routine community mental healthcare on people from minority ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives. The British Journal of Psychiatry. View this article in WRRO
Winsper C, Bhattacharya R, Bhui K, Currie G, Edge D, Ellard DR, Franklin D, Gill PS, Gilbert S, Miller R , Motala Z et al (2023) Improving mental healthcare access and experience for people from minority ethnic groups: an England-wide multisite experience-based codesign (EBCD) study. BMJ Mental Health, 26. View this article in WRRO
Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Rennick-Egglestone S, Pollock K, Ali Y, Watson E, Franklin D, Yeo C, Ng F, McGranahan R, Slade M & Edgley A (2022) ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories. Qualitative Health Research, 32(12), 1828-1842.
Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Barbic S, Rennick-Egglestone S, Ng F, Roe J, Hui A, Franklin D, Deakin E, Hare-Duke L & Slade M (2020) INCRESE: Development of an Inventory to Characterize Recorded Mental Health Recovery Narratives.. J Recovery Ment Health, 3(2), 25-44.
Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Rennick-Egglestone S, Bradstreet S, Davidson L, Franklin D, Hui A, McGranahan R, Morgan K, Pollock K, Ramsay A , Smith R et al (2020) Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 55(3), 295-308.
Slade M, Rennick-Egglestone S, Blackie L, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Franklin D, Hui A, Thornicroft G, McGranahan R, Pollock K, Priebe S , Ramsay A et al (2019) Post-traumatic growth in mental health recovery: qualitative study of narratives. BMJ Open, 9(6). View this article in WRRO
Rennick-Egglestone S, Morgan K, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Ramsay A, McGranahan R, Gillard S, Hui A, Ng F, Schneider J, Booth S , Pinfold V et al (2019) Mental Health Recovery Narratives and Their Impact on Recipients: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 64(10), 070674371984610-070674371984610.
Kotera Y, Rennick-Egglestone S, Ng F, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Ali Y, Newby C, Fox C, Slade E, Bradstreet S, Harrison J , Franklin D et al () Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice. JMIR Mental Health, 10, e44601-e44601.

Preprints

Kotera Y, Rennick-Egglestone S, Ng F, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Ali Y, Newby C, Fox C, Slade E, Bradstreet S, Harrison J , Franklin D et al (2022) Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..