Professor Judith Dyson
Professor in Implementation Science, Deputy Director of the School for Social Care, Health and Related Research (C-SCHaRR)
School of Health Sciences
- Email:
- Judith.Dyson@bcu.ac.uk
Judith Dyson joined Birmingham City University in October 2020 as a Reader in Healthcare Research and Implementation Science. She is a registered general and mental health nurse and a chartered psychologist and has worked in many clinical and management roles in the NHS.
Her area of research interest and expertise is Implementation Science, translating research findings into clinical practice. In particular, Judith is interested in both the clinical behaviours of our health care practitioners and the health behaviours of our service users and how through understanding and supporting these we might improve health.
Judith has maintained her links with clinical practice where she supports and coaches practitioners in improving care.
Areas of Expertise
- Implementation Science
- Health Psychology
- Mixed methods research
Qualifications
- Chartered Psychologist
- PhD Implementation Science
- Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
- MSc Population Health
- BSc Nursing
- RMN (Registered Mental health Nurse)
- RGN (Registered General Nurse)
Memberships
- British Psychological Society
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Adjunct Professor Memorial University Canada
- Academic fellow of the YH-AHSN’s Improvement Academy
- Affiliated Member for the Digital Innovations for Patient Safety theme of the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research centre
- Q-Fellow
- Member of the Infection Prevention Society
- UK Implementation Society
- West Midlands Knowledge Mobilisation Collaboration
Research
Starting January 2023
- Optimising outcomes in pregnant women with epilepsy and their babies: reducing maternal seizure risk and assessing long term safety of antiepileptic drugs
Current
- Improving outcomes for asthma patients
- Cushion-CH; Improving the care of older people who fall in care homes
- Co-design of a tailored intervention to support Current: Pressure Ulcer prevention Behaviours by older patients and Lay carers in a community setting
- AlCohol HArM PreventION in pregnancy (CHAMPION)
- MinImising SedatION in Intensive Care patients (MisSion-ICu)
Previous
- E-cigarette as a means of smoking cessation
- Social Prescribing in Primary Care
- Optimising post-discharge medicines-related care for older people living with long term conditions
- A feasibility, randomised controlled trial of a complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- A novel Computer Aided Risk Score for acutely ill patients (CARS)
Postgraduate Supervision
Judith Supervises PhD students who are interested in implementing or improving the adoption of evidence based practice with either practitioners or service users.
Publications
Publications
Smith, D., Cartwright, M., Dyson J., Hartin, J., Aitken., 2022. Use of nominal group technique methods in the virtual setting: a reflective account and recommendations for practice, Australian Critical Care.
Mulligan, K., O’Connell, K., da Silva A., Szeto, M., Sivesind T., Cowdell, F., Dyson, J., Dellavalle, R., 2022, From the Cochrange Library: Hygiene and emollient interventions for maintaining skin integrity in older people in hospital and residential care settings, Journal of American Academy of Dermatology.
Smith, D., Cartwright, M., Dyson, J., Hartin, J., Aitken, L., 2022. Selecting intervention content to target barriers and enablers to the recognition and response to deteriorating patients: an online nominal group study. BMC Health Services Research.
Bravington, A., Chen, H., Dyson, J., Gill, A., Jones, L., Dalgliesh, C., Patnick, J., Macleod, U., 2022. Cervical screening in women over fifty: challenges and opportunities for primary care, British Journal of General Practice.
White, C., Reid, M., Dyson, J., Bell, J., 2022. More than signposting: Findings from an evaluation of a social prescribing service, Health and Social Care in the Community, accepted in press.
Heague, M., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F., 2022. The barriers and facilitators to personal hygiene in residential care: a systematic review, Journal Clinical nursing, accepted.
Bravington, A., Chen, H., Dyson, J., Jones, L., Dalgliesh, C., Bryan, A., Patnick, J. and Macleod, U., 2022. Translating qualitative data into intervention content using the Theoretical Domains Framework and stakeholder co-design: a worked example from a study of cervical screening attendance in older women. BMC health services research, 22(1), pp.1-18.
Ataiyero, Y., Dyson, J. and Graham, M., 2022. An observational study of hand hygiene compliance of surgical healthcare workers in a Nigerian teaching hospital. Journal of Infection Prevention, 23(2), pp.59-66.
Dyson, Bhatnagar, Skinner, Crooks, Helping the Quitters Quit. 2022. A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the barrier and facilitators to e-cigarette cessation and the support that is needed. Patient Education and Counselling.
Poopla, Dyson, Dingle, Maclaren, 2021. What are the barriers to nurses mobilising patients in intensive care units? An integrative review. Australian Critical Care
Tomlinson, J., Marques, I., Silcock, J., Fylan, B. and Dyson, J., 2021. Supporting medicines management for older people at care transitions–a theory-based analysis of a systematic review of 24 interventions. BMC Health Services Research, 21(1), pp.1-17.
Dyson, J. and Cowdell, F., 2021. How is the Theoretical Domains Framework applied in designing interventions to support healthcare practitioner behaviour change? A systematic review. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 33(3), p.mzab106.
Smith, D., Cartwright, M., Dyson, J., Hartin, J. and Aitken, L.M., 2021. Barriers and enablers of recognition and response to deteriorating patients in the acute hospital setting: A theory‐driven interview study using the Theoretical Domains Framework. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(6), pp.2831-2844.
Smith, L.A., Dyson, J., Watson, J. and Schölin, L., 2021. Barriers and enablers of implementation of alcohol guidelines with pregnant women: a cross-sectional survey among UK midwives. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 21(1), pp.1-9.
Schölin, L., Watson, J., Dyson, J. and Smith, L.A., 2021. Midwives’ views on alcohol guidelines: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to implementation in UK antenatal care. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 29, p.100628.
Credland, N., Dyson, J. and Johnson, M.J., 2021. Do early warning track and trigger tools improve patient outcomes? A systematic synthesis without meta‐analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(2), pp.622-634.
Jackson C, Zacharias H, Dyson J, Johnson M, Garnish A. 2020, Implementation and evaluation of a palliative care inpatient unit’s delirium guidelines: a service improvement project. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 10: 55.
Westoby, C., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F. and Buescher, T., 2021. What are the barriers and facilitators to success for female academics in UK HEIs? A narrative review. Gender and Education, 33(8), pp.1033-1056.
Cowdell, F., Dyson, J., Sykes, M., Dam, R. and Pendleton, R., 2020. How and how well have older people been engaged in healthcare intervention design, development or delivery using co‐methodologies: A scoping review with narrative summary. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(2), pp.776-798.
Credland, N., Dyson, J. and Johnson, M.J., 2018. What are the patterns of compliance with Early Warning Track and Trigger Tools: A narrative review. Applied Nursing Research, 44, pp.39-47.
Chamanga, E., Dyson, J., Loke, J. and McKeown, E., 2020. Factors influencing the recruitment and retention of registered nurses in adult community nursing services: an integrative literature review. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 21.
Smith, D., Cartwright, M., Dyson, J., Hartin, J. and Aitken, L.M., 2020. Healthy ageing in a deprived northern UK city: A co‐creation study. Health & Social Care in the Community, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(12), pp.3548-3562.
Glover, L., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F. and Kinsey, D., 2020. Healthy ageing in a deprived northern UK city: A co‐creation study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28(6), pp.2233-2242.
Cowdell, F., Jadotte, Y.T., Ersser, S.J., Danby, S., Lawton, S., Roberts, A. and Dyson, J., 2020. Hygiene and emollient interventions for maintaining skin integrity in older people in hospital and residential care settings. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (1).
Bell, J., Reid, M., Dyson, J., Schlosser, A. and Alexander, T., 2019. There’s just huge anxiety: ontological security, moral panic, and the decline in young people’s mental health and well-being in the UK. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare, 3(2).
Wright, C., Hart, S.P., Allgar, V., English, A., Swan, F., Dyson, J., Richardson, G., Twiddy, M., Cohen, J., Hussain, J. and Johnson, M., 2019. A feasibility, randomised controlled trial of a complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): study protocol. ERJ open research, 5(4)..
Cowdell, F. and Dyson, J., 2019. How is the theoretical domains framework applied to developing health behaviour interventions? A systematic search and narrative synthesis. BMC public health, 19(1), p.1180.
Aleo, G., Bagnasco, A., Watson, R., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F., Catania, G., Zanini, M.P., Cozzani, E., Parodi, A. and Sasso, L., 2019. Comparing questionnaires across cultures: Using Mokken scaling to compare the Italian and English versions of the MOLES index. Nursing Open, 6(3), pp.1022-1028.
Dyson, J., Marsh, C., Jackson, N., Richardson, D., Faisal, M., Scally, A.J. and Mohammed, M., 2019. Understanding and applying practitioner and patient views on the implementation of a novel automated Computer-Aided Risk Score (CARS) predicting the risk of death following emergency medical admission to hospital: qualitative study. BMJ open, 9(4), p.e026591.
Ersser, S.J., Effah, A., Dyson, J., Kellar, I., Thomas, S., McNichol, E., Caperon, E., Hewitt, C. and Muinonen‐Martin, A.J., 2019. Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self‐examination: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. British Journal of Dermatology, 180(6), pp.1339-1347.
Jackson, M., Jones, D., Dyson, J. and Macleod, U., 2019. Facilitated group work for people with long-term conditions: a systematic review of benefits from studies of group-work interventions. British Journal of General Practice, 69(682), pp.e363-e372.
Ataiyero, Y., Dyson, J. and Graham, M., 2019. Barriers to hand hygiene practices among health care workers in sub-Saharan African countries: A narrative review. American journal of infection control, 47(5), pp.565-573.
Faisal, M., Scally, A.J., Jackson, N., Richardson, D., Beatson, K., Howes, R., Speed, K., Menon, M., Daws, J., Dyson, J. and Marsh, C., 2018. Development and validation of a novel computer-aided score to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality for acutely ill medical admissions in two acute hospitals using their first electronically recorded blood test results and vital signs: a cross-sectional study. BMJ open, 8(12), p.e022939.
Ranson, C., Jamieson, T., Slater, B., Dyson, J., Humphreys, M., Bibby, J., McGeorge, M., 2018 Safer Prescribing in Primary Care for People with Frailty, The Clinical Pharmacist.
Credland, N., Dyson, J. and Johnson, M.J., 2018. What are the patterns of compliance with Early Warning Track and Trigger Tools: A narrative review. Applied Nursing Research, 44, pp.39-47.
Cowdell, F., Dyson, J., Long, J. and Macleod, U., 2018. Self‐reported skin concerns: An epidemiological study of community‐dwelling older people. International journal of older people nursing, 13(3), p.e12195.
O'Connor, C.A., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F. and Watson, R., 2018. Do universal school‐based mental health promotion programmes improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young people? A literature review. Journal of clinical nursing, 27(3-4), pp.e412-e426.
Dyson, J. and Madeo, M., 2017. Investigating the use of an electronic hand hygiene monitoring and prompt device: influence and acceptability. Journal of infection prevention, 18(6), pp.278-287.
Dyson, J., (2015) Implementation of Evidence Based Practice, in Glasper, A. and Rees, C. eds., 2016. Nursing and healthcare research at a glance. John Wiley & Sons.
Dyson, J., 2015. Hand hygiene and human factors. Journal of Infection Prevention, 16(4), pp.143-144.
Dyson, J. and Cowdell, F., 2014. Development and psychometric testing of the ‘Motivation and Self‐Efficacy in Early Detection of Skin Lesions’ index. Journal of advanced nursing, 70(12), pp.2952-2963.
Cowdell, F. and Dyson, J., 2014. A novel intervention for skin cancer prevention. Dermatological Nursing, 13(3), pp.45-49.
Bennett, L. and Dyson, J., 2014. Deliberate self-harm among adults in prisons. Mental Health Practice, 18(1).
Büscher, T.P., Dyson, J. and Cowdell, F., 2014. The effects of hoarding disorder on families: an integrative review. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 21(6), pp.491-498.
Dyson, J., Lawton, R., Jackson, C. and Cheater, F., 2013. Development of a theory-based instrument to identify barriers and levers to best hand hygiene practice among healthcare practitioners. Implementation Science, 8(1), pp.1-9.
Dyson J, Lawton R, Jackson C, Cheater F. Does the use of a theoretical approach tell us more about hand hygiene behaviour? The barriers and levers to hand hygiene. Journal of Infection Prevention. 2011 Jan;12(1):17-24.