Dr Rahena Mossabir
Senior Research Fellow
ORCID 0000-0001-6964-4742
Rahena is a Senior Research Fellow working on the NIHR HSDR project: Optimising Structured Medication Reviews for Older People with Severe Frailty and Care Home Residents to Reduce Overprescribing and Associated Inequalities.
Her main areas of expertise are qualitative methodology and process evaluations. She has extensive experience of working in various areas of applied health research, including mental health, management of long-term conditions and dementia care. Rahena’s previous roles have been based within the NHS, university and the third sector, through which she has developed skills and experience in managing research projects, establishing stakeholder groups and engaging patients, carers and service users in research.
Rahena joined the Academic Unit of Ageing and Stroke Research in 2020, working on the NIHR PGfAR: RECREATE Programme – Reducing Sedentary Behaviour After Stroke. She has since worked on several projects within the unit involving qualitative work and PPIE activities.
She has an MA in Social Research Methods and a PhD examining socio-spatial experiences of people living with dementia in the community and their implications for developing dementia friendly places.
Recent Funding Awarded
Teale E, Crocker T, Hawkins R, Mossabir R, Best K, Clegg A, Kuruvilla R. Optimising transient ischaemic attack (TIA) pathways to reduce ethnicity-based Inequalities. NIHR HSDR £892,766.87; 01/04/2025-31/05/2028.
Recent Publications
Forster A, Ozer S, Johansson JF, Moreau L, Airlie J, Patel A, Mead G, Fitzsimons CF, Copsey B, Yaziji N, Shannon R, Hall J, Clarke DJ, Welsh A, Morton S, Barrett B, Carter G, Gibson S, English C, Crocker TF, Burton L, Horrocks J, Mossabir R, Hartley S, Lawton R, Romeo R, Lam N, Holloway I, Birch K, Day F, Farrin AJ. Development and evaluation of strategies to reduce sedentary behaviour in stroke survivors and improve outcomes: the RECREATE research programme including pilot cRCT. Programme Grants for Applied Research 2026;14(14). https://doi.org/10.3310/GJAF0918
Brown L, Antcliff D, Clegg A, Grice A, Schofield P, Suleman A, Williams A, Harrison N, Kime N, Wright A, Lam N, Howdon D, Tebaldi D, Mossabir R, Hallas S, Crocker TF, Forster A. Developing the evidence and associated service models to improve pain management in older people living with frailty: a synopsis of the POPPY mixed method, co-design study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research 2026;14(18):1-42. https://doi.org/10.3310/gjlb4820
Wright A, Antcliff D, Kime N, Harrison N, Mossabir R, Suleman A, Forster A, Brown L. Maximising pain services for frail older adults, the views of healthcare professionals and commissioners: findings from the pain in older people with frailty (POPPY) study. BMC Geriatrics 2025; 25:836. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-025-06554-9
Harrison N, Mossabir R, Forster A, Kime N, de C Williams AC, Brown L. Qualitative investigation of the experiences of older people living with persistent pain and frailty and their decision to seek support: findings from the POPPY-Q study. BMJ Open 2025. 15:e104744. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-104744
Johansson JF, Shannon R, Mossabir R, Airlie J, Ozer S, Moreau LA, Farris A, Mead G, English C, Fitzsimons CF, Clarke DJ, Forster A, on behalf of the RECREATE Programme Management Group. Intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour and improve outcomes after stroke (Get Set Go): a study protocol for the process evaluation of a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (RECREATE)BMJ Open 2023;13:e075363. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3622-9598
Brown L, Mossabir R, Harrison N, Lam N, Grice A, Clegg A, Williams A, Antcliff D, Schofield P, Suleman A, Forster A. Developing the evidence and associated service models to support older adults living with frailty to manage their pain and to reduce its impact on their lives: protocol for a mixed-method, co-design study (The POPPY Study). BMJ Open 2023;13:e074785. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074785
Brown L, Mossabir R, Harrison N, Brundle C, Smith J, Clegg A. Life in lockdown: A telephone survey to investigate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the lives of older people (≥ 75years). Age Ageing 2020; afaa255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa255