Dr Rebecca Hawkins

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.

Clegg A, Hussain J, Best K, Brown L, Hawkins R, Marshall A, Murtagh F, Price D, West R, Kapadia D. The Wellbeing in Later Life in Bradford (WeLL-Bradford) Study. Nuffield Foundation £875,458.00; 01/10/2024-31/07/2028.

Todd O, Clegg A, Hawkins R, Kenny R, Sheppard J. Can Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measures Inform Shared Treatment Decisions in Hypertension for Older Adults Who Are at Risk of Falls? NIHR Advanced Fellowship £1,079,015; 01/03/2024-29/02/2028.

Prescott M, Forster A, Hawkins R, Collinson M, Goodwin V. Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. NIHR £135,281; 01/09/2023-31/08/2025.

Clegg A, Abuzour A, Alldred D, Best K, Hawkins R, Lawton R, Pirmohamed M, Smith H, Spilsbury K, Todd O, Walker L, Walters K, West R, Zaman H, Mistry M. Optimising Structured Medication Reviews for Older People with Severe Frailty and Care Home Residents to Reduce Overprescribing and Associated Inequalities. NIHR HSDR £1,016,222.52.01/01/2024-31/12/2026

Clegg A, Birks Y, Boijke C, Farrin A, Forster A, Hawkins R, Hawley M, Mountain G, Mukuria C, Rodriguez M, Reeve J, Richards S, Sheard L, Spilsbury K, Teale E, West R, Wilberforce M. Applied Research Collaborations: Older People with Frailty theme. NIHR Applied Research Collaborations £1,424,815; 01/10/2019-30/09/2024.

Clegg A, Young J, Bower P, Cundill B, Farrin A, Foster M, Foy R, Hartley S, Hawkins R, Hulme C, Lawton R, Humphrey S, Pendleton N, West R, Holmes J. Personalised care planning to improve quality of life for older people with Frailty. NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research £2,754,006; 01/10/2017-31/01/2023.

Forster A, Graham E, Farrin A, Hulme, C, Fisher J, Hull K, Hawkins R. Skilful Care Training Package for residents in care homes: cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial. Physiotherapy Research Foundation £300,340.55; 01/09/2016-31/03/2019.

Forster A, Young J, Hewison J, House A, Hulme C, Hawkins R, Dickerson J, Richardson G, Bhakta B, Hartley S, Speed M, McKevitt C, Farrin A, Fay M, McEachan R, Foy R. Development and evaluation of strategies to provide longer-term health and social care for stroke survivors and their carers. NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health Research. £1,673,049. (Ref:RP-PG-0611-10017), 2013-2018.

Young J, Clegg A, Nolan M, Mountain G, Teale E, Spilsbury K, Hanratty B, Noble B, Parry J Bates C, Hawkins R, Astell A, Young T. Primary Care-Based Management of Frailty in Older People. NIHR CLAHRC £1,000,000; 01/01/2014-31/12/2018.

Forster A, Young J, Hewison J, House A, Hulme C, Hawkins R, Dickerson J, Richardson G, Bhakta B, Hartley S, Speed M, McKevitt C, Farrin A, Fay M, McEachan R, Foy R. Development and evaluation of strategies to provide longer-term health and social care for stroke survivors and their carers. NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research £1,643,906; 01/10/2013-30/09/2018.

Young J, Clegg A, Nolan M, Mountain G, Teale E, Spilsbury K, Hanratty B, Noble B, Parry J Bates C, Hawkins R, Astell A, Young T. Avoiding Attendance and Admission in Long Term Conditions. Theme: Primary Care-Based Management of Frailty in Older People. NIHR CLAHRC. £1million, 2014 – 2018.

Hawkins R, Forster A. Exploratory study investigating older people’s social relationships within residential care settings, with a particular focus on social isolation and loneliness. NIHR CLAHRC for Leeds, York and Bradford Challenge Fund (£33,905), 2013

Forster A, Hawkins R. Exploratory study investigating the support networks of stroke survivors and their carers following stroke. NIHR CLAHRC for Leeds, York and Bradford Challenge Fund (£23,859), 2013

Heaven A, Foster M, Foy R, Hawkins R, Hulme C, Humphrey S, Smith J, Clegg AP. Personalised care planning for older people with frailty: a review of factors influencing implementation. BJGP Open 2025. http://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2024.0163

Kime N, Wright A, Heaven A, Hawkins R, Smith J, Cundill B, Foy R, Lawton R, Farrin A, Hulme C, Clegg A. Implementing personalised care planning for older people with frailty: a process evaluation of the PROSPER feasibility trial. BMC Geriatrics 2022; 22(760). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03426-4

Brown L, Heaven A, Quinn C, Goodwin V, Chew-Graham C, Mahmood F, Hallas S, Jacob I, Brundle C, Best K, Daffu-O’Reilly A, Spilsbury K, Young TA, Hawkins R, Hanratty B, Teale E, Clegg A. Community Ageing Research 75+ (CARE75+) REMOTE study: a remote model of recruitment and assessment of the health, well-being and social circumstances of older people. BMJ Open 2021;11(11):e048524. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048524

Forster A, Godfrey M, Green J, McMaster N, Airlie J, Cundill B, Lawton R, Hawkins R, Hulme C, Birch K, Brown L, Cicero R, Crocker T, Dawkins B, Ellard D, Ellwood A, Firth J, Gallagher B, Graham L, Johnson L, Lusambili A, Marti J, McCrorie C, McLellen V, Patel I, Prashar A, Siddiqi N, Trépel D, Wheeler I, Wright A, Young J, Farrin A. Strategies to enhance routine physical activity in care home residents: the REACH research programme including a cluster feasibility RCT. Programme Grants Applied Research 2021;9(9). https://doi.org/10.3310/pgfar09090

Forster A, Ozer S, Crocker TF, House A, Hewison J, Roberts E, Dickerson J, Carter G, Hulme C, Fay M, Richardson G, Wright A, McKevitt C, McEachan R, Foy R, Barnard L, Moreau L, Prashar A, Clarke D, Hardicre N, Holloway I, Brindle R, Hall J, Burton L, Atkinson R, Hawkins R J, Brown L, Cornwall N, Dawkins B, Meads D, Schmitt L, Fletcher M, Speed M, Grenfell K, Hartley S, Young J, Farrin A. Longer-term health and social care strategies for stroke survivors and their carers: the LoTS2Care research programme including cluster feasibility RCT. Programme Grants for Applied Research Volume 2021;9(3).

Nikolova S, Hulme C, West R, Pendleton N, Heaven A, Bower P, Humphrey S, Farrin A, Cundill B, Hawkins R, Clegg A. Normative Estimates and Agreement Between 2 Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life in Older People With Frailty: Findings From the Community Ageing Research 75+ Cohort. Patient-Reported Outcomes 2020:23(8)1056-1062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2020.04.1830

Heaven A, Bower B, Cundill B, Farrin A, Foster M, Foy R, Hartley S, Hawkins R, Hulme C, Humphrey S, Lawton R, Parker C, Pendleton N, West R, Young J, Clegg A. Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial evaluating personalised care planning for older people with frailty: PROSPER V2 27/11/18. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020; 6:56. doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00598-x

Graham L, Ellwood A, Hull K, Fisher J, Cundill B, Holland M, Goodwin M, Clarke D, Hawkins R, Hulme C, Patel I, Kelly C, Williams R, Farrin A, Forster A. Posture and mobility training package for care home staff: results of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (the PATCH trial). Age Ageing 2020;49(5)821–828. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaa046.

Heaven A, Brown L, Young J, Teale E, Hawkins R, Spilsbury K, Mountain G, Young T, Goodwin V, Hanratty B, Chew-Graham C, Brundle C, Mahmood F, Jacob I, Daffu-O’Reilly A, Clegg A. Community ageing research 75+ study (CARE75+): an experimental ageing and frailty research cohort. BMJ Open 2019;9(3):e026744. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026744

Graham L, Cicero R, Clarke D, Cundill B, Ellwood A, Farrin A, Fisher J, Goodwin M, Hawkins R, Hull K, Hulme C, Trépel D, Williams R, Forster A. PATCH: posture and mobility training for care staff versus usual care in care homes: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 2018;19(1):521. doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2863-5

Sadler E, Hawkins R, Clarke DJ, Godfrey M, Dickerson J, McKevitt C. Disciplinary power and the process of training carers on stroke units. Sociology of Health and Illness 2018. 40(1):100-114. doi.10.1111/1467-9566

Hawkins RJ, Jowett A, Godfrey M, Mellish K, Young J, Farrin A, Holloway I, Hewison J, Forster A. On Behalf of the LoTS Care Program Team. Poststroke Trajectories: The Process of Recovery Over the Longer Term Following Stroke. Global Qualitative Nursing Research 2017 (online) doi: 10.1177/2333393617730209

Hawkins R, Prashar A, Lusambili A, Ellard DR. ‘If they don’t use it, they lose it’: how organisational structures and practices shape residents’ physical movement in care home settings. Ageing and Society Online: 31 March 2017 doi: 10.1017/S0144686X17000290.

Shannon R, Forster A, Hawkins R. A qualitative exploration of patient identified unmet need one year after stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation 2016;38(20). http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2015.1107784

Forster A, Mellish K, Farrin A, Bhakta B, House A, Hewison J, Murray J, Patel A, Knapp M, Breen R, Chapman K, Holloway I, Hawkins R, Shannon R, Nixon J, Jowett A, Horton M, Alvarado N, Anwar S, Tennant A, Godfrey M, Young J. Development and evaluation of interventions and tools to improve patient and carer centred outcomes in longer-term stroke care (LoTS care) and exploration of adjustment post stroke. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library 2014;2(6). doi:10.3310/pgfar02060.

Clarke DJ, Hawkins R, Sadler E, Harding G, McKevitt C, Godfrey M, Dickerson J, Farrin AJ, Kalra L, Smithard D. Forster A. Introducing structured caregiver training in stroke care: findings from the TRACS Process Evaluation study. BMJ Open 2014;4(4):e004473. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004473.

Clarke D J, Godfrey M, Hawkins R, Sadler E, Harding G, Forster A, McKevitt C, Dickerson J, Farrin A. Implementing a training intervention to support caregivers after stroke: a process evaluation examining the initiation and embedding of programme change. Implementation Science 2013; 8:96.

Clarke D J, Hawkins R, Sadler E, Harding G, Forster A, McKevitt C, Godfrey M, Dickerson J, Farrin A. Training caregivers after stroke: process evaluation of the implementation of the London Stroke Caregiver Training Course (LSCTC) in a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial International Journal of Stroke 2012; 7:48

Clarke D, Hawkins R, Sadler E, Harding G, Forster A, McKevitt C, Godfrey M, Monaghan J, Farrin A. Interdisciplinary Health Research: perspectives from a process evaluation research team. Quality in Primary Care 2012; 20(3)

Hawkins R, Redley M, Holland AJ. A Duty of Care and Autonomy: how support workers managed the tension between protecting service users from risk and promoting their independence in a specialist group home. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 2011; 55(9): 873-884