Rosie Shannon
Senior Research Fellow
ORCID 0000-0003-0346-7282
Rosie has worked in applied health research in Bradford since 2009 and is currently working on an RfPB funded study to develop and evaluate a support system to optimise anticholinergic medication prescribing for older people (Anticholinergic Medication Index – ACMI).
Rosie’s expertise is using qualitative methods, evaluating complex interventions, healthcare research involving older people. Her work has studied: reducing sedentary behaviour after stroke; care transitions for older patients moving from hospital to home; longer term care after stroke; person-centred care for people with dementia in hospital; models of high and low performing community hospitals.
She originally qualified as an Occupational Therapist and completed an MSc in Health Research in 2012 which included a qualitative investigation of self-reported low unmet need after stroke.
Funding Awarded
Johansson J, Forster A, Airlie J, Gray-Burrows K, Shannon R, Render G. Using an ideal types approach to tailor an intervention focused on reducing sedentary behaviour after stroke. NIHR Programme Development Grants £127,660.80; 01/09/2024-31/08/2025.
Recent Publications
Murray J, Baxter R, O’Hara J, Sheard L, Hewitt C, Hardicre N, Vincent C, Oikonomou E, Richardson G, Shannon R, Baird K, Brealey S, Foy R, Mandefield L, Hampton S, Breckin E, Mirza L, Palacios A, Moore S, Marran J, Elliot J, Schofield J, Cracknell A, Woods B, Cockayne S, Mills T, Birks Y, Joseph O, Lawton R. Improving older people’s experiences and safety at transitions of care: the PACT mixed-methods study including RCT. Programme Grants for Applied Research 2025;13(04). https://doi.org/10.3310/KMNG5684
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
Murray J, Baxter R, Lawton R, Hardicre N, Shannon R, Langley J, Partridge R, Moore S, O’Hara JK. Unpacking the Cinderella black box of complex intervention development through the Partners at Care Transitions (PACT) programme of research. Health Expectations 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13682
Shannon R, Baxter R, Hardicre N, Mills T, Murray J, Lawton R, O’Hara JK. A qualitative formative evaluation of a patient facing intervention to improve care transitions for older people moving from hospital to home. Health Expectations 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13560
Mills T, Shannon R, O’Hara J, Lawton R, Sheard L. Development of a ‘real-world’ logic model through testing the feasibility of a complex healthcare intervention: the challenge of reconciling scalability and context-sensitivity. Evaluation 2022;28(1):113-131. https://doi.org/10.1177/13563890211068869
Hardicre N, Murray J, Shannon R, Sheard L, Birks Y, Hughes L, Cracknell A, Lawton R. Doing involvement: A qualitative study exploring the ‘work’ of involvement enacted by older people and their carers during transition from hospital to home. Health Expectations. 2021; 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13327
Skingley A, Godfrey M, Henderson R, Manley K, Shannon R, Young J. Implementing the PIE (Person, Interaction and Environment) programme to improve person-centred care for people with dementia admitted to hospital wards: a qualitative evaluation. International Practice Development Journal 2021;11(1). https://doi.org/10.19043/ipdj.111.005
Baxter R, Shannon R, Murray J, O’Hara JK, Sheard L, Cracknell A, Lawton R. Delivering exceptionally safe transitions of care to older people: a qualitative study of multidisciplinary staff perspectives. BMC Health Services Research 2020; 20:780. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05641-4
Godfrey M, Young J, Shannon R, Skingley A, Woolley R, Arrojo F, Brooker D, Manley K & Surr C. 2018. The Person, Interactions and Environment Programme to improve care of people with dementia in hospital: a multisite study. Health Services and Delivery Research 6(23).
Shannon R, Forster A, Hawkins R. 2016. A qualitative exploration of self-reported unmet need one year after stroke. Disability And Rehabilitation. 38(20).
Forster A, Mellish K, Farrin A, Bhakta B, House A, Hewison J. 2014. Development and evaluation of tools and an intervention to improve patient- and carer-centred outcomes in Longer-Term Stroke care and exploration of adjustment post stroke: the LoTS care research programme. NIHR Journals Library. 2(6).
LoTS care LUNS study team. 2013. Validation of the Longer-term Unmet Needs after Stroke (LUNS) monitoring tool: a multicentre study. Clinical Rehabilitation 27(11).