People
Caroline Smith
Postgraduate Researcher
School/Department: School of Healthcare
Email: cs840@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
I am a research associate in the School of Healthcare. My research interests include dysphagia (swallowing difficulties), behavioural science, qualitative research methods and co-approaches. My PhD developed a service to facilitate primary care healthcare professionals to proactively identify dysphagia in older adults and provide advice. I have previously worked on a mixed-methods study investigating the safety and acceptably of switching people with Parkinson’s from tablet to liquid formulations of their medication, from the perspectives of people with Parkinson’s, their carers and healthcare professionals.
Research
Development of a grant application to estimate the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of implementing routine dysphagia screening on care of the older persons wards (Research associate) - NIHR PDG (2024-2025)
Development of a behaviour change intervention for screening and management of oropharyngeal dysphagia in primary care - University of Leicester PhD studentship (2021-24), Desitin Pharma Ltd (2022-2024)
CompreHensive geriAtRician-led MEdication Review (CHARMER) (Research Associate) - NIHR PGfAR (2020-2021)
Generating the evidence for safely and acceptably switching people with Parkinson’s to liquid formulations (Research associate) - EIRA Research and Development Grant (2020-2021)