Dr Fawn Harrad Hyde

Following my undergraduate BSc Psychology with Sociology (University of Leicester), I joined the Department of Health Sciences from 2012-15 to provide support to several local healthcare related research projects. At the same time, I worked a number of ‘bank’ social care roles – for example as a Support Worker for adults for people with learning disabilities – and I undertook an MPhil research project (funded by Everards brewery) in which I applied theories from social and ecological psychology to understand the social nature of public houses.

In 2015 I left the university to work as a Healthcare Assistant on an NHS mental health unit for people living with dementia. Then, from 2017 onwards I sought roles that combined my skills in research with my passion for care work. I completed my PhD, which focused on care home staff decision-making when faced with residents who potentially require transfers to hospital. (Full thesis available here: https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.15060003.v1 and joined and later led the Clinical Research Network West Midlands’ ENRICH (Enabling Research in Care Homes) team.

Since completing my PhD in May 2021, I have been working as a Research Associate, working on a collaborative project between the University and LOROS hospice to explore the potential role that peer-mentors might have in preparing family members of care home residents to think ahead about potential deteriorations and end-of-life. In 2023 I was awarded a Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. I shall use this award to build on my PhD work by writing additional papers, interviewing ambulance staff about their experiences of attending call outs to care homes and preparing to submit an application for further funding.  

Recent papers:

- Harrad-Hyde, F., Armstrong, N., & Williams, C. (2022) Using advance and emergency care plans during transfer decisions: a grounded theory interview study with care home staff, Palliative Medicine, 36(1), 200-207, DOI: 10.1177/02692163211059343

- Harrad-Hyde, F., Armstrong, N., & Williams, C. (2022) 'Weighing up risks': a model of care home staff decision-making about potential resident hospital transfers, Age and Ageing, 51(7), afac171, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac171

- Harrad-Hyde, F., Williams, C., & Armstrong, N. (2022) Hospital transfers from care homes: conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work, Health, Risk & Society, 24(7-8), 317-335, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2133094

- Laher, Z., Robertson, N., Harrad-Hyde, F., & Jones, C.R. (2022) Prevalence, predictors and experience of moral suffering in nursing and care home staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods systematic review, International Journal of Environmental and Public Health Research, 19(5), 9593, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159593 

Thesis: Harrad, Fawn (2021): Understanding hospital transfers from care homes in England: An ethnographic study of care home staff decision-making. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.15060003.v1

Papers:

Harrad-Hyde, F., Armstrong, N., & Williams, C. (2022) Using advance and emergency care plans during transfer decisions: a grounded theory interview study with care home staff, Palliative Medicine, 36(1), 200-207, DOI: 10.1177/02692163211059343

Harrad-Hyde, F., Armstrong, N., & Williams, C. (2022) 'Weighing up risks': a model of care home staff decision-making about potential resident hospital transfers, Age and Ageing, 51(7), afac171, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac171

Harrad-Hyde, F., Williams, C., & Armstrong, N. (2022) Hospital transfers from care homes: conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work, Health, Risk & Society, 24(7-8), 317-335, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2133094

Laher, Z., Robertson, N., Harrad-Hyde, F., & Jones, C.R. (2022) Prevalence, predictors and experience of moral suffering in nursing and care home staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods systematic review, International Journal of Environmental and Public Health Research, 19(5), 9593, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159593 

I am currently supervising:

- Jennifer O'Donnell (part time PhD student 2022 - 2028) - Project title: Assessing feasibility of psychological support/therapy for staff working in the social care sector

- Chandini Subramanyam (full time PhD student 2022 - 2026) Project title: Exploring and understanding how young adult carers of seriously ill relatives from ethnically diverse backgrounds recognise and seek support for their own mental and emotional wellbeing

• PhD Health Sciences (awarded with no revisions), 2021, University of Leicester

• MPhil Management, 2015, University of Leicester

• BSc Psychology with Sociology (1st) , 2012, University of Leicester