Professor Katrina Turner
B.Sc.(Aberd.), M.Sc.(Edin.), Ph.D.(Stir.)
Expertise
Current positions
Professor of Primary Care Research
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Research interests
Katrina is Professor of Primary Care Research, Head of Section of Applied Health Research in the Bristol Medical School, and Joint-Head of the Centre for Academic Primary Care and the Bristol NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR). She is also the Qualitative Science work stream lead in Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) west, and a collaborator on the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre.
Katrina has worked within health service/primary care research for over 20 years. She is a qualitative methodologist with a disciplinary background in social sciences applied to health. As a methodologist, she works across multiple projects, providing expertise and leadership. Much of Katrina’s research has involved integrating qualitative studies within large randomised controlled trials and programme grants. These studies have been used to develop and evaluate complex interventions, ensure successful trial delivery, aid interpretation of trial results, and to inform implementation of cost-effective interventions across the NHS. Katrina’s research has informed NICE guidelines, been cited in Government documents and presented to the House of Commons.
Katrina was a member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) commissioning board (2017-20) and an Associate Editor for BMC Family Practice (2016-20).
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Professor of Primary Care Research
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Prescription medication sharing by primary care patients
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2020 to 30/06/2021
Request for costings for MRC Methodology bid (UoS144562
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2016 to 31/12/2018
Motivation for lifestyle change among adults with type 2 Diabetes
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
To investigate motivation for lifestyle change amongst adults with Type 2 Diabetes. The project will use secondary qualitative analysis to explore motivation in this group from a self-determination theory perspective…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/07/2014 to 31/12/2017
NSPCR secondary analysis - Patients' experiences of treatments for depression
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2014 to 30/06/2015
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
18/02/2021Trauma-informed approaches to primary and community mental health care
BMJ Open
General practitioners' views and experiences in caring for patients after sepsis
BMJ Open
A multi-stakeholder approach to the coproduction of the research agenda for medicines optimisation
BMC Health Services Research
Design Considerations for the Integrated Delivery of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
JMIR Mental Health
Integrating the digital and the traditional to deliver therapy for depression
CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems