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Penelope Siebert

Dr Penelope Siebert

Senior Lecturer

Social Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Social Work and Health

Role

Dr Penelope Siebert is a senior lecturer in Health and Social Care, who is interested in the use of participatory action research to support the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities. She teaches Global Health, Health Promotion and the Foundations of Health and Social Care, and supervises both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations and doctoral research projects. Her current research focuses on developing decolonising, participatory and arts-based approaches with racialised minoritized communities to generate more nuanced understandings of communities lived experiences.

Career overview

Before entering academia she worked as Midwife, then as a Public Health professional in primary care settings in the East midlands region.  After her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield, she joined the research team at the Centre for Health leadership and learning (CHILL) Nottingham University Business School as research fellow using qualitative evaluation methodologies to assess the implementation of innovations in healthcare to improve patient safety and quality of care.

Research areas

Penelope's research areas cover:

  • Evaluation Methodologies
  • Implementation science
  • Applied Artbased methodologies
  • Community based research

External activity

  • Reviewer for the Newton Fund
  • External examiner  - University of Swansea  - BSc Health and Social Care

Publications

Articles

Carleton-Boylan, G., Crossley, S., Siebert, P., Ajanaku, N., Iqbal, A., John, A., Sandhu, S., Williams, C., Leach, L., Patel, R. and Buchanan, H., 2024. Inclusivity and decolonisation of the post-graduate public health curriculum: Reflections from a student-led approach. Public Health in Practice, 7, p.100507.

Siebert, P.L. and Souto-Galvan, A., 2024. Exploring barriers to accessing mental health services within minoritised communities in Nottingham City, UK-a creative participatory approach to service improvement. Public Health, 227, pp.228-231.

Ekezie W., Siebert P., Timmons S., Bains M., (2022) Exploring the influence of health management processes on health outcomes among internally displaced persons (IDPs) Journal of Migration and Health 6, 100124

Musoke, D., Atusingwize, E., Ndejjo, R., Ssemugabo, Siebert, P., Gibson, L. (2022) Enhancing performance and sustainability of Community Health Worker programs in Uganda: lessons and experiences from stakeholders Global Health: Science and Practice 9 (4), 855-868

Leão, L. H. C., Siebert, P., Trautrims, A., Zanin, V., Bales, K. (2021/Ago). A erradicação do trabalho escravo até 2030 e os desafios da vigilância em saúde do trabalhador. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] [Citado em 17/09/2021]. Está disponível em: http://www.cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/artigos/a-erradicacao-do-trabalho-escravo-ate-2030-e-osdesafios-da-vigilancia-em-saude-do-trabalhador/18166

Siebert, P, Sieber P., Perez Vallejos E, Nilsson T. (2020) Driving Complementarity in Interdisciplinary Research: A Reflection International Journal of Social Research Methodology 23 (6), 711-718

Vallejos, E.P.; Siebers, P.-O.; Craven, M.; Nilsson, T.; Siebert, P.; Fuentes, C. (2019) Untangling multi-stakeholder perspectives in digital mental healthcare. In Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Computing and Mental Health, Glasgow, UK, 4–9 May 2019; Available online: https://mentalhealth.media.mit.edu


Siebert P., Myles P. (2019) Eliciting Program theory: an exercise in translating theory into practice, Evaluation 25 (4), 469-476


Ekezie W., Timmons S., Myles P., Siebert P, Bains M., Pritchard C (2018). An audit of healthcare provision in internally displaced population camps in Nigeria Journal of Public Health 41 (3), 583-592

Puleston R., Myles P., Siebert P., Childs K., (2011) Leadership and public health. The Lancet, 378(9805), pp.1776-1777.

Book chapters

Souto, A., Siebert, P. and Ullathorne, A., 2023. Co-Designing for Inclusive Heritage to Explore Well-being and Resilient and Inclusive Communities: Choosing Mentors and Building Relationships. In Mentoring Within and Beyond Academia: Achieving the SDGs (pp. 57-76). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Griffiths, L., Siebert, P. and Lee, A., 2023. Conducting a Student Empirical Research Study in Health and Social Care. In Key Themes in Health and Social Care (pp. 269-283). Routledge.

Published reports

Siebert P, (2016) Discharge Case Study Evaluation, Report for the East midlands Academic Health Sciences Network Patient Safety Collaborative, Centre for Health Innovation Learning and Leadership, Nottingham University Business School.

Windrum. P, Siebert, P, Smith, R, Macdonald, S (2016) Evaluation of initiatives to improve access to primary care, for NHS England North Midlands Final report, Centre for Health Innovation Learning and Leadership, Nottingham University Business School.

Windrum P, Guinery J, Siebert P, Brown S, Smith R (2015) Formative evaluation of initiatives to improve access to primary care. Interim report for NHS England North Midlands, Centre for Health Innovation Learning and Leadership, Nottingham University Business School.

Conferences and workshops

Conference round table – Public health Surveillance and Modern Slavery, 24th IUHPE World Conference 15th- 19th May 2022


Conference panel – Suicide prevention: Learning from sociocultural perspectives to create a sustainable community response, Guyana Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference – 09th-11th November 2021

Visiting professor – Workshop on Assessing Needs School of Nursing and Family Health University of Sao Paulo Brazil 21 – 23 February 2018

Invited Discussant- Health non-communicable diseases matter, Turkeyen and Tain Talks 5, University of Guyana 24th January 2017.

Invited Discussant- Lessons from the PM Challenge: Patient Preferences and Evidence-Based Policy Design. InnovHealth. Valencia. 4-5 December 2015

Oral presentation – Whose need is it anyway Revisiting Bradshaw, British Sociology Association Annual Conference, Birmingham 7-9th April 2016

Oral presentation - Formative evaluation of initiatives to improve access to primary care, HSRN Conference, Nottingham, 2nd July 2015

Poster presentation - An Ethnographic Informed Study Exploring Evaluation in Practice from the Perspective of Public Health and Health Professionals.

Australasian Evaluation Society conference. Brisbane, 4 -6 September 2013

Oral presentation-, Regional Evaluation of the East Midlands Heath Check programme, interim findings Public Health Festival Manchester, 4 July 2013

Poster presentation - Delivering Derbyshire NHS Health Check Programme, Public Health Festival, Manchester 2012

Oral presentation- What is evaluation? Postgraduate Research Day, ScHARR Sheffield 2011

Parliament  submissions

Parliament Evidence submissions on behalf of Centre for Health Innovation Leadership and Learning

House of Lords NHS Sustainability Committee written Evidence. Available at http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/nhs-sustainability-committee/longterm-sustainability-of-the-nhs/written/38656.pdf

House of Commons Health Committee, Primary Care, Fourth Report of Session 2015–16. Available at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmhealth/408/408.pdf

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Press expertise

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Community based research
  • Creative practice