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Staff Profile

Dr Fiona Campbell

Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis

Background

Fiona Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis at Newcastle University, UK. She has 20 years’ experience in evidence synthesis and has been involved with the conduct and publication of reviews for NICE, HTA, WHO and the Cochrane Collaboration. She is the editor and founder of the Campbell Collaboration Children and Young Persons Wellbeing Coordinating Group. Her work has been used to inform NICE guidance for treatments for hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol use, hospital errors approaches to increasing levels of physical activity and harmful behaviour in children. She has designed, led and published work on methodological aspects of systematic reviews including mixed methods approaches to synthesis, scoping, mapping and Evidence and Gap Maps, rapid reviews, qualitative synthesis. She is currently leading the evidence synthesis to support a systems approach to policy making (SIPHER). She has a track record in successful grant applications, building a strong network of collaborative links both in the UK and internationally. She established and regularly runs short courses on rapid review methods and scoping, mapping and evidence gap maps with colleagues at the University of Sheffield, as well as supporting teaching on mixed methods synthesis and qualitative evidence synthesis.  She has a clinical background in oncology nursing, district nursing and health visiting and has worked in this capacity both in the UK and developing country settings. 

Teaching

Fiona Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis at Newcastle University, UK.


Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching

Supporting the programme of graduate and post-graduate teaching delivered by Newcastle University including teaching on our postgraduate courses and the MBBS Medicine and Psychology BSc(Hons) degree. Each year supervising 2-4 dissertation students, as well as supervise medical students on research attachments. Undertaking confirmation reviews for PhD students and provide supervisory support. Fiona delivers teaching on the following programmes and modules

·        Public Health

·        Systematic Approaches to Evidence Synthesis Research Methods

·        Supervision of dissertations

Short Course teaching

Designed and leads one short course as part of the Newcastle short course programme and another at the University of Sheffield. These courses require we remain updated on methodological innovations and draw on our experience of using these methodologies in practice. These also require coordination across a team to ensure successful delivery of the courses.

Rapid Reviews

 Scoping/Mapping Reviews and Evidence Gap Maps

Mixed Methods Reviews

Fiona is often Invited to deliver tailored courses on evidence synthesis methods to different groups responding to the learning needs of those working in very different health care settings. These have been very rewarding experiences and require skills in leadership in order to ensure the right team is in place to deliver the courses. 

The Maldives (invited by the Ministry of Health)

Saudi Arabia (Invited by the National Centre for Evidence-Based health practice in Saudi Arabia)

The Gambia (funded by University of Sheffield to support capacity building)

Short courses tailored on evidence synthesis methods for HSE (Health and Safety Executive, UK) NIHR

(National Institute for Health Research, UK) and Public Health Scotland

 Health Systems, Policy and Economics, City College, University of York Europe Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Student feedback included a rating of 6.9 (out of 7). A free text comment ‘Every unit delivered with the EMBA Program should be like this one!’

Publications