Joanna Leaviss BA (Liverpool), MPA (Liverpool), PhD (Nottingham)

HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
UK

Office:

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0895
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

E-mail: j.leaviss@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I joined ScHARR as a systematic reviewer in December 2010, having previously worked on a number of health-related research projects. After completing my Masters degree I worked in the Department of Health Care Education at the University of Liverpool on a range of projects exploring multidisciplinary teamwork in health care. Subsequent research focused on risk communication for health behaviours, lay conceptualisations of occupational disease (University of Nottingham), health considerations of older construction workers (University of Loughborough), and inclusive antenatal care for parents with a learning disability (MENCAP). I recently completed my PhD in health psychology, exploring the role of usability, usefulness and frame in persuasive health communication.

Research interests

My research interests are judgements and decision-making for health behaviours, risk communication, health in older construction workers, multidisciplinary teamwork in the health services, antenatal/postnatal care for parents with learning disabilities.

My Teaching Interests

My teaching interests lie in Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal, specifically data extraction, quality assessment and meta-analysis.

Current projects

• Clinical and cost-effectiveness of managing varicose veins
• Clinical and cost-effectiveness of diagnostic strategies for suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS)

Key publications

• Leaviss J, Gibb AGF, Bust PD (2008). Ageing workforce in construction – equipment use and the prevention of early retirement. Contemporary Ergonomics 221-6. UK: Taylor and Francis.
• Ferguson E, Lawrence C, Bibby P, Leaviss J, Moghaddam N (2006). Lay conceptualisations of occupational disease. Sudbury, UK: HSE Books.
• McManus IC, Iqbal S, Chandraradran A, Ferguson E, Leaviss J (2005). Unhappiness and dissatisfaction in doctors cannot be predicted from medical school application forms: A prospective, longitudinal study. BMC Medical Education 5:38.
• Ferguson E, Leaviss J, Townsend E, Fleming P, Lowe KC (2005). Perceived safety of donor blood and blood substitutes: the role of informational frame, patient groups and stress appraisals. Transfusion Medicine 15:401-12.
• Leaviss J (2000). Multiprofessional teamwork: exploring the effect of an undergraduate educational intervention on the experiences of newly-qualified health care professionals. Medical Education 34(6):483-7.
• Boaden N, Leaviss J. (2000) Putting teamwork in context. Medical Education 34:921-7.