Alexis K Foster (@lexikf) 's Twitter Profile
Alexis K Foster

@lexikf

Mixed methods health researcher specialising in evaluating community organisations and wellbeing/ loneliness interventions e.g social prescribing.

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This was a great study to be part of. Patients and stakeholders were involved throughout the review. The findings are being used by healthcare staff developing services to support people to self-manage minor health problems. Thank you to everyone who provided input.

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Want to make a difference to people with learning disabilities? We are currently advertising a PhD opportunity on making community activities more inclusive. Contact us for more information! findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

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The Community Development ad Health Course is an amazing course- so many of our community health workers and volunteers got into their roles following the course. Strength-based approaches at its best! Certainly something to celebrate!

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Lovely to meet the Next Steps Cohort and discuss their future research ideas. One of the highlights of my role is supporting people getting into research @NIHR_RDSYH

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Our new paper exploring service users' perspectives of social prescribing. Now social prescribing is more established, its time to think about the nuances of support

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One of the green social prescribing projects that is part of our national evaluation. Lovely seeing the photos as brings the numbers alive!

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What a really good take on the realities of co-production. Certainly going to think about this terminology going forward.

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Our interim report on a national evaluation of green social prescribing. Thank you to all our community partners who supported the research. Lots of learning for future initiatives sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/news/un…

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Our reflections on our first year working as embedded researchers within Doncaster Council to address health inequalities: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Our new article on undertaking public involvement when developing grants and how we can better support researchers to do it well-researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

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Come and work on our exciting project seeking to improve the health of people in Doncaster. And its a lovely, supported team to!

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This book is underpins my political views and why I do the research I do- we are all happier and healthier if living in a more equal society- it is a statistical not just a moral argument Heartbreaking that the UK is more unequal now than in the 1930s.

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Excited to be recruiting a Research Associate for our new study exploring how we can better support the Voluntary Sector Workforce jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynp…

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Our evaluation showed that green social prescribing helps people's mental health and reached people experiencing health inequalities. theguardian.com/environment/ar…