Jenny Woodman

MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health

Jenny Woodman

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Contacts	Tel: 0207 905 2764 j.woodman@ucl.ac.uk
Address	Room W5.07 MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health Institute of Child Health London WC1N 1EH
PhD	GPs’s responses to possible child maltreatment (abuse and neglect): a mixed methods study Supervisors: Ruth Gilbert, Marian Brandon (University of Norwich), Danya Glaser (UCL Institute of Child Health and GOS), Irene Petersen (UCL Department of Primary Care and Population Health) Summary: My PhD aims to describe and understanding how General Practitioners (GPs) currently respond to children and families who prompt concerns about (possible) maltreatment. I am analysing a large primary care dataset (The Health Improvement Network – THIN), developing a GP-led consensus about recording concerns and conducting interviews & observations with primary care professionals in England. Findings will inform the research agenda for developing a ‘best guess’ model of good practice for supporting children with (possible) maltreatment in primary care. By integrating quantitative and qualitative data (mixed methods) I am aiming to explore different dimensions of the same research problem and increase the breadth and range of my findings.
Joined UCL	October 2009

Academic Background

2009	MSc in Public Health	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2007	MA in English Literature	King’s College, University of London
2001	BA in English Literature	Newnham College, University of Cambridge

Developing services for a public health approach to child maltreatment	2012 Publication
GPs' role in safeguarding children	2012 Publication
Simple approaches to improve recording of concerns about child maltreatment in primary care records: developing a quality improvement intervention	2012 Publication
How explicable are differences between reviews that appear to address a similar research question? A review of reviews of physical activity interventions	2012 Publication
The views of young children in the UK about obesity, body size, shape and weight: a systematic review	2011 Publication
“Recording of child maltreatment in primary care: a study using The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database”, Society of Academic Primary Care, Bristol July 2011	2011 Poster
‘Does healthcare use predict child maltreatment: a systematic review’ The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Spring Meeting, April 2011	2011 Presentation
Healthcare use by children fatally or seriously harmed by child maltreatment: analysis of a national case series 2005-7	2010 Publication
Variation in recording of child maltreatment in administrative records of hospital admissions for injury in England, 1997–2009	2010 Publication
Searching for systematic reviews of the effects of interventions targeting the wider determinants of health: a case study of children and obesity	2010 Publication
The socioeconomic value of nursing and midwifery: a rapid systematic review of reviews	2010 Publication (report)
‘How to conduct mixed methods research’	2010 Presentation (seminar)
Screening injured children for physical abuse or neglect in emergency departments: a systematic review	2009 Publication
Performance of screening tests for child physical abuse in accident and emergency departments	2008 Publication (HTA report)
Social and environmental interventions to reduce childhood obesity: a systematic map of reviews	2008 Publication (report)

Prior to my PhD, I worked as a researcher for UCL-Institute of Child Health (2005-7) and The EPPI-Centre, Institute of Education, University of London (2007-8).

I have conducted systematic reviews of both quantitative and qualitative data in the area of child maltreatment and childhood obesity. I am also involved in teaching evidence-based decision making, qualitative research methods and systematic reviewing.

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