

Long-term Conditions and Ageing Research Cluster
Our vision is to ensure provision of high quality, values-based health and social care research across the life-span.
Research interests
Effective management of people with long-term conditions is a priority within health care and an ageing population. Our research activities are designed to develop and strengthen local, national and international collaborations enabling the delivery of high quality, values-based health and social care practice across the lifespan.
Our research focuses upon dementia care, frailty and multi-morbidity in older people, non-medical prescribing, self-management of long-term conditions, workforce preparation and models of care.
The mission of the Long-term Conditions and Ageing Cluster is to ensure provision of values-based care for service users by advancing knowledge in health and social care across the lifespan.
Research areas
Our research falls into five main areas:
- Dementia care
- Frailty and multi-morbidity in older people
- Non-medical prescribing
- Self-management of long-term conditions
- Workforce preparation and models of care
- Palliative and end of life care.
Research methodologies
- Realist synthesis and evaluation
- Randomised controlled trials
- Intervention studies
- Participatory research
- Ethnography
- Grounded theory
- Phenomenology
- Systematic review
- Delphi technique
- Mixed methods
- Longitudinal and cohort studies.
Areas of interest for doctoral study
We welcome approaches from people wishing to undertake postgraduate research with us. We particularly welcome enquiries in the following areas:
- Frailty and care homes- admissions avoidance, recognising deteriorating patients, quality of life, transitions into end of life, and end of life care
- Implementation and evaluation of non-medical prescribing, medicines optimisation
- Workforce development: extended roles, advanced clinical practice
- Self-management of long-term conditions
- Learning disabilities
- Quality improvement.
Please contact Freda Mold (freda.mold@surrey.ac.uk) and Debbie Cooke (d.cooke@surrey.ac.uk), our postgraduate research directors, if you are considering postgraduate research.
People
Cluster lead

Dr Nicola Carey
Reader in Long Term Conditions
Cluster members

Dr Carys Banks
Research Fellow

Lisa Blazhevski
Teaching Fellow in Integrated Care (Moving and Handling)

Sue Brooks
Teaching Fellow in Integrated Care

Orlando Caetano
Teaching Fellow in Integrated Health (Moving and Handling)

Dr Theopisti Chrysanthaki
Lecturer in Integrated Care/ehealth

Karen Cook
Post-graduate researcher/PhD Student

Dr Debbie Cooke
Senior Lecturer

Dr Anna Cox
Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Lizzie Crowhurst
Teaching Fellow

Judith Edwards
Postgraduate research student

Professor Ann Gallagher
Professor of Ethics and Care

Dr Richard Green
Research Fellow in Palliative Care and Ageing

Wendy Grosvenor
PhD Student

Dr Agnieszka Lemanska
Lecturer in Integrated Care

Olivia Anna Luijnenburg
PhD Student

Olivia Anna Luijnenburg
PhD Student

Professor Jill Maben
Professor of Health Services Research and Nursing

Dr Freda Elizabeth Mold
Lecturer in Integrated Care

Professor Caroline Nicholson
Professor of Palliative Care and Ageing

Louis Nyuyse
Teaching Fellow

Dr Matthew Peacock
Research Fellow

Dr Karen Shaw
Project Manager

Colin Shore
Research Fellow

Dr Karen Stenner
Lecturer in Health Services Research

Dr Renske Visser
Research Fellow