

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 Jenny Harris (jen.harris@surrey.ac.uk), our postgraduate research directors, if you are considering postgraduate research.
People
Cluster members

Dr Justin Aunger
Research Fellow (0.5 FTE) & Commercialisation Fellow (0.5 FTE)

Dr Carys Banks
NIHR Research Fellow

Lisa Blazhevski
Lecturer Integrated Care

Sue Brooks
Visiting Senior Lecturer

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

Dr Theopisti Chrysanthaki
Lecturer in Integrated Care/ehealth

Dr Sarah Combes
Research Fellow

Dr Debbie Cooke
Reader

Dr Anna Cox
Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care

Judith Edwards
Postgraduate research student

Dr Nyangi Gityamwi
Research Fellow

Dr Richard Green
Surrey Future Fellow

Faith Howard
Postgraduate Research Student

Dr Haomiao Jin
Lecturer in Health Data Sciences

Kathy Leach
Teaching Fellow - Adult Nursing Field

Dr Agnieszka Lemanska
Senior Lecturer in Health Data Science

Professor Jill Maben
Professor of Health Services Research and Nursing

Dr Freda Elizabeth Mold
Senior Lecturer in Integrated Care

Professor Caroline Nicholson
Professor of Palliative Care and Ageing

Neesha Oozageer Gunowa
Senior Lecturer and Pathway Lead in Community Nursing

Dr Karen Shaw
Project Manager

Colin Shore
Research Fellow

Dr Karen Stenner
Lecturer in Health Services Research

Mark Stobbart
Senior Teaching Fellow

Suzanne van Even
Research Fellow