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Dr Helen Cartner

Senior Research Assistant

Department: Psychology

I am currently a senior research assistant in the Northumbria University psychology and communication technology (PaCT) lab. I have joined a multi-disciplinary research team on an externally funded (EPSRC) project developing a remote system for self-assessment of chewing – the long-term aim being intervention development to explore and address chewing difficulty and related wellbeing and quality of life parameters.  I have been involved in university psychology teaching and research since around 2015 after several years as a dentist in general practice and as a health promotion specialist at community and strategic levels.  My PhD involved an extensive PPIE-guided exploratory study of eating experience with early intervention development for people with Sjögren's syndrome. This included application of a novel ethnographic methodology - foodplay.

 

Helen Cartner

Quality of life, clinician-patient interaction, long-term illness experience - including self-management and remote systems, intervention development, PPIE and person-centred research, and broader oral health, eating experience, health psychology and related themes.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • 'A taste of my life' ... altered eating and Sjӧgren’s syndrome: a participant-led exploration of eating experience using application of a novel methodology, 'food play', Cartner, H. 25 Apr 2024
  • Exploring Relationships between Chewing and Well-being: Design of a Remote Chewing Assessment System., McGrogan, C., Cartner, H., Ang, C., Dawes, H., Matcham, F., Mohamed, E., Branley-Bell, D. 4 Sep 2024, EHPS 2024: 38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society
  • Exploring relationships between chewing difficulty, eating experience, pain, and wellbeing: A cross-sectional self-report study, McGrogan, C., Matcham, F., Dawes, H., Ang, C., Cartner, H., Branley-Bell, D. 1 Oct 2024, In: Clinical Nutrition Open Science
  • Exploring Relationships Between Eating Experience and Well-Being: Developing an Altered Eating Scale, McGrogan, C., Cartner, H., Campbell, M., Deary, V., Irvine, K., Dawes, H., Ang, C., Matcham, F., Branley-Bell, D. 2 Sep 2024, British Society for Oral and Dental Research Annual Meeting, 2024
  • RIICE: Designing a Remote Intervention to Investigate Chewing Efficiency, McGrogan, C., Cartner, H., Ang, C., Dawes, H., Matcham, F., Mohamed, E., Branley-Bell, D. 8 Nov 2024, Association of the Directors of Public Health Yorkshire and the Humber Sector-Led Improvement.
  • I-eAT, a consortium addressing gastronomic solutions for altered taste: A research and development manifesto, Burges Watson, D., Giboreau, A., Coveney, J., Kelly, C., Bensafi, M., Braud, A., Bruyas, A., Carrouel, F., Cartner, H., Cunha, L., Deary, V., Dougkas, A., Monteleone, E., Mourier, V., Singer, P., Spinelli, S. 1 Feb 2023, In: Clinical Nutrition Open Science
  • 'Talking with Food': The First Application of a Novel Methodology (Food Play) to Explore Eating Experience for People Living with Sjogren's Syndrome., Cartner, H., Deary, V., Burges Watson, D., Rapley, T., Campbell, M., Hackett, K., Storey, S. 15 Sep 2023, Altered Taste International Symposium: 3rd Edition 2023
  • Non-pharmacological interventions for the management of fatigue and constitutional symptoms in Sjogren's syndrome, Hackett, K., Cartner, H. 1 Apr 2021, Oxford Textbook of Sjogren's Syndrome, Oxford University Press
  • Oral health: A broader psychosocial approach, Cartner, H., Hackett, K., Watson, D., Deary, V. 9 Feb 2018, In: British Dental Journal

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Consultancy: Study: McCallum, C., Campbell, M., Vines, J., Rapley, T., Ellis, J., Deary, V., Hackett, K. (2024). A Smartphone App to Support Self-Management for People Living with Sjogren's Syndrome: Qualitative Co-Design Workshops. JMIR Human Factors, Vol 11 e54172 DOI: 10.2196/54172 2021

  • Psychology PhD May 01 2024
  • Psychology MSc May 19 2017
  • Psychology Diploma December 31 2013
  • Health Education PGDip July 21 1995
  • Other Medical Subjects Other Undergraduate December 10 1990
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy AFHEA 2022


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