Dr Stephanie Tierney

Topics discussed include (00:00:47) early background and studies in journalism, master's study in disability studies, PhD studies at the University of Exeter, work as a researcher at the University of Manchester relating to long-term health conditions, work at the University of Warwick and research in compassion in healthcare and later work at the University of Oxford relating to social prescribing; (00:04:20) social prescribing; (00:06:55) services and patient referrals; (00:08:26) realist research and realist review; (00:13:40) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:14:49) impact of the pandemic on research; (00:15:45) primary data collection, work with social prescribing link workers; (00:18:13) project relating to implementation of link workers in primary care; (00:21:00) findings relating to link worker study; (00:22:46) collaboration with Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) on a study relating to isolation of the older generation during COVID-19; (00:29:20) future research; (00:31:15) attitudes to social prescribing in healthcare settings; (00:33:21) collaborators, including work with Helen Chatterjee, Kerryn Husk, and Geoff Wong; (00:37:00) changes to daily work as a result of the pandemic, particularly relating to teaching; (00:40:46) personal threat from COVID-19; (00:42:45) impact of remote working on wellbeing; (00:44:30) changes in attitude to work as a result of the pandemic.