Dr Emily Wood

PhD, RNMH

School of Medicine and Population Health

Senior Research Fellow

e.f.wood@sheffield.ac.uk
3031, Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Dr Emily Wood
School of Medicine and Population Health
3031
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Profile

I am a mental health nurse researcher working on healthcare workforce and policy research at the School of Medicine and Population Health. The focus of my research is on the factors affecting the retention of staff in NHS services and the implementation of changing roles and changing ways of working for staff.

I have worked in a variety of ward-based and community mental health services in the UK and Gibraltar. My PhD, in Health Services Research, focussed on the use of EMDR to treat long-term depression. I am also interested in a whole-person view of healthcare particularly in people who have multiple conditions, which include both mental and physical illnesses.

Research interests
  • Health and social care workforce issues (safe staffing levels, recruitment and retention, burnout and stress, implementation of change)
  • Treatment for long term depression
  • Mental health and physical health
  • Mental health and the environment

Current Projects

Publications

Journal articles

  • Hobbs C & Wood E (2025) . BMJ Open, 15(10).
  • Wood E, Ohlsen S, Long J, Lumley E, Senek M, Hulin J, Finn R, Ryan T & Weich S (2025) . BMJ Open, 15(8).
  • Lumley E, Hughes J, Elstone A, Hall J, MacGregor‐Smith N, Michaels J, Nasim A, Radley S, Shackley P, Stansby G , Wood E et al (2025) . Health Expectations, 28(5).
  • Lumley E, Hughes J, Elstone A, Hall J, MacGregor‐Smith N, Michaels J, Nasim A, Radley S, Shackley P, Stansby G , Wood E et al (2025) Exiting Surveillance From Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening: The Views of Clinicians, and Men in Surveillance and Their Family Members. Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 28(5).
  • Simpson E, Carroll C, Sutton A, Forsyth J, Rayner A, Ren S, Franklin M & Wood E (2025) . British Journal of Psychology.
  • Hughes J, Lumley E, Elstone A, Hall J, Michaels J, Nasim A, Radley S, Shackley P, MacGregor Smith N, Stansby G , Wood E et al (2025) . Journal of Medical Screening.
  • Senek M, Long J, Ohlsen S, Finn R, Weich S, Ryan T & Wood E (2025) . BMC Health Services Research, 25(1).
  • Almubark S, Booth A & Wood E (2025) . Journal of Advanced Nursing.
  • Westbrook S, Ejegi-Memeh S, Sherborne V, Warnock C, Wood E, Stanford S, Tahar R, Creech L, Squib L, Twist C & Gardiner C (2025) . European Journal of Cancer Care, 2024.
  • Lumley E, Hughes J, Elstone A, Hall J, MacGregor-Smith N, Michaels J, Nasim A, Radley S, Shackley P, Stansby G , Wood E et al (2025) . Journal of Vascular Nursing, 43(1), 10-17.
  • Yan W, Ohlsen S & Wood E (2024) . Occupational Therapy in Mental Health.
  • Yan W, Ohlsen S & Wood E (2024) . British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 88(2), 70-84.
  • Wood E, King R, Robertson S, Tod A, Senek M, Taylor B & Ryan T (2024) . Nursing Open, 11(7).
  • Watson J, Robertson S, Ryan T, Wood E, Cooke J, Hampshaw S & Roddam H (2024) . BMC Health Services Research, 24(1).
  • Sullivan L, McCarty EF, Wood E & Cabral E (2024) . Journal of Nursing Education, 63(10), 713-715.
  • Sherborne V, Wood E, Mayland CR, Gardiner C, Lusted C, Bibby A, Tod A, Taylor B & Ejegi-Memeh S (2024) . European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 70.
  • Robertson S, King R, Taylor B, Laker S, Wood E, Senek M, Tod A & Ryan A (2024) . International Nursing Review, 71(1), 130-139.
  • Long J, Ohlsen S, Senek M, Booth A, Weich S & Wood E (2023) . BMJ Open, 13(5).
  • King R, Laker S, Alden S, Ryan A, Wood E, Tod A, Senek M, Robertson S & Taylor B (2023) . Primary Health Care Research and Development, 24, 1-7.
  • Robertson S, King R, Taylor B, Laker S, Wood E, Senek M, Tod A & Ryan T (2023) . Primary Health Care Research & Development, 24.
  • Phillips J, Wood E, Loveard T, McKinlay E, MacDonald C, Parker G & Gray L (2023) . Journal of Primary Health Care.
  • Senek M, Robertson S, King R, Wood E & Ryan T (2022) . BMC Health Services Research, 23(1).
  • Wood E, King R, Taylor B, Robertson S, Senek M, Tod A & Ryan T (2022) . Nursing Standard.
  • King R, Taylor B, Laker S, Wood E, Senek M, Tod A, Ryan A, Snowden S & Robertson S (2022) . Nursing Open, 9(5), 2486-2494.
  • Robertson S, King R, Taylor B, Laker S, Wood E, Senek M, Tod A & Ryan A (2022) . Primary Health Care, 32(6).
  • Hampshaw S, Cooke J, Robertson S, Wood E, King R & Tod A (2022) . Journal of Nursing Management, 30(4), 1011-1017.
  • Robertson S, King R, Taylor B, Laker S, Wood E, Senek M, Tod A & Ryan T (2022) . British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 16(3), 126-133.
  • Senek M, Robertson S, Taylor B, Wood E, King R & Ryan T (2022) . International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 4.
  • Taylor B, South J, Robertson S, Ryan T, Wood E, King RL, Senek M, Tod A & Seymour J (2022) . Nursing Open, 9(2), 900-907.
  • Ohlsen S, Sanders T, Connell J & Wood E (2022) . Journal of Clinical Nursing, 31(9-10), 1184-1201.
  • King R, Ryan T, Senek M, Wood E, Taylor B, Tod A, Talpur A & Robertson S (2022) . Nursing Open, 9(3), 1822-1831.
  • Senek M, Robertson S, Ryan T, Tod A, King R, Wood E & Taylor B (2022) . Primary Health Care, 32(2).
  • Robertson S, King R, Taylor B, Senek M, Snowden S, Wood E, Tod A, Ryan A & Laker S (2021) Support and career aspirations among trainee nursing associates : a longitudinal cohort study. Nursing Times, 117(12), 18-22.
  • Adams R, Ryan T & Wood E (2021) . International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30(6), 1476-1497.
  • Foster A, Wood E & Clowes M (2021) . Journal of Nursing Management, 29(6), 1639-1652.
  • Wood E, Ohlsen S, Fenton S-J, Connell J & Weich S (2021) . BMC Family Practice, 22(1).
  • Wood E, King R, Senek M, Robertson S, Taylor B, Tod A & Ryan A (2021) . BMJ Open, 11.
  • King R, Taylor B, Talpur A, Jackson C, Manley K, Ashby N, Tod A, Ryan T, Wood E, Senek M & Robertson S (2021) . Nurse Education Today, 98.
  • Wood E, Ross S, Raffay J & Todd A (2021) . Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 9(2), 216-230.
  • Wood E, King R, Robertson S, Senek M, Tod A & Ryan T (2021) . Journal of Nursing Management, 29(5), 1073-1080.
  • Senek M, Robertson S, Ryan T, Sworn K, King R, Wood E & Tod A (2020) . Journal of Nursing Management, 28(8), 1968-1974.
  • Senek M, Robertson S, Ryan T, King R, Wood E, Taylor B & Tod A (2020) . BMC Nursing, 19.
  • King R, Ryan T, Wood E, Tod A & Robertson S (2020) . BMC Health Services Research, 20(1).
  • Senek M, Robertson S, Ryan T, King R, Wood E & Tod A (2020) . BMC Health Services Research, 20(1).
  • Wood E, King R, Robertson S, Allmark P, Senek M, Tod A & Ryan A (2020) . Journal of Nursing Management, 28(4), 959-967.
  • Adams R, Ohlsen S & Wood E (2020) . European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1).
  • Wood EF, Ohlsen S, Thompson J, Hulin J & Knowles L (2018) . Journal of Mental Health, 27(3), 263-268.
  • Wood EF, Ricketts T & Parry G (2018) . Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 91(1), 63-78.
  • Ricketts T, Wood E, Soady J, Saxon D, Hulin J, Ohlsen S & Mitchell C (2018) . Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 366-371.
  • Wood EF, Ohlsen S & Ricketts T (2017) . Journal of Affective Disorders, 214, 26-43.
  • Raffay J, Wood EF & Todd A (2016) . BMC Psychiatry, 16.
  • Wood E, Raffay J & Todd A (2016) . Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 4(1), 51-56.
  • Wood E & Ricketts T (2013) . Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 7(4), 225-235.
  • Wood E, Watson R & Hayter M (2011) . Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 14(8), 769-783.
  • King R, Laker S, Taylor B, Ryan T, Wood E, Tod A, Senek M, Snowden S & Robertson S () Development of the nursing associate professional identity: a longitudinal qualitative study. Nursing Open.

Conference proceedings

  • Ejegi-Memeh S, Sherborne V, Wood E, Mayland C, Balmer K, Gardiner C, Lusted C & Tod A (2024) . Lung Cancer, Vol. 190 (pp 107628-107628)
  • King R, Robertson S, Wood E & Ryan T (2020) An Exploratory Study of the Motivations, Experiences, and Career Aspirations of Trainee Nursing Associates in the North of England. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, Vol. 19
  • Wood E, King R, Robertson S & Ryan T (2020) "It's Very Stressful But I love It": Advanced Nurse Practitioners' views of Advanced Nursing Practice. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, Vol. 19
  • Wood E, Ohlsen S, Weich S & Fenton SJ (2020) . International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol. 19 (pp 56-56). Vancouver, Canada, 25 October 2019 - 25 October 2019.

Posters

  • Long J, Ohlsen S & Wood E (2022) Virtual data collection: experiences of participants and interviewers. HSRUK Conference 2022.

Preprints

  • King RL, Ryan T, Wood E, Tod A & Robertson S (2020) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • King RL, Wood E, Robertson S, Ryan T & Tod A (2020) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • King RL, Wood E, Robertson S, Ryan T & Tod A (2020) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Senek M, ROBERTSON S, RYAN T, RN RK, WOOD E & TOD A (2020) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Senek M, ROBERTSON S, RYAN T, RN RK, WOOD E & TOD A (2020) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • King RL, Wood E, Robertson S, Ryan T & Tod A (2019) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
Teaching interests

PhD supervision

I would be pleased to hear from potential PhD students who would like to work on qualitative or mixed methods projects, which are related to my research areas.

Taught courses

I teach mental health to Adult branch nursing students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and research methods to Masters in clinical research students.

Professional activities and memberships

I am the University’s Humanist and non-faith advisor to the Humanist Chaplaincy