Susan Hampshaw

BA (Hons), MSc, PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Honorary Research Fellow

Director of NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration Doncaster

Susan Hampshaw
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s.hampshaw@sheffield.ac.uk
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I am the Director of the ; Honorary Research Fellow in SCHARR and Visiting Researcher at the Advanced Well Being Centre (Sheffield Hallam University). 

I lead work to grow capacity to develop and use knowledge within the City of Doncaster Council and am a practitioner-academic spanning the boundary between academic and practice public health.

Research interests

My research interests are focused on knowledge synthesis, use and mobilisation within local government; research capacity building (including public involvement and engagement in research); and generation of evidence or interventions addressing the wider determinants of health.

 Practitioner lead in ScHARR's Knowledge into Action Research Theme 

Publications

Journal articles

  • Middleton G, Varga S, Hampshaw S, Byrne G, Delahunty A-J, Gettings R, Dowrick L & Homer C (2025) . Public Health in Practice, 10.
  • Middleton G, Varga S, Hampshaw S, Byrne G, Delahunty AJ, Gettings R, Dowrick L & Homer C (2025) . Public Health in Practice.
  • Holding E, Gettings R, Foster A, Dowrick L, Hampshaw S, Haywood A, Homer C, Booth A & Goyder E (2024) . Public Health in Practice, 7.
  • Watson J, Robertson S, Ryan T, Wood E, Cooke J, Hampshaw S & Roddam H (2024) . BMC Health Services Research, 24(1).
  • Newbury-Birch D, Harbin K, Adamson A, Asthana S, Batey C, Buffardi AL, Curley J, Dezateux C, Divers A, Fitzsimmons E , Forbes LJL et al (2024) . NIHR Open Research, 4(4:11), 11.
  • Hampshaw S, Morling J & Black M (2024) . Public Health in Practice, 7, 100460-100460.
  • Machaczek KK, Quirk H, Firth J, Carney R, Copeland RJ, Pollard N, Peckham E, Hampshaw S, De-la Haye S, Burton H & Goyder E (2022) . Mental Health and Physical Activity, 23.
  • Hampshaw S, Cooke J, Robertson S, Wood E, King R & Tod A (2022) . Journal of Nursing Management, 30(4), 1011-1017.
  • Childs C, Elliott J, Khatab K, Hampshaw S, Fowler-Davis S, Willmott JR & Ali A (2020) . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18).
  • Grove A, Sanders T, Salway S, Goyder E & Hampshaw S (2019) . Evidence & Policy, 15(4), 461-487.
  • Hampshaw S, Cooke J & Mott L (2018) . BMC Health Services Research, 18.
  • Sanders T, Grove A, Salway S, Hampshaw S & Goyder E (2017) . Social Science & Medicine, 186, 122-129.
  • Cooke J, Langley J, Wolstenholme D & Hampshaw S (2017) . International Journal of Health Policy and Management , 6(6), 345-348.
  • Thornton-Jones H, Hampshaw S & England P (2005) . British Journal of Healthcare Management, 11(4), 105-109.
  • Thornton-Jones H & Hampshaw SM (2003) Modernising beyond the NHS: Prison healthcare can benefit too. Quality in Primary Care, 11(4), 271-276.
  • Thornton-Jones H, Hampshaw S & Soltani H (2002) Evidence, policy making and the art of the possible: A methodology applied to screening. Journal of Clinical Excellence, 4(1), 9-16.
  • Thornton‐Jones H, Hampshaw S, Soltan H & Madhok R (2002) . British Journal of Clinical Governance, 7(3), 165-176.
  • Thornton-Jones H (2002) . BMJ, 324(7351), 1456-1456.
  • Soltani H, Hampshaw S & Thornton-Jones H (2002) . British Journal of Midwifery, 10(4), 243-246.
  • Banyard R, Jones HT, Hampshaw S & Dunn A (2002) Primary care. Social skills.. Health Service Journal, 112(5820), 24-25.
  • Hughes T, Hampshaw S, Renvoize E & Storer D (1998) . Psychiatric Bulletin, 22(2), 88-91.
  • Renvoize EB, Hampshaw SM, Pinder JM & Ayres P (1997) . Quality in Health Care, 6(4), 187-191.
  • HARDERN RD & HAMPSHAW S (1997) . European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 4(2), 68-71.
  • Renvoize E, Ayres P, Fear J, Wardman G, Hampshaw S, Mitchell J & Robinson M (1996) Clinical guidelines. Guidelines and brownie points.. Health Service Journal, 106(5516), 31.
  • Abel G, Hampshaw S, Stringer MD, Beck JM & Puntis JWL (1995) . Clinical Nutrition, 14, 41-41.
  • Hampshaw S, Abel G, Rushworth AJ & Puntis JWL (1994) . Clinical Nutrition, 13, 52-52.
  • Harris SJ, Papathanassoglou EDE, Gee M, Hampshaw SM, Lindgren L & Haywood A () . Nursing Open.
  • Furness PJ, Arden MA, Duxbury AMS, Hampshaw SM, Wardle C & Soltani H () . Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 5(2).

Book chapters

  • Cooke J, Mawson S & Hampshaw S (2022) (pp. 74-90). Wiley

Conference proceedings

  • Hayes L, Brown L, Sowden S, Briggs A, Dennington A, Dutta V, Hampshaw S, Humphreys E, Johns T, Levitas A , Needham K et al (2025) . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A64.2-A65)
  • Holding E, Gettings R, Foster A, Dowrick L, Hampshaw S, Haywood A, Homer C, Booth A & Goyder E (2024) . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A67.2-A68)
  • ABEL G, HAMPSHAW S, STRINGER MD, BECK JM & PUNTIS JW (1995) MIC-KEY GASTROSTOMY DEVICE PERFORMANCE. PEDIATRIC RESEARCH, Vol. 38(3) (pp 423-423)

Theses

  • Hampshaw S (2020) What happens to NICE public health guidelines after publication in terms of how they are viewed and used by local government officers? – A realist inquiry. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield..

Preprints

  • Childs C, Elliott J, Khatab K, Hampshaw S, Fowler-Davis S, Willmott JR & Ali A () .
Grants

Ongoing

NIHR150691 Pathways to research excellence: developing a Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) for sustainable and applied research in Doncaster National Institute for Health and Care Research (London)2022-10 to 2027-09| PI 

NIHR131358 Adult social care partnership: Using co-production methods to build and evaluate a regional capacity building network to facilitate greater understanding use and production of research in adult social care. National Institute for Health Research (Southampton)2021-06 to 2024-06|Co-Investigator

NIHR127659 PHR Public Health Review Team NIHR Evaluation Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (Southampton)2019-04-01 to 2022-03-31|Co-investigator 

NIHR154015 Evidence Synthesis Programme EnSygN - Evidence S(heffield)ynthesis group for NIHR: Production of Evidence Syntheses for the Evidence Synthesis Programme02/04/202- 01/04/2028 |Co-investigator

Completed

NIHR131936 Local Authority Research Systems: developing Doncaster Council’s road map to building greater organisational research capacity NIHR Evaluation Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (Southampton)2020-08-01 to 2020-11-30|PI

R507/0716 Assessment of thermal comfort in old and frail older people living in care homes: a feasibility study Dunhill Medical Trust (London)2017-04-10 to 2018-10-09|Co-investigator

Born and Bred (BaBi) e cohorts: creating a network of local intelligence tools from linked local data Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (London)Award|PI

Teaching activities

I lecture on the Knowledge Mobilisation module as part of the Master of Public Health (MPH) programme.

Public Health MPH

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2026 start
  • 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time
  • Accredited

Develop essential research, evaluation, and analytical skills for leading public health initiatives in the UK and globally. Our APHEA-accredited program helps to prepare you for professional roles in public health and offers a strong foundation for pursuing PhD-level studies.
Professional activities and memberships

NIHR Academy PLAF, SPARC committees (member) 

NIHR Public Health Research Prioritisation Committee (member).