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Dr Melanie Handley is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), in the School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on health and care services for people living with multiple long-term conditions.
She recently led the CONNECT study, working with people living with dementia, family supporters and hospital staff to co-design an intervention that facilitates person-centred approaches to hospital care. Her current research includes co-leading the MEDAL study that will model how people living with and supporting someone with dementia alongside other long-term conditions access and navigate support from health, care and community services.
Melanie employs and combines a range of approaches including realist methodology, systems thinking and co-production. Her research is multi-disciplinary and aims to establish what works and why for people with lived experience and those working in services.
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Co-designing improvements to systems of care and support to tackle inequality of access for people with Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes: combining a system approach and realist review to inform a discrete choice experiment.
Casarin, A. (PI) & Handley, M. (CoI)
NIHR - National Institute for Health Research
1/03/25 → 31/08/27
Project: Research
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Developing an Innovation Hub for research with people living with multiple long-term conditions including dementia
Goodman, C. (PI), Handley, M. (CoI), Mathie, E. (CoI), Pujari, A. (CoI) & Lebcir, M. (CoI)
1/07/23 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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DiSCOVERY: Post-Diagnostic Dementia Support within the ReCOVERY College Model: A Realist Evaluation (DiSCOVERY)
Handley, M. (CoI)
1/01/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Coproducing improved mental health acute inpatient discharge using a Systems Approach: MINDS study
Jones, J. (CoI) & Handley, M. (CoI)
1/01/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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CONNECT: Supporting person-centred care for people with dementia in hospital settings: co-designing and testing the feasibility of an intervention for use during constant observation activities
Handley, M. (PI), Bunn, F. (CoI), Goodman, C. (CoI) & Phillips, R. (CoI)
1/06/20 → 31/05/22
Project: Research
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A scoping review of outcome measures for people living with dementia and family supporters to evaluate Recovery College dementia courses
Alam, J., West, J., Moniz-Cook, E., Wolverson, E., Handley, M., Birt, L. & Fox, C., 6 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 16, p. 1-19 19 p., 1591772.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Living with dementia and other long-term conditions: what works for patient caregiver dyads? A realist review
Handley, M., Windle, G., Mathie, E., Greco, H.-A., Underwood, B., Surr , C., Harrison-Dening, K., Milton, S., Pujari, A. N., Lebcir, R. M., Lynch, J., Beishon, L., Sampson , E. L., Scherer, R. & Goodman, C., 3 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Aging and Mental Health. p. 1-11 11 p., 2478168.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Strategies for older people living in care homes to prevent urinary tract infection: the StOP UTI realist synthesis
Prieto, J., Wilson, J., Tingle, A., Cooper, E., Handley, M., Rycroft-Malone, J., Bostock, J., Williams, L. & Loveday, H., 30 Oct 2024, In: Health Technology Assessment. 28, 68, p. 1-139 139 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Discussing methodological gaps in psychosocial intervention research for dementia: an opinion article from the INTERDEM Methodology Taskforce guided by the MRC framework
Bartels, S. L., Stephens, N., D'Andrea, F., Handley, M., Markaryan, M., Nakakawa Bernal, A., Van den Block, L., de Bruin, S. R., Windle, K., Roes, M., Janssen, N., Christie, H., Garcia, L., Teesing, G., Moniz-Cook, E. & Graff, M., 26 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Frontiers in Dementia. 3, p. 1-7 7 p., 1458023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Preventing urinary tract infection in older people living in care homes: the ‘StOP UTI’ realist synthesis
Prieto, J., Wilson, J., Tingle, A., Cooper, E., Handley, M., Rycroft Malone, J., Bostock, J. & Loveday, H., 8 Aug 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BMJ Quality and Safety. p. 1-12 12 p., 016967.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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