Associate Professor Paul Ward
PhD Medical Sociology/ Social Epidemiology (Manchester), PG Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Sheffield), MA Health Service Studies (Leeds), BA (Hons) Human Geography (Salford)
| Position: | Associate Professor of Public Health Research |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health Sciences |
| School: | School of Medicine |
| Location: | Block G5, Flinders Medical Centre Flats, Flinders Drive, Bedford Park, South Australia |
| Telephone: | +61 8 8204 6202 |
| Fax: | +61 8 8204 5693 |
| Email: | paul.ward@flinders.edu.au |
Recent Employment History
- March 2004 - Feb 2006: Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, University of Sheffield .
- Oct 2002 - March 2004: Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University .
- Oct 1998 - Sept 2002: Research Fellow, University of Manchester.
Key Teaching Interests
- Sociology of health and illness
- Social theory
- Research methodologies, methods and analysis
- Combining qualitative and quantitative research
Key Research Interests
- Equity of the provision, utilisation and quality of health care (esp. GP prescribing, bowel cancer services and screening programmes)
- Socio-spatial inequalities and inequities in health
- Lay and professional understandings (knowledges) of health, medicines and risk
- Applying social theory to public health research/problems (esp. the sociologies of risk and trust)
- Patient and public involvement in health research and policy-making
- Developing and evaluating new roles and responsibilities for nurses and pharmacists in primary care teams
- Applying pluralistic methodologies to complex public health problems
Recent Publications
Books
Bissell P, Ward PR , & Morgall Traulsen J. Public Health and Pharmacy. London : Pharmaceutical Press (commissioned for 2006).
Book Chapters
Ward PR , Bissell P, Noyce PR. Insights into the uncertain world of the consumer: reflections on the risks of non-prescription medicines. In Taylor-Gooby P (Ed). Risk, Trust and Welfare. London : Macmillan, 2000.
Recent peer-reviewed publications in academic journals
Ward PR , Coates A. 'We shed tears, but there is no one there to wipe them up for us': narratives of (mis)trust in a materially deprived community. Health: An interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine 2006 (in press) .
Ward PR , Redgrave P, Read, C. Operationalising the Theory of Social Quality: Theoretical and experiential reflections from the development and implementation of a public health programme in the UK . European Journal of Social Quality 2006 (in press).
Ward PR , Coates A. Health and happiness in a materially deprived, ethnically-mixed locality. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005: 60 ; 87. view abstract
Ward PR, Noyce PR, St Leger AS. Exploring the equity of GP practice prescribing rates for selected coronary heart disease drugs: a multiple regression analysis with proxies of health care need. International Journal for Equity in Health 2005: 4; 3. DOI :10.1186/1475-9276-4-3. Accessed at: http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/4/1/3
Ward PR , Noyce PR, St Leger AS. Differential associations between actual and expected GP practice prescribing rates for statins, ACE inhibitors, and beta-blockers: a cross-sectional study in England. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management 2005: 1 ; 61-68. view abstract
Ward PR , Noyce PR, St Leger AS. Multivariate regression analysis of associations between GP practice prescribing rates for CHD drugs and health care needs indicators. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005: 59 ; 86-87. view abstract
Ward PR , Noyce PR, St Leger AS. Are GP practice prescribing rates for CHD drugs equitable? A cross-sectional analysis in four primary care trusts in England . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004: 58 ; 89-96. view abstract
Ward PR , Noyce PR, St Leger AS. Developing prevalence based prescribing units for analysing variations in general practitioner prescribing: a case study using statins. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 2003; 1 : 23-30. view abstract
Benrimoj SI, Peacocke G, Whitehead P, Kopecny E, Ward PR , Emerson L. Cognitive pharmaceutical services in emerging health care systems - new patient medication management and concordance services in community pharmacy. Journal of Social and Administrative Pharmacy 2003; 20 : 2-11.
Benrimoj SI, Langford JH, Berry G, Collins D, Lauchlan R, Stewart K, Ward PR . Clinical significance of clinical interventions in community pharmacy: a randomised trial of the effect of education and a professional allowance. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2003; 11 : 81-87. view abstract
Benrimoj SI, Langford JH, Berry G, Collins D, Lauchlan R, Stewart K, Ward PR . Clinical intervention rates in community pharmacy: a randomised trial of the effect of education and a professional allowance. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2003; 11 : 71-80. view abstract
Hibbert D, Bissell P, Ward PR . Consumerism and professional work in the community pharmacy. Sociology of Health and Illness 2002; 24 ; 46-65. view abstract
Bissell P, Ward PR , Noyce PR. The dependent consumer: reflections on accounts of the risks of non-prescription medicines. Health: An interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine 2001; 5 : 5-30.
Bissell P, Ward PR , Noyce PR. Mapping the contours of risk: consumer perceptions of non-prescription medicines. Journal of Social and Administrative Pharmacy 2000; 17 : 136-142.
Ward PR , Bissell P, Noyce PR. Criteria for assessing the appropriateness of patient counselling in community pharmacy. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2000; 34 (2): 170-175.
Bissell P, Ward PR , Noyce PR. Appropriateness measurement: application to advice-giving in community pharmacies. Social Science and Medicine 2000; 51 : 343-359. view abstract
Ward PR , Seston EM, Wilson P, Bagley L. Perceived barriers to participating in continuing education: the views of newly-registered pharmacists. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2000; 8 : 217-224.
Recent external research grants awarded as Primary Investigator
2005 £250,000 from Department of Health to undertake the national evaluation of supplementary prescribing in nursing and pharmacy.
2005 £15,000 from the Supportive Primary Care Oncology Research Group (SPORG) to explore the barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer screening among patients and GPs in South Yorkshire
2004 £6,000 from Trent Focus to undertake pilot work in GP practices aimed at understanding GP-patient consultations around colorectal cancer
2003 £10,000 from South East Sheffield NHS Primary Care Trust to undertake focus groups with white and Pakistani residents in order to explore their healthcare needs and views of current health service provision
2003 £5,000 from South East Sheffield NHS Primary Care Trust to analyse the results from a questionnaire survey which was linked to the above study.
Recent external research grants as Co-Investigator
2005 850,000 Euros from the European Commission to undertake the accreditation of Public Health Training across Europe, including developing relevant accreditation criteria, setting up the European Agency for Accreditation of Public Health Education, and accrediting the MPH at Sheffield University.
2005 £1.25 million from the Leverhulme Trust to undertake a research programme called "Changing families, changing food".
2005 £15,000 from the Supportive Primary Care Oncology Research Group (SPORG) to undertake a quantitative, descriptive analysis of incidence and survival rates for colorectal cancer across GP practices in South Yorkshire .
Major teaching grants
2005 European Commission award to run the European Master of Public Health, as part of the Erasmus Mundus programme. Part of a consortia of Universities including Universities of Rennes (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Granada (Spain) and Jagellonian University (Poland). Website for programme is at www.europubhealth.org