📢 NEW PAPER 📢 My 2nd PhD study is published Women's Health Journal 🥳 we investigated young women’s views on & requirements for a proposed new breast cancer risk assessment service inc. risk factors questionnaire, mammogram & saliva sample 🔗 bit.ly/3ZxolPB 🧵 key findings 👇

Co-production, GP collaboration and community engagement are needed to help British-Pakistani women make informed-choices about attending breast screening. Read more in our paper below! Hooran Khattak David French Louise Gorman (she/her) fiona ulph Katie Robb journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

NVivo is a test of any researcher’s patience 😖 #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdlife

All-Party Parliamentary Group for breast cancer - meeting on the Future of the Breast Screening Programme - open to public at House of Lords on 22nd May at 5pm. 4 speakers - I will be talking about potential implementation of risk-stratification into breast screening programme

Our latest National Institute for Health and Care Research (Prog grant led by David French & DG Evans) paper w/ fiona ulph Vicky Woof & others in British Journal of Cancer: qualitative study exploring experiences of receiving 10-year breast cancer risk as part of NHS Breast Screening Programme 🔗rdcu.be/dcQQO 🧵 ...

Papers accepted for publication from your PhD hit different 🤩 watch this space for my 2nd PhD paper published in BJHP exploring women’s views of receiving a clinically-derived breast cancer risk, an IPA.

NEW PAPER 👀 Findings: 1⃣ Young women perceive near future breast cancer risk as low 2⃣ Confusion about self-checking behaviour advice ➡️ disengagement with breast awareness 📢 Need to define & clearly communicate best strategy for breast awareness 🔗tinyurl.com/yck4dcje

Thanks Prevent Breast Cancer for the opportunity to talk about my PhD research which is contributing to the BCAN-RAY study launched in memory of Sarah Harding. 👉🏻 loom.ly/BscTU1M So proud to be part of this important project alongside an amazing team 🫶🏻

When your research participants leave you secret ‘rooting for you’ messages on their questionnaire envelopes! I needed that today!🥹 #phdlife #academictwitter

Interesting BBC article shining a light on the taboos of discussing breast cancer in the Asian community. Echos the thoughts of the British-Pakistani women we interviewed David French Louise Gorman (she/her) fiona ulph journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Manchester maternity cover research post- looking at younger women's (30-39y) experiences of risk assessment, to allow higher risk women to be identified and receive screening. Might suit recent phd candidate. Further contract possible. Deadline 13 Feb. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

It was a pleasure to present again at the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine conference this year in Glasgow! Such a wonderfully inspiring, supportive and friendly conference! #UKSBM24

With my PhD deadline and nuptials getting ever closer, you'd be forgiven for questioning my complete lack of sense for doing both in the same month! 👩‍🎓👰‍♀️#notmybrightestidea #PhDlife #weddingplanning #nearlyover

PhD life has been a series of ups and downs but this has to be the biggest up I’ve experienced! What a day! Wedding down, PhD hand in to go 🤩🥳🥂💕

Our very own MCHP Rhiannon Hawkes presenting a state of the art pres EHPS2024 on the fidelity of the NHS-DPP and the value of Health Psych in considering implementation! Huge body of work with practical impact! Well done Dr Rhi and team!

Thursday is MCHP day EHPS2024 🤩 the fantastic Helen Morley presents her PhD research on promoting breast cancer screening engagement for ethnic minority women: screening professional perspectives

New paper: Development of a breast cancer risk assessment and primary prevention pathway for women aged 30–39 years: Views from primary care providers journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Dr Sarah Hindmarch Vicky Woof Louise Gorman (she/her) Forms basis for ongoing studies in this area