Professor Sally Kendall
About
I joined CHSS in April 2016. As a NMC registered academic community nurse and health visitor, my main research interest is in primary and community health care, especially research that seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of families and children in the community. I hold a strong belief in working in partnership with parents and families and understanding their needs to inform research and practice, most recently the experiences of women in Ukraine of perinatal mental health issues, Becoming Breast Feeding Friendly in UK and parenting using the TOPSE evaluation tool.
As a nurse and health visitor I have promoted the role of nursing in primary and community care throughout my career and supervised and managed multiple practice-based studies that examine the nursing contribution to primary health care, with reports on primary care being commissioned by the International Council of Nurses in Geneva. With my co-researchers I developed and validated the TOPSE tool for measuring parenting self-efficacy (www.topse.org) that is now widely used nationally and internationally. This has led to research with Aboriginal communities in Western Australia where I am Adjunct Professor and the Sir Walter Murdoch outstanding International Scholar at Murdoch University. I recently led the Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly project across the UK in collaboration with Yale School of Public Health. International research also includes partnership working with colleagues in Ukraine to improve services for maternal mental health. I am currently working with the Children’s Policy Research Unit at UCL on several NIHR funded studies related to the evaluation of the Family Nurse Partnership in England, the delivery of the Health Visiting Service and Adverse Childhood Experiences.
As the lead for research capacity in the NIHR ARC for Kent, Surrey and Sussex, I also have a great interest in mentorship and supporting the health care workforce to develop their clinical and academic careers as a route to bringing transformation to health care delivery and outcomes for patients and families.
Research interests
Maternal and Child public health (including parenting, breastfeeding, perinatal mental health)
Primary Health Care
Global health
Qualitative methods/mixed methods
Supervision
Roxana Pomplun – The effect of digital media algorithms on the well being of young people: a qualitative enquiry
Maryna Osiichuk – The use of digital support for migrant women with perinatal mental health problems: a mixed methods study
Kelvin Oruko – Decision making about the uptake of HPV vaccine by young women in Kenya; a qualitative study
Jim Reed (external) – Promoting the empowerment of parent carers of children with neurodisability in a UK healthcare context: A Qualitative Study and Intervention Development.
Catherine Phillips – Parents and Practitioners perspectives on Early Intervention in childhood (PhD)
Adenike Omatayo – A realist evaluation of the Healthy weight, Healthy Nutrition Programme (PhD)
Jeanette Forbes – The experiences of parents and health visitors of the health visiting service in the Roma community of East London (PhD, UH)
Jacqueline Kelly – The experiences of siblings of having a brother or sister with a learning disability (PhD, UH)
Professional
• Academic Fellow of Royal Society for Public Health
• Member of the Faculty of Public Health
• Fellow of the Queens Nursing Institute
• Founding Trustee of the Institute of Health Visiting
• Walter Murdoch International Scholarship, Murdoch University, WA
Memberships
Co-Director, International Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research
Member, European Forum for Primary Care
Adjunct Professor, Ngangk Yira Centre for Research in Aboriginal Health, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
Trustee of the Institute of Health Visiting
Member of Expert Advisory Group for the Community Health node of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Australia
Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute