Dr Liz Brewster SFHEA

Non-Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medical Education

Research Overview

  • NHS workforce and health inequalities
  • Pedagogy and professional training for medical practice, with a focus on mental health and well-being
  • Mental health and creativity (reading/ bibliotherapy/ narratives/ photography/ art practices)

Accounting for the experiential complexity of socially-prescribed activities
16/01/2023 → 15/01/2026
Research

Mapping underdoctored areas: the impact of medical training pathways on NHS workforce distribution
01/10/2022 → 30/03/2025
Research

Children's Hospitals Inequalities Research Project (CHIRP)
01/04/2022 → 30/06/2023
Consultancy

Positive mental health literacy: creative strategies for self-care and promotion of good mental health amongst University students – a co-created project
01/04/2022 → 31/07/2022
Research

NWSSDTP: Innovations in ‘therapeutic landscapes’: implications for social prescribing (Annabelle Edwards)
01/10/2021 → 15/01/2023
Research

Where have all the doctors gone? An ethnographic study to explore the retention problem in Emergency Medicine
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2023
Research

Medical Staffing of Emergency Departments: Exploring the Retention Problem
01/09/2018 → 31/08/2021
Research

Graphic Futures
17/10/2017 → 30/06/2018
Research

Military Lives and Transformative Experiences: Exploring narratives and veterans' well-being
01/10/2017 → 31/03/2020
Research

Failure to Learn, Failure to Grow: creating space to ‘fail’ in order to allow real learning to take place
01/03/2017 → 31/03/2018
Other

'It's more than a diary': the ethical issues associated with sharing photographs in digital communities
01/05/2016 → 30/04/2018
Research

The Health Foundation and NHS England - Independent Evaluation of the Patient Activation Measure in the English NHS
01/12/2014 → 28/02/2017
Research

NHS England - Evaluation of NHS Safety Thermometer data collection and use
01/01/2013 → 31/07/2015
Other

The Health Foundation - Spotlight on Healthcare-Associated Infections
01/01/2013 → 30/09/2014
Other

The Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council - Good practice for participants involved in long-term research projects: an interview study
01/01/2013 → 31/07/2014
Other

Department of Health Policy Research Programme - Quality and Safety in the English NHS
01/06/2010 → 30/09/2013
Other

University of Sheffield studentship - An investigation of experiences of reading for mental health and well-being and their relation to models of bibliotherapy
01/10/2008 → 30/09/2011
Research

Why stay? Keeping doctors in areas that struggle to recruit and retain
Invited talk

How do we ‘level up’ our underdoctored areas?
Invited talk

Campus in the City
Other

Supporting the future medical workforce: Considerations for O&G as a specialty
Invited talk

How did we end up here? Medical training pathways and supporting the future medical workforce
Invited talk

Supporting the future medical workforce Presenting learning to date from the Mapping Underdoctored Areas research
Invited talk

Mapping the surgical workforce: Considering future demands and expectations of work
Invited talk

Future demands and expectations of work: Presenting learning to date from national research
Invited talk

Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS
Invited talk

Mapping underdoctored areas: The impact of medical training pathways on NHS workforce distribution and health inequalities
Invited talk

Anaesthesia and the Inverse Care Law: How to balance the needs of patients with the needs of the anaesthetic workforce
Invited talk

'Beauty Surrounds, Health Abounds'
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Academic Libraries North: Formal Launch of Mental Health Advocacy Resource
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Healthcare in place (ESRC Festival of Social Sciences)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Mental health and well-being support in libraries... more than inspirational quotes, lego and houseplant give-aways?
Invited talk

Snap Happy: Photography and Wellbeing
Invited talk

Mental health and wellbeing: student concerns and the policy context
Invited talk

BJGP Open (Journal)
Editorial activity

South Cumbria Place Based Partnership Workforce Delivery and Assurance Group (Event)
Membership of committee

Mental Health: What can we learn from social futures?
Invited talk

Using a graphic novel in teaching and to support mental health literacy
Invited talk

Academic Libraries North Mental Health and Well-being Advocacy resource
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Academic Libraries: supporting the mental health & well-being agenda
Invited talk

What is the future of digital storytelling?
Invited talk

Experiences, interactions and interpretations: Bibliotherapy in theory and practice.
Invited talk

Academic Libraries: supporting the mental health and well-being agenda
Invited talk

Bibliotherapy and mental health: a quick introduction
Invited talk

Family Practice (Journal)
Editorial activity

• Lancaster University Faculty of Health and Medicine Award Dean’s Award (Covid-19) for outstanding contributions to the work of the Faculty of Health and Medicine as part of the Lancaster Medical School Undergraduate Assessment team
Other distinction

Lancaster University Faculty of Health and Medicine Award Dean’s Award
Other distinction

  • FHM Mental Health Theme
  • Institute for Social Futures Fellow
  • Interdisciplinary network in culture, health, ethics and society
  • ISF Fellows 2019/20