Dr Bernadette Bartlam

Title: Lecturer in Mixed Methods
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Location: DJW 1.51
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Bernadette Bartlam

I hold the post of Lecturer in Mixed Methods within the Primary Care and Health Sciences Research Centre, having previously been in the School of Medicine where I was Course Director for the MSc in Geriatric Medicine. I am also a member of the Centre for Social Gerontology (www.keele.ac.uk/csg).

I am a critical gerontologist with a particular interest in healthy ageing and diversity, so taking into account issues such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity and disability. I am also very interested in resilience from a life course perspective, and how we adapt and cope with mental and physical challenges as we age, I have a strong interest in mixed methods and also in research ethics, and have been a member of a number of research ethics committees, including the research ethics committees of both the University and the School of Medicine.

Selected Publications

  • Bartlam B, Bernard M, Liddle J, Scharf T, Sim J. 2013. Creating home-like places in a purpose-built retirement village in the United Kingdom. In Environmental Gerontology: Making Meaningful Places in Old Age. Rowles GD and Bernard M (Eds.). New York: Springer. link>
  • Liddle J, Scharf T, Bartlam B, Bernard M, Sim J. 2013. Exploring the age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities: evidence from England. Ageing and Society. doi>
  • Smith N, Bartlam B, Ray M, Sim J. 2013. Fit as a Fiddle: Final Evaluation Report. link>
  • Bartlam B, Sim J, Ray M, Smith N. 2012. Fit as a fiddle: The impact of AgeUK's wellbeing programme on the health and wellbeing of participant's-Preliminary findings. JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (vol. 20, p. S41). link>
  • Rosenfeld D, Bartlam B, Smith RD. 2012. Out of the closet and into the trenches: gay male Baby Boomers, aging, and HIV/AIDS. Gerontologist, vol. 52(2), 255-264. link> doi>

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Bernard M, Bartlam B, Biggs S, Sim J. 2004. New Lifestyles in Old Age: Health, Identity and Well-being in Berryhill Retirement Village. Policy Press, Bristol University.

Journal Articles

  • Liddle J, Scharf T, Bartlam B, Bernard M, Sim J. 2013. Exploring the age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities: evidence from England. Ageing and Society. doi>
  • Rosenfeld D, Bartlam B, Smith RD. 2012. Out of the closet and into the trenches: gay male Baby Boomers, aging, and HIV/AIDS. Gerontologist, vol. 52(2), 255-264. link> doi>
  • Bartlam B, Crome P, Lally F, Beswick AD, Cherubini A, Clarfield AM, Farré A, Hertogh C, Lesauskaite V, Mills G, Edbrooke D, Muller M, Oristrell J, Prada GI, Ruggiero C, Sinclair-Cohen J, Szczerbinska K, Topinkova E, Zalewski Z. 2012. The Views of Older People and Carers on Participation in Clinical Trials: the PREDICT Study. Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 2(3), 327-336. link> doi> link> full text>
  • Sim J, Liddle J, Bernard M, Scharf T, Bartlam B. 2012. Home from home? A mixed-methods study of relocation within a purpose-built retirement community. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol. 26(4), 372-394. doi>
  • Bernard M, Liddle J, Bartlam B, Scharf T, Sim J. 2012. Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village. Ageing and Society, vol. 32(1), 103-129. doi>
  • Sim J, Bartlam B, Bernard M. 2011. The CASP-19 as a measure of quality of life in old age: evaluation of its use in a retirement community. Quality of Life Research, vol. 20(7), 997-1004. doi>
  • Bernard M, Bartlam B, Sim J, Biggs S. 2007. Housing and care for older people: life in an English purpose-built retirement village. AGEING & SOCIETY, vol. 27, 555-578. link> doi>
  • Bartlam B. 2001. Danger in the field: Risk and ethics in social research. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, vol. 49(2), 275-277. link>
  • Bartlam B and McLeod J. 2000. Infertility counselling: the ISSUE experience of setting up a telephone counselling service. Patient Educ Couns, vol. 41(3), 313-321. link> doi>
  • Rice S, Lee S, Bartlam B. 1999. Telephone counselling in the infertility setting. HUMAN REPRODUCTION, vol. 14, 252. link>
  • Bartlam B and Woolfe R. 1998. Working with survivors of child sexual abuse within the context of infertility. The European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & Health, vol. 1(2), 183-193. link>
  • Bartlam B and Birch S. 1998. A right to parenthood. J Child Health Care, vol. 2(1), 36-40. link>
  • Bartlam B. FORTHCOMING: Identifying vulnerability in grief: psychometric properties of the Adult Attitude to Grief scale. Assessment.

Chapters

  • Bartlam B, Bernard M, Liddle J, Scharf T, Sim J. 2013. Creating home-like places in a purpose-built retirement village in the United Kingdom. In Environmental Gerontology: Making Meaningful Places in Old Age. Rowles GD and Bernard M (Eds.). New York: Springer. link>
  • Scharf T and Bartlam B. 2008. Ageing and social exclusion in rural communities. In Rural Ageing: A Good Place to Grown Old?. Keating N (Ed.). Bristol: Policy Press. doi>

Other

  • Smith N, Bartlam B, Ray M, Sim J. 2013. Fit as a Fiddle: Final Evaluation Report. link>
  • Bartlam B, Sim J, Ray M, Smith N. 2012. Fit as a fiddle: The impact of AgeUK's wellbeing programme on the health and wellbeing of participant's-Preliminary findings. JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (vol. 20, p. S41). link>
  • Liddle J, Bartlam B, Bernard M, Scharf T, Sim J. 2011. EVERYDAY LIFE IN A UK PURPOSE-BUILT RETIREMENT COMMUNITY. GERONTOLOGIST (vol. 51, p. 3). link>
  • Sim J, Bartlam B, Bernard M, Liddle J, Scharf TS. 2010. Pourquoi les aȋnés emménagent-ils dans une communauté de retraite?. Les Cahiers de l'Année Gérontologique (vol. 2, pp. 293-294). Springer.
  • Scharf T, Sim J, Bartlam B, Bernard M, Liddle J. 2010. Relocation within an English retirement community: remaking place during a time of change. Gerontologist (vol. 50, p. 230).
  • BARTLAM B and Scharf T. 2006. Rural disadvantage: quality of life and disadvantage amongst older people – a pilot study.
  • Bernard M, Bartlam B, Biggs S, Sim J. 2003. New Lifestyles in Old Age: Health, identity and well-being in Berryhill Retirement Village - Final report.
  • Bernard M, Bartlam B, Biggs S, Sim J. 2003. New Lifestyles in Old Age: Health, identity and well-being in Berryhill Retirement Village - Technical Report.
  • Biggs S, Bernard M, Bartlam B, Sim J. 2002. Active ageing: Myth or reality. Age Identity and Age Disparity within a Retirement Community: A New Measure.
  • Bernard M, Biggs S, Kingston P, Bartlam B. 2001. Retirement communities: A third way for the third age?. Quality in Later Life: Rights, Rhetoric and Reality.
  • Bartlam B, Scharf T, Hislop J, Bernard M, Dunning A, Sim J. Developing measures of older people's poverty in the UK. link>

In addition to supervising doctoral students, I contribute to teaching on ageing and research methods within the Faculty of Health, in particular the Masters in Medical Sciences and the generic Faculty research module, Researching Health.

RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS

2010-2012 
Fit as a Fiddle: an evaluation of active ageing interventions in the community, £14,000, Consultants to AgeUK/Ecorys (B.Bartlam, M.Ray & J.Sim)
2007-10 PREDICT: increasing the participation of the elderly in clinical trials, Work package 3 lead: views of older people and carers across Europe, £73,000 [funding to Keele], European Union, FP7 Health research, grant number HEALTH-F4-2008-201917
2006-10
 Denham Garden Village: a longitudinal study on the consequences of managing a mixed tenure development without a physical care centre, £420,000, Anchor Trust (B.Bartlam, [co-PI] M. Bernard, T. Scharf, &  J. Sim)
2005-06 Developing Measures of Pensioner Poverty, £25,000, Help the Aged (T. Scharf [PI], B. Bartlam, M. Bernard, A. Dunning, J. Hislop & J. Sim)
2005 Disadvantage and Quality of Life amongst Older People Living in Rural Communities – a pilot study, £20,324, Commission for Rural Communities (Countryside Agency) (T. Scharf [PI] & B. Bartlam)
1997-2000

Counselling in Reproductive Medicine: research, ethics and Practice, £98,000, NHS (West Midlands Region) New Blood Research Fellowship.