Primary Care & Health Sciences

I came to Keele in 2010 having completed my PhD "Space, Place and ‘Home': Lived Experiences in Hospice Day Care" at the University of Central Lancashire, where previously I had completed my undergraduate in Health Sciences for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2003). Previous to coming to Keele and during the final year of my PhD I worked as a Research Assistant on a number of projects on community and children's nursing and cancer care services commissioned by the Department of Health, the CLIC Sargent cancer charity and an evaluation of the Diploma in Society, Health and Development at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.

My research is located within the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre within the Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences. Currently my research here focuses on pain and chronic musculoskeletal conditions and how pain interferes with people's lives. My interests are in the sociology of pain and chronic illness; social geography; public health and complementary and alternative medicine use.

• Carter, B., Gibbon, C. and Moore, A. (2010) Evaluating the Diploma in Society, Health and Development: Young people’s perceptions of their learning and development at Alder Hey. Report. Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
• Robertson S., Sheikh K. and Moore A. (2010) “Embodied masculinities in the context of cardiac rehabilitation” Sociology of Health and Illness. Vol.32 Issue 5 pp 695-710
• Moore, A., Carter, B., Sanderson, C. and Coad, J. (2010) “Appropriated Landscapes: the intrusion of technology and equipment into the homes and lives of families with a child with complex needs.” Journal of Child Health Care. Vol.14, No.1 pp 3-5
• Carter, B., Coad, J., Anderson, C., Bray, L., Clinchant, A., Goodenough, T., Moore, A., Widdas, D. (2010) Community Children’s Nursing in England: a short report. Report. Department of Health.
• Newman, A., Lee, Z., Coad, J., Carter, B., Smith, J. & Moore, A. (2010) The Impact of Cancer on a Child’s World. The views of children aged 7 to 13 living with and beyond cancer. CLIC Sargent. London.
• Coad, J., Carter, B., Smith, J. and Moore, A. (2010) An appreciative evaluation of the CLIC Sargent participation strategy for school aged children with cancer. Report. CLIC Sargent.
• Carter, B., Moore, A., & Hunt, A. (2009) Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing: Clinicians’ event for nurses working with children and young people (29th Oct 2009). Report. Department of Health.
• Carter, B., Coad, J., Anderson, C., Bray, L., Clinchant, A., Goodenough, T., Moore, A., Widdas, D. (2009) Community Children’s Nursing in England: an appreciative review of CCNS in England. Report. Department of Health.
• Moore A. (2008) “An exploration of complementary therapy in a hospice: Perceptions of spaces, places and therapeutic landscapes” (Abstract) Complementary Therapies in Medicine Vol.16, No.4 pp 233-237

• MSc in Medical Science - Qualitative Research Methods
• MSc Rheumatology - Qualitative Research Methods