Professor Liz Walker

Professor Liz Walker

Professor of Health and Social Work Research

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Psychology and Social Work

Qualifications

  • BA (University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg)
  • BA (University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg)
  • MA (University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg)

Summary

Professor Walker has an international research profile within the field of the sociology of health and gender and its applicability to social work.

Her expertise in the area of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa has been influential in the areas of social inequality and stigma. Her recent work focuses on the sociology of with chronic illness, specifically auto-immune conditions.

Professor Walker is Academic Lead of the Institute for Clinical and Applied Health Research (ICAHR) and lead researcher for the Social and Psychological Aspects of Research into Long-term health Conditions (SPARC) group. She is Associate Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre and Chair of the Faculty of Health Sciences Ethics Committee.

Social Research Methods

Social and Health Inequalities

Loss, Dying, Bereavement

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review

Forward, C., Bayley, Z., Walker, L., Krygier, J., White, C., Mwaba, K., Elliott-Button, H., Taylor, P., & Johnson, M. J. (in press). Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2023-004737

Erratum: Correction: Supported: Supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: A qualitative study protocol (PloS one (2023) 18 12 (e0291525))

Bayley, Z., Bothma, J., Bravington, A., Forward, C., Hussain, J., Manthorpe, J., Pearson, M., Roberts, H., Taylor, P., Walker, L., White, C., Wray, J., & Johnson, M. J. (2024). Erratum: Correction: Supported: Supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: A qualitative study protocol (PloS one (2023) 18 12 (e0291525)). PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article e0298925. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298925

Ancillary hospital workers experience during COVID-19: systematic review and narrative synthesis

Kearsley, S. L., Walker, L., Johnson, M. J., & Bravington, A. (2024). Ancillary hospital workers experience during COVID-19: systematic review and narrative synthesis. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, Article spcare-2024-004855. https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2024-004855

Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi

Lazaro, M., Walker, L., & Robson, E. (2023). Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi. African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2023.2212616

Supported: supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: a qualitative study 2 protocol 3 4

Bayley, Z., Bothma, J., Bravington, A., Forward, C., Hussain, J., Manthorpe, J., Pearson, M., Roberts, H., Taylor, P., Walker, L., White, C., Wray, J., & Johnson, M. J. (2023). Supported: supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: a qualitative study 2 protocol 3 4. PLoS ONE, 18(12), Article e0291525. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291525

Research interests

Lived experience of Long Term Conditions

Palliative and end of life care

HIV/AIDS

Marginal masculinities

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Supporting, enabling and sustaining home care workers to deliver end-of-life care: amultiple-methods community-based case study

Funder

NIHR National Institute for Health Research

Grant

£596,722.00

Started

1 October 2022

Status

Ongoing

Project

The impact of oral manifestations of scleroderma on quality of life

Funder

Scleroderma & Raynaud's UK

Grant

£36,769.00

Started

1 January 2022

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

I3: Building Critical Mass, Increasing Scale and Impact for Palliative Care through International Collaboration

Funder

Research England

Grant

£403,507.00

Started

1 August 2019

Status

Ongoing

Project

TRANSFORM: Reducing Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes in Yorkshire: Realising our potential for innovation in Diagnosis, Patient Management, Survivorship and Palliative Care Research

Funder

YCR Yorkshire Cancer Research

Grant

£1,806,650.00

Started

1 September 2017

Status

Ongoing

Project

Service Users perspectives to accessing Type 2 Diabetes Services within East Riding of Yorkshire

Funder

NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group

Grant

£20,725.00

Started

1 January 2016

Status

Complete

Project

Hospital 7 day working for the Social work team

Funder

HCC Hull City Council

Grant

£7,508.00

Started

1 October 2020

Status

Complete

Project

Interchange Scheme

Funder

Pickering and Ferens Homes

Grant

£9,775.00

Started

1 September 2020

Status

Complete

Project

The Yorkshire & Humber Palliative Care Research Network: Addressing Inequalities Across All Ages

Funder

NIHR National Institute for Health Research

Grant

£98,332.00

Started

1 March 2022

Status

Complete

Project

NERC: Supporting Interdisciplinarity in Discovery Science 2022

Funder

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

Grant

£14,197.00

Started

1 October 2022

Status

Complete

Project

HHIPP: Hull Hip fracture Intervention and Prevention Programme

Funder

Osprey

Grant

£50,000.00

Started

1 November 2019

Status

Complete

Project

Transition in Type 1 Diabetes: Service Users’ Perspectives on the Transition from Children to Adult Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Services within Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire

Funder

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Grant

£18,400.00

Started

1 June 2018

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Walker currently supervises in the fields of sociology of chronic illness and multimorbidity.

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