Kristy Sanderson

Mental Health and Wellbeing Theme Lead

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Kristy Sanderson is a Professor in Applied Health Research at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and she is the Theme Lead for NIHR ARC East of England’s Mental Health and Wellbeing theme.

Kristy joined the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia in January 2017 as Chair in Applied Health Research. Her work programme is addressing a national priority area on how to attract and retain a health and social care workforce through improving the way we support staff and learners, including unpaid/family carers. She is also interested in other high performance-high demand workforces like serving personnel.

Current and recent studies are exploring how to support family and young carers as they navigate the complexity of health and social care systems (NIHR KINSHIP, NIHR COMPASS), sleep interventions and fatigue risk management systems (NIHR CATNAPS), and how to support the mental health of different staff and learner groups including ambulance personnel, nurses, psychological trainees, doctoral students, and Royal Navy submariners.

Get in contact with Kristy at kristy.sanderson@uea.ac.uk.