Stuart Nicholls, Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR, Lancaster University

Stuart Nicholls worked in Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR until July 2011.
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Degree: BSc (Hons), Genetics, Leeds (2000), MSc, Health Care Ethics, Liverpool (2002), MRes, Applied Social Statistics, Lancaster (2007), PhD, Applied Social Statistics, Lancaster (2010)

Research Interests

My research centres on the ethical, legal and social issues around genetics (and genomics), reproductive technologies, and public health.

I am an advocate of mixed methods approaches and interdisciplinary research and bring with me experience and training in both qualitative and advanced quantitative methods.In particular I am interested in public or patient experiences, how technologies can be evaluated and how people make decisions regarding their moral acceptability.

Methodologically I have a keen interest in latent variable methods such as structural equation modelling, latent class analysis, item response theory, and multilevel modelling.Whilst I currently work on the ethical and policy issues raised by childhood obesity my doctoral thesis considered parental decision-making around newborn bloodspot screening (the heel prick) and I have previously conducted research on outcome measures for clinical genetics services during my time at the North West Genetics Knowledge Park (Nowgen).

Please note that from 1st September 2011 I will be based at the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa.

Publications

Nicholls, S.G., Southern, K.W., (2011) Parental selection and use of information when learning about newborn bloodspot screening. Pediatric Pulmonology: forthcoming. (published abstract)

Nicholls, S.G., Gwozdz, W., Reisch, L.A., Voigt, K. (2011) Fiscal food policy: equity and practice. Perspectives in Public Health 131 (4): 157-158

Nicholls, S.G. Williams, G. (2011) The parent versus the state: responsibility in childhood obesity. Obesity Reviews 12, (Suppl. 1): p38 (Published abstract)

Nicholls S.G, Williams G, Wickins-Drazilova D, Siani A, De Henauw S, Marild S, Molnar D, Moreno L.A, Tornaritis M, Veidebaum T, Pigeot I, and Ahrens W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. (2011) Money' s too tight ( to mention) : taxation and subsidisation as obesity intervention measures. International Journal of Obesity; 35: pS159 (published abstract)

Wickins-Drazilova, D., Nicholls, S. et al., "Parental views on public-policy options regarding healthy eating",Proceedings of the9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics on Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges, 2010, pp. 184-188

Nicholls SG. (2010) Knowledge or Understanding? Informed Choice in the Context of Newborn Bloodspot Screening Public Health Ethics. 3(2): 128-136

McAllister M, Payne K, Macleod R, Nicholls S, Donnai D, Davies LM. (2008) What process attributes of clinical genetics services could maximise patient benefits? European Journal of Human Genetics. 16, 1467 - 1476

Payne K, Nicholls S, McAllister M, Macleod R, Donnai D, Davies LM. (2008) Outcome measurement in clinical genetics services: a systematic review of validated measures. Value in Health 11(3): p497 - 508

Payne K, Nicholls SG, McAllister M, MacLeod R, Ellis I, Donnai D, Davies LM. (2007) Outcome measures for clinical genetics services: A comparison of genetics healthcare professionals and patients' views Health Policy 84 (1): 112 - 122

McAllister M, Davies L, Payne K, Nicholls S, Donnai D, MacLeod R. (2007) The emotional effects of genetic diseases: Implications for clinical genetics American Journal of Medical Genetics part A 143A (22): 2651 - 2661

McAllister M, Payne K, Nicholls S, MacLeod R, Donnai D, Davies LM. Improving service evaluation in clinical genetics: identifying effects of genetic diseases on individuals and families. Journal of Genetic Counseling 2007 Feb;16(1):71-83.

Payne K, Nicholls SG, McAllister M, et al. (2006) Towards outcome measures for clinical genetics services: a comparison of genetics healthcare professionals and patients' views. Journal of Medical Genetics 43: S61-S61 Suppl.

McAllister M, Nicholls S, Payne K, MacLeod R, Donnai D, Davies L. (2006) Process and outcome in clinical genetics services: a new model developed from qualitative research Journal of Medical Genetics 43: S62-S62 Suppl.

Payne K, Nicholls SG, McAllister M, et al. (2006) Outcome measurement in clinical genetics services: a systematic review of validated measures Journal of Medical Genetics 43: S62-S62 Suppl.

Invited presentations:

"Routinisation, choice and parental reflections on decision to accept newborn bloodspot screening." Given to the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 16th February 2011

"From knowledge to understanding: informed choice in the context of newborn bloodspot screening." Given to the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 14th February 2011

PEALS Seminar: "Newborn screening and the parent experience: a qualitative study." Given at the Policy Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Institute, Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle. 14th May 2009

"This isn't just any modelling, this is SEM modelling: structural equation modelling within a mixed methods study of parental-decision making for newborn bloodspot screening." Postgraduate Forum, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 18 March 2009.

Conference contributions:

Nicholls, S.G., Southern, K.W. "Parental selection and use of information when learning about newborn bloodspot screening." Accepted as poster presentation at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC), Anaheim, California, 2-5 November 2011.

Nicholls, S.G, Williams, G, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "The parent vs the state: responsibility in childhood obesity." Accepted as an oral presentation at the 18th European Congress on Obesity ECO2011, Istanbul, 25-28 May 2011.

Nicholls, S.G, Voigt, K, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnár, D, Moreno, L.A., Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I, Ahrens, W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Price strategies and health inequalities: support for taxation of unhealthy foods among low-income groups in European countries."Accepted as a poster with presentation at "Promoting Health Equity: Action on the Social Determinants of Health." Toronto, 11-12 February 2011.

Nicholls, S.G, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnár, D, Moreno, L.A., Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I, Ahrens, W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Public attitudes toward taxation and subsidisation as obesity intervention measures: results from the IDEFICS parental questionnaire." Accepted as a poster with presentation at the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG) meeting "ECOG 2010 and beyond. Taking childhood obesity off the menu." Brussels, 17-20 November 2010.

Nicholls, S.G, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnár, D, Moreno, L.A., Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I, Ahrens, W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Money's too tight (to mention): Taxation and subsidisation as obesity intervention measures." Accepted as a poster at the IDEFICS - 4th Meeting of the general assembly, Zaragoza 8-12 November 2010.

Wickins-Drazilova D, Nicholls S, Williams G, Börnhorst C, Grafström L, De Henauw S, Marild S, Molnar D, Aznar LAM, Pigeot I, Siani A, Tornaritis M, Veidebaum T and Ahrens W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Parental views on public-policy options regarding healthy eating." Accepted as a paper for the 9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe), 16-18 September 2010.

Spoken presentation "Modelling parental decisions for newborn bloodspot screening." 33rd Research Students Conference (RSC) in probability and statistics, Warwick, UK. 14th May April 2010.

Spoken presentation "`To me it was just one thing that happened': parental consent and newborn bloodspot screening." British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Annual Conference. Manchester, UK. 3rd September 2009.

Spoken presentation "From knowledge to understanding in newborn bloodspot screening. Implications and issues for increased parental education." Given at the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS) colloquium 12, Lancaster University, 11-12 December 2008.

Spoken presentation "Parental consent to newborn bloodspot screening: making the case for a mixed methods apporach." Given at the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS) regional meeting, School of Law, University of Sheffield, 17 March 2008.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Nicholls, Stuart G. and , ESRC funded studentship (Funder) (2011) Routinisation, choice and parental reflections on decisions to accept newborn bloodspot screening. In: Invited presentation, 2011-02-16, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. (Unpublished)

McAllister, Marion and Payne, Katherine and MacLeod, Rhona and Nicholls, Stuart and Donnai, Dian and Davies, Linda M. (2008) What process attributes of clinical genetics services could maximise patient benefits? European Journal of Human Genetics, 16. pp. 1467-1476. ISSN 1018-4813

Other Interests and Hobbies

Sport (particularly football), photography, music, doing DIY (badly), walking in the lake district and spending time with my family.


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Staff Menu Staff A-Z By Role By Research Centre or Group By Keywords Keywords Search SEARCH using keywords/tags or full text search.	Dr Stuart Nicholls Stuart Nicholls worked in Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR until July 2011. This page is displayed as a record, please note that the information may be out of date. Research Associate Degree: BSc (Hons), Genetics, Leeds (2000), MSc, Health Care Ethics, Liverpool (2002), MRes, Applied Social Statistics, Lancaster (2007), PhD, Applied Social Statistics, Lancaster (2010) Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law Research Interests My research centres on the ethical, legal and social issues around genetics (and genomics), reproductive technologies, and public health. I am an advocate of mixed methods approaches and interdisciplinary research and bring with me experience and training in both qualitative and advanced quantitative methods.In particular I am interested in public or patient experiences, how technologies can be evaluated and how people make decisions regarding their moral acceptability. Methodologically I have a keen interest in latent variable methods such as structural equation modelling, latent class analysis, item response theory, and multilevel modelling.Whilst I currently work on the ethical and policy issues raised by childhood obesity my doctoral thesis considered parental decision-making around newborn bloodspot screening (the heel prick) and I have previously conducted research on outcome measures for clinical genetics services during my time at the North West Genetics Knowledge Park (Nowgen). Please note that from 1st September 2011 I will be based at the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa. Publications 2011 Nicholls, S.G., Southern, K.W., (2011) Parental selection and use of information when learning about newborn bloodspot screening. Pediatric Pulmonology: forthcoming. (published abstract) Nicholls, S.G., Gwozdz, W., Reisch, L.A., Voigt, K. (2011) Fiscal food policy: equity and practice. Perspectives in Public Health 131 (4): 157-158 Nicholls, S.G. Williams, G. (2011) The parent versus the state: responsibility in childhood obesity. Obesity Reviews 12, (Suppl. 1): p38 (Published abstract) Nicholls S.G, Williams G, Wickins-Drazilova D, Siani A, De Henauw S, Marild S, Molnar D, Moreno L.A, Tornaritis M, Veidebaum T, Pigeot I, and Ahrens W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. (2011) Money' s too tight ( to mention) : taxation and subsidisation as obesity intervention measures. International Journal of Obesity; 35: pS159 (published abstract) Nicholls, S.G, (2011) BOOK REVIEW: Progress in Bioethics. Metapsychology Online Reviews. 15 (5) 2010 Wickins-Drazilova, D., Nicholls, S. et al., "Parental views on public-policy options regarding healthy eating",Proceedings of the9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics on Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges, 2010, pp. 184-188 Nicholls SG. (2010) Knowledge or Understanding? Informed Choice in the Context of Newborn Bloodspot Screening Public Health Ethics. 3(2): 128-136 Nicholls S. (2010) BOOK REVIEW:The Body in Bioethics. Med Law Rev 18 (1): 120-125. 2008 McAllister M, Payne K, Macleod R, Nicholls S, Donnai D, Davies LM. (2008) What process attributes of clinical genetics services could maximise patient benefits? European Journal of Human Genetics. 16, 1467 - 1476 McAllister M, Payne K, Macleod R, Nicholls S, Donnai D, Davies LM. (2008) Patient empowerment in clinical genetics services. Journal of health psychology. 13 (7) p895 - 905 Payne K, Nicholls S, McAllister M, Macleod R, Donnai D, Davies LM. (2008) Outcome measurement in clinical genetics services: a systematic review of validated measures. Value in Health 11(3): p497 - 508 2007 Payne K, Nicholls SG, McAllister M, MacLeod R, Ellis I, Donnai D, Davies LM. (2007) Outcome measures for clinical genetics services: A comparison of genetics healthcare professionals and patients' views Health Policy 84 (1): 112 - 122 McAllister M, Davies L, Payne K, Nicholls S, Donnai D, MacLeod R. (2007) The emotional effects of genetic diseases: Implications for clinical genetics American Journal of Medical Genetics part A 143A (22): 2651 - 2661 McAllister M, Payne K, Nicholls S, MacLeod R, Donnai D, Davies LM. Improving service evaluation in clinical genetics: identifying effects of genetic diseases on individuals and families. Journal of Genetic Counseling 2007 Feb;16(1):71-83. 2006 Payne K, Nicholls SG, McAllister M, et al. (2006) Towards outcome measures for clinical genetics services: a comparison of genetics healthcare professionals and patients' views. Journal of Medical Genetics 43: S61-S61 Suppl. McAllister M, Nicholls S, Payne K, MacLeod R, Donnai D, Davies L. (2006) Process and outcome in clinical genetics services: a new model developed from qualitative research Journal of Medical Genetics 43: S62-S62 Suppl. Payne K, Nicholls SG, McAllister M, et al. (2006) Outcome measurement in clinical genetics services: a systematic review of validated measures Journal of Medical Genetics 43: S62-S62 Suppl. Invited presentations: "Routinisation, choice and parental reflections on decision to accept newborn bloodspot screening." Given to the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 16th February 2011 "From knowledge to understanding: informed choice in the context of newborn bloodspot screening." Given to the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 14th February 2011 PEALS Seminar: "Newborn screening and the parent experience: a qualitative study." Given at the Policy Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Institute, Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle. 14th May 2009 "This isn't just any modelling, this is SEM modelling: structural equation modelling within a mixed methods study of parental-decision making for newborn bloodspot screening." Postgraduate Forum, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 18 March 2009. Conference contributions: Nicholls, S.G., Southern, K.W. "Parental selection and use of information when learning about newborn bloodspot screening." Accepted as poster presentation at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC), Anaheim, California, 2-5 November 2011. Nicholls, S.G. "Parental reflections on choice and decisions to accept newborn bloodspot screening" 12th International Congress on Human Genetics (ICHG)/61st American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting, Montreal, Canada, 11-15 October 2011. Nicholls, S.G, Williams, G, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "The parent vs the state: responsibility in childhood obesity." Accepted as an oral presentation at the 18th European Congress on Obesity ECO2011, Istanbul, 25-28 May 2011. Nicholls, S.G, Voigt, K, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnár, D, Moreno, L.A., Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I, Ahrens, W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Price strategies and health inequalities: support for taxation of unhealthy foods among low-income groups in European countries."Accepted as a poster with presentation at "Promoting Health Equity: Action on the Social Determinants of Health." Toronto, 11-12 February 2011. Nicholls, S.G, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnár, D, Moreno, L.A., Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I, Ahrens, W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Public attitudes toward taxation and subsidisation as obesity intervention measures: results from the IDEFICS parental questionnaire." Accepted as a poster with presentation at the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG) meeting "ECOG 2010 and beyond. Taking childhood obesity off the menu." Brussels, 17-20 November 2010. Nicholls, S.G, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnár, D, Moreno, L.A., Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I, Ahrens, W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Money's too tight (to mention): Taxation and subsidisation as obesity intervention measures." Accepted as a poster at the IDEFICS - 4th Meeting of the general assembly, Zaragoza 8-12 November 2010. Wickins-Drazilova D, Nicholls S, Williams G, Börnhorst C, Grafström L, De Henauw S, Marild S, Molnar D, Aznar LAM, Pigeot I, Siani A, Tornaritis M, Veidebaum T and Ahrens W, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. "Parental views on public-policy options regarding healthy eating." Accepted as a paper for the 9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe), 16-18 September 2010. Spoken presentation "Modelling parental decisions for newborn bloodspot screening." 33rd Research Students Conference (RSC) in probability and statistics, Warwick, UK. 14th May April 2010. Spoken presentation "`To me it was just one thing that happened': parental consent and newborn bloodspot screening." British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Annual Conference. Manchester, UK. 3rd September 2009. Spoken presentation "From knowledge to understanding in newborn bloodspot screening. Implications and issues for increased parental education." Given at the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS) colloquium 12, Lancaster University, 11-12 December 2008. Spoken presentation "Parental consent to newborn bloodspot screening: making the case for a mixed methods apporach." Given at the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS) regional meeting, School of Law, University of Sheffield, 17 March 2008. Awards: CETL award for excellence in learning (2007), Lancaster University Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database Stuart Nicholls has 3 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk Nicholls, Stuart G. and , ESRC funded studentship (Funder) (2011) Routinisation, choice and parental reflections on decisions to accept newborn bloodspot screening. In: Invited presentation, 2011-02-16, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. (Unpublished) Nicholls, Stuart G (2010) Knowledge or understanding? Informed choice in the context of newborn bloodspot screening. Public Health Ethics, 3 (2). pp. 128-136. ISSN 1754-9973 McAllister, Marion and Payne, Katherine and MacLeod, Rhona and Nicholls, Stuart and Donnai, Dian and Davies, Linda M. (2008) What process attributes of clinical genetics services could maximise patient benefits? European Journal of Human Genetics, 16. pp. 1467-1476. ISSN 1018-4813 Other Interests and Hobbies Sport (particularly football), photography, music, doing DIY (badly), walking in the lake district and spending time with my family. Associated Keywords: Applied Social Science, Autonomy, Bioethics, Biopolitics, Biotechnology, Children, Children's values and attitudes, Choice, Collaborative processes and methods, Commodification of health and social care, communication, Confidentiality, Consent, Critical realism, Critical Realism, Decision-making, Empirical bioethics, Ethics, Ethics of genetics, Evaluation, Evaluation in service provision, Genetics, Genomics, Health, Health behaviour, Health care, Health inequalities, Health services research, History of medicine, Human reproduction, Human rights, Human tissue, Information retrieval, Law and society, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Medicalisation, Medical law, Medical law and ethics, Medical sociology, Methodology, Obesity, Ontology, Parents, Personalised medicine, Philosophy of social research, Philosophy of social science, Philosophy of technology, Policy, Public engagement, Public health, Public policy, Public understanding of science, Qualitative methods, Qualitative research methods, Reasoning, Reasons, Research ethics, Research methods, Research networks, Responsibility, Science and technology, Science, technology and society, Scientific and academic discourse, Self-determination, Semiotics, Social determinants of health, Statistics, Tacit knowledge, User involvement, User research View all research activities, ePrints, news and events associated with Stuart Nicholls. «Back	View Staff Profiles Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR Staff All Faculty Staff Search Faculty by Keyword
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