Laura Griffith

Deputy Director of National Embedding

Contact details

Email: l.b.griffith@bham.ac.uk

Address: Park House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Laura has previously worked at the Universities of Oxford, Warwick, Aston and Birmingham, often focusing on understanding people’s lived experiences of public services. This includes time spent with NICE on people’s experiences of adult mental health services. More recently, she was a Senior Knowledge Transfer Facilitator with Public Health England, and at Birmingham City Council co-ordinating Birmingham’s ‘Creating a Mentally Healthy City’ initiative.

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Qualifications

DPhil in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex, 2006
MSc in Social Research Methods, University of Sussex, 2002
MA in Culture ‘Race’ and Difference, University of Sussex 2000
BA Hons in English Literature, University of Sheffield (1999)

Research

1.Co-ordinating and implementing IMPACT’s strategy for ‘national embedding’ (ensuring lessons learned from local delivery projects are scaled, and that they influence policy and practice)
2. Delivering knowledge transfer activities in partnership with people who draw on care and support, carers, care workers, public services, government, care commissioners, regulators and other national adult social care stakeholders
3. Developing collaborations, with government, regulators, social care leaders, professional bodies and improvement agencies across the four UK nations
4. Supporting expert contributions to media (which may be print, broadcast, online and social media) and policy debate
5. Working collaboratively with national and international partners, helping to deliver demonstrable impact from local delivery projects.
6. Delivering high-quality impact
7. Ensuring that our national embedding work is co-produced with IMPACT’s Co-production Advisory Group

Publications

Sheaves, B., Johns, L., Griffith, L., Isham, L., Kabir, T., & Freeman, D. (2020). Why do patients with psychosis listen to and believe derogatory and threatening voices? 21 reasons given by patients. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy, 48(6), 631-645

Sheaves, B., Johns, L., Černis, E., Griffith, L., McPin Hearing Voices Lived Experience Advisory Panel, & Freeman, D. (2021). The challenges and opportunities of social connection when hearing derogatory and threatening voices: A thematic analysis with patients experiencing psychosis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(2), 341-356.

Isham, L., Griffith, L., Boylan, A. M., Hicks, A., Wilson, N., Byrne, R., ... & Freeman, D. (2021). Understanding, treating, and renaming grandiose delusions: A qualitative study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(1), 119-140.

Griffith, L., (2014). That’s Not a Religious Thing, That’s a Cultural Thing. The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration, Health and Family Making, p.77.

Griffith, L. and Glasby, J., (2015). “When we say ‘urgent’ it means now…” Health and social care leaders’ perceptions of each other’s roles and ways of working. Journal of Integrated Care, 23(3), pp.143-152.

Weich, S, Griffith, L, et al. (2012). ‘Experiences of acute mental health care in an ethnically diverse inner city: qualitative interview study’. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Vol 47, Issue: 1, pp 119-128

Griffith, L (2009) 'Complaints, sensitivities and responsibility: an ethnographic investigation into the debates around the care of Bangladeshi mothers in the East End'. International Migration Vol 46 Issue 5 pp 143-165

Griffith, L (2009) 'Practitioners, postnatal depression, and translation: an investigation into the representation of Bangladeshi mothers in the East End.' Anthropology and Medicine Vol. 16, Issue 3, pp267-278

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