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  University Park
  Nottingham
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  UK
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• Ross.Thomson1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Ross is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Academic Primary Care. His research focuses reducing the harm of smoking in pregnancy. He has been involved in research examining harm reduction, smoking cessation and nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy. He has been involved in intervention development using behaviour change models and techniques

Expertise Summary

He has a PhD in human factors from the University of Nottingham and his background is in Psychology. He has expertise in mixed methodologies within applied health research, including systematic reviews, surveys, statistical analyses, and qualitative research.

Research Summary

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4078-0657

Recent Publications

• THOMSON, R., COOPER, S., WALDRON, J., MAMUZO, E., MCDAID, L., EMERY, J., PHILLIPS, L., NAUGHTON, F. and COLEMAN, T., 2022. Smoking Cessation Support for Pregnant Women Provided by English Stop Smoking Services and National Health Service Trusts: A Survey International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(3), 1634
• MCDAID, L., THOMSON, R., EMERY, J., COLEMAN, T., COOPER, S., PHILLIPS, L. and NAUGHTON, F., 2021. Agreement and Disparities between Women and Stop-Smoking Specialists about How to Promote Adherence to Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Pregnancy International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(9), 4673
• HART, E., SNAPE, S. and THOMSON, R., 2020. Palliative outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy: a review of 5 years of patient data: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 2(3), dlaa052
• MCDAID, L., THOMSON, R., EMERY, J., COLEMAN, T., COOPER, S., PHILLIPS, L., BAULD, L. and NAUGHTON, F., 2020. Understanding pregnant women’s adherence-related beliefs about Nicotine Replacement Therapy for smoking cessation: A qualitative study British Journal of Health Psychology. First published Online: 29 August 2020,

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• THOMSON, R., COOPER, S., WALDRON, J., MAMUZO, E., MCDAID, L., EMERY, J., PHILLIPS, L., NAUGHTON, F. and COLEMAN, T., 2022. Smoking Cessation Support for Pregnant Women Provided by English Stop Smoking Services and National Health Service Trusts: A Survey International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(3), 1634
• MCDAID, L., THOMSON, R., EMERY, J., COLEMAN, T., COOPER, S., PHILLIPS, L. and NAUGHTON, F., 2021. Agreement and Disparities between Women and Stop-Smoking Specialists about How to Promote Adherence to Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Pregnancy International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(9), 4673
• HART, E., SNAPE, S. and THOMSON, R., 2020. Palliative outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy: a review of 5 years of patient data: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 2(3), dlaa052
• MCDAID, L., THOMSON, R., EMERY, J., COLEMAN, T., COOPER, S., PHILLIPS, L., BAULD, L. and NAUGHTON, F., 2020. Understanding pregnant women’s adherence-related beliefs about Nicotine Replacement Therapy for smoking cessation: A qualitative study British Journal of Health Psychology. First published Online: 29 August 2020,
• THOMSON, R., MCDAID, L., EMERY, J., NAUGHTON, F., COOPER, S., DYAS, J. and COLEMAN, T., 2019. Knowledge and education as barriers and facilitators to nicotine replacement therapy use for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a qualitative study with healthcare professionals. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(10), 1814
• THOMSON, R., MCDAID, L., EMERY, J., PHILLIPS, L., NAUGHTON, F., COOPER, S., DYAS, J. and COLEMAN, T., 2019. Practitioners’ Views on Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Pregnancy during Lapse and for Harm Reduction: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(23), 4791
• THOMSON, R., MARTIN, J.L. and SHARPLES, S., 2017. The experience of couples being given an oxygen concentrator to use at home: A longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Health Psychology. 22(6), 798-810
• UNDERWOOD, H., THOMSON, R., CHAGPAR, A. and FURNISS, D. J., 2015. Readying the Researcher for Fieldwork in Healthcare. In D. Furniss, R. Randell, A. O'Kane, S. Morgan and Claypool Publishers.. In: FURNISS, D., RANDELL, R., O'KANE, A., TANEVA, S., MENTIS, H. and BLANDFORD, A., eds., Fieldwork for Healthcare: Guidance for investigating human factors in computing systems. Morgan and Claypool.
• THOMSON, R., MARTIN, J. and SHARPLES, S., 2014. The challenges of interviewing older people in their own homes: Reflections and suggestions from the field. In: FURNISS, D., O'KANE, A., RANDELL, R., TANEVA, S., MENTIS, H. and BLANDFORD, A., eds., Fieldwork for Healthcare: Case Studies Investigating Human Factors in Computing Systems. Morgan and Claypool.
• THOMSON, R., MARTIN, J.L. and SHARPLES, SARAH., 2013. The psychosocial impact of home use medical devices on the lives of older people: a qualitative study. BMC health services research. 13(1), 467