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Emma Adams

NIHR Doctoral Fellowship

Background

I am a member of the Population Health Sciences Institute and work in the Public Health and Health Inequalities theme. I am an associate member of  and currently hold an NIHR Doctoral Fellowship. 


I joined 缅北禁地 in February 2020 as an NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) Pre-doctoral Fellow, followed by a 1 year Mental Health Fellowship with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North East and North Cumbria (NENC). My research interests are centred around public health and inequalities, with much of my work focusing on mental health (including drug and alcohol use) and homelessness. I am particularly interested in co-producing my work, which means I work with people with lived experience across all stages of my work. 


Prior to moving to 缅北禁地, I was based at a tertiary mental health facility in Whitby, Ontario (Canada) where I worked in both research and system-level strategy. I have co-led a range of projects, some of which include service mapping, coordinated care model development, regional engagement and implementation initiatives. 


I am open to supervising Master students who are interested in public mental health, and substance use with a particular interest for understanding the needs of people experiencing homelessness. 


Qualifications

Master of Science in Public Health, specializing in Global Health (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Postgraduate certificate in Project Management (Centennial College)

Honours Bachelor in Health Sciences (University of Ottawa)



Research

Research interests:

  • Public mental health
  • Homelessness
  • Substance use
  • Access to care
  • Co-production


I have obtained over £4 million in funding as a (co-) principal investigator and co-investigator.


Selected current research funding:

  • Cross-Sector Experience Award - Round 2. (2026-2027). The Academy of Medical Sciences. (Principal Investigator: £68,970)
  • Using a National, Interdisciplinary Team to Enhance Drug and alcohol treatment data (UNITED): A Team Science Approach to Optimise the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System for Research and Clinical Benefit. (2025). NIHR Team Science (Co-Investigator: £98,937)
  • The impact of trauma on mental health in people experiencing homelessness: a qualitative study exploring the role of system factors and social networks. (2023-2026). NIHR Doctoral Fellowship. (Principal Investigator: £322,050)
  • Reducing inequalities related to substance use and mental health. (2024-2026). NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit. (Co-Principal Investigator: £379,091)
  • Making every community asset count: improving health and reducing inequalities for people experiencing homelessness (2024-2027). UKRI. (Co-I: £1,424,512)
  • Understanding the Missing Links: Integrated Health and Social Care for People Experiencing Homelessness. (2024-2026). NIHR Policy Research Programme. (Co-I: £799,198)
  • “My dog is my home”: Enhancing pet acceptance into homelessness accommodation services in the UK. (2024-2025). Society for Companion Animal Studies. (Co-I: £10,000)
  • Co-design and mixed-methods evaluation of interventions to meet the unmet health needs of alcohol and substance using populations, with and without coexisting homelessness, in Sunderland (2023-2025). Sunderland Council (Co-I: £146,292)


Selected past research funding

  • Exploring what works well and less well in a community-based drop-in delivery model providing integrated health and wellbeing services for people experiencing homelessness. (2023-2024). 缅北禁地 Research Excellence Development Award. (Principal Investigator: £3,225)
  • Learning from the 'Everyone In' approach to providing mental health and physical health support (including substance misuse), and how this can be translated to future policy and practice. (2022-2024). NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit. (Co-Principal Investigator: £351,212)
  • Reducing the population burden from severe mental illness and related inequalities in England: a population-based cohort study to identify opportunities for early identification and prevention (2023-2024). NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit. (Co-I: £113,621)
  • Identifying multi-agency, trauma-informed and integrated solutions for unmet need of individuals experiencing homelessness in Northumberland and North Tyneside (2021-2023). NIHR Research for Social Care (RfSC) Rapid Call on Mental Health. (Co-I: £309,663)
  • Evidence synthesis: training, networking, and undertaking a systematic review around trauma, mental health, and homelessness. (2022-2023). Three NIHR Schools Mental Health Programme - Individual Research Career Development Award. (Principal Investigator: £24,760)
  • Exploring and understanding access to community-based mental health and addiction services for service users experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage and providers in 缅北禁地 and Gateshead in times of extreme adversity. (2020-2022). NIHR SPHR - ResNet ECR Funding. (Principal Investigator: £25,627.44)
  • NIHR School for Public Health Research Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. (2020-2022). NIHR School for Public Health Research. (Personal Funding: £117,485)
Publications

  • Articles

    • Jain N, Adams EA, Haddow K, Brown J, Bleksley D, Morrison S, Kesten J, Howells K, Sanders C, Adamson AJ, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . BMC Health Services Research 2025, 25, 549.
    • Thirkle SA, John DA, Adams EA, Harland J, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . BMC Health Services Research 2025, 25, 1175.
    • Ramsay SE, Cai Z, Sinclair DR, Prina M, Osborn DPJ, Adamson AJ, Kaner E, Adams EA. . JAMA Network Open 2025, 8(1), e2457371.
    • Thirkle SA, Adams EA, Harland J, Robertshaw L, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness 2025, epub ahead of print.
    • Wearn A, Brennan-Tovey K, Adams EA, Alderson H, Baariu J, Cheetham M, Bartle V, Palfreyman L, Rooke V, Shenton F, Ramsay SE, Kaner E. . Health Expectations 2025, 28(1), e70160.
    • Thirkle SA, Adams EA, Harland J, John DA, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . BMJ Public Health 2025, 3(1), e001468.
    • Redgate S, Smart D, Barrett S, Barron C, Burns S, Frost H, McGovern W, Peart V, Adams E, Alderson H, Kaner E, McGovern R. . SAGE Open 2024, 14(2).
    • Plackett R, Hulin J, Mukuria C, Clowes M, Ramsay SE, Spencer L, Adams EA, Dykxhoorn J, Walters K, Osborn DPJ, Zamperoni V, Jones O, Weich S. . BMC Public Health 2024, 24(1), 3384.
    • Thirkle SA, Adams EA, John DA, Harland J, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . PLoS Mental Health 2024, 1(7), e0000207.
    • Spencer L, Redgate S, Hardy C, Adams EA, Arnott B, Brown H, Christie A, Harrison H, Kaner E, Mawson C, McGovern W, Rankin J, McGovern R. . Journal of Children’s Services 2024, 19(3), 173-188.
    • McGowan LJ, John DA, Kenny RPW, Joyes EC, Adams EA, Shabaninejad H, Richmond C, Beyer FR, Landes D, Watt RG, Sniehotta FF, Paisi M, Bambra C, Craig D, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . PLoS ONE 2024, 19(4), e0298885.
    • John DA, Adams EA, McGowan LJ, Joyes EC, Richmond C, Beyer FR, Landes D, Watt RG, Sniehotta FF, Paisi M, Bambra C, Craig D, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . BMJ Open 2024, 14(1), e080160.
    • Jain N, Adams EA, Joyes EC, McLellan G, Burrows M, Paisi M, McGowan LJ, Iafrate L, Landes D, Watt RG, Sniehotta FF, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . BMJ Public Health 2024, 2(1), e000626.
    • Adams EA, Ramsay SE. . BMC Health Services Research 2024, 24, 1423.
    • Adams EA, Hunter D, Kennedy J, Jablonski T, Parker J, Tasker F, Widnall E, O'Donnell AJ, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . Advances in Dual Diagnosis 2024, 17(1), 1-13.
    • Jain N, Adams EA, Joyes EC, McLellan G, Burrows M, Paisi M, McGowan LJ, Iafrate L, Landes D, Watt R, Sniehotta FF, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . PLoS ONE 2024, 19(12), e0315254.
    • Salonen D, McGovern R, Allen-Sobo L, Adams E, Muir C, Bourne J, Herlihy F, Hunter D, Kaner E. . Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy 2024, 31(2), 163-178.
    • Adams EA, Yang JC, O'Donnell A, Minot S, Osborn D, Kirkbride JB. . Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2023, 18, 59.
    • Baskin,C,Duncan,F,Adams,EA,Oliver,EJ,Samuel,G,Gnani,S. . BMC Public Health 2023, 23.
    • Muir C, Adams EA, Evans V, GeijerSimpson E, Kaner E, Phillips SM, Salonen D, Smart D, Winstone L, McGovern R. . Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 2023, 24(5), 3629-3646.
    • Redgate S, Spencer L, Adams EA, Arnott B, Brown H, Christie A, Hardy C, Harrison H, Kaner E, Mawson C, McGovern W, Phillips P, Rankin J, McGovern R. . European Journal of Public Health 2023, 33(1), 49-55.
    • Harland JM, Adams EA, Boobis S, Cheetham M, Wiseman A, Ramsay SE. . European Journal of Public Health 2022, 32(2), 176–190.
    • Adams EA, Spencer L, Addison M, McGovern W, Alderson H, Adley M, McGovern R, Gilvarry E, Kaner E, O'Donnell A. . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(12), 6996.
    • Widnall E, Winstone L, Plackett R, Adams EA, Haworth CMA, Mars B, Kidger J. . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(11), 6768.
    • Widnall E, Adams EA, Plackett R, Winstone L, Haworth CMA, Mars B, Kidger J. . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(12), 7163.
    • Adams EA, Parker J, Jablonski T, Kennedy J, Tasker F, Hunter D, Denham K, Smiles C, Muir C, O'Donnell A, Widnall E, Dotsikas K, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(6), 3459.
    • McGowan LJ, Joyes EC, Adams EA, Coyte A, Gavin R, Richmond C, Shabaninejad H, Beyer F, Broadbridge A, Dobson K, Landes D, Moffat S, Watt RG, Sniehotta FF, Freeman R, Paisi M, Bambra C, Craig D, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18(21), 11554.
    • Joyes EC, McGowan LJ, Adams EA, Paisi M, Burrows M, Shabaninejad H, Beyer F, Haddow K, Coyte A, Landes D, Moffatt S, Watt RG, Sniehotta FF, Bambra C, Craig D, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18(22), 11755.
    • Perry R, Adams EA, Harland J, Broadbridge A, Giles EL, McGeechan GJ, O'Donnell A, Ramsay SE. . BMJ Open 2021, 11(6), e044634.
    • Duncan F, Baskin C, McGrath M, Coker JR, Lee C, Dykxhoorn J, Adams EA, Gnani S, Lafortune L, Kirkbride JB, Kaner E, Jones O, Samuel G, Walters K, Osborn D, Oliver EJ. . BMC Public Health 2021, 21, 1691.
    • Marshall LA, Adams EA, Stuckey MI. . The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 2019, 30(5), 824-835.
    • Adams EA, Darj E, Wijewardene K, Infanti JJ. . Global Health Action 2019, 12(1), 1560587.
    • Marshall LA, Adams EA. . The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 2018, 29(5), 744-761.
    • Srour H, Ratel O, Leocmach M, Adams EA, Denis-Quanquin S, Appukuttan V, Taberlet N, Manneville S, Majesté J, Carrot C, Andraud C, Monnereau C. . Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2015, 36(1), 55-59.

  • Book Chapter

    • Adams EA, Ramsay SE. . In: William McGovern; Hayley Alderson; Bethany Kate Bareham; Monique Lhussier, ed. Public Involvement and Community Engagement in Applied Health and Social Care Research: Critical Perspectives and Innovative Practice. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025, pp.107–117.

  • Review

    • Adams EA, Brennan-Tovey K, McGrath J, Thirkle S, Jain N, Aquino MRJ, Bartle V, Kennedy J, Ogden M, Parker J, Koehne S, Kaner E, Ramsay SE. . Trauma, Violence, and Abuse 2025, 26(3), 510-527.