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Dr Morven Brown

Senior Research Associate

  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    Ridley Building 1
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    缅北禁地
    Queen Victoria Road
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
    UK
Background

I am member of the Population Health Sciences Institute and work within the Applied Cancer Therapeutics and Outcomes research theme. I am also part of 缅北禁地's Centre for Cancer. I am researcher with a health psychology background (registered with the British Psychological Society) with a particular interest in improving the health of survivors of childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer.


Qualifications

2019-2025 Staff PhD by Publication (Exploring and developing interventions to promote, improve and sustain self-management and positive health behaviours in childhood cancer survivors)

2017 Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology (Stage 2 training)

2008 MSc Health Psychology (Stage 1 training - Distinction) 

2005 BSc (Hons) Psychology (First class)

2000 M.A. Applied Social Sciences (management, economics, history, economic & social history) 


Memberships

Chartered member of the British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology (www.bps.org.uk)

Member of the Pan-European Network for Care of Survivors after Childhood and Adolescent Cancer (PanCare: )

Associate member of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG: )

Ambassador for Youth Cancer Europe ()









Research

Main research interests

  • Health behaviours and health behaviour change in cancer survivors
  • The identification of psychological and behavioural factors which contribute to physical illness
  • Psycho-oncology
  • Perceptions and experiences of health, illness and treatment
  • Qualitative methods

I have experience of qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods research and systematic reviews.


Current research projects

  • - Sarcoma: Understanding how we can support young people to be physically active after sarcoma. Funded by Sarcoma UK.


  • : EXpanding into communities to imProve lifestyle sUpport foR womEn after breast cancer. Funded by Breast Cancer Now.


  • ALL+ Health: Cardiovascular late-effects after treatment for childhood cancer: the risk perceptions and health beliefs of survivors. Funded by 缅北禁地 upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity.


  • PRISM: Formative research to inform the development of a smoking cessation intervention for childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. Funded by NIHR RfPB.



Past projects

  • BEACON - Using qualitative and co-design methods to inform the development of an evidence-based and theory-informed intervention for the promotion of physical activity in childhood and adolescent cancer survivors. Funded by Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group. 
  • - Contributing to the development of a lifestyle intervention for a large EU project which is looking at how to best deliver survivorship care for childhood and adolescent cancer survivors in Europe. Funded by Horizon 2020. 
  • Facilitators and barriers to self-management in childhood and adolescent cancer survivors: a qualitative study (2017-2018).
  • PanCare childhood and adolescent cancer survivor care and follow-up studies (2012-2017).
  • Psychosocial health outcomes after childhood cancer (2014-2016).
  • Quality of life, socio-economic status, relationships and risk perceptions in survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer (2012-2013).
  • Women's perceptions of future risk following pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia (2011-2012).
  • Cardiovascular disease risk in women with pre-eclampsia: systematic review and meta-analysis (2010-2012). 
  • European bone tumour outcome study: overview of health-related quality of life in 700 European bone tumour survivors (2009-2010).

 


Successful research grants

  • Sarcoma UK (PI): Understanding what helps and hinders survivors of childhood sarcoma to be physically active: qualitative research to inform intervention development (2024); £49, 746
  • NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (co-PI): Formative research to inform the development of a smoking cessation intervention for childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors (2021); £149, 805
  • 缅北禁地 Healthcare Charity (co-I): Cardiovascular late-effects after treatment for childhood cancer: the risk perceptions and health beliefs of survivors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (2021); £31, 983
  • Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (co-I): Promoting physical activity in childhood cancer survivors: using qualitative and co-design methods to inform the development of an evidence-based intervention (2018); £73,923
  • Cancer Research UK Cancer Prevention Innovation Grant (co-I): "The Waiting Games" (2017); £20,000
  • North East Children’s Cancer Research Fund (co-I): "Epidemiological and Health Services Research in Childhood Cancer and Leukaemia" (2017); £406,817
  • 缅北禁地 Healthcare Charity (co-I): "Facilitators and barriers to self-management in childhood and adolescent cancer survivors: a qualitative study" (2016); £42,570
  • Children with Cancer (co-I): "Psychosocial health outcomes after childhood cancer - pathways from initial survival to long-term survivorship" (2013); £43,523
  • 缅北禁地 Healthcare Charity (co-I): "Quality of life, socio-economic status, relationships and risk perceptions in survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: a pilot study" (2011); £38,434


Oral presentations

International:
  • A systematic review of the perceived barriers and facilitators to physical activity in childhood cancer survivors at the 22nd World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, virtual conference (2021).
  • What are the barriers and facilitators to physical activity participation among childhood cancer survivors? Findings from qualitative interviews at the 22nd World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, virtual conference (2021).
  • Parental views of the barriers and facilitators too physical activity in childhood cancer survivors: a qualitative interview study at the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, virtual conference (2021).
  • Identifying strategies that childhood cancer survivors use to self-manage their health and wellbeing at the European Health Psychology Society conference, Dubrovnik (2019).
  • Social outcomes in young adult survivors of childhood cancer at the 19th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, Berlin (2017).
  • Lifestyle behaviours in young adult survivors of childhood cancer at the 19th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, Berlin (2017).
  • Exploring psychological, social and behavioural outcomes in young adult survivors of cancer at the 19th PanCare meeting, Lund (2017).
  • Developing and piloting questionnaires to facilitate holistic psychosocial assessment of childhood cancer survivors attending long-term follow-up at the 15th PanCare meeting, Dublin (2015).
  • Update in the guidelines work in PanCareSurFup (Invited Speaker) at the European Symposium on Late Complications after Childhood Cancer, Edinburgh (2014).
  • Long-term psychosocial outcomes after childhood cancer at the 12th PanCare meeting, Amsterdam (2013).
  • Survey of Guidelines for Long-Term Follow-Up of Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer in Europe at the 11th PanCare meeting, Genoa (2013).

 

National:
  • The barriers and facilitators to self-management among survivors of childhood cancer at British Psychosocial Oncology Society conference, online (2022)
  • The long-term psychosocial impact of cancer - the views of young adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer at the British Psychosocial Oncology Society conference, Leeds (2015).
  • European bone tumour outcome Study (EBTOS): overview of health related quality of life in study cohort at the British Sarcoma Group conference, Gateshead (2011).

 

Poster presentations

  • How can we help childhood cancer survivors to be more physically active? Findings from the BEACON study at the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group Annual Meeting, Nottingham (2023).
  • The barriers and facilitators to physical activity in childhood cancer survivors: a qualitative interview study with parents at the British Psychosocial Oncology Society conference, online (2022)
  • Developing and piloting a questionnaire to investigate important psychosocial outcomes in survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer at the British Psychosocial Oncology Society conference, Leeds (2015)
  • The long-term psychosocial impact of cancer - the views of young adult survivors of childhood cancer at the European Symposium on Late Complications after Childhood Cancer, Edinburgh (2014)
  • Psychosocial functioning of childhood cancer survivors attending a long-term follow-up clinic at the European Symposium on Late Complications after Childhood Cancer, Edinburgh (2014)
  • The long-term psychosocial impact of cancer - the views of young adult survivors of childhood cancer at the Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference, York (2014)
  • Survey of Guidelines for Long-term follow-up of survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer in Europe at the 13th International Conference on Long-Term Complications of Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer, Memphis (2013)
  • Development of a clinical tool to assess psychosocial functioning of childhood cancer survivors at long-term follow-up at the NHS Therapies conference, 缅北禁地 (2013)
  • European Bone Tumour Outcome Study (EBTOS): overview of health related quality of life (QOL) in study cohort at the IEA World Congress of Epidemiology, Edinburgh (2011)
Teaching

Supervision

  • Co-supervise Cancer MRes dissertations of intercalating MBBS students
  • Co-supervise Epidemiology MRes dissertations
  • Co-supervise Public Health MSc dissertations
  • Co-supervise Psychology MSc dissertations
  • Co-supervise Psychology BSc dissertations
  • Supervise Research Apprentice module in Foundations in Clinical Psychology MSc

Teaching

  • BSc Sports and Exercise Science, Physical Activity, Exercise and Disease module (Lecture: Behaviour change in clinical populations)
  • MSc Public Health, Chronic Disease Epidemiology module (Lecture: Psychosocial determinants of health & disease)




Publications

  • Articles

    • Crowe L, Brown MC, Lecouturier J, Greystoke A, Nuryunarsih D, Rimmer B, Bojke A, Bojke R, Richardson J, Wells M, Ezeala E, Carter L, Todd A, Sharp L. . Journal of Cancer Survivorship 2025, epub ahead of print.
    • Orange ST, Brown MC, Hallsworth K, Malcomson FC, Corfe B, Tweedie C, Cresti N, Cain H, Court P, Willson C, Ross K, Mathers JC, Saxton JM, Sharp L, Smith SG. . NIHR Open Research 2025, 5(3).
    • Lecouturier J, Crowe L, Brown MC, Greystoke A, Bojke A, Bojke R, Richardson J, Wells M, Ezeala E, Carter L, Sharp L, Todd A. . Psycho-Oncology 2025, 34(11), e70318.
    • Brown MC, Araujo-Soares V, Skinner R, Brown J, Glaser AW, Hanratty H, McCabe MG, Amariutei A-E, Mauri S, Sharp L. . PLoS ONE 2024, 19(5), e0299321.
    • Hallsworth K, McCain MV, Fallen-Bailey R, Brown MC, Orange ST, Reeves HL. . BMJ Open 2024, 14(6), e082155.
    • Rimmer B, Balla M, Dutton L, Lewis J, Brown MC, Burns R, Gallagher P, Williams S, Araújo-Soares V, Finch T, Menger F, Sharp L. . Journal of Cancer Survivorship 2024, 18, 1837-1850.
    • Rimmer B, Brown MC, Sotire T, Beyer F, Bolnykh I, Balla M, Richmond C, Dutton L, Williams S, Araújo-Soares V, Finch T, Gallagher P, Lewis J, Burns R, Sharp L. . Cancers 2024, 16(1), 14.
    • Crowe L, Brown M, Lecouturier J, Greystoke A, Bojke A, Bojke R, Richardson J, Wells M, Ezeala E, Carter L, Sharp L, Todd A. . European Journal of Oncology Nursing 2024, 73, 102696.
    • Bouwman E, Pluijm SMF, Stollman I, Araujo-Soares V, Blijlevens NMA, Follin C, Winther JF, Hjorth L, Kepak T, Kepakova K, Kremer LCM, Muraca M, van der Pal HJH, Schneider C, Uyttebroeck A, Vercruysse G, Skinner R, Brown MC, Hermens RPMG, Loonen JJ. . Cancer Medicine 2023, 12(11), 12749-12764.
    • Bouwman E, Pluijm SMF, Stollman I, Araujo-Soares V, Blijlevens NMA, Follin C, Falck Winther J, Hjorth L, Kepak T, Kepakova K, Kremer LCM, Muraca M, van der Pal HJH, Schneider C, Uyttebroeck A, Vercruysse G, Skinner R, Brown MC, Hermens RPMG, Loonen JJ. . Cancer Medicine 2023, 12(6), 7414-7426.
    • Stewart S-JF, Slodkowska-Barabasz J, McGeagh L, Moon Z, Brett J, Wells M, Brown MC, Turner M, Horne R, Fenlon D, Rehman F, Cain H, Donnelly P, Harmer V, Turner L, Rose J, Sharp L, Watson E, SWEET Research Team. . Breast 2023, 70, 32-40.
    • Orange ST, Hallsworth K, Brown MC, Reeves HL. . Pilot And Feasibility Studies 2022, 8, 113.
    • van Kalsbeek RJ, Mulder RL, Haupt R, Muraca M, Hjorth L, Follin C, Kepak T, Kepakova K, Uyttebroeck A, Mangelschots M, Falck Winther J, Loonen JJ, Michel G, Bardi E, Elmerdahl Frederiksen L, den Hartogh J, Mader L, Roser K, Schneider C, Brown MC, Brunhofer M, Gottgens I, Hermens RPMG, Kienesberger A, Korevaar JC, Skinner R, van der Pal HJH, Kremer LCM. . European Journal of Cancer 2022, 162, 34-44.
    • Brown MC, Podmore M, Araujo-Soares V, Skinner R, Sharp L. . Health Psychology Review 2022, 17(2), 277-300.
    • van Kalsbeek RJ, Van der Pal HJH, Hjorth L, Winther JF, Michel G, Haupt R, Uyttebroeck A, O'Brien K, Kepakova K, Follin C, Muraca M, Kepak T, Araujo-Soares V, Bardi E, Blondeel A, Bouwman E, Brown MC, Frederiksen LE, Essiaf S, Hermens RPMG, Kienesberger A, Korevaar JC, Mader L, Mangelschots M, Mulder RL, Rijken M, Roser K, Skinner R, Pluijm SMF, Kremer LCM, Van den Oever SR, Van den Oever SR, Eriksson L, Relander T, Engellau J, Fjorden K, Bogefors K, Holmqvist ASF, Nicolas B, Bagnasco F, Benvenuto M, Aulicino A, Laudisi L, Hrstkova H, Bajciova V, Holikova M, Strublova L, Renard M, Jacobs S, Segers H, Van Helvoirt M, Winther JF, Frederiksen LE, Andersen EAW, Boes S, Loonen J, Loonen J, Hermens R, Gottgens I, Stollman I, Penson A, Skinner R, Sciberras W, Korevaar J, Den Hartogh J, Gsell H, Schneider C, Hartogh JD, Te Dorsthorst J. . European Journal of Cancer 2021, 153, 74-85.
    • Orange ST, Gilbert SE, Brown MC, Saxton JM. . Supportive Care in Cancer 2021, 29, 6369-6378.
    • Brown MC, Haste A, Araujo-Soares V, Skinner R, Sharp L. . Journal of Cancer Survivorship 2021, 15, 344-357.
    • Brown MC, Araujo-Soares V, Skinner R, Glaser A, Sarwar N, Saxton JM, Montague K, Hall J, Burns O, Sharp L. . BMJ Open 2020, 10(12), e041073.
    • Byrne J, Alessi D, Allodji RS, Bagnasco F, Bardi E, Bautz A, Bright CJ, Brown M, Diallo I, Feijen EAML, Fidler MM, Frey E, Garwicz S, Grabow D, Gudmundsdottir T, Hagberg O, Harila-Saari A, Hau EM, Haupt R, Hawkins MM, Jakab Z, Jankovic M, Kaatsch P, Kaiser M, Kremer LCM, Kuehni CE, Kuonen R, Ladenstein R, Lahteenmaki PM, Levitt G, Linge H, LLanas D, Michel G, Morsellino V, Mulder RL, Reulen RC, Ronckers CM, Sacerdote C, Skinner R, Steliarova-Foucher E, van der Pal HJ, de Vathaire F, Vu Bezin G, Wesenberg F, Wiebe T, Winter DL, Falck Winther J, Witthoff E, Zadravec Zaletel L, Hjorth L. . European Journal of Cancer 2018, 103, 238-248.
    • Sturgess B, Brown M, Fraser F, Bailey S. . Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2018, 65(12), e27377.
    • Mulder RL, van der Pal HJH, Levitt GA, Skinner R, Kremer LCM, Brown MC, Bardi E, Windsor R, Michel G, Frey E. . European Journal of Cancer 2016, 54, 64-68.
    • Brown MC, Pearce MS, Bailey S, Skinner R. . European Journal of Cancer Care 2016, 25(3), 428-439.
    • Mayes J, Brown MC, Davies N, Skinner R. . Pediatric Hematology and Oncology 2016, 33(6), 359-370.
    • Tresman R, Brown M, Fraser F, Skinner R, Bailey S. . Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2016, 63(9), 1636-1642.
    • Brown MC, Levitt GA, Frey E, Bárdi E, Haupt R, Hjorth L, Kremer L, Kuehni CE, Lettner C, Mulder RL, Michel G, Skinner R. . Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2015, 62(2), 322–328.
    • Brown MC, Bell R, Collins C, Waring G, Robson SC, Waugh J, Finch T. . Hypertension in Pregnancy 2013, 32(1), 60-73.
    • Brown MC, Best KE, Pearce MS, Waugh J, Robson SC, Bell R. . European Journal of Epidemiology 2013, 28(1), 1-19.
    • Woolfson RC, Heffernan E, Paul M, Brown M. . British Journal of Social Work 2010, 40(7), 2069-2085.

  • Note

    • Brown MC, Sharp L, Sniehotta FF, Skinner R, Araujo-Soares V. . Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2020, 67(9), e28500.

  • Reviews

    • Wams J, van Dalen EC, den Hartogh JG, Otth M, Costa T, Gorter JW, van der Aa-van Delden AM, Panasiuk A, Wormann B, Berger C, Bardi E, Larsen EH, Potter E, Soria EL, Levitt G, Michel G, van der Pal HJH, Roganovic J, de Bont J, Wauters L, Pelanconi L, Zaletel LZ, Balcerek M, Muraca M, Brown MC, Asogwa OA, de Sousa O, Koopman R, Mehta S, Papadakis V, Kremer LCM, Skinner R, Scheinemann K, Mulder RL. . The Lancet Oncology 2025, 26(10), e525-e535.
    • de Beijer IAE, Bouwman E, Mulder RL, Steensma P, Brown MC, Araujo-Soares V, Balcerek M, Bardi E, Falck Winther J, Frederiksen LE, van Gorp M, Oberti S, Kepak T, van Litsenburg R, Mader L, Michel G, Muraca M, van der Pal HJH, Roser K, Skinner R, Stolman I, Uyttebroeck A, Kremer LCM, Loonen J, van Dalen EC, Pluijm SMF, Kremer LCM, van der Pal HJH, Mulder RL, Pluijm SMF, van Kalsbeek RJ, van Kalsbeek RJ, van den Oever SR, van den Oever SR, Hjorth L, Follin C, Eriksson L, Relander T, Engellau J, Fjorden K, Bogefors K, Holmqvist AS, Haupt R, Muraca M, Nicolas B, Bagnasco F, Benvenuto M, Aulicino A, Laudisi L, Araujo-Soares V, Kepak T, Kepakova K, Kepakova K, Hrstkova H, Bajciova V, Holikova M, Strublova L, Uyttebroeck A, Renard M, Jacobs S, Segers H, van Helvoirt M, Winther JF, Mader L, Frederiksen LE, Andersen EAW, Michel G, Boes S, Roser K, Loonen J, Hermens R, Gottgens I, Bouwman E, Stollman I, Penson A, Breij D, Skinner R, Brown MC, Essiaf S, Blondeel A, Sciberras W, Korevaar J, Rijken M, Kienesberger A, Kienesberger A, den Hartogh J, Gsell H, Gsell H, Schneider C, Bardi E, te Dorsthorst J. . Cancer Medicine 2024, 13(12), e7361.
    • Devine KA, Christen S, Mulder RL, Brown MC, Ingerski LM, Mader L, Potter EJ, Sleurs C, Viola AS, Waern S, Constine LS, Hudson MM, Kremer LCM, Skinner R, Michel G, Gilleland Marchak J, Schulte FSM. . Cancer 2022, 128(13), 2405-2419.
    • Clemens E, van den Heuvel-Eibrink MM, Mulder RL, Kremer LCM, Hudson MM, Skinner R, Constine LS, Bass JK, Kuehni CE, Langer T, van Dalen EC, Bardi E, Bonne N-X, Brock PR, Brooks B, Carleton B, Caron E, Chang KW, Johnston K, Knight K, Nathan PC, Orgel E, Prasad PK, Rottenberg J, Scheinemann K, de Vries ACH, Walwyn T, Weiss A, am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen A, Cohn RJ, Landier W. . The Lancet Oncology 2019, 20(1), e29-e41.
    • Michel G, Mulder RL, van der Pal HJH, Skinner R, Bardi E, Brown MC, Vetsch J, Frey E, Windsor R, Kremer LCM, Levitt G. . Journal of Cancer Survivorship 2019, 13, 759-772.
    • Skinner R, Mulder RL, Kremer LC, Hudson MM, Constine LS, Bardi E, Boekhout A, Borgmann-Staudt A, Brown MC, Cohn R, Dirksen U, Giwercman A, Ishiguro H, Jahnukainen K, Kenney LB, Loonen JJ, Meacham L, Neggers S, Nussey S, Petersen C, Shnorhavorian M, van den Heuvel-Eibrink MM, van Santen HM, Wallace WHB, Green DM. . The Lancet Oncology 2017, 18(2), e75-e90.