Dr Trish Green

BA (Hons), PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Role at Hull York Medical School

Trish is a Senior Research Fellow involved in several Department of Health funded projects for the Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis (CASE). She is also main researcher on a study entitled ‘Awareness of Cancer Symptoms’ (ACeS), which is part of the Cancer Studies-Yorkshire series of projects funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR). She is Principal Investigator for a study entitled ‘Factors Influencing Smoking in Hull’, funded by Hull CCG and Hull City Council, and Co-Investigator on an ESRC-funded Research Seminar series entitled 'On encountering corpses: political, socio-economic and cultural aspects of contemporary encounters with dead bodies', a collaboration of leading scholars from the universities of York, Durham, Bath, Manchester Metropolitan and Central Lancashire. She recently secured University of Hull City of Culture Campus 2017 funding for two art projects.

Biography

Trish Green graduated from the University of Hull in 2002 with a BA (Hons) 1st Class in Social Policy and Gender Studies. A scholarship from the University of Hull in 2002 funded her postgraduate studies in Applied Social Research, and she completed a Doctorate in Gender Studies in 2007, which was funded by the EU. Her expertise lies in qualitative research methodologies and she enjoys working in multi/inter-disciplinary research teams. Trish has been a researcher at the Universities of York, Sheffield and Hull and joined SEDA in 2011. She received a HYMS Staff Excellence Award in 2012 and the ‘Women in Science’ Staff Award in 2014.

Research

Trish is co-investigator on a study based at University College London (UCL) and in collaboration with HYMS. The study is funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR) and led by Dr Lesley McGregor at UCL. This RCT will research into ways of enhancing the uptake of Bowel Scope Screening in Hull and surrounding areas.

Trish is lead researcher on the following projects funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis (CASE).

GPs and cancer recognition and referral in England: an in-depth study

The overall purpose of this study was to understand cancer diagnosis from the perspective of GPs, and to develop a framework for conceptualising the potential of the GP role to improve cancer recognition and referral. This study has ended. A SEDA Research Summary is available, several conference papers have been presented (see External Activities list) and the results have been published in peer-reviewed journals (see Publications list).

Clinical decision support for cancer diagnosis: qualitative evaluation

The purpose of this study was to examine GPs’ perceptions on the acceptability and usability of the e-RAT and Q-Cancer decision support tools; to identify facilitators and barriers to their use; and to obtain a patient perspective on the use of the tools. This study has ended. The final report, written in collaboration with Dr Jodie Moffat and Lucy Ironmonger, is available on the CRUK website. A SEDA Research Summary is also available (see Publications list).

Exploring women’s views on the appropriateness of including information leaflets about ovarian cancer with ‘all-clear’ breast and cervical screening results

The aim of this study is to explore lay and professional perceptions of the inclusion of information leaflets about cancer symptoms with all-clear results of cervical and/or breast screening. The policy question the study aims to answer is: In what ways can all-clear cancer screening results be utilised to help raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of other cancers?

The use of GP waiting rooms to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer

This study starts in March 2018. The overall aim is to understand if/how GP waiting rooms are used to present information about cancer, especially related to cancer screening and signs and symptoms of cancer. 

Trish is Principal Investigator on a study entitled Factors Influencing Smoking in Hull: A study of women smokers and non-smokers (FISH).

The study is jointly funded by Hull CCG and Hull City Council. The overall aim is to understand the reasons why so many women in Hull take up smoking. It will examine women’s access to and their perceptions of smoking cessation services.

Trish is Co-Investigator on an ESRC funded Research Seminar series entitled On encountering corpses: political, socio-economic and cultural aspects of contemporary encounters with dead bodiesLed by Dr Craig Young, Manchester Metropolitan University and in collaboration with leading scholars from the universities of York, Durham, Bath and Central Lancashire.

Publications

Books

Co-authored

Clayden A, Green T, Hockey J, Powell M. Natural Burial: Landscape, practice and experience. London: Routledge. (2015) Sole authored

Green T. Motherhood, Absence and Transition: When adult children leave home, Aldershot: Ashgate, (2010). Book chapters

Co-authored

 

Hockey J, Clayden C, Green T, Powell M.Temporalities of transience and the mortuary landscape: the example of natural burial, in Bjerregaard, P. Rasmussen, A.E. and Flohr Sorensen, T. (eds.) (2016) Materialities of Passing: Explorations in Transformation, Transition and Transience. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Clayden A, Green T, Hockey J, Powell M. From Cabbages to Cadavers: Natural burial down on the farm, in A. Maddrell and J. Sidaway (eds.) (2010), Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Green T, Curtis PA, Fisher P. Owen JM, Smith G, Ward P. Making Healthy Families? in P. Jackson (ed.) (2009) Changing Families, Changing Food. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sole authored

Green T. ‘Prodigal Daughters and Sons? Mothers’ experiences of adult children returning to live in the family home, in M. G. Bouvard (ed.) (2013) Mothers of Adult Children. Plymouth: Lexington Books.

Journal articles

Clayden A, Green T, Hockey J, Powell M. Cutting the Lawn: Natural Burial and its Contribution to the Delivery of Ecosystem Services in Urban Cemeteries. Journal of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2017.08.012.

Attitudes of newly qualified doctors towards a career in general practice: a qualitative focus group study, Merrett A, Jones D, Sein K, Green T, Macleod U.Br J Gen Pract. 2017 Apr;67(657):e253-e259. doi: 10.3399/bjgp17X690221.

GPs’ perceptions and experiences of public awareness campaigns for cancer: a qualitative enquiryHealth Expectations, 2015, DOI: 10.1111/hex.12362, Green T, Atkin K. Macleod U.

Cancer detection in primary care: insights from General Practitioners, British Journal of Cancer, 2015, 112, S41 – S49, Green T, Atkin K, Macleod U.

Embedding electronic decision-support tools for suspected cancer in primary care: a qualitative study of GPs' experiences Primary Health Care Research & Development, 2015,DOI: http://dx/doi/org/10.1017/S1463423615000109Dikomitis L, Green T, Macleod U.

Exploring GPs' Experiences of Using Diagnostic Tools for Cancer: a qualitative study in primary care, Family Practice, November 2014Green T, Martins T, Hamilton W, Rubin G, Ellioitt K, Macleod U.  

Evaluation of risk assessment tools for suspected cancer in general practice: a cohort study, British Journal of General Practitioners,January 2013; 63: 20-1, with Hamilton W, Green T, Martins T, Elliott K, Rubin G, Macleod U.

Landscapes of the dead? Natural burial and the materialization of absence, Journal of Material Culture, 17 (2): 115-32. Clayden A, Hockey J, Green T, Powell M.

Funeral Directors’ perspectives on natural burial, The Journal of the Institute of Cemetery Management Vol 79 (3), Green T, Clayden A, Hockey J.

“I bury boxes, not bodies”: identity, emotionality and natural burial, ASA online 2011 1 (03), Clayden A, Green T, Hockey J, Powell M.

Living with the Dead, Journal of Landscape Architecture, Autumn 2009: 48-55, Clayden A, Hockey J, Green T, Powell M.

 

Research Summaries

Green T, Macleod U. (2015) GPs and cancer recognition and referral in England: an in-depth study. SEDA Research Summaries No. 2, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull.

Green T, Macleod U. (2015) Risk Assessment Tools (RATs) for cancer: a qualitative investigation. SEDA Research Summaries No. 3, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull.

Green T, Dikomitis L, Macleod U. (2015) Electronic Risk Assessment Tools: qualitative evaluation. SEDA Research Summaries No. 4, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull.

Green T, Macleod U. (2015) GPs and cancer recognition and referral in England: an in-depth study, SEDA Research Summaries No. 2, Hull York Medical School, University of HullReports

Clinical Decision Support Tool for Cancer (CDS) Project. Evaluation Report to the Department of Health, August 2014. Green T, Moffat J, Ironmonger L.

Dealing with uncertainty: a qualitative evaluation of the usability and acceptability of an electronic risk assessment tool to aid cancer diagnosis in general practice. Final Report to Macmillan, July 2012. Dikomitis L, Green T, Macleod U.

End of Life Scoping Exercise. Report to the University of Hull, July 2012. Green T, Turner J, Adamson S, Gibson H, Gregory W, Jones L.

Supporting earlier diagnosis of cancer in primary care: assessing the usability and impact of a primary care cancer Risk Assessment Tool. Final Report to NCAT, April, 2012. Hamilton W, Green T, Martins T, Rubin G, Macleod U.

Interdisciplinary Research Projects in the UK. www.researchintegration/res/york.ac.ukYear 3 Report 2006. Griffin G, Green T, Medhurst, P.The Relationship between Professionalization in Academe and Interdisciplinarity: A Comparative Study of Eight European Countries.  Year 2 Report 2005 www.researchintegration/res/york.ac.uk with Griffin G, Green T, Medhurst P.

Disciplinary Barriers between the Social Sciences and Humanities: National Report on the UK, Year 1 Report 2004 www.researchintegration/res/york.ac.uk with Griffin G, Green T, Medhurst P.

 

Collaborations

Academic /Arts collaboration 'On (Re)encountering those we have Lost' with Julie Seymour (HYMS)for Hull City of Culture funded event (2017) with Costa prize-winning poet Christopher Reid (FRSL) and performance artist Zoë Uí Fhaoláin.

'Cancer Awareness Art Project' with Chloe Roach (HYMS) and in collaboration with Rick Welton and Clare Huby, joint-funded by University of Hull City of Culture Campus 2017 and HYMS.