Senior Research Fellow
School of Health
Children's medicines and health policy
Janine has a background in health and social policy with a special interest in children’s health policy. Within this broad research interest Janine has a special interest in:
1. Paediatric medicines management and safety; especially adverse drug reactions and errors and parent and public perceptions of medicines and vaccines.
2. Pain and sedation, including pain assessment, management and medication.
3. Complex disabilities, including autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)
Janine is Chair of the Autistic Spectrum Disorder Special Interest Group for the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Clinical Network and is also a member of the Paediatric Medicines Research Unit and the Acceptable Paediatric Medicines Working Group in Liverpool.
Janine has experience in a range of research me
more...Janine has a background in health and social policy with a special interest in children’s health policy. Within this broad research interest Janine has a special interest in:
1. Paediatric medicines management and safety; especially adverse drug reactions and errors and parent and public perceptions of medicines and vaccines.
2. Pain and sedation, including pain assessment, management and medication.
3. Complex disabilities, including autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)
Janine is Chair of the Autistic Spectrum Disorder Special Interest Group for the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Clinical Network and is also a member of the Paediatric Medicines Research Unit and the Acceptable Paediatric Medicines Working Group in Liverpool.
Janine has experience in a range of research methods including qualitative methods (interviewing, case studies and historical and documentary analysis) and quantitative methods (questionnaire design, data analysis, SPSS, STATA and SAS)
Janine teaches postgraduate students on Advanced Research Methods and Pharmacovigilance.
B.Soc.Sci (Hons) in Social Policy (2002)
MRes (Distinction) Health and Social Research Methods (2003)
PhD "The Social Construction of Vaccine Controversies" (2007)