About
Research
Email: andy.feltham@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
Andy graduated from St Mary’s with a First Class BSc (Hons) in Psychology in 2018.
He went on to freelance in academia, specialising in shared decision-making and collaborative practice in child health. As part of this work, he has delivered evidence-based training on these topics for medical professionals.
Andy returned to St Mary’s to complete a PhD in the Faculty of Sport, Allied Health and Performance Science in 2021 while continuing with a role in NHS quality improvement.
Research
Research profile
PhD Title: How do nurses' and allied health professionals' attitudes towards shared decision-making relate to changes in law?
Andy’s doctoral research considers how nurses' and allied health professionals’ attitudes towards shared decision-making change when their legal obligation to share decisions is altered.
He is taking a bricolage approach to examining the topic, including grounded theory, novel surveys and measure development, and case studies.
This will contribute to a limited research base surrounding the topic of clinical attitudes to shared decision-making.
Supervisors
- Dr Kate Lawrence
- Dr Peary Brug
- Dr Anne Majumdar
- Dr Carolina Sciplino
- Dr Louca-Mai Brady
Publications
- Brady, L.M. et al. (2022), "Participation at the Heart: Lessons From Child-Centred Practice in UK Healthcare During and Beyond COVID-19". In Frankel, S. (Ed.) Establishing Child Centred Practice in a Changing World, Part A (Emerald Studies in Child Centred Practice), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 61-75.
- Demkowicz, O., Panayiotou, M., Parsons, S., Feltham, A., Arseneault, L., Ingram, B., Patalay, P., Edge, D., Pierce, M., Creswell, C., Victor, C., O’Connor, R. C., & Qualter, P. (2021). Looking Back to Move Forward: Reflections on the Strengths and Challenges of the COVID-19 UK Mental Health Research Response. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 391.
- Edbrooke-Childs, J., Edridge, C., Averill, P., Delane, L., Hollis, C., Craven, M. P., Martin, K., Feltham, A., Jeremy, G., Deighton, J., & Wolpert, M. (2019). A feasibility trial of power up: Smartphone app to support patient activation and shared decision making for mental health in young people. JMIR MHealth and UHealth, 7(6).
- Law, Martin, Jeremy, & Feltham. (2018). Everyday Participation: rethinking involvement and participation in children and young people’s mental health settings. The Child & Family Clinical Psychology Review, 6, 40–45.
- Martin, K. Feltham, A. (2020). Shared decision-making with young people in mental health services in mental health services. In L. Brady (Ed.), Embedding young people’s participation in health services: new approaches.
- Martin, K., Morton, L., Reid, J., Feltham, A., William Reid, J., Jeremy, G., & McCulloch, J. (2019). The Me first communication model. Nursing Children and Young People, 31(2).
- Wolpert, M., Vostanis, P., Martin, K., Munk, S., Norman, R., Fonagy, P., & Feltham, A. (2017). High integrity mental health services for children: focusing on the person, not the problem. BMJ, j1500.