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Title: Dr. Job Title: Egenis Research Fellow Tel: 01392 269128 Fax: 01392 263305 Email: H.R.Farrimond@exeter.ac.uk Building: Byrne House, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter Room Number: FF16
My primary research area is the social psychology of health and illness. My interest lies in exploring the intersection between private experience of illness or risk and its socio-cultural context (symbolic meanings, values), particularly in relation to genetic or familial diseases.
I originally studied Theology and Religious Studies (M.A., University of Cambridge) before making the move to the discipline of Social Psychology (B.SC, University of Canterbury) and completing a Masters in Social Research Methods (London School of Economics). My PhD (UCL), finished in 2006, focused on using social identity theories to explore different smoking rates amongst lower and higher socio-economic groups in the UK. I also worked with Professor Martin Jarvis at the Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology as a Research Psychologist, both researching and running smoking cessation groups and training. As a Reseach Fellow at Egenis, I am still focused on the social psychology of health behaviours, particularly in relation to common and complex diseases. As part of the ADDFAM (see below) team, I have conducted interviews with 'high risk' of coronary heart disease patients as part of a nested qualitative study within a large randomised trial in primary care.
At Egenis I am involved with these research projects, that deal with my research interests listed below:
In addition, I supervise the PhD project of Daniele Carrieri ('Understandings of Neurofibromatosis 1 amongst family networks') on a monogenic genetic condition.
Family History and Heart Disease Project (Department of Health funded): The ADDFAM project investigates the added value of incorporating family history into the standard risk assessment for coronary heart disease (CHD) in general practice. My particular interest is in how patients deemed at 'high risk' of CHD understand and construct their risk, their lifestyle and their interactions with medical professionals and how this might differ between SES and ethnic groups. This is being investigated through multiple qualitative interviews with the same individual at different time points.
Smoking and Smoking Cessation: I have experience of both research and clinical work, having worked as a smoking cessation adviser and trainer for a joint UCL/Camden & Islington PCT Smokers' Clinic. I am interested in SES and ethnicity differences in smoking, the current constructions of smoking in terms of control, morality and addiction, and the messages that underlie health promotion and British governmental initiatives for Tobacco Control.
Qualitative Methods: Alongside traditional 'qualitative' methods such as interviewing and focus group methodology, I am also interested in using innovative methods involving free association, drawing, episodic interviewing and Q-methodology.
Articles
Farrimond, H., Joffe, H., & Stenner, P. (in press), 'A Q-methodology study of 'smoking identities'', Psychology and Health.
Farrimond, H., Saukko, P.M., Evans, P.H. and Qureshi, N., 'Making sense of being at ‘high risk’ of coronary heart disease', Psychology and Health, 2010, 25, (3)pp. 289-304.
Qureshi N., Armstrong S., Saukko P., Sach T., Middlemass J., Evans P.H., Kai J., Farrimond H. and Humphries S.E., 'Realising the potential of the family history in risk assessment and primary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care: ADDFAM study protocol', BMC Health Services Research, 2009, 9:184. Farrimond, H. and Joffe, H., 'Pollution, peril and poverty: The stigmatisation of British smokers', Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 16 (6), 2006, pp. 481-491.
Wardle, J., Jarvis, M.J., Steggles, N., Sutton, S., Williamson, S., Farrimond, H., Cartwright, M. and Simon, A.E., 'Socioeconomic disparities in cancer-risk behaviors in adolescence: baseline results from the Health and Behaviour in Teenagers Study (HABITS)', Preventive Medicine, 36, 2003, pp. 721-730.
Reviews
Farrimond, H., review of Dolly Mixtures, the remaking of genealogy by Sarah Franklin, in Metascience, 18 (1) 2009 p99.
Farrimond, H., review of Health: The Foundations for Achievement by D.Seedhouse, in Journal of Health Psychology, 8 (2), 2003, pp. 280-282.
Conferences and workshops
Farrimond, H & Kelly, S., 'Public attitudes to non-invasive prenatal testing', ESRC Genomics Network Conference, ‘Mapping the Genomic Era: Measurements and Meanings’, Cardiff, 7-9 October 2009.
Farrimond, H., Saukko, P.M., Qureshi, N. and Evans, P.H., 'Lifestyle, life-stage and social context: Patient perceptions of being at ‘high risk’ of heart disease', British Psychological Society Health Division Annual Conference, Bath, 9-12 September 2008, poster abstract in Psychology and Health 23, Suppl 1/2008, p. 117.
Farrimond, H.,‘Visual representations of smokers’, workshop presentation in From Ethno-methodology to Cyborg Sociology - Discussing qualitative methods to grasp material/human performance, University of Exeter, ESRC Seminar series, 18 July 2008.
Farrimond H., Commentary on genetic variation in health and illness, Human Nature and Variation workshop, University of Exeter, 22 April 2008.
Farrimond, H., Saukko, P., Evans, P.H. and Qureshi, N, (2007), 'Adding family history to coronary heart disease risk assessments: A qualitative study', poster at Genomics in Society, 1st International Conference, Westminster, London, 26-27 October 2007.
Farrimond, H., Saukko, P., Evans, P.H. and Qureshi, N., 'The use of family history in risk assessment and primary prevention of heart disease', poster at Governing Genomics conference, University of Exeter, 25-27 January, 2007.
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