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Dr Nina Fudge, BA (Hons), MSc, PhD, FHEA

Nina

Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Health

Email: n.fudge@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7882 2528
Room Number: 1.03

Profile

I am a Lecturer in Social Science in the Centre for Primary Care. A social anthropologist by background, I undertake interdisciplinary projects in applied health research, adopting a wide range of participant-focused methods: ethnographic, narrative, surveys, visual approaches.

I joined QMUL in 2017 to take a lead role in collection, management, analysis and interpretation of data for the APOLLO-MM project - an in-depth ethnographic case study of patients’ and healthcare professionals’ experiences and practices of polypharmacy to inform a safe, effective and person-centred approach to medicines use in primary care.

My research explores interrelationships between knowledge, expertise, and practice in complex healthcare settings:

  • patients’ roles in health service design/research
  • implementation of research findings into professional practice/policy
  • identifying stroke survivors’ unmet care needs
  • patient and professional experiences and practices of polypharmacy
  • practicing ‘safety’ in community pharmacy

Teaching

 

Research

Publications

  • Hogger L, Swinglehurst D, Fudge N (2025). Dementia and the disappearing subject: a framing analysis of drugs for dementia in UK news media. nameOfConference


  • van Blarikom E, Fudge N, Swinglehurst D (2025). Living “Out of the Loop”: Unemployment in the Context of Long‐Term Illness. nameOfConference


  • Owen-Boukra E, Cai Z, Duddy C et al. (2025). Collaborative and integrated working between general practice and community pharmacies: A realist review of what works, for whom, and in which contexts.. nameOfConference


  • Thomson A, Fudge N, Van Blarikom E et al. (2024). Addressing Polypharmacy: Developing Public-Facing Resources Through Storytelling-Based Co-Design. nameOfConference


  • Pocknell S, Fudge N, Collins S et al. (2024). ‘Troubling’ medication reviews in the context of polypharmacy and ageing: A linguistic ethnography. nameOfConference


  • Law JH, Sultan N, Finer S et al. (publicationYear). Advancing the communication of genetic risk for cardiometabolic diseases: a critical interpretive synthesis. nameOfConference


  • van Blarikom E, Swinglehurst D (2024). Multimorbidity as chronic crisis: ‘Living on’ with multiple long‐term health conditions in a socially disadvantaged London borough. nameOfConference


  • Gibson H, Sanders C, Blakeman T et al. (2024). Providing care to marginalised communities: a qualitative study of community pharmacy teams. nameOfConference


  • van Blarikom E, Fudge N (2023). Multimorbidity: a problem in the body, or a problem of the system?. nameOfConference


  • Hogger L, Fudge N, Swinglehurst D (2023). Supporting Inclusion and Participation for People Living With Dementia: Ethnographic and Participatory Research Methods. nameOfConference


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Supervision

Caroline French Optimisation of the design, conduct and impact of process evaluations in pragmatic RCTs of complex non-pharmacological healthcare interventions

Lucie Hogger Supporting medicines optimisation for people living with dementia: exploring communication between informal carers and people living with dementia in the context of polypharmacy

Esca van Blarikom Navigating complex systems of care: working-age adults living with multimorbidity. An ethnographic study

Jing Hui Law Applying a life course perspective to genetic risk perception for type 2 diabetes in British Bangladeshis and British Pakistanis

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