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Dr Nina Jacob
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Cymrawd Ymchwil, GOFAL a CTR
Trosolwyg
Rwy'n Gymrawd Ymchwil yng Nghanolfan Ymchwil Gofal Cymdeithasol i Oedolion (CARE) Prifysgol Caerdydd, sy'n arbenigo mewn gwyddoniaeth weithredu mewn gofal cymdeithasol i oedolion. Mae fy ngwaith yn archwilio sut mae ymyriadau, gwasanaethau a pholisïau yn cael eu mabwysiadu, eu haddasu a'u cynnal yn ymarferol, a sut y gellir cryfhau prosesau gweithredu i wella canlyniadau i bobl sy'n tynnu ar ofal a chymorth.
Mae gen i ddiddordeb arbennig mewn gweithredu ymyriadau mewn lleoliadau cymhleth, go iawn fel cartrefi gofal a gwasanaethau cymunedol, gan gynnwys gwaith sy'n canolbwyntio ar atal hunanladdiad ac iechyd meddwl. Er bod fy nghefndir mewn dulliau ansoddol ac ethnograffig, mae fy ymchwil gyfredol yn cyfuno ystod ehangach o ddulliau a fframweithiau i gynhyrchu mewnwelediadau sy'n weithredadwy i ymarferwyr, llunwyr polisi, a chymunedau.
Mae fy ngwaith yn cael ei ategu gan ymrwymiad i gydraddoldeb, gan sicrhau bod ymchwil gweithredu yn adlewyrchu anghenion a lleisiau pobl sy'n aml yn ymylol mewn gofal cymdeithasol.
Themâu ymchwil
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Gweithredu a Gwella mewn Gofal Cymdeithasol i Oedolion
Ymchwilio i sut mae ymyriadau a gwasanaethau yn cael eu darparu, eu mabwysiadu a'u cynnal, a nodi'r ffactorau sefydliadol, gweithlu a pholisi sy'n siapio eu heffaith. -
Atal Hunanladdiad ac Iechyd Meddwl mewn Lleoliadau Gofal
Archwilio sut y gellir cyfieithu dulliau sy'n seiliedig ar dystiolaeth o atal hunanladdiad a chymorth iechyd meddwl yn ymarferol o fewn cyd-destunau gofal cymdeithasol a chymunedol. -
Dulliau ar gyfer Ymchwil Gweithredu
Tynnu ar ddulliau ansoddol, ethnograffig a chymysg i ddeall realiti darparu gofal, gwneud penderfyniadau, ac addasu, wrth hyrwyddo dulliau methodolegol o astudio gweithredu. -
Tegwch ac Ymgysylltu Cynhwysol
Sicrhau bod safbwyntiau amrywiol wedi'u hymgorffori mewn dylunio a gweithredu ymchwil, gan wneud canfyddiadau'n fwy perthnasol ac ymatebol i wahanol brofiadau byw.
Cyhoeddiad
2025
- Allen, D., Strange, H., Jacob, N. and Rafferty, A. M. 2025. How can we optimise nurse staffing systems? Insights from a comparative document analysis of 10 widely used models and focused interpretative review of implementation experiences. International Journal of Nursing Studies 167, article number: 105056. (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2025.105056)
- Stokes, L. et al. 2025. Barriers and facilitators to implementation of mental capacity legislation in care homes for older adults in the United Kingdom: a mixed-methods systematic review. Age and Ageing 54(5), article number: afaf119. (10.1093/ageing/afaf119)
- Allen, D., Strange, H., Jacob, N., Zoccatelli, G., Desai, A. and Rafferty, A. M. 2025. Understanding socio-material relations in nurse staffing systems: insights from a qualitative study in England and Wales. Nursing Inquiry 32(2), article number: e70008. (10.1111/nin.70008)
- Howick, J. et al. 2025. Variation in the extent to which patient information leaflets describe potential benefits and harms of trial interventions: a commentary. Trials 26(1), article number: 132. (10.1186/s13063-025-08824-8)
2024
- Segrott, J. et al. 2024. Integrating qualitative research within a clinical trials unit: developing strategies and understanding their implementation in contexts. Trials 25(1), article number: 323. (10.1186/s13063-024-08124-7)
2023
- Allen, D., Jacob, N., Strange, H., Jones, A., Burton, C. and Rafferty, A. M. 2023. “It's not just about the numbers”: Inside the black box of nurses' professional judgement in nurse staffing Systems in England and Wales: Insights from a qualitative cross-case comparative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 147, article number: 104586. (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2023.104586)
- Jacob, N. et al. 2023. Co-production of guidance and resources to implement principled participant information leaflets (PrinciPILs) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. NIHR Open Research 3 (10.3310/nihropenres.13423.1)
- Roland, D. et al. 2023. Paediatric early warning systems: not a simple answer to a complex question. Archives of Disease in Childhood 108(5), pp. 338-343. (10.1136/archdischild-2022-323951)
2022
- Svobodova, M. et al. 2022. Developing principles for sharing information about potential trial intervention benefits and harms with patients: report of a modified Delphi survey. Trials 23, article number: 863. (10.1186/s13063-022-06780-1)
- Allen, D. et al. 2022. Development, implementation and evaluation of an early warning system improvement programme for children in hospital: the PUMA mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research 10(1) (10.3310/CHCK4556)
- Allen, D. et al. 2022. Development, implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based paediatric early warning system improvement programme: the PUMA mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research 22(1), article number: 9. (10.1186/s12913-021-07314-2)
2021
- Jacob, N., Burton, C., Hale, R., Jones, A., Lloyd, A., Rafferty, A. M. and Allen, D. 2021. Pro-judge study: nurses’ professional judgement in nurse staffing systems. Journal of Advanced Nursing 77(10), pp. 4226-4233. (10.1111/jan.14921)
2020
- Scourfield, J., Evans, R., Colombo, G., Burrows, D., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Burnap, P. 2020. Are youth suicide memorial sites on Facebook different from those for other sudden deaths?. Death Studies 44(12), pp. 793-801. (10.1080/07481187.2019.1614109)
2019
- Jacob, N. et al. 2019. Optimising paediatric afferent component early warning systems: a hermeneutic systematic literature review and model development. BMJ Paediatrics Open 9(11), article number: e028796. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028796)
- Scourfield, J., Colombo, G., Burnap, P., Evans, R., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Caul, S. 2019. The number and characteristics of newspaper and Twitter reports on suicides and road traffic deaths in young people. Archives of Suicide Research 23(3), pp. 507-522. (10.1080/13811118.2018.1479321)
2018
- Thomas-Jones, E. et al. 2018. A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective paediatric early warning system and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in the UK: Paediatric early warning system – utilisation and mortality avoidance– the PUMA study protocol. BMC Pediatrics 18(1), article number: 244. (10.1186/s12887-018-1210-z)
2017
- Jacob, N., Evans, R. E. and Scourfield, J. B. 2017. The influence of online images on self-harm: A qualitative study of young people aged 16-24. Journal of Adolescence 60, pp. 140-147. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.08.001)
- MacArthur, G. J., Jacob, N., Pound, P., Hickman, M. and Campbell, R. 2017. Among friends: a qualitative exploration of the role of peers in young people's alcohol use using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital. Sociology of Health & Illness 39(1), pp. 30-46. (10.1111/1467-9566.12467)
2016
- Evans, R. et al. 2016. GW4 Children and young people's self-harm and suicide research collaboration. Report.. Project Report. [Online]. GW4. Available at: http://decipher.uk.net/report-launch-gw4-children-young-peoples-self-harm-suicide-research-collaboration/
- Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The response in Twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37(5), pp. 392-395. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000377)
- Jacob, N. K., MacArthur, G., Hickman, M. and Campbell, R. 2016. A qualitative investigation of the role of the family in structuring young people's alcohol use. The European Journal of Public Health 26(1), pp. 102-110. (10.1093/eurpub/ckv123)
2015
- Jacob, N. K. 2015. Realising the potential of social media for self-harm research. Presented at: 28th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 16-20 June 2015.
2014
- Jacob, N., Scourfield, J. B. and Evans, R. E. 2014. Suicide prevention via the internet. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 35(4), pp. 261-267. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000254)
2008
- Jacob, N. 2008. Understanding suicide: Conversations with the bereaved. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2007
- Scourfield, J. B., Jacob, N. K., Smalley, N., Prior, L. and Greenland, K. 2007. Young people's gendered interpretations of suicide and attempted suicide. Child & Family Social Work 12(3), pp. 248-257. (10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00498.x)
Articles
- Allen, D., Strange, H., Jacob, N. and Rafferty, A. M. 2025. How can we optimise nurse staffing systems? Insights from a comparative document analysis of 10 widely used models and focused interpretative review of implementation experiences. International Journal of Nursing Studies 167, article number: 105056. (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2025.105056)
- Stokes, L. et al. 2025. Barriers and facilitators to implementation of mental capacity legislation in care homes for older adults in the United Kingdom: a mixed-methods systematic review. Age and Ageing 54(5), article number: afaf119. (10.1093/ageing/afaf119)
- Allen, D., Strange, H., Jacob, N., Zoccatelli, G., Desai, A. and Rafferty, A. M. 2025. Understanding socio-material relations in nurse staffing systems: insights from a qualitative study in England and Wales. Nursing Inquiry 32(2), article number: e70008. (10.1111/nin.70008)
- Howick, J. et al. 2025. Variation in the extent to which patient information leaflets describe potential benefits and harms of trial interventions: a commentary. Trials 26(1), article number: 132. (10.1186/s13063-025-08824-8)
- Segrott, J. et al. 2024. Integrating qualitative research within a clinical trials unit: developing strategies and understanding their implementation in contexts. Trials 25(1), article number: 323. (10.1186/s13063-024-08124-7)
- Allen, D., Jacob, N., Strange, H., Jones, A., Burton, C. and Rafferty, A. M. 2023. “It's not just about the numbers”: Inside the black box of nurses' professional judgement in nurse staffing Systems in England and Wales: Insights from a qualitative cross-case comparative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 147, article number: 104586. (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2023.104586)
- Jacob, N. et al. 2023. Co-production of guidance and resources to implement principled participant information leaflets (PrinciPILs) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. NIHR Open Research 3 (10.3310/nihropenres.13423.1)
- Roland, D. et al. 2023. Paediatric early warning systems: not a simple answer to a complex question. Archives of Disease in Childhood 108(5), pp. 338-343. (10.1136/archdischild-2022-323951)
- Svobodova, M. et al. 2022. Developing principles for sharing information about potential trial intervention benefits and harms with patients: report of a modified Delphi survey. Trials 23, article number: 863. (10.1186/s13063-022-06780-1)
- Allen, D. et al. 2022. Development, implementation and evaluation of an early warning system improvement programme for children in hospital: the PUMA mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research 10(1) (10.3310/CHCK4556)
- Allen, D. et al. 2022. Development, implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based paediatric early warning system improvement programme: the PUMA mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research 22(1), article number: 9. (10.1186/s12913-021-07314-2)
- Jacob, N., Burton, C., Hale, R., Jones, A., Lloyd, A., Rafferty, A. M. and Allen, D. 2021. Pro-judge study: nurses’ professional judgement in nurse staffing systems. Journal of Advanced Nursing 77(10), pp. 4226-4233. (10.1111/jan.14921)
- Scourfield, J., Evans, R., Colombo, G., Burrows, D., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Burnap, P. 2020. Are youth suicide memorial sites on Facebook different from those for other sudden deaths?. Death Studies 44(12), pp. 793-801. (10.1080/07481187.2019.1614109)
- Jacob, N. et al. 2019. Optimising paediatric afferent component early warning systems: a hermeneutic systematic literature review and model development. BMJ Paediatrics Open 9(11), article number: e028796. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028796)
- Scourfield, J., Colombo, G., Burnap, P., Evans, R., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Caul, S. 2019. The number and characteristics of newspaper and Twitter reports on suicides and road traffic deaths in young people. Archives of Suicide Research 23(3), pp. 507-522. (10.1080/13811118.2018.1479321)
- Thomas-Jones, E. et al. 2018. A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective paediatric early warning system and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in the UK: Paediatric early warning system – utilisation and mortality avoidance– the PUMA study protocol. BMC Pediatrics 18(1), article number: 244. (10.1186/s12887-018-1210-z)
- Jacob, N., Evans, R. E. and Scourfield, J. B. 2017. The influence of online images on self-harm: A qualitative study of young people aged 16-24. Journal of Adolescence 60, pp. 140-147. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.08.001)
- MacArthur, G. J., Jacob, N., Pound, P., Hickman, M. and Campbell, R. 2017. Among friends: a qualitative exploration of the role of peers in young people's alcohol use using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital. Sociology of Health & Illness 39(1), pp. 30-46. (10.1111/1467-9566.12467)
- Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The response in Twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37(5), pp. 392-395. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000377)
- Jacob, N. K., MacArthur, G., Hickman, M. and Campbell, R. 2016. A qualitative investigation of the role of the family in structuring young people's alcohol use. The European Journal of Public Health 26(1), pp. 102-110. (10.1093/eurpub/ckv123)
- Jacob, N., Scourfield, J. B. and Evans, R. E. 2014. Suicide prevention via the internet. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 35(4), pp. 261-267. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000254)
- Scourfield, J. B., Jacob, N. K., Smalley, N., Prior, L. and Greenland, K. 2007. Young people's gendered interpretations of suicide and attempted suicide. Child & Family Social Work 12(3), pp. 248-257. (10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00498.x)
Conferences
- Jacob, N. K. 2015. Realising the potential of social media for self-harm research. Presented at: 28th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 16-20 June 2015.
Monographs
- Evans, R. et al. 2016. GW4 Children and young people's self-harm and suicide research collaboration. Report.. Project Report. [Online]. GW4. Available at: http://decipher.uk.net/report-launch-gw4-children-young-peoples-self-harm-suicide-research-collaboration/
Thesis
- Jacob, N. 2008. Understanding suicide: Conversations with the bereaved. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Ymchwil
Prosiectau cyfredol / diweddar
Prif ymchwilydd ar gyfer Treialon Siarad: dulliau cyfranogol o greu deialog gymunedol
Arweinydd ansoddol ar gyfer:
Yr astudiaeth ProJudge a ariennir gan RCN (sy'n archwilio'r defnydd o farn broffesiynol mewn penderfyniadau staffio nyrsys)
Astudiaeth PUMA a ariennir gan NIHR (System rhybudd cynnar pediatrig - Defnyddio ac Osgoi Marwolaethau): dulliau cymysg posibl cyn ac ar ôl astudiaeth o ddatblygu, gweithredu a gwerthuso rhaglen i wella systemau rhybuddio cynnar pediatrig:
DOMINO-HD (Targedau Ffordd o Fyw Aml-Barth ar gyfer Gwella ProgNOsis mewn Clefyd Huntington): Mae'r consortiwm hwn a ariennir gan JPND yn ymchwilio i sut y gall ffordd o fyw a ffactorau genetig fod yn dylanwadu ar ddilyniant clefyd Huntington (HD). Fel rhan o hyn rydym hefyd yn edrych ar sut y gellir defnyddio technolegau digidol (fel tracwyr gweithgaredd) i gefnogi pobl ag ymchwil HD a HD.
Mae'r astudiaeth PrinciPILs a ariennir gan MRC sy'n edrych ar ddatblygu a phrofi taflenni gwybodaeth cyfranogwyr sy'n hysbysu ac nad ydynt yn achosi niwed.
TRAK-MSK: Astudiaeth ddichonoldeb rheoledig ar hap o ymyrraeth ffisiotherapi hunanreoli digidol cyhyrysgerbydol TRAK ar gyfer unigolion â phoen cyhyrysgerbydol. CI - Dr Kate Button (Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Caerdydd a'r Fro/Prifysgol Caerdydd)
astudiaeth PHaCT a ariennir gan NIHR PHR; Atal Digartrefedd, gwella iechyd i bobl sy'n gadael y carchar: treial rheoledig ar hap peilot o ymyrraeth Amser Critigol
3P: Optimeiddio a dichonoldeb rhaglen rhianta Triple P ar gyfer astudiaeth cyflwyno o bell i asesu dichonoldeb cynnal treial rheoledig ar hap o Grŵp Triphlyg P o bell, ymyrraeth sydd wedi'i gynllunio i helpu rhieni i ddatblygu strategaethau i adeiladu perthnasoedd a rheoli ymddygiad eu plant yn hyderus.
Cyllid ymchwil
'Treialon Siarad': dulliau cyfranogol o greu deialog gymunedol (Prif ymchwilydd, £59,880 Ailfeddwl am ddeialog gyhoeddus: cronfa arbrofi UKRI)
'Hunan-niweidio a Hunanladdiad mewn Cydweithrediad Ymchwil Plant a Phobl Ifanc', GW4 (£56,720.94), (Cyd-ymgeisydd)
Cronfa Cyflymu Effaith ESRC, ESRC 'Archwilio'r potensial ar gyfer cymorth technolegol ar gyfer hunan-niweidio' (£3k), (Prif ymchwilydd)
'Hunan-niweidio a hunanladdiad mewn cydweithrediad ymchwil plant a phobl ifanc' ar gyfer GW4 (£4k), (Cyd-ymgeisydd)
Gwobr ymwelydd i Gaerdydd, ar gyfer Prifysgol Caerdydd (£5k), (Prif ymchwilydd)
'Deall rôl y cyfryngau cymdeithasol yn dilyn hunanladdiadau ieuenctid' ar gyfer yr Adran Iechyd (£188,147) (Cyd-ymgeisydd)
'Effeithiolrwydd y byd cymorth rhithwir i bobl ifanc sy'n hunan-niweidio a'i ddefnydd mewn gofal yn y byd 'go iawn': barn pobl ifanc sy'n hunan-niweidio' Cymrodoriaeth Ymchwil Ôl-ddoethurol ar gyfer NISCHR (£160,185), (Prif ymchwilydd)
'Deall hunanladdiad: sgyrsiau gyda'r profedigaeth' PhD ar gyfer ESRC (£50k), (Prif ymchwilydd)
Bywgraffiad
Education and qualifications
PhD Social Science (Category 1), Cardiff University 2005 – 2008
MSc Social Science Research Methods, Cardiff University, 2004 – 2005
BSc Sociology (2:1), Cardiff University, 2000 – 2003
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Cymdeithas Gymdeithasegol Prydain (BSA)
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University (2012- 2015)
Research Assistant (ESRC post-doctoral training fellowship in qualitative health research), DECIPHer, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol (2009 -2012)
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Myfyriwr PhD cyfredol:
Rosie Moore - Gwersi dysgu: Hysbysu atal hunanladdiad o ddadansoddiad dogfennol o Adolygiadau Ymarfer Plant ac Adolygiadau Ymarfer Oedolion
Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn goruchwylio myfyrwyr yn y meysydd canlynol:
- Gweithredu ymyriadau cymhleth
- Ymchwil Ansoddol mewn Iechyd y Boblogaeth
- Cyd-destun cymdeithasol hunanladdiad a hunan-niweidio
- Ymyriadau teuluol