Biography
Alice is a Research Associate within the Long Term Conditions Group. She is involved in the INSPIRE and ADAPT projects which focus on improving the lives and care of those with long terms conditions, particularly autoimmune diseases. This includes study management, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. Alice completed her PhD in 2024 at Brighton and Sussex Medical School on barriers and facilitators to accessing support for perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder. She also works as a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex delivering a randomised control trial on adolescent sleep.
Research
Access to healthcare Co-production Mental Health
Publications
Tunks, A., Berry, C., Strauss, C., Nyikavaranda, P., & Ford, E. (2023). Patients' perspectives of barriers and facilitators to accessing support through primary care for common mental health problems in England: A systematic review. Journal of affective disorders, 338, 329-340.
Nyikavaranda, P., Pantelic, M., Jones, C. J., Paudyal, P., Tunks, A., & Llewellyn, C. D. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to seeking and accessing mental health support in primary care and the community among female migrants in Europe: a “feminisms” systematic review. International journal for equity in health, 22(1), 196.
Lester, K. J., McDonald, B., Tunks, A., & Michelson, D. (2024). Intervention for School Anxiety and Absenteeism in Children (ISAAC): Mixed-Method Feasibility Study of a Coach-Assisted, Parent-Focused Online Program. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1-15.
Ghaffar, D., Berry, C., Tunks, A., Hazell, C. M., & Niven, J. E. (2024). A thematic analytic account of university support services' acceptability for postgraduate researchers experiencing mental health problems. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.
Ford, E., Tunks, A., Gibbons, S., Farrow, M., & Pillinger, S. (2024, September). Is open publishing really open to the public? Co-designing public facing materials to accompany published research, using a case study on health data research. In Septentrio Conference Series (No. 1).
