Kerry Evans

Contact

• workSchool of Health Sciences
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• Kerry.Evans1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Kerry Evans is an Associate Professor of Midwifery at the University of Nottingham and a senior clinical academic midwife at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH). She is a registered midwife (since 2004), with experience in clinical practice and perinatal mental health research. Kerry competed the NIHR MA in research methods in 2010 and completed her Wellbeing of Women and RCM Early Career award in 2014 and Doctoral Fellowship award in 2017. Since completing her PhD, Kerry worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Nottingham whilst completing the HEE / NIHR Gold postdoctoral award. In 2020, Kerry was the first midwife to be awarded the HEE / NIHR Clinical Lectureship award. Kerry has expertise in psychometric, qualitative and quantitative systematic reviews, complex intervention development and testing and qualitative primary research. Her research interest is focused on perinatal mental health and she contributes to local and national clinical guidance and research funding reviews. Kerry is the co-chair of the NIHR post-doctoral Nursing and Midwifery incubator.

Research Summary

Chief Investigator: The RAPID 2 study. Reducing Anxiety in Pregnancy: Intervention Development phase 2. A feasibility study of a midwife facilitated supportive intervention… read more

Recent Publications

• KERRY EVANS, STEFAN RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, SERENA COX and YVONNE KUIPERS, 2022. Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Journal of Medical Internet Research.
• EVANS, K, SANDS, G, SPIBY, H, EVANS, C, PALLOTTI, P and ELDRIDGE, J, 2021. A systematic review of supportive interventions to promote women’s comfort and wellbeing during induction of labour, Journal of Advanced Nursing. 77(5), 2185-2196
• BORRELLI, S, EVANS, K, PALLOTTI, P, EVANS, C, ELDRIDGE, J and SPIBY, H, 2020. Mixed Methods Systematic Review: Childbearing Women's Views, Experiences and Decision Making Related to Epidural Analgesia in Labour, Journal of Advanced Nursing. 76(12), 3273-3292
• ROBERTS, JULIE, EVANS, KERRY, SPIBY, HELEN, PALLOTTI, PHOEBE and ELDRIDGE, JEANETTE, 2020. Women’s information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour Midwifery. 83, 102626

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Current Research

Chief Investigator: The RAPID 2 study. Reducing Anxiety in Pregnancy: Intervention Development phase 2. A feasibility study of a midwife facilitated supportive intervention https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR300376

Co-investigator: ARM@DA: A Realist Inquiry into Maternity Care @ a DistAnce. https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR134535

• KERRY EVANS, STEFAN RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, SERENA COX and YVONNE KUIPERS, 2022. Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Journal of Medical Internet Research.
• EVANS, K, SANDS, G, SPIBY, H, EVANS, C, PALLOTTI, P and ELDRIDGE, J, 2021. A systematic review of supportive interventions to promote women’s comfort and wellbeing during induction of labour, Journal of Advanced Nursing. 77(5), 2185-2196
• BORRELLI, S, EVANS, K, PALLOTTI, P, EVANS, C, ELDRIDGE, J and SPIBY, H, 2020. Mixed Methods Systematic Review: Childbearing Women's Views, Experiences and Decision Making Related to Epidural Analgesia in Labour, Journal of Advanced Nursing. 76(12), 3273-3292
• ROBERTS, JULIE, EVANS, KERRY, SPIBY, HELEN, PALLOTTI, PHOEBE and ELDRIDGE, JEANETTE, 2020. Women’s information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour Midwifery. 83, 102626
• KERRY EVANS, HELEN SPIBY and MORRELL JANE, 2020. Developing a complex intervention to support pregnant women with mild to moderate anxiety: application of the Medical Research Council framework BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
• EVANS, KERRY, SPIBY, HELEN and MORRELL, C. JANE, 2015. A psychometric systematic review of self-report instruments to identify anxiety in pregnancy JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING. 71(9), 1986-2001