Professor Odette Parry

Professor Odette Parry is research professor and director of SIRU, and has a substantive experience in health and social care. She has attracted funding from a range of funders including the ESRC, Department of Health, Scottish Office, and SCIE. Parry was previously based at the University of the West Indies (1993-1996) where she headed a UNICEF funded school based action research project focusing on the educational performances of Caribbean school children. She was later appointed to the University of Edinburgh where she headed a qualitative research programme on health-related risk behaviours 1997-2003. Her research area combines health and education. Recent projects include the evaluation of the Welsh no-smoking legislation and a qualitative study of the “Duke of Edinburgh's Award in the Secure Estate and Beyond”.

Research

Parry, O., Carnwell, R., Baker, S., Warren, E. and Madoc-Jones, I. Research to seek views of older people in Wales with a view to informing the Older People’s Wellbeing Monitor for Wales: The Voice of Older People in Wales. (January 2009 – March 2009) Welsh Assembly Government.

Parry, O., Carnwell, R., Pithouse, A., Dubberley, S., Baker, S. and Warren, E. Evaluation of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in the Secure Estate and Beyond. DofE. February 2008 – January 2009.

Parry, O., Murphey, S., Moore, L. and Carnwell, R. Evaluation of smoking ban. WAG. November 2006 – May 2009.

Buchanan, J., Parry, O. and Evans, J. Evaluation of CAFCASS Pilot. WAG. March 2007 -July 2007
Parry, O., Buchanan, J. and Burlison, P. Lesotho HIV study. UNESCO. December 2006 - April 2007
Carnwell, R. and Parry, O. Evaluation of All Wales Dietetics Grant Scheme. WAG. March 2006 – October 2009.

Parry,O., Cleaver, H., Pithouse, A., Cleaver, D., Barnes, J., Cleaver, D. Study to develop an electronic common assessment framework for Wales. Social Care Institute for Excellence. November 2006 – September 2008.

Carnwell, R. and Parry, O. Evaluation of Food and Fitness Grant Pilot Scheme. March 2006 - February 2008.

Elliott, E. and Parry, O. Evaluation of Food Coops. March 2005 – June 2006.

Parry, O. and Carnwell, R. BME study of migrant workers. Reaching Higher Reaching Wider October 2005 - July 2006.

Parry, O., Moore, L. and Roberts, J. Health Challenge Wales. October 2005 - March 2006
Moore, L. and Parry, O. Evaluation of the impact of a Welsh Assembly Government Free School Breakfasts Initiative in Communities First and non Communities First Areas. 2004 -2006.

Parry, O., Madoc-Jones, I., Buchanan, J. Evaluation of a bilingual telephone service for family support. January 2005 - July 2005.

Pithouse, A. and Parry, O. A Study of Advocacy Services for Children and Young People in Wales. February 2004 - August 2004.

Parry, O. and Madoc-Jones, I. Research project to Examine the Adequacy of Outreach Provision through the Scoping of Domestic abuse Referrals Across North Wales, North Wales Domestic Abuse Forum. March 2004 - June 2004.

Publications

Warren, E., Parry, O., Buchanan, J. and Ifans, J. (2008) I'll (not) see you in Court: Family Dispute Resolution in North Wales. Journal of Research, Policy and Planning, 26 (3), 143-155

Ritchie, D., Gnich, W., Parry, O. and Platt, S. (2008) People pull the rug from under your feet': barriers to successful public health programmes. BMC Public Health 2008, 8:173doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-173

Lawton, J., Peel, E., Parry, O. and Douglas, M. (in press). Shifting accountability: a longitudinal qualitative study of diabetes causation accounts. Social Science and Medicine.

Warren, E., Parry, O., Lynch, R. and Murphy, S. (2008) “If I don’t like it then I can choose what I want”: Welsh school children’s accounts of preference for and control over food choice.  Health Promotion International, 23 (2), 144-151

Lawton, D, Peel, L., Douglas, M, Parry, O. (In press) Patients’ perceptions and experiences of taking oral glucose lowering agents: a longitudinal qualitative study. Diabetic Medicine.

Madoc-Jones, I., Warren, E., Ashdown-Lambert, J., Williams, E. and Parry, O. (2007) Planned telephone support for disadvantaged parents in North Wales: perceptions of service users.  Journal of Child and Family Social Work, 12 (4), 316-325

Parry, O., Pithouse, A., Anglim, C. and Batchelor, C. (2006) “The Tip of the Ice Berg” Children’s complaints and advocacy in Wales: an insider view from Complaints Officers. British Journal of Social Work; doi:10/bjsw/bc1084

Peel, E., Parry, O., Douglas, M. and Lawton, J. (2006) ‘It’s no skin off my nose’: Why people take part in qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research. 16(10)

Pithouse, A. and Parry, O. (2005) Children's advocacy in Wales: organisational challenges for those who commission and deliver advocacy for looked after children. Adoption and Fostering 29 (4)

Parry,O , Peel, E., Douglas, M. and Lawton, J. (2005) Issues of Cause and Control in Patients’ Accounts of Type 2 Diabetes. Health Education Research, 21 (1), 97-107

Cronin de Chavez, A., Backett-Milburn, K., Parry, O and Platt, S. (2005) Understanding and Researching Wellbeing: Its usage in different disciplines and potential for health research and health promotion. Health Education Journal, 64 (1), 70-87

Peel, E., Parry, O., Douglas, M. and Lawton, J. (2005) Taking the Biscuit: a discursive approach to managing diet in type 2 diabetes. Journal of Health Psychology, 10 (6)

Parry, O. and Mauthner N. (2005) Back to basics: who re-uses qualitative data and why? Sociology, 39 (2), 337-341

Lawton, J., Peel, E., Douglas, M. and Parry, O. (in press) ‘Urine testing is a waste of time’; Qualitative study of patients’ experiences and views about glucose self monitoring technologies. Diabetic Medicine.

Lawton, J., Peel, E., Parry, O., Araoz, G. and Douglas, M. (2005) Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland: bringing health services back in. Social Science and Medicine. Vol 60/7, 1423-1435

Lawton, J., Parry, O., Peel, E. and Douglas, M. (in press) Diabetes service provision: a qualitative study of newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes patients’ preferences and views. Diabetic Medicine.

Peel, E., Parry, O., Douglas, M. and Lawton, J. (in press) Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes: A qualitative analysis of patient’s emotional reactions and views about information provision. Patient Education and Counselling.

Parry, O. Peel, E., Douglas, M. and Lawton, J. (2004) Patients in Waiting: A qualitative study of type 2 diabetes patients’ perceptions of diagnosis. Family Practice: 21(2), 131-136

Peel, E., Parry, O., Douglas, M. and Lawton, J. (2004) Blood glucose self monitoring in non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes: qualitative analysis of patents’ perspectives. British Journal of General Practice, 54, 183-188

Parry, O. and Mauthner, N. (2004) Whose data are they anyway? Practical, legal and ethical issues in archiving qualitative research data. Sociology, 38 (1), 139-153

Ritchie, D., Parry, O., Gnich. and Platt, S. (2004) Issues of participation in a community development programme: tackling smoking in a low-income area. Health Promotion International, 19 (1), 51-59

Wiltshire, S., Bancroft, A., Amos, A. and Parry, O. (2003) ‘I came back here and started smoking again’: perceptions and experiences of quitting among disadvantaged smokers. Health Education Research, 18, 292-303

Bancroft, A., Wiltshire, S., Parry, O. and Amos, A.  (2003) It’s like an addiction first thing … afterwards it’s like a habit”: Daily smoking behaviour among people living in areas of deprivation. Social Science and Medicine, 56, 1261-1267

Parry, O., Thomson, C. and Fowkes, F. G. R. (2002) Cultural context, older age and smoking in Scotland: qualitative interviews with older smokers with arterial disease. Health Promotion International, 17(4), 309-316

Parry, O., Amos, A., Bancroft, A. and Wiltshire, S. (2002) Smoking and disadvantage: the importance of taking an in-depth, interdisciplinary approach. The Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, 31 (4), 197-99 

Parry, O., Bancroft, A., Gnich, W. and Amos, A. (2001) Nobody Home? Issues of respondent recruitment in areas of deprivation. Critical Public Health, 11 (4), 305-317

Parry, O., Thomson, C., Fowkes, F. G. R. (2001) Accounts of quitting among older ex-smokers with smoking-related disease.  Journal of Health Psychology, 6 (5), 481-493

Parry, O., Thomson, C. and Fowkes, F. G. R. (2001) Dependent behaviours and beliefs: a qualitative study of older long-term smokers with arterial disease. Addiction, 96, 1337-1347

Wiltshire, S., Bancroft, A., Amos, A. and Parry, O. (2001) “They’re doing people a service”- a qualitative study of smoking, smuggling and social deprivation. BMJ, 323, 203-207

Parry, O., Gnich, W. and Platt, S. (2001) Principles in Practice: reflections on a ‘postpositivist’ approach to evaluation research. Health Education Research, 16 (2), 215-226. (The authors were awarded the Douglas Leather Award by Health Education Research, for this article)

Books (2001-2008)

Delamont, S., Atkinson, P. and Parry, O. (2004) Supervising the Doctorate: A guide to success (second edition). Open University Press, Maidenhead.

Book Chapters (peer reviewed) 2001-2008

Parry, O. (2004) Masculinities, Myths and Educational Underachievement: Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines. In R.E, reddock (ed) Interrogating Caribbean Masculinuities, University of the West Indies Press, Trinidad (167-185)

Platt, S. Amos, A., Gnich, W. and Parry, O. Smoking Policies (2002) In J. Machenbach and Bakker (eds) Reducing Inequalities in Health: A European Perspective. London, Routledge (pp125-144)

Parry, O. (2002) Gendered Methodologies and Feminist Awakenings. In P. Mohammed: Gendered Realities: An anthology of essays in Caribbean feminist thought. University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica (pp83-106)

Mauthner, N, Parry O. and Milburn, K. (2001) The Data are out there, or are they? Implications for archiving qualitative data. In A. Bryman (ed). Ethnography: London, Sage.