Research project

The Project About Loneliness and Social networks (PALS) study

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Emeritus Professor Anne Rogers
Other researchers:

Professor Mari Carmen Portillo,

Dr David Culliford,

Professor Lucy Yardley,

Dr Ivaylo Vassilev,

Dr Becky Band,

Dr Sean Ewings
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Emeritus Professor Anne Rogers

Connect with Anne

Email: A.E.Rogers@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Mari Carmen Portillo

Prof of Long-term Conditions Management

Connect with Mari Carmen

Email: M.C.Portillo-Vega@soton.ac.uk

Dr David Culliford

Principal Research Fellow

Connect with David

Email: D.J.Culliford@soton.ac.uk

Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research

Connect with Lucy

Email: L.Yardley@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ivaylo Vassilev

Associate Professor

Connect with Ivaylo

Email: I.I.Vassilev@soton.ac.uk

Dr Becky Band

Senior Research Fellow

Connect with Becky

Email: R.J.Band@soton.ac.uk

Dr Sean Ewings

Associate Professor Head of Statistics

Connect with Sean

Email: sean.ewings@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Ageing and Dementia

We research health issues and care systems that affect quality of life in old age. Our solutions help people stay healthy and independent for as long as possible.

Health Workforce and Systems

We research the organisation and delivery of healthcare and health services in a range of settings.

Research outputs

Examining the optimal factors that promote implementation and sustainability of a network intervention to alleviate loneliness in community contexts

Jaimie Ellis, Karina Kinsella, Elizabeth James, Tara Cheetham‐blake, Madeleine Lambrou, Alexandra Ciccognani, Anne Rogers & Rebecca Band, 2022, Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e4144-e4154

DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13808

Type: article

Optimising and profiling pre-implementation contexts to create and implement a public health network intervention for tackling loneliness

Jaimie Ellis, Rebecca Band, Karina Kinsella, Tara Cheetham-Blake, Elizabeth James, Sean Ewings & Anne Rogers, 2020, Implementation Science, 15(1)

DOI: 10.1186/s13012-020-00997-x

Type: article

Study protocol for ‘The Project About Loneliness and Social networks (PALS)’: a pragmatic, randomised trial comparing a facilitated social network intervention (Genie) with a wait-list control for lonely and socially-isolated people

Rebecca Band, Sean Ewings, Tara Cheetham-Blake, Jaimie Ellis, Katie Breheny, Ivaylo Vassilev, Maria Carmen Portillo, Lucy Yardley, Christian Blickem, Rebecca Kandiyali, David Culliford & Anne Rogers, 2019, BMJ Open, 9(8), 1-9

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028718

Type: article