Duika L. Burges Watson

• PhD
• Specialist in altered taste at Station Masters Centre

An International Altered Taste Consortium (I-eAT) is proposed that seeks to utilise gastronomic and biopsychosocial insights to understand and help people who experience taste alterations. Altered eating experiences and a changed experience of taste is a common and disabling trans-diagnostic, multi-causal entity which has for too long been poorly u...

Background: Eating can be a significant challenge for cancer survivors; however, to date there is no systematic way of assessing and addressing food related quality of life in this group. The purpose of our study was to develop a framework for doing so. Methods: Over the course of 6 years in participant-led food workshops, we worked alongside 25...

This paper reinforces the value of visceral geographic approaches to health research as a method 'beyond talking'. The paper establishes and sets out an integrative embodied multi-sensory research methodology-food play. Researchers across the social sciences and sciences are exploring the limits of logo and researcher centric research methods and e...

Background Qualitative olfactory (smell) dysfunctions are a common side effect of post-viral illness and known to impact quality of life and health status. Evidence is emerging that taste and smell loss are common symptoms of Covid-19 that may emerge and persist long after initial infection. The aim of the present study was to document the impact o...

This article examines the experience of eating and changes to the vital materiality of food through the lens of flavour. A trans-disciplinary approach is used to gain insight from gastronomy and the neurobiology of flavour perception. Technological shifts in processing food and beverages are highlighted which show complex influences on flavour. We...

Evidence submission for the British Academy report COVID decade: understanding the long term societal impacts of COVID-19 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/covid-decade-accessing-healthcare-before-during-after-pandemic/ The final report can be accessed here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/covid-decade-understandin...

Purpose This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of “choice” as it appears in UK policy documents relating to food and public health. A dominant policy approach to improving public health has been health promotion and health education with the intention to change behaviour and encourage healthier eating. Given the emphasis on evidence-base...

Background Qualitative olfactory (smell) dysfunctions are a common side effect of post-viral illness and known to impact on quality of life and health status. Evidence is emerging that taste and smell loss are common symptoms of Covid-19 that may emerge and persist long after initial infection. The aim of the present study was to document the impac...

This paper examines visceral geographic approaches to food to argue for a stronger focus on the multi-modal experience of flavour. We consider how losses and gains in the quality of food flavour from 'big food' and craft industries transform our experience and relations to place. The case study of beer is used to explore complex technological and s...

Do you suffer from a condition called anosmia, the medical term for the loss of the sense of smell, or do you suffer from some other problem with your sense of smell or taste? Fifth Sense, the charity for people affected by smell and taste disorders, is partnering with Newcastle Freeman Hospital and Newcastle University to hold a patient informatio...

Alcohol Research UK and Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, are running a joint one day workshop on patient and public involvement in research. Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is a requirement for most publicly funded research in the UK, but what it is and how to do it well is not so straightforward. This is particula...

In the global governance of climate change, the impact on food security remains a contested policy arena with multiple obstacles to resolution. The article begins by considering how conventional indicators understate the extent off food insecurity and diet-related inequalities. While there may be scientific consensus that climate change will affect...

A presentation of findings from the Resources for Living research

How to understand and assess eating difficulties in post treatment survivorship. Based on findings from the Resources for Living Study

Background Physical activity is critical to improving health and well-being in children. Quantitative studies have found a decline in activity in the transition from primary to secondary education. Exergames (active video games) might increase physical activity in adolescents. In January 2011 exergame dance mat systems were introduced in to all sec...

BACKGROUND: Physical activity is critical to improving health and well-being in children. Quantitative studies have found a decline in activity in the transition from primary to secondary education. Exergames (active video games) might increase physical activity in adolescents. In January 2011 exergame dance mat systems were introduced in to all se...

A letter in response. We comment on a paper by Marshall et al's (2014) on researcher-in-residence models. We argue that new ways of doing research must have co-production at their core - they must be collaborative and engage stakeholders from the start of the research process, when questions are being formulated, through to dissemination.

Background Exergaming has been proposed as an innovative method for physical activity promotion. However, large effectiveness studies are rare. In January 2011, dance mat systems were introduced in secondary schools in two districts in England with the aim of promoting an innovative opportunity for physical activity. The aim of this natural experim...

Objective: Communicating treatment risks and benefits to patients and their carers is central to clinical practice in modern healthcare. We investigated the challenges of risk communication by clinicians offering thrombolytic therapy for hyperacute stroke where treatment must be administered rapidly to maximise benefit. Method: Semistructured in...

Consumption of fruit and vegetables is important for health, but is often lower than recommended and tends to be socio-economically patterned with lower consumption in more deprived groups. In 2008, the English Department of Health introduced the Change4Life convenience store programme. This aimed to increase retail access to fresh fruit and vegeta...

Illustrative quotes: variety, purchase price and quality of FFV in intervention stores. (DOCX)

Illustrative quotes: motivation for taking part and benefits to retailers. (DOCX)

Illustrative quotes: effects on sales, profit, diet and health. (DOCX)

Illustrative quotes: fidelity of intervention implementation. (DOCX)

Iillustrative quotes: initial and on-going communication. (DOCX)

Illustrative quotes: sustainability plans and links with the public sector. (DOCX)

Stroke is a leading cause of disability. Early treatment of acute ischaemic stroke with rtPA reduces the risk of longer term dependency but carries an increased risk of causing immediate bleeding complications. To understand the challenges of knowledge translation and decision making about treatment with rtPA in hyperacute stroke and hence to infor...

In the context of calls to develop better systems for out-of-hospital clinical research, we seek to understand paramedics' perceptions of involvement in research and the barriers and facilitators to that involvement. This was a qualitative study using semistructured focus groups with 58 United Kingdom paramedics and interviews with 30 US firefighte...

In this article we explore; regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated in spaces of health consumption. We use the case study of probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding as consumer products, to consider how hope and truth play out across different spaces of health care - the supermarket, media and laboratory...

Distance is a key idea in contemporary literatures on geography and the government of risk, and it is central to the work presented in this paper, which focuses on Western media representations of an innovative 'first-generation' non-contraceptive microbicide, Carraguard. A preventive technology that has been developed under the auspices of the US...

To examine the impact of a decision support intervention designed for women choosing mode of delivery after one previous caesarean section. A decision support intervention was developed comprising of an informational DVD/video and a home visit by a midwife. 16 women received standard clinical care and 16 women additionally received the intervention...

Patient decision aids are increasingly regarded as important components of clinical practice that enable shared decision making (SDM) and evidence based patient choice. Despite broad acceptance of their value, there remains little evidence of their successful implementation in primary care settings. Health care practitioners from five general pract...

A table of the thematic frameworks.

Flexibility in the design and enactment of spaces of healthcare is important in how providers respond to variations in patient expectations and experience. Health geographers have contributed to a wide body of literature concerning the therapeutic qualities of landscapes and the material, social and symbolic orderings of place and their uniqueness...

The status of carrageenan in the regulatory sphere influences how and where it may be used, with implications for seaweed farmers, carrageenan manufacturers and consumers. Over the period 1935 to the present the status of carrageenan has been effected by changes in the regulatory environment that reflect new understandings about carrageenan, health...

The status of carrageenan in the regulatory sphere influences how and where it may be used, with implications for seaweed farmers, carrageenan manufacturers and consumers. Over the period 1935 to the present the status of carrageenan has been effected by changes in the regulatory environment that reflect new understandings about carrageenan, health...

Abstract Objective: To explore health care practitioner’s perceptions,and use of patient decision aids (PDAs) in routine clinical practice as a baseline study,prior to an intervention,involving,the