The Institute’s research portfolio is managed by our Innovation and Research team. We promote high-quality research, collaborate in national research partnerships, support research in practice, and the development of health visiting researchers.
Vicky Gilroy – Director of Innovation and Research
Dr Sharin Baldwin – Senior Health Visiting Research Lead
Dr Louisa Clifford-Taylor – Research Associate
The Institute of Health Visiting’s Expert Advisor for Research is Professor Sally Kendall MBE. Sally is the Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health at the University of Kent and the Research Capacity Lead for ARC KSS. Sally’s main research interests are in primary and community health care, public health and parenting self-efficacy in the UK and internationally – especially research that seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of families and children in the community. Sally is an experienced research and PhD supervisor and member of the NIHR Academy. She has worked closely with NIHR both as a former panel member of the ICA programme and as the former academic lead of the ICA Mentorship programme. She has also led and collaborated on NIHR research studies.
iHV Research Networking Events
Our research networking is open to all iHV members who are interested in research in health visiting practice; would like to connect with other health visitors who are active in research to share learning and want to find out about support to become involved in research.
