1.0https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/scanJonathan Yaseenhttps://research.northumbria.ac.uk/scan/author/dmcw8/rich600338Anu Watson Dr Anu Watson is a Senior Research Assistant. Her interdisciplinary background spans the sociology of sport, health and illness, applied health research, evaluation in the health service and policing. Anu received her PhD in Sociology and Social Research 2014 from the University of Newcastle (UK). Subsequently she worked as a post-Doctoral Researcher with several research teams and a wide range of applied health, health service research and evaluation projects on NHS111, shared decision making, patient safety, paramedic assessment of stroke, health literacy and PPIE. She was also a lead on a Newcastle University Institute of Ageing funded early career small project on gender, ageing and chronic illness in community cardiac rehabilitation. Most recently, she has worked outside academia in an evaluation, business assurance and research adviser role for a UK Police Force.  Her primary expertise lies in qualitative research and evaluation methodologies, but she is equally experienced in mixed methods work across a range of social science, healthcare and policing settings with a strong transferable skill set. She has particular interest in sociological phenomenology, lived experiences of sport, physical culture, health and illness, intersections and interactions between theory and practice, embodied and sensory knowledge in health care and physical culture.  https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/scan/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/AC.jpg413531