{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"SCAN - Strengthening counter fraud \u0003across the NHS in England","provider_url":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan","author_name":"Jonathan Yaseen","author_url":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan\/author\/dmcw8\/","title":"Anu Watson - SCAN - Strengthening counter fraud \u0003across the NHS in England","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DHpiRV8tj4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan\/anu-watson\/\">Anu Watson<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan\/anu-watson\/embed\/#?secret=DHpiRV8tj4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Anu Watson&#8221; &#8212; SCAN - Strengthening counter fraud \u0003across the NHS in England\" data-secret=\"DHpiRV8tj4\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"Anu Watson Dr Anu Watson\u00a0is 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.\u00a0Anu 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.\u00a0\u00a0Her primary\u00a0expertise 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\u00a0settings with a strong transferable skill set. She has\u00a0particular interest in sociological phenomenology, lived experiences of sport, physical culture, health and illness,\u00a0intersections and interactions between theory and practice, embodied and sensory knowledge in health care and physical culture. \u00a0","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AC.jpg","thumbnail_width":413,"thumbnail_height":531}