{"id":1959,"date":"2025-07-01T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan\/?page_id=1959"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:02:49","slug":"anu-watson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/scan\/anu-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Anu Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1959\" class=\"elementor elementor-1959\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d2ef90d e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d2ef90d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf762c8 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cf762c8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-610c5ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"610c5ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Anu Watson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82d7491 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"82d7491\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Dr Anu Watson\u00a0<\/span>is a <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Senior Research Assistant<\/span>. Her interdisciplinary background spans the sociology of sport, health and illness, applied health research, evaluation in the health service and policing.\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"x_elementToProof\">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. 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