Sarah St Ledger: Research assistant psychologist
I have been employed by the Trust to help design and deliver research relating to COVID-19. There are a number of strands to the COVID research and it is fast-moving and continually evolving. Research I have been involved in so far includes remote care delivery, impacts of COVID-19 on staff with disabilities, the mental health impacts of COVID on BME staff, long COVID symptoms in staff, organisational culture change during COVID-19 and vaccine uptake intentions.
I love how the research around COVID-19 is fast-paced and responsive to the needs of our staff and service users and how the findings of our research have real-world, tangible implications.