Dr Lindsay Welch
- welchl at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-2252
- Associate Professor of Nursing Practice
- Level 4, Department of Nursing, Bournemouth Gateway Building
Biography
Dr Lindsay Welch is an Associate Professor in Nursing Practice. This senior clinical academic role is concerned with the development of a research skilled, curious, and quality orientated nursing workforce within UHD, simultaneously conceptualising and developing the Breathing and Fundamental Respiratory care research group within the department of nursing at Bournemouth University.
Lindsay's research, education, and enterprise activity are all centred around concept of fundamental nursing care (including health inequalities, and inclusion health), respiratory nursing, respiratory diagnostics and the development and inclusion of technology in respiratory practice to disrupt traditional diagnostic pathways.
Lindsay’s research and enterprise programme is divided into three workstreams:
Workstream 1: Fundamental care in nursing practice, current domain of focus include: Communication (health professional to people who are receiving care, HCP to medical professional), Privacy and dignity, Humanising care, breathing... This workstream includes the exploration of new models of nursing care.
Work Stream 2: Respiratory nursing, global respiratory disease (public health) and developments in respiratory diagnostics: Current project with UoS and UoS Malaysia: Developing AI enabled low-cost digital stethoscopes for nursing respiratory assessment in resource poor communities.
Workstream 3: Industry and enterprise, designing developing and implementing digital innovations using ubiquitous technology in respiratory care (consultancy). Using AI and machine learning systems to early diagnosis and facilitate self-management in respiratory conditions, in global settings.
Current research includes supervision of studies into learning disabilities/neurodiversity in health care, the use of Forced Oscillation Technique in the clinical pathway and health literacy in COPD.
In 2022 Lindsay, and Dr Chauhan (UoS) were awarded Higher Education Innovation funding through the Institute of Life Sciences to explore digital biomarkers through respiratory lung sounds, through ubiquitous technology, this has since been published ISCA Archive (isca-speech.org).
Lindsay is chairing a pulmonary rehabilitation education national working group aligned to the BTS and IPRG, and conceptualisation with colleagues; the ARRA National Respiratory Network Background to Academic Respiratory Research Alliance (ARRA) – Respiratory research (wordpress.com).
Digital diagnosis in respiratory disease is part of enterprise activity with Eupnoos https://www.eupnoos.com/.
moreJournal Articles
- Clifton, H., Welch, L., Ewings, S. and Summers, R., 2024. Health Literacy Levels of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder; a Cross-Sectional Study. British Journal of Nursing.
- Roberts, N.J., McAloney-Kocaman, K., Lippiett, K., Ray, E., Welch, L. and Kelly, C.A., 2024. Factors influencing fatigue in UK nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic: An online survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 33 (1), 322-332.
- Andina-Díaz, E., Welch, L., Siles-González, J., Serrano-Fuentes, N., Gutiérrez-García, A.I. and Solano-Ruiz, M., 2024. Photovoice: An active learning tool with community nursing students. Public Health Nursing.
- Goh, R.X., Loo, K.Q., Tan, Y.C., Wong, Z.Y., Lim, J., Welch, L., Heng, W.W., Ling, T.Y. and Pu, S.H., 2023. Design optimization of 3D printed digital stetheocope for low-cost telemedicine. IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Nanotechnology, 137-140.
- Welch, L., McGrath, C., Baker, K., McGavin, J., Bahrami-Hessari, M., Jones, W.B., Welch, L. and Barker, C., 2023. Unexpected benefits: reflections on virtual relationship building within public involvement during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research for All, 7 (1).
- Middle, R. and Welch, L., 2022. Experiences of digital exclusion and the impact on health in people living with severe mental illness. Frontiers in Digital Health, 4.
- Andina-Díaz, E., Siles-González, J., Solano-Ruiz, M., Welch, L., Delblanco-Ubiergo, G. and Serrano-Fuentes, N., 2022. The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Inequities: A Photovoice Study With Nursing Students. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 33 (6), 732-741.
- Welch, L., Sadler, E., Austin, A. and Rogers, A., 2021. Social network participation towards enactment of self-care in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative meta-ethnography. Health Expectations, 24 (6), 1995-2012.
- Roberts, N., Welch, L., Kelly, C. and Lippiett, K., 2021. Informing future nursing: An exploration of respiratory teaching in the pre-registration nurse curriculum. Nurse Education in Practice, 57.
- Roberts, N.J., Kelly, C.A., Lippiett, K.A., Ray, E. and Welch, L., 2021. Experiences of nurses caring for respiratory patients during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: An online survey study. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 8 (1).
- Díaz, E.A., González, J.S., Fuentes, N.S., Welch, L., Ubiergo, G.D.B. and Ruiz, M.S., 2021. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable groups through the gaze of nursing students: an educational project with Photovoice. New Trends in Qualitative Research, 8, 571-581.
- Roberts, N.J., McAloney-Kocaman, K., Lippiett, K., Ray, E., Welch, L. and Kelly, C., 2021. Levels of resilience, anxiety and depression in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the COVID pandemic. Respiratory Medicine, 176.
- Welch, L., Orlando, R., Lin, S.X., Vassilev, I. and Rogers, A., 2020. Findings from a pilot randomised trial of a social network self-management intervention in COPD. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 20 (1).
- Bloom, I., Welch, L., Vassilev, I., Rogers, A., Jameson, K., Cooper, C., Robinson, S. and Baird, J., 2020. Findings from an exploration of a social network intervention to promote diet quality and health behaviours in older adults with COPD: A feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6 (1).
- Osman, K.L., Welch, L. et al., 2018. Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease harbour a variation of Haemophilus species. Scientific Reports, 8 (1).
- Kelly, C.A., Kirkcaldy, A.J., Pilkington, M., Hodson, M., Welch, L., Yorke, J. and Knighting, K., 2018. Research priorities for respiratory nursing: A UK-wide delphi study. ERJ Open Research, 4 (2).
- Correction: Relationships between mucosal antibodies, non-typeable haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) Infection and Airway Inflammation in COPD (PLoS ONE (2016) 11:11 (e0167250) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167250). PLoS ONE, 12 (4).
- Lewis, A., Welch, L. et al., 2016. Singing for Lung Health - A systematic review of the literature and consensus statement. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 26.
- Staples, K.J., Welch, L. et al., 2016. Relationships between mucosal antibodies, non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) infection and airway inflammation in COPD. PLoS ONE, 11 (11).
- Ostridge, K., Welch, L. et al., 2016. Relationship between pulmonary matrix metalloproteinases and quantitative CT markers of small airways disease and emphysema in COPD. Thorax, 71 (2), 126-132.
- Welch, L., 2016. Community pulmonary rehabilitation: A multidisciplinary approach. Journal of Community Nursing, 30 (4), 56-61.
- Welch, L., 2016. A guide to spirometry best practice for community nurses. Journal of Community Nursing, 30 (1), 58-65.
- May, C.R., Masters, J., Welch, L., Hunt, K., Pope, C., Myall, M., Griffiths, P., Roderick, P., Glanville, J. and Richardson, A., 2015. Experts 1 - Experiences of long-term life-limiting conditions among patients and carers: Protocol for a qualitative meta-synthesis and conceptual modelling study. BMJ Open, 5 (4).
- Welch, L., Lippiett, K. and Radford, K., 2013. Nursing model to deliver respiratory research. Nursing Management, 19 (10), 14-19.
Conferences
- Welch, L., Shaban, M., Sheppard, C., Gratiot, A., Kodak, D. and Siddiqui, S., 2023. S134 Eupnoos: advancing early diagnosis of respiratory diseases with smartphone-based audio phenotyping. In: British Thoracic Society 22-24 November 2023 London. https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2023-BTSabstracts.140, 78 (4) Thorax.
- Mosuily, M., Welch, L. and Chauhan, J., 2023. MMLung: Moving Closer to Practical Lung Health Estimation using Smartphones. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2023-August, 2333-2337.
- Goh, R.X., Qian Loo, K., Tan, Y.C., Yang Wong, Z., Lim, J., Welch, L., Heng, W.W., Yang Ling, T. and Pu, S.H., 2023. Design Optimization of 3D Printed Digital Stethoscope for Low-Cost Telemedicine. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Nanotechnology, SENNANO 2023, 137-140.
- Ray, E., Kelly, C., Culliford, D. and Welch, L., 2021. A training needs analysis of UK respiratory nurses' research capability and capacity. EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, 58.
- Welch, L., Roberts, N., Lippiett, K., Ray, E. and Kelly, C., 2021. A negotiation of respiratory risk in the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, 58.
- Sobrinho, G.C., James, T., Pond, Z., Welch, L., Batchelor, S., Copp, R., Potterton, H., Nash, T., Havelock, T. and Wilkinson, T.M., 2015. Impact of pulmonary rehabilitation on cough and sputum symptom perception in patients with COPD. EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, 46.
Consultancy Activities
- Clinical Lead for respiratory concepts and clinical trial design, Respiratory Diagnostic pathway knowledge, clinical trial design, health inequalities advice, digital disadvantage advice, supporting work in resource poor settings.. Eupnoos Ltd
Social Media Links
- Google+, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JzfsTNYAAAAJ&hl=en
- Twitter, @lindsayicopd
- LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-lindsay-welch-a0146991/
Website Links
- We are a group of respiratory researchers interested in improving the way respiratory care is delivered., https://respiratoryresearch.wordpress.com/