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SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)
Amanda is the Evaluation Fellow within the Health Partnership Team's Health and Care Evaluation Facility. She has extensive research and evaluation experience through projects in the areas of men’s health, diabetes, cancer and physical activity, working with local government, NHS and voluntary sector organisations. Her mixed-method skillset includes the design, implementation and analysis of survey, focus group, and interview data from professional and public stakeholders, and the analysis of clinical routine data. This has been applied to explore acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes of interventions and services, incorporating acceptability, behaviour change and implementation frameworks.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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GW4 Building Communities Programme - Children’s Outdoor Active Play Research Network
Seims, A. (Co-Investigator), Collison, L. (Principal Investigator), Standage, M. (Co-Investigator) & Ferguson, M. (Co-Investigator)
1/06/26 → 30/11/26
Project: Other
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An Evaluation of Shine Coaching's new evaluation process and service user feedback
Seims, A. (Principal Investigator), O'Brien, R. (Co-Investigator) & Stuart, K. (Co-Investigator)
16/12/25 → 28/01/28
Project: Consultancy
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Cancer Prehabilitation in Football Club Community Organisations Across Lancashire and South Cumbria
Seims, A. (Principal Investigator), Coupe, G. (Co-Investigator), Swainson, M. (Co-Investigator) & Saul, S. (Other)
1/08/25 → 21/11/25
Project: Consultancy
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Developing an Evaluation Framework for the In The Community Programme
Christou, E. (Consultant), Harding, A. (Consultant), Seims, A. (Consultant) & Coupe, G. (Consultant)
7/07/25 → 12/02/26
Project: Consultancy
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An Evaluation of SHINE’s Telephone-Based Coaching Service for Men
Seims, A. (Principal Investigator) & Coupe, G. (Project Manager)
5/02/25 → 16/05/25
Project: Consultancy
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Adolescent girls as local active citizens: Developing a sense of belonging to local parks through ‘walk and talk’ and navigating local gender politics
Istiko, S. N., Seims, A., Fargin, M., Barber, S., Crowther, J., Rafiq, A. & Sheard, L., 20/03/2026, In: Health.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Designing play into urban environments: strategic-level challenges and best practice in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, UK
Ranken, E., Seims, A., Hauari, H., Christie, N., Barber, S. E. & Cameron, C., 28/02/2026, In: Cities & Health. 10, 1, p. 97-109 13 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Intersectional problems, intersectional solutions: A whole-of-community approach to co-produce local park-based physical activity interventions for ethnically diverse adolescent girls in a socio-economically deprived city in the United Kingdom
Istiko, S. N., Bednall, E., Barber, S., Dawkins, N. P., Seims, A., Crowther, J., Porter, A., Heywood, S. & Sheard, L., 30/06/2026, In: Wellbeing, Space and Society. 10, 100373.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Prospective acceptability, feasibility and outcomes of a primary school-led outdoor play intervention for young children
Seims, A., Ranken, E., Barber, S., Hauari, H., Ewles, L., Midouhas, E., Christie, N., Rance, T. & Cameron, C., 30/04/2026, In: BMC Public Health. 26, 1426.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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The effectiveness of JU:MP a whole system approach to improve physical activity of children aged 5 to 11 years living in multi-ethnic and socio-economically deprived communities: a non-randomised controlled trial
Barber, S. E., Bingham, D. D., Dawkins, N. P., Helme, Z., Hall, J., Seims, A., Santorelli, G., Wright, J., McEachan, R. R., Burkhardt, J. & Daly-Smith, A., 12/01/2026, In: BMC Public Health. 26, 152.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Red Rose Research and Innovation Conference
Seims, A. (Speaker), Coupe, G. (Speaker) & Saha, S. (Speaker)
30/09/2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
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Morecambe System Leadership Programme
Seims, A. (Participant), Lamb, T. (Organiser), Masser, K. (Speaker) & Smith, P. (Speaker)
24/09/2026 → 25/09/2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Blackpool Researching Together. Active Communities Staff Development Day
Seims, A. (Speaker), Harding, N. (Speaker) & Fairfield, J. (Organiser)
17/07/2026Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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GW4 Children’s outdoor active play network
Seims, A. (Speaker)
15/07/2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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LEG Webinar with Prof Ruth Hunter: Connswater Community Greenway: Findings from a natural experiment evaluation
Seims, A. (Chair), Christou, E. (Organiser) & Hunter, R. (Speaker)
15/06/2026Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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Children in England ‘face barriers to outdoor play due to poor planning’
Seims, A. & Ranken, E.
5/09/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research