Dr Daniel Herron

Senior Lecturer

Health, Education, Policing and Sciences

I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. I have several leadership positions, including course leadership for our single honour psychology and our psychological studies course, the Foundation link tutor for our foundation year course, and the service user and carer department representative. I am research active and supervisor project students including several PhD students. I am always happy to hear from people interested in my research, potential research and/or teaching collaboration, and/or PhD projects.

I have a variety of teaching experience through online and face-to-face platforms. For example, I have previously worked at the University of Derby where I was as a lecturer in Psychology on their online programmes. Within this role I developed and led different modules to ensure interactive and engaging content which promoted deep learning.

During my PhD at Keele University, I worked as a teaching fellow for 4 years and taught on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate taught modules, including core modules, research methods and health related modules. During this time, I led, supported and taught modules at Keele’s international collaborating University in China.

In between my teaching fellow position and lectureship at Derby, I worked as a researcher where I led process evaluations on several healthcare interventions including: 1) Increasing Physical Activity in Older People with Joint Pain (iPOPP). 2) INtegrating and improving Care for patients with infLammatory rheUmatological DisordErs in the community (INCLUDE) review. 3) PROvision of braces for Patients with knee OsteoArthritis (PROP OA): a randomised controlled trial.

I have also worked closely with self-advocacy organisations to develop dementia resources for people with a learning disability, carers and healthcare professionals.

Professional memberships and activities

  • British Psychological Society

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Academic qualifications

  • BSc Hons Psychology and Criminology (Keele University)
  • MSc Clinical Psychological Research (Keele University)
  • TLHEP (Keele University)
  • PhD in Psychology (Keele University)

Expertise

Methodological expertise in designing qualitative research involving carers, people living with dementia, and people with physical and/or mental health conditions.

Creative and inclusive research methods such as Photovoice and photo elicitation.

Carers’ experiences, with a particular focus on their wellbeing.

Student carers experiences of University and approaches to improve their experiences.

Experiences of supporting and/or living with long term health conditions

Dementia, and learning difficulties and dementia

Research interests

I have expertise in qualitative and inclusive methodologies, and aiming to understand and collaboratively improve the lives of people with physical and/or mental health problems, in particular, people living with dementia and their carers. I have listed some of my current research interests below:

  • Inclusive research methods.
  • Better understanding, through multiple perspectives including a positive psychology perspective, experiences of dementia, through individuals with dementia, their family, friends, and carers (informal and formal).
  • The care practices of carers and healthcare professionals of people with dementia, and people with a learning difficulty and dementia, including improving person-centred practices through dementia training.
  • Social interventions to improve/and or maintain the well-being of carers of people with dementia.

Grants

Funding

Dr Jessica Runacres, Dr Dan Herron, and Dr Fiona Cust have been awarded £5,402.00 by the BA Leverhulme Small Research Grants for their research project which aims to explore “How can universities better support student carers? An exploration of student carer priorities and support needs”.

Dr Dan Herron and Dr Jessica Runacres have been awarded £1877 as part of the university’s impact acceleration fund for a project exploring the support and research priorities of family carers of people living with dementia.

Teaching

I teach on a variety of modules across our undergraduate and post-graduate courses, including core and special option modules. I particularly enjoy teaching about qualitative methods, including creative qualitative methods.

Publications

Burton, A. E. Lindsay-Wiles, I., Herron, D., Owen, A., Elliott, J., Metcalfe, A & Diwakar, L. (In Press). Hereditary Angioedema patient experiences of medication use and emergency care. Journal of International Emergency Nursing Herron, D., & Runacres, J. (2023). The Support Priorities of Older Carers of People Living with Dementia: A Nominal Group Technique Study. Healthcare, 11(14), 1998. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11141998 Runacres, J., & Herron, D. (2023). Designing Inclusive Qualitative Research with Carers of People Living with Dementia: Methodological Insights. Healthcare, 11(15), 2125. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11152125 Herron, D., Runacres, J., Danton, I., Beardmore, J. (2023). Carers’ experiences of caring for a friend or family member with dementia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dementia, 22(3), 576-593. doi:10.1177/14713012221150298 Hawarden, A., Bullock, L., Chew-Graham, C. A., Herron, D., Hider, S., Jinks, C., Erandie Ediriweera De Silva, R., Machin, A., & Paskins, Z. (2023). Incorporating FRAX into a nurse-delivered integrated care review: a multi-method qualitative study. BJGP open, 7(2), BJGPO.2022.0146. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0146 Herron, D., Runacres, J., Danton, I., & Beardmore, J. (2023). Carers’ experiences of caring for a friend or family member with dementia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dementia, 22(3), 576-593. doi:10.1177/14713012221150298 Dalgarno, E., Harrison, A., Astbury, J., Price, D., Drake, P., Herron, D., Runacres, J. (2021). Research with family carers of people living with dementia: recruiting during the pandemic (Blog). British Society of Gerontology. https://ageingissues.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/research-with-family-carers-of-people-living-with-dementia-recruiting-during-the-pandemic/ Herron, D., et al. (2021). Acceptability of a nurse-led integrated primary care review for people with inflammatory rheumatological conditions: a qualitative evaluation. Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity, 11. doi: 10.1177/26335565211002402 Runacres, J., Herron, D., Buckless, K., & Worrall, S. (2021). Student carer experiences of higher education and support: a scoping review. International Journal of Inclusive Education. DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2021.1983880. Hider, S.L., Bucknall, M., Jinks, C., Herron, D., et al. (2021). A pilot study of a nurse-led integrated care review (the INCLUDE review) for people with inflammatory rheumatological conditions in primary care: feasibility study findings. Pilot Feasibility Study, 7(9). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00750-7 Herron, D., Priest, H., & Read, R. (2020). Supporting people with an intellectual disability and dementia: a constructivist grounded theory study exploring care providers’ views and experiences in the UK. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 33(6), 1405-1417. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12768 Hider, S. L., Bucknall, M., Cooke, K, Herron, D., et al. (2018). The INCLUDE study: INtegrating and improving Care for patients with infLammatory rheUmatological DisordErs in the community; identifying multimorbidity: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Journal of Comorbidity, 8(1). doi:10.1177/2235042X18792373 Herron, D., Priest, H., & Read, R. (2015). Working alongside older people with a learning disability: informing and shaping research design. British Journal of Learning Disability, 43(7), 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12147 Herron, D., & Priest, H. (2013). Support Workers’ Knowledge of Dementia: A Vignette Study. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities. 7(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/20441281311294675 Presentations Acceptability of a nurse-led integrated primary care review for people with inflammatory rheumatological conditions: a qualitative evaluation (3-5/07/19). Oral presentation to SAPC Annual Conference, University of Exeter. The effectiveness of nurse training to deliver an integrated care review for patients with inflammatory rheumat

External profiles

in the UK for Quality Education

Sustainable Development Goal 4, Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023

for Career Prospects

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023

for Facilities

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023

for Social Inclusion

The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023

of Research Impact is ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Very Considerable’

Research Excellence Framework 2021

of Research is “Internationally Excellent” or “World Leading”

Research Excellence Framework 2021

Four Star Rating

QS Star Ratings 2021