Michelle Briggs
Clinical Professor of Nursing, University of Liverpool
Director of Nursing (Research & Academic Development)
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-357X
Contact: michelle.briggs@liverpool.ac.uk
Main research interests
My research group is comprised of clinical academics in nursing, midwifery, psychology, physiotherapists, and pharmacists focussing on pain research. My research is contributing to a greater understanding of the difference nurses, midwives and AHPs can make for people in pain. The group has expertise in digital health, pain communication and the development and testing of complex interventions for pain management.
My pain research has been used in NHS practice and policy guidelines nationally and internationally. My research programme has two themes – improving patients’ experience of pain management and addressing inequalities in pain management, particularly for those in pain who are marginalized.
Current research activity
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit – Testing the operability and transferability of a feasibility tested web-based intervention to support pain and self-management following surgery for breast cancer: the ePainQ pilot RCT (PI Dr Sue Hartup & Prof Michelle Briggs)
OpTimising Acute Pain aftEr suRgery (TAPER study): Development & feasibility study of an intervention to optimise opioid use to ensure patient safety The HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship student (CDRF) (Neetu Bansal)
Co-producing a culturally informed combined physical and psychological intervention for low back pain. (Doré Young – PhD student)
Understanding the relationship between pain and frailty (Lisa Cottrell PhD student)
Clinical Academic Careers in Nursing (Claire Jennings PhD student)
See Michelle Briggs (researchgate.net)
Biography
I trained as an Adult Nurse in the University of Nottingham following an undergraduate degree in Chemistry. I have worked clinically in trauma orthopaedics and care in Nottingham and London before moving to Leeds where I worked in clinical academic roles in Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust and Leeds Community Healthcare Trust. I gained my PhD from University of Leeds and was awarded an NIHR post-doctoral fellowship in 2006. I took up my first Chair in the Centre for Pain Research in Leeds Beckett University in 2012.
In 2017, I joined the University of Manchester, where I held the post of Clinical Professor of Nursing and Director of Nursing (Research) at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust where I established and led the Manchester Clinical Academic Centre for Nurses, Midwives, and Allied Health professionals and was the academic career development lead for NIHR Greater Manchester Applied Research Collaboration (ARC_GM). In 2023 I was appointed the first Clinical Professor Nursing in Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/University of Liverpool.
I am a trustee of the Liverpool Pain Relief Foundation and Deputy Chair of the UK Council of Deans Healthcare Professionals Clinical Academic Roles and Career Pathways Implementation Network (CARIN). This exists to advise, support, and share innovation that promotes, engages, and evaluates the development and implementation of joint clinical academic roles for healthcare professionals. https://www.councilofdeans.org.uk/category/policy/research/clinical-academic-roles-implementation-network/