Dr Lisa Garwood-Cross
Dr Lisa Garwood-Cross
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Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Education
PhD 2019-2022
University of Salford
My PhD thesis, titled 'Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content: an Actor-Network Theory approach' examined the role of sex edutainment content created by social media influencers on YouTube. The interdisciplinary research utilised a three-phased mixed methods approach including the walkthrough method and big data analysis.
MA Gender, Media & Culture 2016 - 2017
[Distinction]
Goldsmiths, University of London
BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre & Education 2010 - 2013
[2:1]
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
Employment
Employment
August 2023- Present
University Fellow in Digital Health & Society
University of Salford
August 2023- Present
University Fellow in Digital Health & Society
University of Salford
February 2022- Present
Research Fellow in Digital Health & Society
University of Salford
February 2022- Present
Research Fellow in Digital Health & Society
University of Salford
January 2019 - February 2021
Research Assistant
University of Salford
January 2019 - February 2021
Research Assistant
University of Salford
Prior professional expertise pre-doctorate in the education sector
Recent research
Recent research
COVID Sex Lives
COVID Sex Lives
A UKRI and AHRC COVID funded project exploring public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic for men who have sex with men, alongside dating app usage and sexual wellbeing for this group. The research utilised a longitudinal series of 4 online surveys, analysis of Twitter data and content analysis of public health messaging.
Health Education and Augmented Learning
Health Education and Augmented Learning
The HEAL study explores development of digital learning solutions for the healthcare workforce. This project includes qualitative research into the digital skills capabilities and training needs of clinicians in the NHS Northern Care Alliance trust and development of an augmented reality app for nasogatric tube insertion.
DiSkPass
DiSkPass
DiSkPass is a digital skills training passport using bitesize learning to prepare health professionals for digital innovation in healthcare. The research team are developing training based on research conducted to understand the gaps in digital skills capabilities in specific healthcare workforce including nurses and AHPs. DiSkPass Nursing was shortlisted for Teaching Innovation of the Year at the 2023 Student Nursing Times Awards and development and evaluation are ongoing.
The Online Mammography Network
The Online Mammography Network
This research has involved the development of a social media community of practice for mentors in the breast services using Facebook, informed by a survey of the UK mammography training centres.
Book chapters
Book chapters
Garwood-Cross, L., and Haslam, M. (2023) Harnessing the potential of your digital collaborations. In: Digital Skills for Nursing Studies and Practice. Transforming Nursing Practice Series (1). Sage Publishing, pp. 54-67. ISBN 9781529791921.
Journals
Journals
Garwood-Cross, L., Light, B., Cooper-Ryan, A. M., & Vasilica, C. (2024). Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-13.
Wynn, M., & Garwood‐Cross, L. (2024). Reassembling nursing in the digital age: An actor‐network theory perspective. Nursing Inquiry, e12655.
Garwood-Cross, L. (2023). The role of social media in children and young people's health information seeking. British Journal of Child Health, 4(3), 138-142.
Wynn, M., Garwood‐Cross, L., Vasilica, C., Griffiths, M., Heaslip, V., & Phillips, N. (2023). Digitizing nursing: A theoretical and holistic exploration to understand the adoption and use of digital technologies by nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 79(10), 3737-3747.
Wynn, M., Garwood‐Cross, L., Vasilica, C., & Davis, D. (2023). Digital nursing practice theory: A scoping review and thematic analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Vasilica, C., Wynn, M., Davis, D., Charnley, K., & Garwood-Cross, L. (2023). The digital future of nursing: making sense of taxonomies and key concepts. British Journal of Nursing, 32(9), 442-446.
Further publications pending
Reports
Reports
Garwood-Cross, L., Katz, R., Light, B., Moore, K., Hinds, R., Hakim, J., Mercer, J. and Upton, M. (2023) The COVID Sex Lives Project: Health Messaging, Hooking Up and Dating Among Men Who Have Sex with Men During the UK COVID-19 Pandemic, University of Salford, Salford.
Garwood-Cross L., Vasilica C., Ormandy P., & Finnigan R. Examining social media to understand the support needs of kidney patients. University of Salford, Report for Kidney Care UK. September 2021, ISBN: 978-1-912337-47-7
Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, R., Katz, R., Light, B., Mercer, J., Moore, K., and Upton, M., (2021). Covid Sex Lives: Survey 1 Report. University of Salford.
Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, R., Katz, R., Light, B., Mercer, J., Moore, K., and Upton, M., (2021). Covid Sex Lives: Survey 2 Report. University of Salford.
Hinds, RS, Garwood-Cross, LJ , Moore, K , Hakim, J, Katz, RA , Light, BA , Mercer, J and Upton, M 2021, COVID sex lives : survey 3 report , Project Report, University of Salford, Salford.
Hinds, RS, Garwood-Cross, LJ , Hakim, J, Katz, RA , Light, BA , Mercer, J and Upton, M Covid sex lives : survey 4 report , Project Report, University of Salford, Salford.
Vasilica C.M., Garwood-Cross L., Finnigan R., Bashford T., O’Kane P., Ormandy P. Participating in CaMKIN: impact on patients. University of Salford, School of Health & Society & Liverpool University Hospitals Report. May 2021. ISBN: 978-1- 912337-50-7.
Conferences & Presentations
Conferences & Presentations
Garwood-Cross, L. (2023) You’re willing to go where no one else is’: YouTube sex education influencers and unsilencing sex. Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Conference, Glasgow Caldonian University, Glasgow.
Garwood-Cross, L. & Light, B. (2023) Sexual content?: Sex education in the crossfire of social media platform governance. PlatGovNet. Online.
Garwood-Cross, L., Cooper-Ryan, A.C., Light, B., and Vasilica, C. (2023). YouTube Sex Edutainment: sex, silence and the algorithm. Algorithms for Her. University of Sheffield.
Mercer, C. and Garwood-Cross, L. (2023) Supporting the workforce: An online mammography network for those mentoring mammography practitioners. Mammographicum Symposium. Glasgow.
Light, B., Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, K., Katz, R. Mercer, J., Moore, K., Upton, M. (2023) “The government’s response to the pandemic was to implicitly codify monogamy and nuclear families into law”: A Multi-Method Study of the Experiences of Men Who Have Sex with Men During the UK COVID 19 Pandemic. British Sociological Assocation Conference, Manchester.
Garwood-Cross, L., Cooper-Ryan, C., Light, B, & Vasilica, C. (2022). 'This is the sex education we all deserved in school and absolutely none of us got': Independent sexual health learning on YouTube and lessons for higher education institutions. Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference. University of Nottingham.
Garwood-Cross, L., Wynn, M., Vasilica, C., Withnell, N., & Staniecka, K. Developing students’ digital proficiencies to disseminate information on social media. Workshop session. Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference. University of Nottingham
Garwood-Cross, L. (2022) You’re willing to go where no one else is’: YouTube sex education influencers and unsilencing sex. Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Conference, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Light, B., Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, R., Katz, R., Mercer, J., Moore, K., And Upton, M. Upton. How to Have Sex During a Pandemic: The Experience of Men Who Have Sex with Men. Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Conference, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Light, B., Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, R., Katz, R., Mercer, J., Moore, K., And Upton, M. Upton. How to Have Sex During a Pandemic:Covid pandemic (sexual) cultures among men who have sex with men: a United Kingdom perspective. Association of Internet Researcher's Conference.
Moore, K., Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Katz, R., Light, B., Mercer, J., and Upton, M. (2022) @CovidLives: Covid pandemic (sexual) cultures among young men who have sex with men in the UK. MedSoc2022 - BSA Medical Sociology Conference 2022 - Lancaster University, UK, 14/09/2022.
Garwood-Cross, L. (2022). Expanding Men who have Sex with Men's sexual health toolkit in light of COVID-19. COVID Sex Lives event. King's College London.
Garwood-Cross, L., & Moore, K. (2022). 'Just test babes': Covid-19 (sexual) cultures among young MSM in the UK. COVID Sex Lives event. King's College London.
Vasilica, C., Garwood-Cross, L., Finnigan, R., Bashford, T., O'Kane, P., & Ormandy, P. (2021). Participating in CaMKIN: Impact on patients. Poster presentation. UK Kidney Week conference. Online.
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