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Bethan Hatherall

Research Fellow

School of Health Sciences Division of Health Services Research and Management

Contact details

Address

Bethan Hatherall City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Bethan Hatherall has worked in a range of research- and public health-related capacities since 2000. She is currently a co-investigator on the NIHR-funded REACH Pregnancy Programme, oversees patient and public involvement across the programme, has lead on a strand of the research programme focussed on strengthening women's involvement in planning and improving maternity services, and is now working on the programme's trial of group-based antenatal care, known as Pregnancy Circles. The REACH Pregnancy Programme has built upon NIHR-funded mixed methods research Bethan conducted on women's access to antenatal care services early in pregnancy, and upon EU-funded qualitative research she conducted on access to and experiences of pregnancy services with a specific focus on women of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani heritage living in East London.

Bethan completed a part-time PhD in 2014 based on multi-country qualitative research she led, funded by ESRC-DFID, on the causes of tuberculosis stigma. She used a combination of the approach to developing grounded theory and a realist perspective on causality to develop explanatory theories. She has presented this research at international conferences, including the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health.

Qualifications

  1. PhD, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 2014
  2. MSc Health Promotion Sciences, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, 2000
  3. BA Hons Anthropology, University of Durham, United Kingdom, 1997

Employment

  1. Research Fellow, City, University London, Jul 2020 – present
  2. Research Fellow, University of East London, Jul 2010 – Jul 2020
  3. Research Officer, University of Leeds, May 2007 – May 2010
  4. Research Assistant, University of Southampton, Jan 2003 – Aug 2005

Publications

Publications by category

Journal articles (5)

  1. Wiggins, M., Sawtell, M., Wiseman, O., McCourt, C., Eldridge, S., Hunter, R. … Harden, A. (2020). Group antenatal care (Pregnancy Circles) for diverse and disadvantaged women: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with integral process and economic evaluations. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1). doi:10.1186/s12913-020-05751-z.
  2. Hatherall, B., Newell, J.N., Emmel, N., Baral, S.C. and Khan, M.A. (2019). “Who Will Marry a Diseased Girl?” Marriage, Gender, and Tuberculosis Stigma in Asia. Qualitative Health Research, 29(8), pp. 1109–1119. doi:10.1177/1049732318812427.
  3. Sawtell, M., Sweeney, L., Wiggins, M., Salisbury, C., Eldridge, S., Greenberg, L. … Harden, A. (2018). Evaluation of community-level interventions to increase early initiation of antenatal care in pregnancy: protocol for the Community REACH study, a cluster randomised controlled trial with integrated process and economic evaluations. Trials, 19(1). doi:10.1186/s13063-018-2526-6.
  4. Hatherall, B., Morris, J., Jamal, F., Sweeney, L., Wiggins, M., Kaur, I. … Harden, A. (2016). Timing of the initiation of antenatal care: An exploratory qualitative study of women and service providers in East London. Midwifery, 36, pp. 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.midw.2016.02.017.
  5. Cresswell, J.A., Yu, G., Hatherall, B., Morris, J., Jamal, F., Harden, A. … Renton, A. (2013). Predictors of the timing of initiation of antenatal care in an ethnically diverse urban cohort in the UK. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 13(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2393-13-103.