Professor Maggie Lawrence
Professor
Department of Nursing and Community Health
Professor Maggie Lawrence has a background in neurological rehabilitation nursing and in information science. She has extensive experience of conducting quantitative and qualitative healthcare research in a range of healthcare settings, and with a range of stakeholders.
Maggie’s research focus is on stroke, and in particular the role of lifestyle risk factor modification and stress management in the prevention of a recurring stroke. She has worked on and led a variety of projects including an investigation of the stressors faced by the carers of adults who have had a stroke and the experience of stroke from the perspective of young adults and their families. Outputs from a Stroke Association Senior Research Training Fellowship (2012 -2016) include a stroke secondary prevention module. Keeping Well, part of Selfhelp4stroke (www.selfhelp4stroke.org), an online self-management resource.
Maggie is founder and former Chair of INSsPiRE (2015-2020), an international network of stroke secondary prevention researchers. Drawing on her information science skills, Maggie has published many systematic review papers, using a variety or review methods. Evidence synthesis and knowledge translation activities include participating as a member of clinical guideline development groups, including the National Clinical Guideline for Stroke for the UK and Ireland, 2023.
Her current programme of research is concerned with developing and testing an adapted Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction self-management intervention, HEADS: UP, for stroke survivors coping with anxiety and depression in the long-term and as an important element of prevention of recurrent stroke.