Michelle Briggs

Clinical Professor of Nursing, University of Liverpool

Director of Nursing (Research & Academic Development)

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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/

Recent publications

2024

Managing chronic pain after breast cancer treatments: are web-based interventions the future? (Journal article). Hartup, S., & Briggs, M. (2024). Managing chronic pain after breast cancer treatments: are web-based interventions the future? Current opinion in supportive and palliative care, 18(1), 47-54. doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000691 DOI: 10.1097/spc.0000000000000691

Caregiver experiences of hospice dementia care: a systematic review and meta-ethnography. (Journal article). Bosco, A., Di Lorito, C., Yang, Y., Dunlop, M., Booth, A., Alexander, D., . . . Burns, A. (2024). Caregiver experiences of hospice dementia care: a systematic review and meta-ethnography. Aging & mental health, 28(2), 197-206. doi:10.1080/13607863.2023.2241027

2023

Voiceless and vulnerable: An existential phenomenology of the patient experience in 21st century British hospitals. (Journal article). Ramsey, S. M., Brooks, J., Briggs, M., & Hallett, C. E. (2023). Voiceless and vulnerable: An existential phenomenology of the patient experience in 21st century British hospitals. Nursing inquiry, 30(4), e12588. doi:10.1111/nin.12588 DOI: 10.1111/nin.12588

Communication, information, involvement, and decision making: A systematic scoping review of child-parent-nurse relationships during postoperative pain management. (Journal article). Bakir, E., Briggs, M., Mackintosh-Franklin, C., Marshall, M., & Achaliwie, F. (2023). Communication, information, involvement, and decision making: A systematic scoping review of child-parent-nurse relationships during postoperative pain management. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 32(15-16), 4337-4361. doi:10.1111/jocn.16655 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.16655

Reconfiguring the health-promoting hospital: the role of chaplaincy in England. (Journal article). Allison, E., Woodhall, J., Briggs, M., & Swift, C. (2023). Reconfiguring the health-promoting hospital: the role of chaplaincy in England. Health promotion international, 38(4), daad068. doi:10.1093/heapro/daad068 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daad068

Interactions between children, parents, and nurses during postoperative pain management: A grounded theory study. (Journal article). Bakir, E., Briggs, M., Mackintosh-Franklin, C., & Marshall, M. (2023). Interactions between children, parents, and nurses during postoperative pain management: A grounded theory study. Journal of clinical nursing, 32(3-4), 558-573. doi:10.1111/jocn.16318 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.16318

A qualitative study to explore the acceptability and feasibility of implementing person-focused evidence-based pain education concepts in pre-registration physiotherapy training. (Journal article). Thompson, K., Milligan, J., Briggs, M., Deane, J. A., & Johnson, M. I. (2023). A qualitative study to explore the acceptability and feasibility of implementing person-focused evidence-based pain education concepts in pre-registration physiotherapy training. Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 4, 1162387. doi:10.3389/fpain.2023.1162387 DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1162387

2022

Corporatising compassion? A contemporary history study of English NHS Trusts' nursing strategy documents. (Journal article). Ramsey, S. M., Brooks, J., Briggs, M., & Hallett, C. E. (2022). Corporatising compassion? A contemporary history study of English NHS Trusts' nursing strategy documents. Nursing inquiry, 29(4), e12486. doi:10.1111/nin.12486 DOI: 10.1111/nin.12486

Postoperative Packing of Perianal Abscess Cavities PPAC2 randomized clinical trial (Journal article). Newton, K., Dumville, J., Briggs, M., Law, J., Martin, J., Pearce, L., . . . Hill, J. (2022). Postoperative Packing of Perianal Abscess Cavities PPAC2 randomized clinical trial. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, 109(10), 951-957. doi:10.1093/bjs/znac225 DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znac225

Florence Nightingale's legacy for clinical academics: A framework analysis of a clinical professorial network and a model for clinical academia. (Journal article). Pattison, N., Deaton, C., McCabe, C., Coates, V., Johnston, B., Nolan, F., . . . Briggs, M. (2022). Florence Nightingale's legacy for clinical academics: A framework analysis of a clinical professorial network and a model for clinical academia. Journal of clinical nursing, 31(3-4), 353-361. doi:10.1111/jocn.15756 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15756

Rethinking pain education from the perspectives of people experiencing pain: a meta-ethnography to inform physiotherapy training. (Journal article). Thompson, K., Johnson, M. I., Milligan, J., & Briggs, M. (2022). Rethinking pain education from the perspectives of people experiencing pain: a meta-ethnography to inform physiotherapy training. BMJ open, 12(1), e046363. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046363 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046363