Professor Sally Wyke - Director

Sally joined the Alliance in January 2005. Sally is based in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Stirling.

Research interests

Sally’s personal research interests are in learning from people’s own self care and self management strategies, the appropriate provision and use of health information, how people use primary care services and in the evaluation of health policy and organisation. 

Five most recent publications

Ziebland S., Wyke S., Seaman P., Fairhurst K., Walker J., Glasier A.  What happened when Scottish women were given advance supplies of emergency contraception? A survey and qualitative study of women’s views and experiences.   Social Science and Medicine 60 (8): 1767-1779, 2005

Fairhurst K., Wyke S., Ziebland S., Seaman P., Glasier A.  “Not that sort of practice”:  the views and behaviour of primary care practitioners in a study of advance provision of emergency contraception. Family Practice  2005;  22: 1-7.

Santer M., Warner P., Wyke S.  Socio-demographic factors in reporting menstrual symptoms: Results from a large population-based survey.  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology  2005; 58:  1206-10.

Hamilton K., Wyke S., Sullivan F., Taylor R.,  Scott A., Ikenwilo D., Baker C.  A Managed Clinical Network for Cardiac Services: set-up, operation and impact on patient care.  International Journal of Integrated Care, 2005, www.ijic.org.  ISSN 1568-4156

Smith J, Dixon J, Mays N, McLeod H, Goodwin N, Mclelland S, Lewis R, Wyke S.  Practice-based commissioning: applying the research evidence.  British Medical Journal 2005; 331:  1397-1399.