Sian de Bell Research Fellow, University of Exeter

Sian is a Research Fellow in the University of Exeter HSDR Evidence Synthesis (opens new window) Centre, conducting systematic reviews and other syntheses of evidence about the organisation and delivery of health and social care in the UK, with recent projects focusing on extra-care housing for older people in the UK and healthcare workforce reconfiguration during the Covid-19 pandemic. She also works as a Methodologist for the NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public Health South West Satellite (opens new window), providing funding advice and supporting research development. Her background is as an environmental social scientist, and she still explores the links between natural environments and human health and wellbeing using participatory methods and approaches such as citizen science.