Dr Carol Maddock

Research Officer

Public Health

+44 (0) 1792 602048

c.a.maddock@swansea.ac.uk

Basic Welsh Speaker

Office (CADR) - 204
Second Floor
Talbot Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8039-1854

About

I am a research officer based in the Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) and I am currently working on the Active Building Centre (ABC) project. This project aims to combine solar and low/zero carbon technologies with building design and operation to transform the construction and energy sectors. Our centre is involved with the ABC project to examine the impact of Active Builds on older people. We want to understand older people’s motives and the decision-making processes around moving to an ‘active’ home. I am particularly interested in public involvement and engagement in the research process and this is central to our research. We will be working with older people to devise and conduct the research. I retain an active role in the SUNRISE project (Strategic University Network to Revolutionize International Solar Energy and was involved in piloting arts based approaches to involvement and engagement in India (this blog has further details) as part of my role within the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR) Cymru. I have also recently been awarded my PhD on the role of social support networks in the dementia literacy of older adults in Wales.

Areas Of Expertise

Public involvement and Engagement
Ageing and Dementia
Dementia Literacy
Qualitative and quantitative analysis

Career Highlights

Research

My PhD research examined the relationship between general understandings of dementia and influences on attitudes towards risks and lifestyle behaviours, how views are shared, and how interactions with individuals are affected. The relationships are encapsulated within the concept of dementia literacy.

This study used a mixed methods approach to examine levels of population health literacy and explore understandings of dementia literacy within the older Welsh population. A health literacy measure was derived using data from the Cognitive Functioning and Ageing Study Wales, a nationally representative survey of older adults. The measure enabled relationships between health literacy and social factors to be determined. In depth interviews with a subset of participants were conducted to provide a picture of dementia literacy and how it was shared within social support networks. A qualitative framework approach was used for data analysis.

Publications

Research Highlights

Maddock, C., Camporesi, S., Lewis, I., Ahmad , K., & Sullivan, R. (2012). Online information as a decision making aid for cancer patients: recommendations from the Eurocancercoms project.. European journal of cancer, 48(7), 1055-1059.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2011.08.018, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17811
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22033324
Schrijvers, D., Turco, M., Maddock, C., Marotti, L., & Hemelryck, F. (2012). Cancer guideline development in Europe: A survey among ECCO members. European Journal of Cancer, 48(9), 1392-1400.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2012.01.014, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17809
Maddock, C., Lewis, I., Ahmad , K., & Sullivan , R. (2011). Online information needs of cancer patients and their organizations.. Ecancermedicalscience, 5, 235
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17808
Maddock, C., Schrijvers D, D., Turco , M., Marotti , L., & Sullivan , R. (2011). To know or not to know? Not the only question in familial breast cancer risk communication.. Ecancermedicalscience, 5, 239
https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2011.239, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17805
Forsyth, R., Maddock, C., Iedema, R., & Lassere, M. (2010). Patient perceptions of carrying their own health information: approaches towards responsibility and playing an active role in their own health - implications for a patient-held health file. Health Expectations, 13(4), 416
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00593.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa10991

All Research

Journal Articles

Thomas, M., Sorvala, L., Williams, A., Singleton, A., Maddock, C., Morgan, D., Murray, T., & Musselwhite, C. (2024). Co-creating a climate comic book: reflections on using comics in intergenerational research and engagement. Journal of Global Ageing, 1(2), 219-237.
https://doi.org/10.1332/29767202y2024d000000011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67620
Morgan, D., Maddock, C., & Musselwhite, C. (2024). These are tenants not guinea pigs: Barriers and facilitators of retrofit in Wales, United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 111, 103462
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103462, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66547
Burholt, V., Shoemark, Z., Maruthakutti, R., Chaudhary, A., & Maddock, C. (2022). Dignity and the provision of care and support in ‘old age homes’ in Tamil Nadu, India: a qualitative study. BMC Geriatrics, 22(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03272-4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60594
Burholt, V., Maruthakutti, R., & Maddock, C. (2022). A Cultural Framework of Care and Social Protection for Older People in India. GeroPsych, 35(2), 67-79.
https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000251, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58062
Schrijvers, D., Turco, M., Maddock, C., Marotti, L., & Hemelryck, F. (2012). Cancer guideline development in Europe: A survey among ECCO members. European Journal of Cancer, 48(9), 1392-1400.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2012.01.014, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17809
Maddock, C., Camporesi, S., Lewis, I., Ahmad , K., & Sullivan, R. (2012). Online information as a decision making aid for cancer patients: recommendations from the Eurocancercoms project.. European journal of cancer, 48(7), 1055-1059.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2011.08.018, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17811
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22033324
Maddock, C., Lewis, I., Ahmad , K., & Sullivan , R. (2011). Online information needs of cancer patients and their organizations.. Ecancermedicalscience, 5, 235
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17808
Maddock, C., Schrijvers D, D., Turco , M., Marotti , L., & Sullivan , R. (2011). To know or not to know? Not the only question in familial breast cancer risk communication.. Ecancermedicalscience, 5, 239
https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2011.239, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17805
Forsyth, R., Maddock, C., Iedema, R., & Lassere, M. (2010). Patient perceptions of carrying their own health information: approaches towards responsibility and playing an active role in their own health - implications for a patient-held health file. Health Expectations, 13(4), 416
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00593.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa10991
Singleton, A., Thomas, M., Maddock, C., Williams, A., Morgan, D., Musselwhite, C., Twelvetrees, J., Bateman, T., De’Ath, R., Attala, L., & Sorvala, L. (n.d.) Working with an Advisory Group to Co-design Innovative Intergenerational Climate Change Research. Journal of Responsible Innovation
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66994

Authored Books

Thomas, M., Singleton, A., Williams, A., Maddock, C., Morgan, D., Murray, T., Musselwhite, C., & Sorvala, L. (2023). The Climate Comic / Comic yr Hinsawdd: Tales between generations / Cenedlaethau’n rhannu straeon Swansea University.
https://doi.org/10.23889/SUbook.64751, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64751

Book Chapters

Marston, H., Morgan, D., Wilson-Menzfeld, G., Gates, J., Maddock, C., Philips, J., Elisabeth, J., Bailey, G., & Nicholson, J. (2023). Employing citizen science to understand the contemporary needs of older adults accessing and using technology in a pandemic. Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research (pp. 390-401). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003254829-37, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67636
Maddock, C., Burholt, V., Morgan, D., Ahire, K., & Musselwhite, C. (2023). Tensions in transformation. Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research (pp. 107-121). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003254829-10, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67637
Burholt, V., Maruthakutti, R., & Maddock, C. (2022). Decision-making and choice or sine qua non? Care home entry in Tamil Nadu. Care for Older Adults in India (pp. 185-209). Policy Press
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447357414.ch010, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63762
http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/9781447357414.ch010

Supervision

The Development of an Indoor Environmental Assessment Tool for People with Mild to Moderate Dementia living in nursing homes, residential homes, sheltered housing and extra care housing. (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Martin Hyde

Other supervisor: Dr Deborah Morgan
Exploring the impact of intergenerational activity programmes on those living, visiting and working in care homes across South Wales. (awarded 2023)

PhD

Other supervisor: Prof Vanessa Burholt

Other Roles

BSG ERA mentor coordinator, British Society of Gerontology- Early Career Researchers

2019 - Present

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