Fauzia is a qualitative researcher with a special interest in developing and evaluating online resources and innovations to support mental health and wellbeing. Some of her recent NIHR funded work includes:

1. Child anxiety - Testing out a novel therapist guided online platform for parents to reduce child anxiety (OSI Trial) – now recommended by NICE.
2. Health experiences - Producing Information Standards Accredited web resources (HEXI) where people talk on camera about their health experiences, including:
   • Young people’s experiences of psychosis,
   • Electroconvulsive therapy and
   • Support decision making within Australian mental health services.

Most recently she managed an international project (Portraits of Care) to identify the support needs of family members caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. The study used photo elicitation interviews with caregivers in South Africa, UK, USA and Brazil. It offers a more inclusive (role-needs) framework that recognises different ways in which people approach caregiving. The study was discussed on BBC Radio 4’s All In the Mind.

Fauzia is currently employed part-time as a Research Associate on the DemCon project (Dementia and continence advice resource) working with partners at University of Southampton to produce an online multi-media resource.

Outside of her research work Fauzia is a complementary therapist in private practice, helping adults and young people (16+) with anxiety, depression and life challenges. Before working in health experiences research Fauzia held a lectureship in Legal Anthropology and worked in central and local government (Dept International Development, Foreign Office) carrying out policy development and social research. She is particularly interested in research that better represents diversity in experiences.

Fauzia Knight: ORCID iD

PUBLICATIONS: Health Experiences and Intervention Testing

Knight, F., Ridge, D., Loveday, C., Weidner, W., Roeser, J., Halton, C., and Cartwright, T. (2024) A Role-needs Framework: Rethinking Support for Informal Caregivers for Alzheimer’s across the Global South and Global North. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 39(9) https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.6141

Creswell, C., Taylor, L., Giles, S., Howitt, S., Radley, L., Whitaker, E., Brooks, E., Knight, F., Raymont, V., Hill, C., Santen, V., Williams, N., Mort, S., Harris, V., Yu, S., Pollard, J., Violator, M., Waite, P. and Yu, LM (2024) Digitally augmented, parent-led CBT versus treatment as usual for child anxiety problems in child mental health services in England and Northern Ireland: a pragmatic, non-inferiority, clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry 11(3) 193-209

Cartwright, T., Knight, F., Ridge, D., Loveday, C., Roeser, J., Weidner, W. S., Halton, C. C. (2023) Typologies of caregiving: Understanding support needs of carers across four continents. Alzheimer’s and Dementia Supplement: Developing Topics 19(S24)

Taylor, L., Giles, S., Howitt, S., Ryan, Z., Brooks, E., Radley, L., Thomson, A., Whitaker, E., Knight, F., Hill, C., Violato, M., Waite, P., Raymont, V., Yu, LM., Harris, V., Williams, N., and Creswell, C. (2022) A RCT to compare clinical and cost-effectiveness of an online parent-led treatment for child anxiety problems with usual care in the context of COVID-19. Study Protocol Trials 23(1) 942

Ryan, S., Holdsworth, E., Howard, J., Knight, F., Locock, L., Rees, S., Stepney, M., Martin, A., and Mays, N. (2020) Understanding experiences of recruiting for, and participating in, genomics research and service transformation: The 100,000 Genomes Project 2015-17. Policy Innovation and Evaluation Unit

Knight, F., Kokanovic, R., Ridge, D., Brophy, L, Hill, N., Johnston-Ataata, K., and Herman, H. (2018) Supported Decision Making: The Expectations Held by People with Experiences of Mental Illness. Qualitative Health Research 28(6)

Knight, F., Ridge, D., McShane, R., Ryan, S and Griffith, L. (2017) Care, Control and the ECT Ritual: Making Sense of Polarised Patient Narratives. Qualitative Health Research 27(11)

Book: Knight, F. (2014) Law, Power and Culture: Supporting Change from Within, Palgrave MacMillan, Socio-legal Studies Series