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• workRoom B302 Medical School
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work01157485786
• Wendy.Chaplin@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Wendy Chaplin is a research fellow working on the Pain-at-Work Trial. This study aims to conduct a definitive cluster-randomised controlled trial, with a built-in process and implementation evaluation, to assess how effective and cost-effective the Pain-at-Work Toolkit is in helping employees self-manage chronic pain across a range of UK workplaces.

Wendy completed her PhD at the 糖心原创 following an MSc in Health Psychology. She is a graduate member of The British Psychological Society and a member of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education.

Expertise Summary

Wendy has experience in quantitative research, in particular working with survey data. Also,conducting field observations and using qualitative analysis in behaviour change research. Previously she has worked as a soft tissue therapist and exercise referral specialist for people with chronic conditions.

Skills include epidemiology, statistics, interviewing, Health psychology, motivational interviewing.

Areas of particular interest: chronic pain, frailty, ageing, well-being, health communication, behaviour change, and self-determination theory.

Research Summary

PAIN-AT-WORK TOOLKIT FOR EMPLOYEES WITH CHRONIC PAIN (DEFINITIVE TRIAL)

The Pain鈥慳t鈥慦ork Toolkit has been created together with people who live with chronic pain, employers, healthcare professionals, and a national pain charity. The aim of the toolkit is to help employees with ongoing pain feel more confident in managing their condition at work, know where to find support, and improve their workplace experience, so they can remain in the workforce. People with lived experience of chronic pain will help guide the project throughout, including reviewing study documents and helping choose what outcomes to measure.

We will work with around 70 organisations from different types of workplaces in the UK and invite more than 685 employees who live with pain to take part in the study. Organisations' employees will either receive access to the Pain鈥慳t鈥慦ork Toolkit and the Pain-at-Work Managers Toolkit ( to help managers support their staff) or the usual care that their organisation offers. Participants will be asked to complete online surveys at three points during the study. Intervention participants may be asked to take part in an interview at the end of the study to find out more about their experiences.

The study will look at whether the toolkit helps improve people's experience of work, including their productivity and ability to stay productive in their jobs. We will also explore whether the toolkit offers good value for money.

Finally, we will examine how the toolkit is used in practice-what works well, what might need improving, and how it could be made available to more employees in the future. We will do this by interviewing employers or stakeholders involved in the employment of, support for, or policy development for adults with chronic pain.

Recent Publications

• BLAKE, H, GIANNOULATOU, M and CHAPLIN, W, 2025. Occupational Medicine. 75(5), 250-255
• BLAKE, H, CHAPLIN, WJ, GUPTA, A and COFFEY, F, 2025. British Medical Bulletin. ldaf013
• BLAKE, H, DAVE, V, ROBINSON, S and CHAPLIN, WJ, 2025. In: EDULEARN25 Proceedings.
• BLAKE, H, ABBOTT-FLEMING, V, CHAPLIN, WJ, WAINWRIGHT, E, TAYLOR, G, MCNAMEE, P, MCWILLIAMS, D, WALSH, D and WALKER-BONE, K, 2025. In: EDULEARN25 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2025.0218. 522-526

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Past Research

Multicentre pragmatic cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial to assess potential effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Pain at Work Toolkit in employees with chronic or persistent pain (the PAW trial)

Background: Chronic or persistent pain affects around 28 million adults in the UK, reducing quality of life and people's ability to work or be productive at work. Sickness absence and reduced productivity costs the UK economy 拢73 billion per year. Access to work advice and support for people living with pain is variable. Most people with chronic pain do not receive work advice through healthcare services, and employers do not routinely provide education or support for people with chronic pain. The Pain at Work (PAW) Toolkit (Greaves et al, 2021; Blake et al, 2022) aims to equip people who have pain with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to: effectively self-manage a painful condition at work, access help and support, enjoy a better work experience and remain in the workforce. The PAW toolkit was co-created, and pilot tested, with people who have pain, employers, healthcare professionals and a pain charity, Burning Nights. It provides evidence-based education and advice about pain, disability rights, work capacity and adjustments, self-management strategies, and signposting to support.

• BLAKE, H, GIANNOULATOU, M and CHAPLIN, W, 2025. Occupational Medicine. 75(5), 250-255
• BLAKE, H, CHAPLIN, WJ, GUPTA, A and COFFEY, F, 2025. British Medical Bulletin. ldaf013
• BLAKE, H, DAVE, V, ROBINSON, S and CHAPLIN, WJ, 2025. In: EDULEARN25 Proceedings.
• BLAKE, H, ABBOTT-FLEMING, V, CHAPLIN, WJ, WAINWRIGHT, E, TAYLOR, G, MCNAMEE, P, MCWILLIAMS, D, WALSH, D and WALKER-BONE, K, 2025. In: EDULEARN25 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2025.0218. 522-526
• CHAPLIN, WJ, PORTER, L, HOLMES, J, ABBOT-FLEMING, V, WAINWRIGHT, E, TAYLOR, G, MCNAMEE, P, MCWILLIAMS, D, WALSH, D, WALKER-BONE, K and BLAKE, H, 2025. In: EDULEARN25 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2025.1172. 4542-4542
• CHAPLIN, WJ, PORTER, L, KOURAKI, A, SALIMIAN, M, DELLOW, VC, ABBOTT-FLEMING, V, WAINWRIGHT, E, TAYLOR, G, MCNAMEE, P, WILLIAMS, D, WALSH, D, WALKER-BONE, K and BLAKE, H, 2025. Development of theory-based text message prompts to promote engagement with a workplace digital intervention (Pain-at-Work Toolkit) using the COM-B model. EDULEARN 2025. In: EDULEARN 2025: IATED Digital Library (DOI Pending). (In Press.)
• SMITH, SL, HABIB, M, CHAPLIN, WJ, MILLAR, B and MCWILLIAMS, D, 2025. PAIN reports.
• IBRAHIM AAE, MCWILLIAMS, D, SMITH, SL, CHAPLIN, WJ, SALIMIAN M, GEORGOPOULOS V, KOURAKI A and WALSH DA, 2025. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. 68(4), 101894
• BLAKE, H, CHAPLIN, W, HASSARD, J and THOMSON, L, 2024. INTED2024 Proceedings. 5831-5838
• CHAPLIN, WENDY J, LEWIS, H.R, SHAHTAHERI, S.M, MILLAR, B, MCWILLIAMS,D.F and GLADMAN, J.R.F., 2024. BMC Geriatrics. 57:158,
• BLAKE, H, CHAPLIN, W and GUPTA, A, 2024. The effectiveness of digital interventions for self-management of chronic pain in employment settings: a systematic review. British Medical Bulletin. ldae007: https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/ldae007
• ANDERSON, E, CHAPLIN, WJ, TURNER, C, JOHNSON, G, BLAKE, H and TABNER, A, 2024. In: European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Congress, Copenhagen.
• ANDERSON, E, CHAPLIN, WJ, TURNER, C, JOHNSON, G, BLAKE, H and TABNER, A, 2024. Emergency Medicine Journal. 42(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2024-214125
• WENDY J CHAPLIN, DANIEL F MCWILLIAMS, BONNIE S MILLAR, JOHN R F GLADMAN and DAVID A WALSH, 2023. BMC Geriatrics. Article number: 273 (2023)
• BLAKE, H, ADAMS, EJ, CHAPLIN, WJ, MORRIS, L, MAHMOOD, I, TAYLOR, MG, LANGMACK, G, JONES, L and MILLER, P, 2023. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 7028
• HOLLY BLAKE, WENDY J CHAPLIN, ELAINE WAINWRIGHT, GORDON TAYLOR, PAUL MCNAMEE, DANIEL F MCWILLIAMS, VICTORIA ABBOTT-FLEMING, JAIN HOLMES, AARON FECOWYCZ and DAVID A WALSH, 2023. JMIR Res Protoc. 12:e51474
• JENNIE E. HANCOX, WENDY J CHAPLIN, CHARLOTTE E.HILTON, KATIE GRAY, FRAN GAME and KAVITA VEDARA, 2023. Health Education and Behavior.
• JENNIE E. HANCOX, WENDY J CHAPLIN, CHARLOTTE E.HILTON, NOEMI VADASZY, KATIE GRAY, FRAN GAME and KAVITA VEDARA, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295180.