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  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
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  UK
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• Kimberley.Edwards@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Kim Edwards is a Professor of Sport Exercise and Nutrition Education in the School of Medicine, ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is Interim Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of the University's overarching teaching and curriculum development strategy. Kim is also the Chair of the University Quality and Standards Committee, which oversees the application of all University regulations, policies and procedures in respect to academic quality and standards, providing leadership and direction to the committee in line with University strategic objectives.

She served as Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Director Postgraduate Taught Education and Student Experience from 2016-2022, and as the Academic Unit Lead for Postgraduate Taught Education from 2011-2024. She remains closely involved with the two masters courses that she used to be Course Director for (MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine and MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Medicine), teaching on the courses and providing research supervision. She has long been a supporter of the Nottingham Recognition Scheme and has mentored hundreds of staff across multiple Schools to achieve recognition with Advance HE.

She has been an External Examiner at the Universities of Middlesex, Staffordshire, Teesside, UCLAN, UCL, Essex and Aegean Omiros College, Greece, as well as validating and standard setting for the Faculty for Sports Exercise Medicine. Collectively, this gives her a very broad knowledge of university processes, assessment and quality assurance of teaching and learning.

She is the Deputy Editor (Statistics) for the European Spine Journal. She is currently a consultant for the National Joint Registry. She served as a consultant for Public Health England, advised the Finnish government on physical activity funding, and provided evidence to the House of Lords on sport and recreation policy. She is the co-editor and author of Spatial Microsimulation: A Handbook for Users.

She has a strong interest in medical education research as well as investigating the relationships around physical activity, diet and environmental exposures and their association with MSK injuries and chronic disease, such as osteoarthritis and obesity. She has extensive statistical modelling expertise.

Her background whilst highly numerate is not tradition. In brief: maths BSc(Hons); corporate banking career; MMedSci Human Nutrition; spatial epidemiology PhD; then increasingly senior academic roles (University of Leeds; ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´), teaching and leading research methods, medical statistics, physical activity epidemiology, expedition and wilderness medicine, and sport and exercise nutrition. This holistic background affords both medical understanding and statistical experience and gives her a wide and a diverse set of skills to draw on for research and teaching.

Expertise Summary

I have expert knowledge of research methods, including ethics, study design and medical statistics. I have significant experience of managing large datasets and undertaking advanced statistical analyses, including multi-level modelling, geographically weighted regression, geographic information systems, spatial analyses, k-medoid cluster analyses (unpublished work for MacMillan Cancer) and structural equation modelling; evidenced by my publication record. I have designed and built a spatial microsimulation model which is widely available for researchers/analysts to use. I have contributed to three books on health data spatial analyses and spatial microsimulation modelling. I understand the importance of discretion in handling confidential information, with strong knowledge of the data protection laws and the University data management requirements, and experience in handling patient identifiable data.

Teaching Summary

Kim Edwards is a senior educationalist and epidemiologist, Professor of Sport Exercise and Nutrition Education, in the School of Medicine. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is Interim Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of the University's overarching teaching and curriculum development strategy. Kim is also the Chair of the University Quality and Standards Committee, which oversees the application of all University regulations, policies and procedures in respect to academic quality and standards, providing leadership and direction to the committee in line with University strategic objectives.

She served as Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Director Postgraduate Taught Education and Student Experience from 2016-2022, and as the Academic Unit Lead for Postgraduate Taught Education from 2011-2024.

She remains closely involved with the two masters courses that she used to be Course Director for (MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine and MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Medicine), teaching on the courses and providing research supervision. She has long been a supporter of the Nottingham Recognition Scheme and has mentored hundreds of staff across multiple Schools to achieve recognition with Advance HE.

She has been an External Examiner at the Universities of Middlesex, Staffordshire, Teesside, UCLAN, UCL, Essex and Aegean Omiros College, Greece, as well as validating and standard setting for the Faculty for Sports Exercise Medicine. Collectively, this gives her a very broad knowledge of university processes, assessment and quality assurance of teaching and learning.

Kim has over twenty years of experience teaching Research Methods and Statistics. She has been the module convenor for the Research Methods module, Research Project and Dissertation Sports and Exercise Medicine module, and Sport and Exercise Nutrition module all at postgraduate level. She continues to contribute to these modules as well as Physical Activity Epidemiology and Expedition and Wilderness Medicine plus she has taught health care professionals outside of the masters programmes (e.g. FRCS(Orth) Examination revision courses). She also contributes to teaching and assessment for the PGCHE modules and the Nottingham Recognition Scheme for Advance HE recognition.

She takes innovative approach to teaching and learning, making extensive use of e-learning to augment in-person sessions and uses case studies and real-world examples to enhance engagement and bring teaching to life. In addition, she supervises many undergraduates, MSc and PhD research students and provides academic and pastoral support to UG and PG students.

Research Summary

My discipline specific research focuses on physical activity, diet and environmental exposures and their association with chronic disease, such as osteoarthritis, cancer and obesity, from a public… read more

Selected Publications

• BESTWICK-STEVENS T, WYATT L, ALSHAMMARI A, EDWARDS KL, BATT ME, PALMER D, SCAMMELL BE, KLUZEK S and PEARSON RG, 2024. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 32, S508
• SMALLEY H and EDWARDS KL, 2024. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 48, 100633
• ALFAHAD NR, GEOGHEGAN JM, EDWARDS KL, BATTACHARYA A and WALLACE WA, 2023. Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery. 32(5), e262
• SMALLEY H and EDWARDS KL, 2023. European Spine Journal.

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Current Research

My discipline specific research focuses on physical activity, diet and environmental exposures and their association with chronic disease, such as osteoarthritis, cancer and obesity, from a public health and/or spatial epidemiology perspective. For example, spinal cancer patients' quality of life; school environment/childhood obesity; running/knee joint health; exercise adherence; protocols to reduce lower back pain; interaction between obesity, injury and physical activity for knee osteoarthritis.

I develop and test small area estimation techniques, largely for modelling health data (e.g. I have used spatial microsimulation modelling to estimate physical activity behaviour, adult obesity and osteoarthritis). I also have a strong interest in medical education research and have undertaken projects in flipped teaching and peer marking schemes.

Selected Publications:

T Bestwick-Stevenson, L Wyatt, A Alshammari, K Edwards, M Batt, ... (2024). . Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 32, S508.

Harrison S, Edwards KL. (2024). . Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 48:100633. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2023.100633.

Alfahad NR, Geoghegan J, Edwards K, Bhattacharya, Wallace A (2023). 32(5): e262 10.1016/j.jse.2023.02.071

H Smalley, KL Edwards. (2023). . European Spine Journal.

KK Petersen, T Kurien, RW Kerslake, T Graven-Nielsen, L Arendt-Nielsen, DP Auer, KL Edwards, BE Scammell (2022). . European Journal of Pain. 26(9): 1979-1989.

T Bestwick-Stevenson, R Toone, E Neupert, KL Edwards, S Kluzek (2022). . International Journal of Sports Medicine. 43(14): 1151-1162.

Y.Y.W. Yap, K.L. Edwards, H. Soutakbar, G.S. Fernandes, B.E. Scammell (2021) OA and cartilage Open. 3(2)

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Ifesmen O, Bestwick-Stevens T, Edwards K (2020). . The International Journal of Microsimulation. 12(2): 36-50.

Vishnubala D, Marino K, Pratten MK, Pringle A, Griffin SA, Finn GM, Bazira P, Edwards KL (2020). . BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 6(1):e000888 DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000888

Quraishi N, Ahmed M, Arealis G, Boszczyk B, Edwards KL (2018). European Spine Journal. 28): 792-797 doi: 10.1007/s00586-018-5797-4.

Peeters G; Edwards KL; Brown WJ; Barker AL; Arden N; Redmond AC; Conaghan PG; Cicuttini F; Mishra GD (2018) . Arthritis care & research, 70 (7), 1012-1021 DOI: 10.1002/acr.23430

Marino K, Merrick D, Edwards K, Pratten M (2018). Anatomical Sciences Education

Timmins KE, Leech R, Batt ME, Edwards KL (2017). . The American journal of sports medicine 45 (6), 1447-1457 doi: 10.1177/0363546516657531

Past Research

Modern environments do not necessarily encourage residents to have an active, healthy lifestyle. In fact, the sedentary option is often the easiest choice. Accordingly, my research regarding the obesogenic environment lead me to examine the relationship between obesity and many different aspects of the environment, including access to facilities, urbanisation, social capital, deprivation, and neighbourhood safety, as well as many behavioural aspects, such as physical activity levels, sedentary behaviour, diet in terms of consumption and expenditure.

As part of my PhD I developed SimObesity, a deterministic spatial microsimulation model that can be used to estimate health data, such as obesity prevalence or physical activity levels. Please get in touch if you would like to use a version.

• ZHANG Z, EDWARDS KL and NORRISH A, 2024. Journal of Complementary Therapies in Medicine.
• SMALLEY H and EDWARDS KL, 2024. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 48, 100633
• BESTWICK-STEVENS T, WYATT L, ALSHAMMARI A, EDWARDS KL, BATT ME, PALMER D, SCAMMELL BE, KLUZEK S and PEARSON RG, 2024. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 32, S508
• SMALLEY H and EDWARDS KL, 2023. European Spine Journal.
• ALFAHAD NR, GEOGHEGAN JM, EDWARDS KL, BATTACHARYA A and WALLACE WA, 2023. Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery. 32(5), e262
• BESTWICK-STEVENS T, TOONE R, NEUPERT E, EDWARDS KL and KLUZEK S, 2022. 43(14), 1151-1162
• PETERSEN KK, KURIEN T, KERSLAKE RW, GRAVEN-NIELSEN T, ARENDT-NIELSEN L, AUER DP, EDWARDS KL and SCAMMELL BE, 2022. European Journal of Pain. 26(9), 1979-1989
• BESTWICK-STEVENS T, IFESEMEN O, PEARSON RG and EDWARDS KL, 2021. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine.
• YAP YYW, EDWARDS KL, SOUTAKBAR H, FERNANDES GS and SCAMMELL BE, 2021. Osteoarthritis and cartilage Open. 3(2),
• VISHNUBALA D, MARINO K, PRATTEN M, PRINGLE A, GRIFFIN SA, FINN GM, BAZIRA P and EDWARDS KL, 2020. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 6(1), e000888
• IFESEMEN O, BESTWICK-STEVENS T and EDWARDS KL, 2020. The International Journal of Microsimulation.. 12(2), 36-50
• MOSS KM, DOBSON AJ, EDWARDS KL, HESKETH KD, CHANG YT and MISHRA GD, 2020. Journal of Physical Activity & Health.. 16(11), 945-951
• QURAISHI NA, PASKOU N, KOCH JEJ, AREALIS G, BOSZCZYK BM and EDWARDS KL, 2020. European Spine Journal. 29(2), 1-7
• LEECH R, GUNSEIT A and EDWARDS KL, 2020. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
• CHALMERS, JANE, BAN, LU, LEENA, KONDARAPASSERY B, EDWARDS, KIMBERLEY L, GROVE, JANE L, AITHAL, GURUPRASAD P and SHENOY, KOTACHERRY T, 2019. BMJ Open. 9(5),
• TULNER S, FOWLER A, EDWARDS KL, KUMAR V, MANNING PA, GEOGHEGAN JM and WALLACE WA, 2019. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma. 10(3), 486-491
• EDWARDS KL, 2018. European Spine Journal.
• EDWARDS KL, 2018. European Spine Journal. 27(5), 975-976
• EDWARDS KL, 2018. European Spine Journal.
• EDWARDS KL, 2018. European Spine Journal.
• MARINO K, MERRICK D, EDWARDS KL and PRATTEN M, 2018. Anatomical Sciences Education.
• PEETERS G, EDWARDS KL, BROWN WJ, BARKER AL, ARDEN N, REDMOND AC, CONAGHAN PG, CIUTTINI F and MISHRA GD, 2018. Arthritis care & research. 70 (7), 1012-1021
• WOOLLEY K, EDWARDS KL, MACDONALD I and GLAZEBROOK C, 2018. Advances in Pediatric Research. 5(2),
• QURAISHI NA, AHMED M, AREALIS G, BOSZCZYK BM and EDWARDS KL, 2018. European Spine Journal. 28, 792-797
• TIMMINS KA, LEECH RD, BATT ME and EDWARDS KL, 2017. The American journal of sports medicine.
• MARINO K, MERRICK D, PRATTEN M and EDWARDS KL, 2017. Sport and Exercise Medicine teaching BASEM Today.
• CHARLES ER, KUMAR V, BLACKNALL J, EDWARDS KL, GEOGHEGAN JM, MANNING PA and WALLACE WA, 2017. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 26, 1732–1739
• IFESEMEN O and EDWARDS KL, 2017. Chapter 11 – Statistical Report: In: Wallace WA and Louis D, Sandilands/Croydon Tram Derailment: How the Injuries occurred to the More Severely Injured Passengers
• MERRICK D, LEVERITT S, MCKNIGHT G, EDWARDS KL and PRATTEN M, 2016. Anatomical sciences education. 9(5), 468-475
• PEARSON, R G, CLEMENT, R G E, EDWARDS, K L and SCAMMELL, B E, 2016. BMJ Open. 6(11),
• PANTELIADIS P, NAGRA NS, EDWARDS KL, BEHRBALK E and BOSZCZYK B, 2016. Global spine journal. 6(6), 615-25
• MORRIS M, CLARKE GP, EDWARDS KL, CADE JE and HULME C, 2016. Epidemiology – Open Journal. 1 (1), 20-32
• CHING A, SKOU ST, THOMAS SA, BATT ME and ROOS EM, 2016. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 24(S1), 486-487
• QURAISHI NA, AREALIS G, PASKU D, BOSZCZYK BM and EDWARDS KL, 2016. The Spine Journal. 16 (4), S62
• DAVIES E, GREENFIELD J and EDWARDS KL, 2016. Journal of Physical Education Research. 38(2), 316-322
• MORRIS M, CLARKE GP, EDWARDS KL, HULME C and CADE JE, 2016. Exploring small-area geographies of obesity in the UK: evidence form the UK Women’s Cohort ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´.. In: LOMBARD JR, STERN E and CLARK GP, eds., Applied spatial modelling and planning. Routledge.
• CROW H, LEECH R and EDWARDS KL, 2016. Arthritis Today.
• EDWARDS KL, SCHIZAS C, MANNION A, AEBI M and GUNZBURG R, 2015. European Spine Journal. 24(1), 1-2
• QURAISHI NA, RAJABIAN A, SPENCER A, AREALIS G, EDWARDS KL and BOSZCZYK BM, 2015. Re-operation Rates in the Surgical Treatment of Spinal Metastases The Spine Journal. 15(3), S37-S43
• AHMED A and EDWARDS KL, 2015. The association between Habitual Physical Activity Levels and Quality of Life in Asthmatic Adults: a cross sectional study in the UK. Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity.
• QURAISHI NA, AREALIS G, MANOHARAN SR, GIANNOULIS K, PURUSHOTHAMDAS S, EDWARDS KL and BOSZCZYK BM, 2015. The Surgical Management of Metastatic Spinal Tumours based on an Epidural Spinal Cord Compression (ESCC) Scale The Spine Journal.
• GREENFIELD JR, ALMOND M, CLARKE GP and EDWARDS KL, 2015. Journal of public health (Oxford, England). 38(2), 316-22
• SCHOFIELD DJ, CARTER HE and EDWARDS KL, 2014. Health applications of microsimulation. In: O’DONOGHUE C, ed., Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, UK.
• EDWARDS KL and DUNLOP M, 2014. Can health care professionals ‘make every contact count’ for physical activity? BASEM Today. 28, 18-19
• HODGSON L and EDWARDS KL, 2014. A career in Sports and Exercise Medicine: it’s not all blood and guts BASEM Today. 28, 16-17
• EDWARDS KL, WALLACE WA and BATT ME, 2014. Collaboration: the ‘man of the match’ for research success BASEM Today. 28, 3
• QURAISHI NA, RAMOUTAR D, SURESHKUMAR D, MANOHARAN SR, SPENCER A, AREALIS G, EDWARDS KL and BOSZCZYK BM, 2014. European Spine Journal. 23(7), 1502-1507
• MORRIS M, CLARKE GP, EDWARDS KL, CADE JE and HULME C, 2014. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 68(11), 1043-1049
• HODGSON L, HIGNETT T and EDWARDS KL, 2014. Physical Therapy in Sport. 16(2), 93-97
• BHATTACHARYYA R, EDWARDS KL and WALLACE WA, 2014. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 15, 324
• MORRIS MA, HULME C, CLARKE GP, EDWARDS KL and CADE JE, 2014. The Lancet. 384(Supplement 2), S53
• EVANS G, EDWARDS KL and BATT ME, 2014. Are our patients exercising enough? The development and validation of a new physical activity questionnaire for use in a clinical setting BASEM Today. 28, 14-15
• QURAISHI, N. A., MANOHARAN, S. R., AREALIS, G., KHURANA, A., ELSAYED, S., EDWARDS, K. L. and BOSZCZYK, B. M., 2013. Eur Spine J. 22 Suppl 1, 21-6
• KATE A. TIMMINS, MICHELLE A. MORRIS, CLAIRE HULME, KIM L. EDWARDS, GRAHAM P. CLARKE and JANET E. CADE, 2013. Eur J Clin Nutr. 67(10), 1072-6
• FRASER LK, CLARKE GP, CADE JE and EDWARDS KL, 2012. American Journal of Preventative Medicine. 42(5), e77-e85
• TANTON R and EDWARDS KL, 2012. . In: TANTON R and EDWARDS KL, eds., Spatial Microsimulation: A handbook for users Springer, SBM, NL.
• EDWARDS KL and CLARKE G, 2012. . In: TANTON R and EDWARDS KL, eds., Spatial Microsimulation: A handbook for users. Springer, SBM, NL.
• TANTON R and EDWARDS KL, eds., 2012. Springer, SBM, NL.
• TANTON R and EDWARDS KL, 2012. . In: TANTON R and EDWARDS KL, eds., Spatial Microsimulation: A handbook for users Springer, SBM, NL.
• EDWARDS KL and TANTON R, 2012. . In: TANTON R and EDWARDS KL, eds., Spatial Microsimulation: A handbook for users. Springer, SBM, NL.
• FRASER LK, EDWARDS KL, TOMINITZ M, CLARKE GP and HILL AJ, 2012. Social Science and Medicine. 75, 1048-1056
• QURAISHI NA, GIANNOULIS KE, MANOHARAN SR, EDWARDS KL and BOSZCZYK BM, 2012. European spine journal. 22(Issue 1 Supplement), 33-37
• QURAISHI, NASIR A., GIANNOULIS, KYRIAKOS E., EDWARDS, KIMBERLEY L. and BOSZCZYK, BRONEK M., 2012. EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL. 21(10), 1984-1993
• QURAISHI NA, RAJAGOPAL TS, ELSAYED S, EDWARDS KL and BOSZCZYK BM, 2012. European Spine Journal. 22(6), 1383-1388
• KOPEC JA, EDWARDS KL, MANUEL DG and RUTTER CM, 2012. Epidemiology Research International: Special Issue: Advances in Micro-simulation Modeling of Population Health Determinants, Diseases, and Outcomes. Article ID 584739
• EVANS G, EDWARDS KL and WALLACE WA, 2012. Advanced Driving: Institute of Advanced Motorists Magazine. 39,
• FRASER LK, EDWARDS KL, CADE JE and CLARKE GP, 2011. International Journal of Obesity. 35, 1325-1330
• HUGHES RJ, EDWARDS KL, CLARKE GP, CADE JE and RANSLEY JK, 2011. Exploring UK variations in childhood consumption of fruit and vegetables British Journal of Nutrition. 108(04), 733-742
• EDWARDS KL, 2010. Defining & mapping obesogenic environments in children. In: LAKE AA, TOWNSHEND T and ALVANIDES S, eds., Obesogenic Environments: complexities, perceptions and objective measures Wiley Blackwell.
• SMITH D, CLARKE GP and EDWARDS KL, 2010. Measuring obesogenic environments – representing place in studies of obesity. In: PEARCE J and WITTEN K, eds., Geographies of Obesity: Environmental understandings of the obesity epidemic Ashgate Publishing Group.
• EDWARDS KL, CLARKE GP, RANSLEY JK and CADE J, 2010. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 64(3), 194-201
• EDWARDS KL, CADE J, RANSLEY JK and CLARKE GP, 2010. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 95(2), 94-99
• EDWARDS KL, CLARKE GP, RANSLEY JK and CADE J, 2010. Public Health Nutrition.
• FRASER LK, EDWARDS KL, CADE JE and CLARKE GP, 2010. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
• EDWARDS KL, CLARKE GP, THOMAS J and FORMAN D, 2010. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.
• FRASER LK and EDWARDS KL, 2010. Health & Place. 16(6), 1124-1128
• EDWARDS KL and CLARKE GP, 2009. Social Science & Medicine. 69(7), 1127-34
• BARCLAY C, PROCTER KL, GLENDENNING R, MARSH P, FREEMAN J and MATHERS N, 2008. The British Journal of General Practice. 58, 541-547
• PROCTER KL and SMITH DM, 2008. Area. 40.3, 303-305
• PROCTER KL, CLARKE GP, RANSLEY JK and CADE J, 2008. Area. 40.3, 323-340
• PROCTER KL, RUDOLF MC, FELTBOWER RG, LEVINE R, CONNOR A, ROBINSON M and CLARKE GP, 2008. Social Science and Medicine. 67(2), 341-349
• DOWNING A, FORMAN D, GILTHORPE MS, EDWARDS KL and MANDA SOM, 2008. International Journal of Health Geographics. 7, 41
• PROCTER KL, 2007. Nutrition Research Reviews. 20(1), 29-45