Sarah Alderson
@imp-sci-saraha.bsky.social
GP & Associate Prof in Primary Care & Implementation Science @ Uni of Leeds
Audit & Feedback, healthcare behaviour change, reduces opioid prescribing, SMART designs, wild swim, run, aerial hoop, knit & crochet
“Thinks too much & too little” #ImpSci #MedSci
Audit & Feedback, healthcare behaviour change, reduces opioid prescribing, SMART designs, wild swim, run, aerial hoop, knit & crochet
“Thinks too much & too little” #ImpSci #MedSci
Lovely weather and a great day at the @heights_ultra_trail festival with the @slaithwaitestriders gang! My longest run yet - the Heights 27km Wessenden trail (28.5km on Garmin) 💪
September 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Lovely weather and a great day at the @heights_ultra_trail festival with the @slaithwaitestriders gang! My longest run yet - the Heights 27km Wessenden trail (28.5km on Garmin) 💪
Chelmsford Central #ParkRun no. 16 🏃
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
August 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Chelmsford Central #ParkRun no. 16 🏃
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
🙋 New paper alert! 📣
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🙋 New paper alert! 📣
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
Proud supervisor moment! 🤩
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
July 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Proud supervisor moment! 🤩
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
Park Run no. 15 for me & a very hot but lovely one! This is a nice route and there is a fair bit of shade on the way round too. I got to meet one of my lovely online running friends in person for the first time. We nattered all the way round & nattered over brunch afterwards. 😀
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
July 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Park Run no. 15 for me & a very hot but lovely one! This is a nice route and there is a fair bit of shade on the way round too. I got to meet one of my lovely online running friends in person for the first time. We nattered all the way round & nattered over brunch afterwards. 😀
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
Stunning Buck Moon rising tonight 🌝
July 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Stunning Buck Moon rising tonight 🌝
That was a hot ParkRun number 14! Far too hot for this (now) northern lass 🥵 Lovely route though and I was so grateful for the few bits of shade 😎
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
June 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
That was a hot ParkRun number 14! Far too hot for this (now) northern lass 🥵 Lovely route though and I was so grateful for the few bits of shade 😎
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
Fern Harvey’s fab poster presentation of her systematic review on process evaluations for complex intervention trials. Better reporting of context, mechanisms of action and fidelity would enable greater learning about successful interventions #ImpSci #EIE2025 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fern Harvey’s fab poster presentation of her systematic review on process evaluations for complex intervention trials. Better reporting of context, mechanisms of action and fidelity would enable greater learning about successful interventions #ImpSci #EIE2025 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social
Apparently it’s #NationalBiscuitDay so I’m sharing my greatest culinary creation: An anatomically correct* biscuit person
*artistic interpretation
*artistic interpretation
May 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Apparently it’s #NationalBiscuitDay so I’m sharing my greatest culinary creation: An anatomically correct* biscuit person
*artistic interpretation
*artistic interpretation
Inspired after hearing @drailyntan.bsky.social, a ParkRun ambassador and Associate Professor of Rheumatology, speak on Monday, I was motivated to get up and go do a tourist #ParkRun this morning.
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
May 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Inspired after hearing @drailyntan.bsky.social, a ParkRun ambassador and Associate Professor of Rheumatology, speak on Monday, I was motivated to get up and go do a tourist #ParkRun this morning.
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
Our clinical academic trainees and those that support them 👇
May 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our clinical academic trainees and those that support them 👇
☀️ The sun is shining in the beautiful setting of Oulton Hall today for the Inspiring the Next Generation event for the Leeds Clinical Academic Trainees.
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
☀️ The sun is shining in the beautiful setting of Oulton Hall today for the Inspiring the Next Generation event for the Leeds Clinical Academic Trainees.
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
Happy May Day! Early start for me today for the traditional dancing up the dawn 🌅
May 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Happy May Day! Early start for me today for the traditional dancing up the dawn 🌅
I wanted to run Newport half marathon in less than 2h 45m and I did it! 2h 40m 51s 🙌
My first half marathon in 14 years (having said I would never do it again) - and I smashed my PB by 7m 39s! I’m getting faster as I get older 😂
Fantastic support from friends along the way 💛 #Newport262
My first half marathon in 14 years (having said I would never do it again) - and I smashed my PB by 7m 39s! I’m getting faster as I get older 😂
Fantastic support from friends along the way 💛 #Newport262
April 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I wanted to run Newport half marathon in less than 2h 45m and I did it! 2h 40m 51s 🙌
My first half marathon in 14 years (having said I would never do it again) - and I smashed my PB by 7m 39s! I’m getting faster as I get older 😂
Fantastic support from friends along the way 💛 #Newport262
My first half marathon in 14 years (having said I would never do it again) - and I smashed my PB by 7m 39s! I’m getting faster as I get older 😂
Fantastic support from friends along the way 💛 #Newport262
I did it!!! Managed a running finish and a smile 😀
March 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I did it!!! Managed a running finish and a smile 😀
“If Candlemas Day be dry and fair,
The half of the winter is to come, and more…”
So, more snow to come then? ❄️
The half of the winter is to come, and more…”
So, more snow to come then? ❄️
February 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“If Candlemas Day be dry and fair,
The half of the winter is to come, and more…”
So, more snow to come then? ❄️
The half of the winter is to come, and more…”
So, more snow to come then? ❄️
Perfect day for a stunning snow hike up West Nab at the top of the Peak District today. Snow up to my knees on the hills and satisfying pericardial rub sounds all day. Finished the hike by moonlight. Love winters like this!
January 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Perfect day for a stunning snow hike up West Nab at the top of the Peak District today. Snow up to my knees on the hills and satisfying pericardial rub sounds all day. Finished the hike by moonlight. Love winters like this!
Such a beautiful winter day in the Pennines 🤩
January 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Such a beautiful winter day in the Pennines 🤩
I’m definitely a chionophile* - a person who thrives in cold weather and finds happiness in the quiet serenity of snowy days ☃️❄️🌨️
*As longs as I don’t need to drive anywhere!
*As longs as I don’t need to drive anywhere!
January 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I’m definitely a chionophile* - a person who thrives in cold weather and finds happiness in the quiet serenity of snowy days ☃️❄️🌨️
*As longs as I don’t need to drive anywhere!
*As longs as I don’t need to drive anywhere!
A bracing Christmas morning swim! Annual dip with my bestie, best way to start the day. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all 🎄🤶🏻🎁🦌🥳
December 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM
A bracing Christmas morning swim! Annual dip with my bestie, best way to start the day. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all 🎄🤶🏻🎁🦌🥳
For me, nothing as peaceful as this. I got to celebrate the dawn of the shortest day by dancing on top of a hill in a gale, laughing with friends as we were literally blown away whilst joking about how barmy we all are (and that we wouldn’t change a thing).
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
December 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
For me, nothing as peaceful as this. I got to celebrate the dawn of the shortest day by dancing on top of a hill in a gale, laughing with friends as we were literally blown away whilst joking about how barmy we all are (and that we wouldn’t change a thing).
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
For me, I would says it’s not just sometimes and I am incredibly lucky to have family, friends and colleagues to do strange things and make memories with 🥰✨
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
December 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
For me, I would says it’s not just sometimes and I am incredibly lucky to have family, friends and colleagues to do strange things and make memories with 🥰✨
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
This is just not celebratory enough on the last uni working day before Christmas!
December 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM
This is just not celebratory enough on the last uni working day before Christmas!
A huge thank you to everyone who came to my research World café events on Monday and Tuesday. So many productive conversations on how we can adapt system-level interventions to support primary care to reduce potentially harmful opioid prescribing.
#worldcafe #OpioidSMART #AuditAndFeedback
#worldcafe #OpioidSMART #AuditAndFeedback
December 18, 2024 at 8:20 AM
A huge thank you to everyone who came to my research World café events on Monday and Tuesday. So many productive conversations on how we can adapt system-level interventions to support primary care to reduce potentially harmful opioid prescribing.
#worldcafe #OpioidSMART #AuditAndFeedback
#worldcafe #OpioidSMART #AuditAndFeedback