Dr Gargi Ghosh

Gargi is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing Apprenticeships and an early career researcher in social policy. Gargi is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and the Higher Education Academy, holding a master’s in healthcare education management. Gargi has 17 years of clinical experience at the NHS, concluding this tenure as a lead clinical nurse specialist, policy developer, and mentor and educator for multidisciplinary staff.
Gargi represents the Early Career Researcher (ECR) community on the Impact Advisory Group, helping to shape impact support at ARU. Additionally, Gargi co-leads the Reproductive and Family Health Research Group for the HCRC. Gargi’s insights were shared in a published Q&A session with ID Medical in August 2020, aimed at inspiring younger nursing aspirants.

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Background

Before joining Anglia Ruskin University, as a lead policy developer for the Nutrition and Dietetics department, Gargi developed and implemented essential policies to achieve departmental objectives. Engaging with regional and national policymakers (NNNG), Gargi crafted internal policies and provided expert guidance and ensured strategic development and best practice benchmarking.

As a Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist in nutrition for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Gargi implemented standardised evidence-based practices across the three sites and led trust-wide training programmes for new nutrition devices and provided advanced nursing care and advice. Gargi collaborated with senior practitioners to align with the Trust Nursing Strategy and improve nursing practices. Gargi’s innovative approach identified areas for enhancing patient care and cost efficiency. Gargi worked with commissioning groups, managed contracts, and promoted seamless nutrition support services across the three sites.

Spoken Languages

• English
• Bengali
• Hindi

Research interests

• Nutritional disparities among vulnerable adults
• Ageing population, their household dynamics, and health and social care needs
• Obesity
• Artificial nutrition
• Health and well-being of the vulnerable adults
• Health Inequalities
• Household dynamics
• Health and social care needs
• Unmet Care needs

Areas of research supervision: Work-life balance of Biomedical Scientist

Current involvement with the interdisciplinary collaborative research-

• Impact of Brexit on EU older migrants
• Filipino nurse migration
• Cambridge City Council’s large, longitudinal data set pertaining to homeless service users.

Areas of research supervision

Gargi is currently acting as a co-supervisor to a Professional Doctorate (DProf) student. Principal Supervisor for funded Summer Research Interns for a MSc student and a MBBS 3rd year student.

Teaching

• Module Leader for the Degree Apprentice nursing UGMP module.
• UGMP Supervisor
• Personal Development Tutor for the Undergraduate direct entry students
• Academic assessor
• Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) link lecturer
• Annual reviewer for PGR students
• DProf/PhD/PGR Supervisor

Qualifications

• PhD in Public Health, University of West London
• MSc in Health Care Education and Management, Kingston University
• Level 3 Mentorship & Supervision for Contemporary Practice, Kingston University
• ICH GCP - The International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Princess Alexandra Hospital
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing & Midwifery (Honours), University of Kolkata (then Calcutta), India

Memberships, editorial boards

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH)
• Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration (RNA)

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

Gargi secured internal research funding for the Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme for 2023/24, providing two Summer Research Interns with a stipend of £1250 each for a full-time, three-week duration. The funding was provided by the Research and Innovation Development Office, ARU.

Gargi served as an external consultant/advisor for the “Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers: barriers to accessing purposeful activities in Prison” project, funded by HM Prison and Probation Service, assisting/advising them with quantitative data analysis of the survey dataset. The project's launch report explicitly recognised and acknowledged my academic contributions and advice.

Gargi mentored a colleague in their application for direct entry to FHEA, resulting in their successful certification.

Selected recent publications

Smith, D., Dagilytė, E., Greenfields, M., Radley, C., Ghosh, G. and Dadswell, A. (2023). ‘EU Older Migrants: Pilot Project Stakeholder Report’. Anglia Ruskin Research Online (ARRO), UK. PP 2-50. Available at: https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/708480

Ghosh, G., Khan, H.T.A. and Vohra, S. (2023) ‘Exploring the differences in social care needs by the degree of obesity among older adults in England: a cross-sectional study’. Health & Social Care in the Community, Wiley Online Library. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6926118.

Ghosh, G., Khan, H.T.A. and Vohra, S. (2022) ‘Differentials in Health and Wellbeing in Older Adults with Obesity in England: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing’. Journal of Population Ageing, Springer Nature Publication, pp. 1-29. DOI:10.1007/s12062-022-09386-2.

Ghosh, G., Khan, H.T.A. and Thomas, J. (2019) ‘The Nexus Between Obesity, Health and Social Care Needs for Older Adults: A Literature Review.’ Illness, Crisis & Loss, SAGE Publication, pp. 1-21. doi.org/10.1177/1054137319882156.

Ghosh G. (2013) Safe use of oral bowel-cleansing preparations. Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain): 1987), 27(22), 35–38. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2013.01.27.22.35.e5975.

Recent presentations and conferences

Oral presentation:

• David Smith, Eglė Dagilytė, Margaret Greenfields, Chantal Radley, Gargi Ghosh, Anna Dadswell (2024) ‘But there are areas where there is no support available…’: challenges for older EU migrants to access immigration and related advice in rural regions in England’. CAJI 2024 Conference ‘New Frontiers of Access to Justice’, ARU, Cambridge, UK.
• David Smith, Eglė Dagilytė, Margaret Greenfields, Chantal Radley, Gargi Ghosh, Anna Dadswell (2023) EU Older Migrants Living in Agricultural Towns After Brexit: Pilot Research Launch. Inter-University Migration Network Conference, Anglia Ruskin University (27th April 2023). (Peer-reviewed).
• David Smith, Eglė Dagilytė, Margaret Greenfields, Chantal Radley, Gargi Ghosh, Anna Dadswell (2023) Agricultural towns in the UK after Brexit: Investigating older EU migrants’ needs, challenges and opportunities. Safe and Inclusive Communities (SIC): Collaborations for the future. Anglia Ruskin University (8th March 2023). (Peer-reviewed)
• Margaret Greenfields, David Smith, Eglė Dagilytė, Gargi Ghosh, Anna Dadswell (2022) ‘Older EU migrants’ access to public services and support in the post-Brexit Environment’. Inter-gene-rationality: Challenges and Prospects, Social Policy Association (SPA): Swansea University, Singleton Park Campus. (8th July 2022).
• Gargi Ghosh (2023) Social care needs in older adults with obesity. Seminar, University of West London. (12th December 2023).

(Peer-reviewed).

• Ghosh, G. (2019) Public Health Burden of Obesity in Elderly: A Study on Health and Wellbeing. Symposium for the Nutrition and Hydration through life stages. University of West London. 14th March 2019.
• Ghosh, G. (2019) The Nexus Between Obesity, Health and Social Care Needs for Elderly: A Study on Health and Wellbeing. Research Conference. The University of West London. May 2019.
• Ghosh, G. (2019) The Nexus Between Obesity, Health and Social Care Needs for Elderly: A Study on Health and Wellbeing. Aging & Social Change: Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference, Vienna. 16th September 2019. (Peer-reviewed)
• Ghosh, G. (2019) Impacts of obesity on health and wellbeing among older adults in England’. Research Conference. The University of West London. May 2019 (Online).
• Ghosh, G. (2019) Impacts of obesity on health and wellbeing of older adults in England. Aging & Social Change: Tenth Interdisciplinary Conference, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 25th September 2019. (Peer-reviewed)

Poster presentation (Peer-reviewed):

Eglė Dagilytė, Margaret Greenfields, David Smith, Gargi Ghosh, Anna Dadswell, Chantal Radley (Anglia Ruskin University) (2023) Agricultural towns in the UK after Brexit: Investigating older EU migrants’ needs, challenges and opportunities. PISTE mid-term event: International Policy and Scientific Conference. Thessaloniki, Greece. (13th and 14th of March 2023).

Media experience

Gargi’s insights were shared in a published Q&A session with ID Medical in August 2020, aimed at inspiring younger nursing aspirants.