Staff Profile

  • Tracey joined the University of Northampton in 2006 as a practice educator for child health. Tracey has extensive clinical and academic experience in both Australia and the United Kingdom with her primary focus on paediatric and neonatal intensive care settings. Prior to working with the University of Northampton, Tracey worked for the University of East Anglia and University of Wales. Tracey is an academic children’s nurse whose PhD (2007) focused on the transition to motherhood.

  • Tracey teaches across a range of subjects, both postgraduate and undergraduate. She currently supervisors a range of both national and international PhD students aligned with health.

  • Methodologically her expertise is in qualitative. Tracey undertook research with teenage Mums, children in care and young offenders. She led the development of a Universal Family Assessment tool and undertook an Early Years Early Help Programme evaluation. She secured National Lottery Funding to create a centre for families in her local community. Tracey and her team have just completed a two-year project Evaluating the resilience of children in sixteen (16) London inner city schools. An a newly appointed Associate Professor at FHES she has successfully been awarded funds for an Innovation project: “Converting willingness to Engagement” targeting health professionals’ engagement with their continuing practice development needs and how these are addressed by the University of Northampton.

  • For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Tracey Redwood’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.

  • Redwood, T.C., Neill, S., Church, S. and Spencer, M. (2018) Early Help in Early Years: Developing a Universal Assessment Tool, Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, April 2018 DOI: 10.1080/24694193.2018.1457104

    Redwood, T.C., Alexander, J. & Callaghan, J. (2017) Early Start Charnwood Programme Evaluation, Archives of Disease in Childhood 102 (Supplement 1): A 19 DOI10.1136/archdischild-2017-313087.43

    Redwood, T., Alexander, J. & Callaghan, J. (2017) Early Start in Early Years: Evaluating a Vulnerable First Time Parent Programme, Presented to 13th International Family Nursing Conference, 14 – 17 June, Pampaloma, Spain.

    Redwood, T., Alexander, J. & Callaghan, J. (2017) Early Start in Early Years: Evaluating a Vulnerable First Time Parent Programme, Presented to RCPCH Conference, 24 – 26 May, Birmingham.