Recent publications
Article
Shaw, K, Kenyon, S, Pease, A, Spry, J, Routledge, G & Garstang, J 2025, 'Child Death Review: understanding variations in practice using Normalisation Process Theory', BMJ Paediatrics Open, vol. 9, no. 1, e003432. https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmjpo-2025-003432
Garstang, J, Pease, A, Shaw, K, Spry, J, Routledge, G & Kenyon, S 2025, 'Family involvement in learning from expected child deaths: a qualitative study of UK parents', Child: Care, Health and Development, vol. 51, no. 4, e70134. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.70134
Cooper, E, Holmes, J, Speed, N & Garstang, JJ 2025, 'Needs and experiences of families after a sudden unexplained death in childhood: a qualitative study', BMJ Paediatrics Open, vol. 9, no. 1, 26. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2025-003812
Garstang, JJ, Spry, J, Routledge, G, Pease, A, Shaw, KL & Kenyon, S 2024, 'Developing a toolkit to support parents’ involvement in child death review: an experience-based co-design study', Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327642
Garstang, JJ, Tosyali, M, Menka, M & Blair, PS 2024, 'Incidence of sudden unexplained death in childhood for children aged 1-14 years in England and Wales during 2001-2020: an observational study', Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327840
Garstang, JJ & Menka, M 2024, 'Infant death from accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed in England and Wales: rare or unrecognised events?', BMJ Paediatrics Open, vol. 8, no. 1, e002419. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-002419
Quinn, LM, Dias, RP, Greenfield, SM, Richter, AG, Garstang, J, Shukla, D, Acharjee, A, Gkoutos, G, Oram, R, Faustini, S, Boiko, O, Litchfield, I, Boardman, F, Zakia, F, Burt, C, Connop, C, Lepley, A, Gardner, C, Dayan, C, Barrett, T & Narendran, P 2024, 'Protocol for a feasibility and acceptability study for UK general population paediatric type 1 diabetes screening: the EarLy Surveillance for Autoimmune diabetes (ELSA) study', Diabetic Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.15490
Dowell, AC, Lancaster, T, Bruton, R, Ireland, G, Bentley, C, Sylla, P, Zuo, J, Scott, S, Jadir, A, Begum, J, Roberts, T, Stephens, C, Ditta, S, Shepherdson, R, Powell, AA, Brent, AJ, Brent, B, Baawuah, F, Okike, I, Beckmann, J, Ahmad, S, Aiano, F, Garstang, J, Ramsay, ME, Azad, R, Waiblinger, D, Willett, B, Wright, J, Ladhani, SN & Moss, P 2023, 'Immunological imprinting of humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in children', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 3845. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39575-2
Garstang, J, Dickens, J, Menka, M & Taylor, J 2023, 'Improving professional practice in the investigation and management of intrafamilial child sexual abuse: Qualitative analysis of serious child protection reviews', Child Abuse and Neglect, vol. 137, 106053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106053
Dowell, AC, Tut, G, Begum, J, Bruton, R, Bentley, C, Butler, M, Uwenedi, G, Zuo, J, Powell, AA, Brent, AJ, Brent, B, Baawuah, F, Okike, I, Beckmann, J, Ahmad, S, Aiano, F, Garstang, J, Ramsay, ME, Moss, P & Ladhani, SN 2023, 'Nasal mucosal IgA levels against SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal coronaviruses are low in children but boosted by reinfection', Journal of Infection, vol. 87, no. 5, pp. 403-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2023.08.013
Dickens, J, Cook, L, Cossar, J, Okpokiri, C, Taylor, J & Garstang, J 2023, 'Re-envisaging professional curiosity and challenge: Messages for child protection practice from reviews of serious cases in England', Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 152, 107081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107081
Commissioned report
Stoianova, S, Williams, T, Sleap, V, Odd, D, Garstang, J, Fraser, J, Harrop, E, Fraser, L, Tammam, E, Robertson, E & Luyt, K 2025, Infants, children, and young people with life-limiting conditions. Learning from child death reviews on palliative and end of life care provision. National Child Mortality Database Programme Thematic Report. National Child Mortality Database. <https://www.ncmd.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/NCMD_Life_Limiting_Conditions_Report.pdf>
Stoianova, S, Williams, T, Odd, D, Sleap, V, Fraser, J, Garstang, J, Grigg, J, Levy, M, Sharma, V, Townshend, J & Luyt, K 2024, Child deaths due to Asthma or Anaphylaxis, National Child Mortality Database Thematic Report. National Child Mortality Database. <https://www.ncmd.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Asthma-and-anaphylaxis.pdf>
Williams, T, Odd, D, Sleap, V, Stoianova, S, Garstang, J, Haythornthwaite, G, Rowlands, R, Sidebotham, P, Misra, N, Griffiths, M, Rogers, C, Mant, B, Bowes, M, Martin, A, Phillips, K, Baldwin, N, Heard, L, McAndrew, D, Nasir, N, Murphy, F & Luyt, K 2023, Deaths of children and young people due to traumatic incidents: Vehicle Collisions, Drownings, Violence and Maltreatment and Unintentional Injuries. National Child Mortality Database thematic report. National Child Mortality Database. <https://www.ncmd.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/NCMD-Trauma-Thematic-Report.pdf>
Other report
Garstang, J, Taylor, J, Hallett, N, Christie, C, Burch, K & Moultrie, K 2025, Practice and outcomes for special guardianship and adoptive families with safeguarding issues: A mixed methods study. <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/nursing/research/rav/our-research>
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