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Helen Roberts is a researcher affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a strong focus on several subfields, including General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Immunology, and Emergency Medicine.

Their research covers various topics, predominantly Child and Adolescent Health, Psychiatric care and mental health services, and Emergency and Acute Care Studies. Additional areas of interest include Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Participatory Visual Research Methods, and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

Roberts has contributed to multiple publications in several venues, frequently publishing in Wellcome Open Research, Archives of Disease in Childhood, BMJ Paediatrics Open, Poster events, and JCI Insight. Notable recent papers include:

  • Randomized phase I trial of antigen-specific tolerizing immunotherapy with peptide/calcitriol liposomes in ACPA+ rheumatoid arthritis, 2022, JCI Insight
  • Admission to acute medical wards for mental health concerns among children and young people in England from 2012 to 2022: a cohort study, 2025, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Development of a Core Outcome Set for Clinical Trials in Non-infectious Uveitis of the Posterior Segment, 2021, Ophthalmology
  • Admissions to paediatric medical wards with a primary mental health diagnosis: a systematic review of the literature, 2024, Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Born in Bradford Age of Wonder cohort: A protocol for qualitative longitudinal research, 2023, Wellcome Open Research

Roberts frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Joseph Ward, Francesca Cornaglia, Faith Gibson, Dasha Nicholls, and Damian Roland.

Best Publications

  • Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide

    Mark Petticrew;Helen Roberts

  • Guidance on the conduct of narrative synthesis in sytematic reviews

    Jennie Popay;Helen M. Roberts;Amanda Sowden;Mark Petticrew

  • Guidance on the conduct of narrative synthesis in systematic Reviews. A Product from the ESRC Methods Programme. Version 1

    jennie popay;Helen Roberts;Amanda Sowden;Mark Petticrew

  • Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity

    Janis Baird;David Fisher;Patricia Lucas;Jos Kleijnen

  • Doing feminist research

    Helen Roberts

  • Doing Feminist Research.

    Mary K. Zimmerman;Helen Roberts

  • Evidence, hierarchies, and typologies: horses for courses

    M Petticrew;H Roberts

  • Worked examples of alternative methods for the synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research in systematic reviews

    Patricia J Lucas;Janis Baird;Lisa Arai;Catherine Law

  • Testing methodological guidance on the conduct of narrative synthesis in systematic reviews: effectiveness of interventions to promote smoke alarm ownership and function.

    Mark Rodgers;Amanda Sowden;Mark Petticrew;Lisa Arai

  • Oral contraceptive pill as treatment for primary dysmenorrhoea.

    Chooi L Wong;Cindy Farquhar;Helen Roberts;Michelle Proctor

  • What are the health benefits of active travel? A systematic review of trials and cohort studies.

    Lucinda E. Saunders;Judith M. Green;Mark P. Petticrew;Rebecca Steinbach

  • Bone density in women receiving depot medroxyprogesterone acetate for contraception.

    T Cundy;M Evans;H Roberts;D Wattie

  • The role and theoretical evolution of knowledge translation and exchange in public health.

    Rebecca Armstrong;Elizabeth Waters;Helen Roberts;Sandy Oliver

  • Testing methodological developments in the conduct of narrative synthesis: a demonstration review of research on the implementation of smoke alarm interventions

    Lisa Arai;Nicky Britten;Jennie Popay;Helen Roberts

  • ‘How come I don’t get asked no questions?’ Researching ‘hard to reach’ children and teenagers

    Katherine Curtis;Helen Roberts;Jeanette Copperman;Anna Downie

  • Recovery of bone density in women who stop using medroxyprogesterone acetate.

    T Cundy;J Cornish;M C Evans;H Roberts

  • The Patient Patients: Women and Their Doctors

    Helen Roberts

  • Children at Risk?: Safety As a Social Value

    Helen Roberts;susan smith;Carol Bryce

  • Listening to children: And hearing them

    Helen Roberts

  • Extending systematic reviews to include evidence on implementation: methodological work on a review of community-based initiatives to prevent injuries.

    Katrina Roen;Lisa Arai;Helen Roberts;Jennie Popay

  • Handbook of Youth Mentoring

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Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Judith Green
Judith Green King's College London
Anna Goodman
Anna Goodman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jennie Popay
Jennie Popay Lancaster University
Phil Edwards
Phil Edwards London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Steven Cummins
Steven Cummins London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Amanda Sowden
Amanda Sowden University of York
Carolyn DiGuiseppi
Carolyn DiGuiseppi University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne

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