Dr Sarah Fry
Placement Lead: BN Programme
- frys4@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 206 87801
- Room 2.14, 2nd Floor, Ty Dewi Sant, Heath Campus, Cardiff, CF14 4XN
Teaching and Scholarship Lecturer in Adult Nursing, teaching at postgraduate and undergraduate level. I have recently (2017) completed a PhD with the School of Healthcare Sciences, funded by RCBC Wales.
The title of my thesis is:
Perceptions of Prostate Cancer Risk in White Working Class, African Caribbean and Somali Men Living in South East Wales: A constructivist grounded theory.
Qualified in adult nursing from St Mary's Hospital in London in 1995 and later completed a Critical Care Nursing degree. I worked for nine years in critical care, mainly Accident and Emergency, before moving to Cardiff in 2004 to start a Psychology degree at Cardiff University. I graduated with a BSc (hons) Psychology in 2007 and then returned to nursing working in uro-oncology research at Velindre Cancer Centre. I developed an interest in male health, specifically prostate cancer, and went on to work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist for urological cancers until 2015.
My oncology nursing career lead me to question why men from ethnic minority groups are under-represented in prostate cancer clinics, and this is now the main focus of my research.
My main teaching/research interests are: Male health, urological cancers, social determinants of health, cultural competence (in care delivery), shared decision making. I am also involved in teaching assessment skills of the acutely unwell adult in the clinical skills simulation suite.
Member of ManVan Project steering group (Tenovus/Prostate Cancer UK/Movember)
Member of Prostate Cancer UK steering group, PSA testing in asymptomatic men
Professional memberships
Nursing and Midwifery Council - Registered Adult Nurse January 1995
2018
- Fry, S. 2018. Perceptions of prostate cancer risk in white working class, African-Caribbean and Somali men living in south east Wales: a constructionist grounded theory. Presented at: RCN International Research Conference, Birmingham, UK, 16-18 Apr 2018.
- Kelly, D.et al. 2018. Heteronormativity and prostate cancer: a discursive paper. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 27(1-2), pp. 461-467. (10.1111/jocn.13844)
2017
- Fry, S. 2017. Perceptions of prostate cancer risk in white working class, African Caribbean and Somali men living in South East Wales: a constructivist grounded theory. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
PhD title: Differences in perceptions of prostate cancer risk between black British men and white British men living in South Wales: Implications for service delivery
Funded on a part-time bases by RCBC Wales (October 2012 – October 2017)
Research grant from Prostate Cancer UK (December 2014 - December 2015)