David Evans' Outputs (3)

‘How old are you, boy?’ An autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in 1980s Britain (2025)
Journal Article

Summary This is an autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in the mid-1980s, a time of significant change in UK sexual health services. There are very few first-hand accounts of health advising in the literature. Autobiography... Read More about ‘How old are you, boy?’ An autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in 1980s Britain.

Public involvement in UK health and care research 1995–2020: Reflections from a witness seminar (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Public involvement is important to the relevance and impact of health and care research, as well as supporting the democratisation of research. In 2020, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) reorganized and eliminated INVOLVE,... Read More about Public involvement in UK health and care research 1995–2020: Reflections from a witness seminar.

‘Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively …’: the history of sexual health advising in twentieth-century England (2024)
Journal Article

Much has been written about the history of policy and practice on venereal diseases/sexually transmitted infections in twentieth-century England, but one key group of actors has been overlooked: sexual health advisers and their predecessors. From the... Read More about ‘Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively …’: the history of sexual health advising in twentieth-century England.