Rate My Professor Georgina Jones

Professor Georgina Jones is a Professor of Health Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, based in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She completed her D.Phil at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Green Templeton College, where she worked in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Health Services Research Section. Prior to joining Leeds Beckett University in 2016, she held the position of Reader in Social Science at the University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). Jones is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Implant Research (IRIS) at Leeds Beckett University.

Her research utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods, focusing on the development of patient-reported outcome measures, psychometrics, and patient decision-making, with a special emphasis on women's reproductive health. She is internationally recognised for raising awareness of quality of life issues and for developing patient-reported outcome measures and patient decision aids in the field of reproductive health. Key publications include 'Preventing recurrence of endometriosis by means of long-acting progestogen therapy (PRE-EMPT): report of an internal pilot, multi-arm, randomised controlled trial' (2017, Trials); 'Appraising the quality of tools used to record patient-reported outcomes in users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC): a systematic review' (2019, Quality of Life Research); 'Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Plastic Surgery: An Introduction and Review of Clinical Applications' (2019, Annals of Plastic Surgery); 'Development of a patient-reported outcome measure for gastrointestinal recovery after surgery (PRO-diGI)' (2025, British Journal of Surgery); 'A Systematic Review of Outcomes Following Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL)' (2022, JPRAS Open); 'A Baby at All Costs? Exploring the Use and Provision of Unproven Adjuvant Treatments in the Context of IVF' (2021, Seminars in Reproductive Medicine); 'Understanding the relationship between social determinants of health and maternal mortality' (2022, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology); and 'Development and psychometric testing of an electronic patient reported outcome tool for vulval disorders (ePAQ-Vulva)' (2017, Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease). These contributions highlight her significant impact on health psychology and patient-centered research.