Principal Research Fellow
Email: s.wheelwright@sussex.ac.uk
Tel (UK): 01273 873024
Tel (International) +44 1273 873024
Dr Sally Wheelwright
Following a degree in Natural Sciences (Experimental Psychology) at the University of Cambridge, Sally Wheelwright remained in Cambridge to research reading development for a year followed by 15 years of autism research. In 2010, she moved to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton to develop quality of life questionnaires and complete a PhD, focussing on cancer cachexia (uncontrolled, unintentional weight loss and muscle wasting). In 2017, Sally joined the Macmillan Survivorship Research Group in Health Sciences, University of Southampton to work on prospective longitudinal cohort studies exploring the recovery of health and wellbeing in adults diagnosed with cancer.
Sally joined SHORE-C in October 2021. Her research interests centre around measuring and improving quality of life in people with life limiting and life changing conditions.
- Using Electronic Questionnaires in Healthcare
Using Electronic Questionnaires in Healthcare - a public consultation
- I-Prehab
I-Prehab will develop a toolkit to support cancer workers to raise awareness of and encourage participation in prehabilitation, particularly with people from socially deprived and ethnically minoritised communities.
- CHANGES
Development and preliminary evaluation of a web based intervention for people with cancer and unintentional weight loss and their informal carers.
- EORTC QLG educational programme
This project will develop an internationally applicable curriculum for quality of life (QoL) in cancer clinical trials and clinical practice.
- Predicting Cancer Related Fatigue in Women
PhD project investigating if it is possible to predict who will experience Cancer related fatigue (CRF) during and after treatment.
- INSTEP
This project aims to design a programme the help people with bowel cancer who not very active to move more before and after thir bowel cancer surgery, which can help them feel better, recover faster, and even lower the chance of the cancer coming back. The team are working closely with patients, nurses, cancer support workers and other health experts to make sure the programme is easy to use, helpful, inclusive and fit's into people's lives.
- Yang W, Skan O, Rogers SN, Wheelwright S, Kim DS. (2025) Understanding the Factors That Influence Shared-Decision Making Around Surgical Resection of Low-Risk Thyroid Cancers: A Prospective Qualitative Study. Thyroid. Find it online here 18/12/2025
- Sztankay M, Wheelwright S, Vassiliou V, Bleiker EMA, Rahman B, Holzner ...Oberguggenberger, A. (2025) Quality of Life in Adult Individuals Living With or at Risk of a Hereditary Cancer Predisposition Syndrome: A Scoping Review of the Qualitative Literature. Cancer Medicine;14 (18). Find it online here 12/09/2025
- Wheelwright, S., Lean, Q.Y., Minton, O., Shilling, V. The use of patient reported outcome measures in routine cancer clinical care: results from a freedom of information request. Discov Health Systems 4, 64 (2025). Https://doi.org/10.1007/s44250-025-00250-6 Find it online here 03/06/2025
- Piccinin C, Aaronson N, Bjordal K, Coens C, Darlington A, …, Wheelwright S, Groenvold M. (2025) Flexibility in patient-reported outcome and health-related quality of life measurement: The EORTC Quality of Life Group measurement strategy, European Journal of Cancer, 220. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2025.115392. Find it online here 07/04/2025
- Wheelwright S, Minton O, Absolom K, Fairvre-Finn C, Fallowfield L, Gilbert ...Shilling V. (2025) Integrating ePROMs: A Key Opportunity for England's National Cancer Plan. Journal of Cancer Policy (44): 100575 Find it online here 10/03/2025
- Meattini I, De Santis MC, Visani L, Scorsetti M, Fozza A, Meduri B ... Livi L. (2024). Single-modality endocrine therapy versus radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery in women aged 70 years and older with luminal A-like early breast cancer (EUROPA): a preplanned interim analysis of a phase 3, non-inferiority, randomised trial. Lancet Oncology, 26 (1): 37-50 Find it online here 12/12/2024
- Bradley L, & Wheelwright S. (2024). The impact of delays in transfer to specialist rehabilitation on outcomes in patients with acquired brain injury. Clinical Rehabilitation; 38 (11): 1552-1558. Find it online here 25/09/2024
- Abedin K, Lean QY & Wheelwright S. (2024) Nutritional self-management in colorectal cancer patients and survivors: A scoping review. Colorectal Disease. 2024; 00: 1-18. Find it online here 30/07/2024
- Watts T, Courtier N, Fry S, Gale N, Gillen E, McCutchan G,... Hopkinson, J. (2024). Access, acceptance and adherence to cancer prehabilitation: a mixed-methods systematic review. J Cancer Surviv. Find it online here 06/05/2024
- Wheelwright SJ, Russ S, Mold F, Armes J & Harder H (2024) Symptomatic presentation of cancer in primary care: a scoping review of patients' experiences and needs during the cancer diagnostic pathway. BMJ Open; 14:e076527. Find it online here 20/03/2024
