Peer reviewed articles (selected)
Kinsella, E.L., Muldoon, O.T., Lemon, S., Stonebridge, N., Hughes, S. & Sumner, R.C. (2022). In it together? Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the UK and Ireland during COVID-19. British Journal of Social Psychology. Accepted August 2022. 10.1111/bjso.12579
Sumner, R. C. & Kinsella, E.L. (2022). Solidarity appraisal, meaning, and markers of welfare in frontline workers in the UK and Ireland during Covid-19. SSM: Mental Health, 100099
Sumner, R.C., Cassarino, M., Dockray, S., Setti, A. & Crone, D.M. (2021). Moving towards a multidimensional dynamic approach to nature and health: A bioavailability perspective. People & Nature, 2021;00:1-9, https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10266
Kinsella, E.L., Hughes, S., Lemon, S., Stonebridge, N. & Sumner, R.C. (2021): “We shouldn't waste a good crisis”: The lived experience of working on the frontline through the first surge (and beyond) of COVID-19 in the UK and Ireland. Psychology & Health, 10.1080/08870446.2021.1928668
Sumner, R.C. & Kinsella, E.L. (2021b): “It’s like a kick in the teeth”: The emergence of novel predictors of burnout in frontline workers during Covid-19. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:1875
Kinsella, E. L., & Sumner, R. C. (2021). High ideals: the misappropriation and reappropriation of the heroic label in the midst of a global pandemic. Journal of Medical Ethics.
Sumner, R. C., & Kinsella, E. L. (2021a). Grace Under Pressure: Resilience, Burnout, and Wellbeing in Frontline Workers in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3757.
Sumner, R. C., Crone, D. M., Hughes, S., & James, D. V. B. (2021). Arts on prescription: observed changes in anxiety, depression, and well-being across referral cycles. Public Health, 192, 49-55.
Sumner, R.C. & Goodenough, A.E. (2020). A walk on the wild side: How interactions with non-companion animals might help reduce stress. People & Nature, https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10074
Sumner, R.C., Bennett, R., Creaven, A-M., & Gallagher, S. (2020) Unemployment, employment precarity, and inflammation. Brain, Behavior & Immunity, 83, 303-308
Sumner, R.C., Crone, D.M., Baker, C., Hughes, S., Loughren, E.A., James, D.V.B. (2019). Factors associated with attendance, engagement, and wellbeing change in an arts on prescription intervention. Journal of Public Health, doi: https://doie.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdz032
Redmond, M., Sumner, R.C., Hughes, S. & Baker, C.M. (2018). ‘Light in dark places’: exploring qualitative data from a longitudinal study of using creative arts as a form of social prescribing. Arts & Health, 11, (3), 232-245
Crone, D.M., Sumner, R.C., Loughren, E.A., Baker, C.M., Hughes, S., James, D.V.B. (2018) “Artlift” arts on prescription intervention in UK primary Care: Updated findings from an ongoing observational study. European Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky021
Sumner, R.C. & Gallagher, S. (2017). Unemployment as a chronic stressor: A systematic review of cortisol studies. Psychology & Health, 32, (3), p.289-311
Gallagher, S., Sumner, R.C., Muldoon., O., Creaven, A-M. & Hannigan, A. (2016) Unemployment is associated with lower cortisol awakening and blunted dehydroepiandrosterone responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 69, p.41-49
Sumner, R. C., Nowicky, A. V., Parton, A., Wylock, C., Cserjesi, R., Fischler, B., ... & Gidron, Y. (2014). Prospective relationship between hemispheric lateralisation and CD4+ T cells in human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Neuroimmunomodulation, 21(1), 31-36.
Sumner, R.C., Parton, A., Nowicky, A.V., Kishore, U. & Gidron, Y. (2011). Hemispheric lateralisation and immune function: A systematic review of human research. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 240-241, p.1-12