About me
Research and evaluation:
I am a qualitative researcher with extensive experience of interdisciplinary working which involves a range of research professions in addition to clinical partnerships and involvement of users. With 18 years research and 11 years evaluation experience, I have developed strong methodological knowledge and skills as the result of my involvement in different research projects, consultancy evaluation and teaching activities.
I am an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield where I worked as a Research Fellow from 2009-2018 in a number of research and evaluation projects funded by the UK research councils, EU, NHS England and the UK charities with over £360,000.00 research and consultancy funds and 30 publications.
Teaching and supervision experience:
I have experience of teaching to a range of learners including post-graduate students, NHS health professionals, colleagues, health and social care commissioners, patients, industry partners and technology innovators. I teach through class-based teaching, one-to-one sessions, group discussions and placements using a mixed of methods. I have track record of engaging with the public and patients’ groups to increase the impact of my research.
I have supervised and coordinated Master programmes and Master dissertations since 2009, and have supervised three PhD studies to successful completion.
Research-led teaching
My teaching is greatly informed by my research. I gained knowledge and skills of interdisciplinary working and evaluation methods for complex settings through years of working in technology projects especially by engaging in a European grant application and subsequently working with academic and industry international partners gave me an opportunity to develop an understanding of innovative methods for evaluating health and social programmes.
My methodological expertise is grouped around three core approaches and is driven by an experiential understanding of the real world situations:
- Qualitative Research predominantly Narrative Inquiry: I use a narrative approach that depicts “the double arrow of time” (Mishler 2006), where the meanings of past events are constantly revised and reinterpreted based on our current circumstances.
- Experience-centred design: This approach emphasises the importance of deep and meaningful engagement with users in which the whole person behind the user is actively engaged with researchers in the co-design of systems as differently placed experts and as co-producers of experience (Wright and McCarthy, 2010).
- An integrated evaluation methodology for complex real world situations: There are many evaluation approaches available but considering the importance of both theory-driven as well as pragmatic methods and the key role that iterative inquiry plays in understanding complexity, I believe that an integrated methodology can better equip evaluators with knowledge and skills needed to undertake evaluation in the real world.