About me
Research, evaluation and narrative writing:
I am a Narrative researcher and writer with extensive experience of using qualitative research, interdisciplinary working and real-world evaluation. With 25 years experience, I have developed strong methodological knowledge and skills as the result of my involvement in different research projects, evaluation and teaching activities.
I worked as a Clinical Researcher and Research Fellow in Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield and then continued my career as an independent researcher, educator and writer. My research and evaluation projects funded by the UK research councils, EU, NHS England and the UK charities resulted in over £360,000.00 research and consultancy funds and 30 scientific publications.
Currently, I am working on my book using my research skills and knowledge to depict my life story.
Teaching and supervision experience:
I have experience of teaching to a range of learners including post-graduate students, NHS health professionals, colleagues, 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, Master dissertations, and PhD studies to successful completion. I have experience of examining a number of Master Dissertations and PhD theses.
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-led projects, and engagement with academic and industry international partners, which gave me an opportunity to develop an understanding of innovative methods for evaluating health and social programmes.
My methodological expertise is grouped around four core approaches 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.
- Patient-reported outcome measures: I have used Individualised outcome measures which allow patients to select domains of life important to them with the ability to examine change of standards and values over time.