Adventures in Research

Adventures in Research

We are academics who teach health care professionals all about research and quality improvement. In this podcast we talk to researchers exploring all health-related issues about their work and use this to tell you about research methods in the widest sense. We hope to do this with a humorous slant most of the time and we hope you enjoy the show.

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January 2, 2024 45 mins

In this episode Professor Cara Bailey from the University of Birmingham talks to us about her research into end of life care in the Emergency Department.  We learn how being an insider in the department helped her to understand what questions needed to be answered through research to improve the care of the patients, and the well being of the staff.  Cara is talking about the beginning of her research journey, when she was not sure...

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Hosu is a mental health nurse whose research explored what it is like to work on an eating disorders unit.  She wanted to understand why this clinical area was not a more popular choice for nurses.  She talks about how she came up with questions to use in her semi-structured interviews to get nurses to talk about their experiences and what she learned.

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In this episode Bronwyn interviews Philippa Marriot.  Philippa did a qualitative study to find out what it is like for student nurses on their first placement. 

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October 25, 2023 2 mins

This is a tiny sample of what is to come.  Your hosts are Amelia Swift from the University of Birmingham in the UK, and Bronwyn Tarrant from the University of Melbourne, Australia.  We tell you a little about the podcast series and you hear some of the voices of the people we have interviewed about their healthcare research.

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