Impact in Qualitative Research Blog

The QUAHRC Impact in Qualitative Research blog focuses on the fantastic work that is being done at King’s and the impact this is having on health and care outside of the research community.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Bringing research to life – creating impact case study videos of co-design

Dr Lili Golmohammadi and Emelia Delaney are Research Associates at King’s College London, working on the King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub and co-design for digital health innovation. Paul Lennon is a Lived Experience Contributor and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Member, who has supported a number of projects at King's College London, including the SURE Recovery App, which aids the process of recovery from addiction. In this blog they discuss the process of communicating stories of co-design in an engaging format for the development of an open-access Co-design for digital health course and methods library.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Phoebe Martin on exploring campus sexual harassment

Dr Phoebe Martin is a Research Associate at King’s College London working on the project ‘Visual and Embodied Methodologies for Addressing Gender Based Violence’. Her research looks at the intersections of art and feminist activism. In this blog she discusses a series of Photovoice workshops exploring the idea of safety in relation to sexual harassment on campus.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Nat Gohlan on power dynamics in co-production

Nat Gohlan is the Participatory Research Coordinator at King’s College London, working to embed a culture of co-produced and collaborative research with communities. In this blog, Nat shares insights and reflections from a recent training session – Power Dynamics in Co-Produced Research – which they ran with Voices That Shake!.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Rachel Rowan Olive on multilingual voice-hearing

Rachel Rowan Olive is a research assistant with the QUAHRC and a survivor researcher using her experience of psychiatric systems to inform her work. In this blog she discusses presenting her applied linguistics research with multilingual voice-hearers to the South London and Maudsley Recovery College's Research Club.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Mikkel Kenni Bruun on the unintended effects of ‘evidence-based’ practice in NHS Talking Therapies

Dr Mikkel Kenni Bruun is a social anthropologist working on various aspects of mental healthcare in the UK. Here he unpacks what it can mean to apply medical standards of evidence to interpersonal treatments such as therapy: can it do more harm than good?

Impact in Qualitative Research: Gemma McKenzie on human rights in childbirth

Dr Gemma McKenzie is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at King's, where she works on creative methods and violence in the medical treatment of pregnancy and childbirth. This follows her PhD study of freebirthing – deciding to give birth without input from clinicians – in the UK. In this blog post she discusses how she came to be producing an art exhibition titled “Threads of protest” coming up next year.

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An introduction to impact for qualitative researchers

Sally Marlow is Professor of Practice in Public Understanding of Mental Health Research and Associate Dean for Impact at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. She has extensive experience in making research accessible to non-academic audiences and regularly appears on BBC radio discussing topics in mental health. In this blog, she unpacks the idea of impact and asks: what does it mean for qualitative research?

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Sian Oram on creative workshops with coercive control survivors

Sian, who directs the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network, discusses a day of workshops exploring survivors' priorities around coercive control.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Grace Lavelle and Hannah Jones on exploring the psychosocial needs of people living with long-term conditions

Grace and Hannah discuss how qualitative research laid the foundations for a new online peer support platform for those with long term health conditions.

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Angie Sweeney and Lois Parri on a collaborative art exhibition

Dr Angie Sweeney and Lois Parri reflect on using an art exhibition to share the work of survivor artists and encourage sensitive conversations about abuse.

Impact in Qualitative Research: Bryher Bowness on co-producing guidance for researchers and the public on involving carers in research

Bryher reflects on her experience as part of an NIHR Carer’s Steering Group which has recently coproduced a ‘Top Tips’ resource about carer involvement in research

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Gracie Tredget on integrating physical and mental healthcare

Gracie talks about a qualitative evaluation of physical healthcare in adult community mental health teams within a South London Mental Health Trust

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Emma Maynard on the Family Stories project

Emma Maynard reflects on how the Family Stories project is helping to find sustainable approaches to trauma-informed, responsive parenting

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Anna Verey and Howard Burdett reflect on qualitative longitudinal research

Anna and Howard examine the potential impact of qualitative longitudinal research through reflections on ‘Military Veterans and Welfare Reform’ (Scullion et al. 2021)

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Siofra Peeren, Survivors Voices & The Flying Child - Perspectives on trauma-informed public engagement workshops

Síofra, Jane, and Sophie share their reflections on conducting and taking part in trauma-informed public engagement workshops

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Elsa Montgomery – Co-producing online resources for maximum impact

Elsa reflects on co-producing an online resource to help prepare survivors of CSA for pregnancy, birth and parenthood

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Kylee Trevillion - A reflection on using co-production approaches in mental health research

Kylee reflects on how a co-production approach resulted in a richer and more impactful study

Impact in Qualitative Research: Gemma McKenzie - Working with Creatives to Disseminate Qualitative Research

Gemma reflects on the process of working with creatives to disseminate her qualitative research in an impactful way

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