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This accessible text supports health practitioners undertaking qualitative research to inform clinical practice, guiding readers through the decision-making process from planning and proposing, through data collection, to dissemination and impact.
List of contents
One : Introduction - the clinician researcher, Two : Quality improvement: differentiating audit, service evaluation, and research, Three : Theory in qualitative research, Four: Evidence based practice and practice-based evidence, Five: Planning a project, Six: Types of qualitative research, Seven: Working with gatekeepers, stakeholders and experts by experience, Eight : Ethics and integrity , Nine : Dual roles - the clinician and researcher role, Ten: Sampling and recruitment, Eleven: Sensitivity, vulnerability and barriers to participation, Twelve: Managing researcher safety, Thirteen: Methods of data collection, Fourteen: Interviews and focus groups, Fifteen: Qualitative health research and digital technologies, Sixteen: Transcription and data management, Seventeen: Using clinical skills in research , Eighteen: Thematic approaches and coding data, Nineteen: Common analytic approaches, Twenty: Dissemination and translating research into practice
About the author
Dr Michelle O'Reilly is an Associate Professor of Communication in Mental Health at the University of Leicester and a Research Consultant and Quality Improvement Advisor for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Michelle is also a Chartered Psychologist in Health and a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Michelle has research interests in mental health and social media, self-harm and suicide, neurodevelopmental conditions, and child mental health services, such as mental health assessments and family therapy. Michelle recently won the Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research for her co-authored contribution on discursive psychology in this area (with Nikki Kiyimba and Jessica Lester). Michelle has expertise in qualitative methodologies and specialises in discursive psychology and conversation analysis and has written several books about research methods for different audiences.
Dr Philip Archard is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Education and Training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where he works on two doctoral courses: a qualifying programme in child, community and educational psychology and a programme in advanced practice and research for experienced health and social care professionals. Philip is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy. A social worker by background, Philip's research interests are in the areas of qualitative research, child and adolescent mental health, and child welfare. Until recently, Philip was working as a mental health practitioner in a specialist child and adolescent mental health service team.
Dr Nikki Kiyimbais a clinical academic, who works in private practice as is a Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is also an academic with extensive experience in tertiary education, and of postgraduate programme leadership. She is a journal editorial member, guest editor and peer reviewer for several international journals. She has co-authored three textbooks on research methods and has an extensive publication history at the intersection of the fields of mental health, spirituality, trauma, discursive practice, and research methodology.
