Author Archives: Avril Nicoll
Practice change in speech and language therapy: from PhD thesis to Plain English
It’s embarrassing as a speech and language therapist to admit this: I find it difficult to communicate the findings of my PhD in a way that can be easily understood. My thesis is open access, but access doesn’t make it … Continue reading
Posted in Critical realism, implementation science, PhD, Qualitative research, Research, Service delivery, Speech and language development, Speech and Language Therapy, Writing for publication
Tagged communication, implementation, intervention, practice change, Qualitative research, speech and language therapy, writing for publication
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Making memories: equal pay and learning about oral history
This (10th November) is Equal Pay Day 2016, the point in the year when women in Britain effectively stop earning relative to men. I’ve just come across an abridged oral history from 2006 reflecting on the fifteen year equal value … Continue reading
Posted in Oral history, Qualitative research, Research, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged Oral history, Pam Enderby, PhD, speech and language therapy
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Presenting research findings: Tales of the unexpected
A friend getting ready for her viva was given a great bit of advice: there will always be something unexpected which you can only prepare for by accepting it will happen. I was reminded of this following my first experience … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, CPD, Ethics, implementation science, PhD, Qualitative research, Research, Speech and Language Therapy, Uncategorized
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How can we talk about photos in research and therapy?
Penny Tinkler presented an IIQM webinar this week, ‘Talking about photos: how does photo-elicitation work and how can we use it productively in research?’ She explained that photo-elicitation doesn’t always meet researchers’ expectations and so, in order to use it well, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, CPD, Qualitative research, Resources, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged photo-elicitation, Qualitative research, speech and language therapy
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The metaphor of ‘missing data’ in qualitative research
How does the metaphor of ‘missing data’ work for you in relation to qualitative research? Graham Crow tested this idea out with 12 of us (all PhD students) this week at a National Centre for Research Methods course. We discussed … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, CPD, Ethics, PhD, Research
Tagged missing data, PhD, Qualitative research
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Qualitative health research in practice
Having spent many years editing ‘Speech & Language Therapy in Practice’ magazine, it’s not surprising that an event titled ‘Qualitative health research in practice’ had huge appeal. In placing the focus on exploring the many processes of doing qualitative research, … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, CPD, Critical realism, implementation science, PhD, Qualitative research, Research
Tagged ethics, PhD, Qualitative research, reflexivity, sociology
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Getting past assumptions about putting ideas into practice
What matters to us opens us to new ideas. As clinicians or researchers, we don’t make sense of an idea as a free-floating ‘thing’ but through how it relates to our practice. If we think it might help us make … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, Critical realism, Ethics, implementation science, PhD, Research
Tagged critical realism, practice change, research design, social ontology
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What can we do with applied qualitative health research?
The British Sociological Association has a new special interest group in applied qualitative health research. Yesterday I was in Newcastle for its inaugural symposium (on twitter as #AQHR). Over 60 researchers had gathered to explore the question, ‘What can we do with applied … Continue reading
Posted in Aphasia, Books, journals and articles, Conferences, CPD, Ethics, implementation science, Research, Service delivery
Tagged Carl May, culture, health, intervention, Newcastle, normalisation process theory, process evaluation, qualitative, randomised controlled trial, research, sociology
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Wired, tired or expired? A week of practice change @WeSpeechies
My week as ‘rotation curator’ of the @WeSpeechies handle on Twitter is coming to an end. The tweetchat on our topic ‘Making a change in your practice – what does it take #WeSpeechies?’ generated a particularly wide range of perspectives. This blog post is a chance for me to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, CPD, implementation science, Research, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged #WeSpeechies, CFIR, implementation, journal clubs, narrative approaches, outcome measures, speech and language therapy, trials
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