Category Archives: Critical realism
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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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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