Category Archives: Ethics
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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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
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Tagged missing data, PhD, Qualitative research
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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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Questions of efficacy, effectiveness and implementation
When doing research in an applied field such as speech and language therapy, different sorts of questions are needed depending on what you are trying to understand. As with all attempts at categorisation, the following question types have fuzzy and overlapping boundaries. However, in … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, implementation, intervention, speech and language therapy
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Aphasia charity needs online votes to Speakeasy
It is sad that, in spite of top level commitment to user involvement and community engagement, funding cuts mean charities including Speakeasy are having to seek income through routes such as the NatWest CommunityForce, where entrants are in competition for public online votes … Continue reading
Penultimate issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice now out
The Autumn 11 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice has been mailed today, so subscribers can expect it through their door very soon! Cover star Dan sustained a severe head injury in 2007, and Lindsay King describes how … Continue reading
Posted in AAC, Aphasia, Autism, Books, journals and articles, Community settings, CPD, Dysphagia, Ethics, Learning disability, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged Alison Roberts, autism, Autumn 11, Cathy Sparkes, Diana James, goal negotiation, graphic symbols, Grow Words, Here's one I made earlier, Jennifer Reid, Journal Club, Karen Leadbitter, Laura Flynn, Lindsay King, Louise Greenstock, Lynsey Paterson, Melodic Intonation Therapy, Model of Change, Nicola Grove, NRDLS, observational studies, Paget Gorman Signed Speech, Plural Publishing, Prochaska and DiClemente, Sam Simpson, Speech and Language Therapy in Practice, Speechmark, Zannah Pemberton
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Voice banking to preserve the freedom of speech
More on voice banking, a subject I posted on a year ago when Laurence Brewer was interviewed for Radio 4’s Word of Mouth. This time there was a Scottish flavour to another Radio 4 programme ‘Giving the Critic Back His Voice’, … Continue reading
Posted in AAC, Ethics, Head & Neck, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Parkinson's disease, Phonetics / phonology, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy, Voice, Voluntary organisations
Tagged CALL Scotland, CereProc, Joanna Courtney, Karen Yuill, Laurence Brewer, Mike Arnott, ModelTalker, motor neurone disease, Roger Ebert, speech and language therapist, speech synethesis, text to speech, voice banking, Worster-Drought Syndrome
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Summer 11 Speech & Language Therapy in Practice out now!
The Summer 11 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice magazine was mailed to subscribers on Friday and Saturday, so should be with you very soon. As well as the second instalment in the new goal negotiation series and … Continue reading
Posted in Aphasia, Books, journals and articles, Community settings, CPD, Dysphagia, Ethics, Learning disability, Professional standards, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged accent on aphasia, area of deprivation, boundary issues, children's centre, collaborative project, community sentences, critical appraisal, dementia, Devon, dysphagia management, feeding eating and drinking difficulties, goal negotiation, Here's one I made earlier, in brief, intervention studies, Journal Club, library service, new professional roles, oral taster programmes, problem solving framework, SIGDOM, speech language and communication needs, Summer 11, total communication
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