Category Archives: implementation science
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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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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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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How do speech and language therapists go about doing their work, and why do they do it that way?
Although my PhD is in the field of implementation, I have a somewhat uneasy relationship with the word. According to WordReference.com, its etymology can be traced back to Late Latin, meaning ‘a filling up’ in the sense of completion, satisfaction or … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, CPD, implementation science, Research, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged implementation, Ray Pawson, speech and language therapy
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Manualised interventions – can they help us change practice?
“The profession of speech therapy in Great Britain has never taken kindly to the construction of stereotyped programmes of treatment. It perceives therapy to be a creative process in which procedures are used with considerable selectivity.” This introduction to Jennifer Warner, … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, implementation science, Research, Resources, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged BCRP, intervention, manual, speech and language therapy, TIDieR, What Works
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Smoothing the way for practice change
Journal Clubs are becoming popular as a way for teams to look together at research evidence and decide if practice needs to change as a result. But do we give enough thought to what happens next? Introducing and getting familiar with … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, implementation science, Professional standards, Research, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged accessible, implementation, normalisation process theory, speech and language therapy
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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
Posted in CPD, Ethics, implementation science, Research, Service delivery
Tagged communication, implementation, intervention, speech and language therapy
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