Joel Minion
Senior Research Manager
CONTACT DETAILS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My main research interests lie in understanding how people inform their health, particularly over the longer term and in conjunction to living with chronic health conditions. Specific areas include:
- Ethnographic approaches to health and healthcare delivery
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Health informatics and consumer health information
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Social aspects of living with chronic illness
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Health issues in LGBT populations, especially HIV/AIDS
My professional background is in librarianship and information science (LIS), and I have worked extensively in a variety of LIS settings, both public and corporate.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
I joined the SAPPHIRE Group in June 2010 as part of the Quality and Safety in the NHS (QSN) research team. QSN is a Department of Health/NIHR-funded project seeking to identify sustainable, long-term strategies for retaining a focus on patient quality of care and safety in the NHS. The study involves researchers from four universities (Aston, Leicester, Birmingham and Aberdeen), with additional partnership links to the National Association for Patient Participation.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Minion, J.T., Bath, P.A., and Albright, K. (2010). From sponge to source: health information in the lives of gay men living with HIV. Proceedings of the 8th Global Conference on Health, Illness and Disease. Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford.
Minion, J. (2008) The information world of gay men living with HIV. Information Research. 13(4).
