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Carol Edwards
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Resource Developer
Building / Room
2nd Floor, David Wilson Library
Address
Careers Service
University of Leicester
Leicester
LE1 7RH
Telephone
0116 223 2344
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Carol is a Resource Developer within the Careers Service. Her role is to help students to develop their academic and transferable skills. Carol’s time is divided between seeing students individually in student consultations, and creating and revising Study Guides on a wide range of topics. These guides are available in hard copy in the Careers Service Zone, and electronically. Carol is a member of the Faculty of the Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee, and is the Qualitative Research Expert Member on one of the NHS Research Ethics Committees in Oxfordshire.
Immediately prior to joining the University in 2006 she worked as a Senior Research Fellow with the Royal College of Nursing Institute, specialising in research into the patient’s experience of healthcare. Prior to that she worked on a series of health-related projects as a Research Officer at the University of Oxford.
Carol’s research experience spans several fields, and has been wide-ranging in focus. After graduating from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978 with a degree in Psychology, she worked in transport research for Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive during the exciting period of the finalising then opening of the Metro system. After taking an MSc in Transport Engineering and Planning at the University of Salford, she worked for Greater Manchester County Council then for Oxfordshire County Council in their Transport Departments, principally on the analysis of driver behaviour associated with road traffic accidents.
Following a career break to bring up her children she changed research focus from passenger and driver behaviour within public and private transport, to the behaviour and experiences of NHS staff and patients. Her PhD from the University of Manchester, completed in 2002, addressed the way that health service users evaluate and summarise the care they have received.
