Sapphire News June/July 2019
CONGRATULATIONS TO...
- Carolyn Tarrant who has been promoted to Professor – very well deserved!
- Helen Eborall and Brad Manktelow (TIMMS) as they saw the first students complete the MSc Quality & Safety in Healthcare at this summer’s graduation.
- Nicola Mackintosh and Liz Shaw for the first SAPPHIRE Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School in July. There were 15 delegates and SAPPHIRE led research was showcased with presentations by Carolyn Tarrant, Liz Sutton, Caroline Cupit, and Emma Richardson. The course was well evaluated and has inspired us to continue with it next year! Read all about it on the blog https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/research/soc-sci/news
PUBLICATIONS
- Brookes O, Brown C, Tarrant C, Archer J, Buckley D, Buckley LM, Clement I, Evison F, Gao Smith F, Gibbins C, Hayton E, Jones J, Lilford R, Mullhi R, Packer G, Perkins G, Shelton J, Snelson C, Sullivan P, Vlaev I, Wolstenholme D, Wright S , and Bion JF on behalf of the PEARL Collaboration. Patient Experience And Reflective Learning (Pearl): A Mixed Methods Protocol For Personal Insight Development In Healthcare BMJ Open 2019
- Jahn HK, Jahn IH, Roland D, et al Mobile device and app use in paediatric emergency care: a survey of departmental practice in the UK and Ireland Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Jamal A, Finkelstein Y, Kupperman N, Freedman S B, Florin T A, Babl F E, Zemek R, Plint A C, Steele D W, Schnadower D, Johnson D W, Stephens D, Kharbanda A , Roland D et al Pharmacotherapy in bronchiolitis at discharge from emergency departments within the Pediatric Emergency Research Networks: a retrospective analysis. Lancet and Child Adolescent Health
- Parents’ and clinicians’ views on conducting paediatric diagnostic test accuracy studies without prior informed consent: qualitative insight from the Petechiae in Children study (PiC) Waterfield T, Lyttle M D, Shields M, Fairley D, Roland D, McKenna J, Woolfall J. On behalf of Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Krockow E.M. & Tarrant, C. (In press). The international dimensions of antimicrobial resistance: Contextual factors shape distinct ethical challenges in South Africa, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. Bioethics Wiley Online Library
- Pillay T, Modi N, Rivero-Arias O, Manktelow B, Seaton S, Armstrong N, Draper E, Dawson K, Paton A, Ismail AQ, Yang M, Boyle EM. (in press) Optimising neonatal service provision for preterm babies born between 27 and 31 weeks gestation in England (OPTIPREM), using national data, qualitative research and economic analysis: a study protocol. BMJ Open
- Cupit C, Rankin J, Armstrong N, Martin G. (in press) Overruling uncertainty about preventative medications: the social organisation of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and practices. Sociology of Health & Illness
- Invited editorial, Roland D Beyond Mortality: Improving outcomes for children who deteriorate in inpatient settings. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2019
PRESENTATIONS
Damian Roland gave two presentations at the Don’t Forget the Bubbles conference in London in June. https://twitter.com/Damian_Roland/status/1141419411003326464. A summary of his keynote can be found here: https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/the-missing-component-of-clinical-practice/
Fawn Harrad PhD student @FawnHarrad presented about her PhD work at the National SAPC conference in Exeter in June and was invited to speak at the Nottinghamshire Care Home Forum that is organised by ENRICH East Midlands (also June).
FUNDING
Helen Eborall and Fatimah Wobi @fatimahwobi, together with eight colleagues* from across the University, were awarded funding from Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies to establish a Migration, Mobility and Citizenship Research. (*Manish Pareek, Respiratory Sciences; Gavin Brown and Margaret Byron, Geography, Geology and the Environment; Zoe Groves, History, Politics and International Relations; Bernard Ryan, Law; Rabah Aissaoui, School of Arts; Natalie Darko, Centre for BME Health; Genovefa Kefalidou, Informatics)
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Eva Krockow has given several interviews over the past month:
- Krockow, E. M. Using game theory to combat antibiotic resistance. [live radio interview] (July 2019) ABC National Health Report: https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pgMVj5Aq06
- Krockow, E. M. Entscheidungsfindung und “Nudges”. [magazine article] (In press) Deutsche Welle
- Krockow, E. M. Questions and Answers about the Confidence Heuristic. [magazine article] (In press). Psychology Today US
In July, Eva curated the German science twitter account “@RealSci_DE”. For one week, she shared her research interests and ongoing projects with a diverse audience interested in general science.
A blog that Natalie Armstrong wrote for Public Health England reporting a workshop she organised as part of her Health Foundation Fellowship was published: https://phescreening.blog.gov.uk/2019/07/22/what-quality-looks-like-when-offering-screening/
ETHNOGRAPHY FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT - CLASS OF 2019
