Seminars

Birth Choices

10 December 2024, 12pm to 1pm, online.

Sophie McAllister (Consultant Midwife, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

Britta Klinck (Chief Nurse, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

26 November 2024, 12pm to 1pm, online.

Pre-Viva presentation title: The care of people with dementia in perioperative environments from the healthcare professional perspectives. 

13 November 2024, 12pm to 1pm, online.

Alicia Diaz-Gil (PhD student, OBU)

Pre-Viva presentation title: The psychosocial experiences and support needs of oropharyngeal cancer patients and their informal caregivers following (chemo)radiotherapy

5 November 2024, 11am to 12pm, online.

Sara Matthews (PhD student, OBU)

Lifestyle changes following breast cancer diagnosis and treatment

9 October 2024, 12pm to 1pm, online.

Dr Lucy McGeagh (Senior Research Fellow) & Dr Lauren Matheson (Research Fellow), OBU

The experiences, needs and confidence of school nurses around the topic of sleep in the United Kingdom

25 September 2024, 12pm to 1pm, online.

Dr Fiona Tierney (Post-doctoral Research Assistant, OBU)

Creating clinical partnerships in Social Care across the pond

1 September 2023, 10.30am 

Prof. Catherine Stoddart, Chief Executive Officer of Brightwater Care Group, Perth, Australia.

Bearing witness to distress as breathlessness: a hermeneutic phenomenology study

7 September 2023, 12pm 

Pre-viva talk: Lucy Speakman 

Creating a national Clinical Nurse Specialist Pancreatic Cancer Research Network to standardise and improve care: The COALESCE Project

20 September 2023, 12pm (in person)

Prof. Annie Topping, Professor of Nursing, University of Birmingham 

Developing research collaboration: Oxford (OSNM/OH NHS FT) - Toronto (The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)

27 September 2023, 11am (in person) 

Dr Rola Moghabghab, Independent Scientist and Director, Interprofessional Practice, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

Exploring nurses' experience of professional enjoyment of nursing: a qualitative descriptive study

5 October 2023, 12pm

Pre-viva talk: Sam Donohue 

Just have some IVF!’ - researching experiences of the infertility journey and transition to parenthood

18 October 2023, 12pm 

Dr Ginny Mounce, Senior Lecturer, Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery, Oxford Brookes University and Clinical Research Manager, the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford 

How do organisational and social contexts influence mealtimes on wards caring for the older person aged 65 years and above?

2 November 2023, 12pm 

Pre-viva talk: Maxine Buyanga 

The real world of executive nurse directors on NHS Trust Boards in England: A critical realist study of the leadership experience of chief nurses and why it is experienced that way

30 November 2023, 12pm 

Pre-viva talk: Sally Bassett 

Mind the Gap- where academic research can meet industry need

13 December 2023, 12pm

Prof. Koula Asimakopoulou

Patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF) - creating a patient safety culture

11 January 2024, 12pm 

Britta Klinck, Deputy Chief Nurse, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust  

Care experiences in advanced liver disease

23 January, 12-1pm (online)

Cathy Beresford

Improving escalation of deteriorating patients through cognitive task analysis: understanding differences between work-as-prescribed and work-as-done

7 February, 12-1pm (online)

Dr Jody Ede

Patients quality of life, symptoms and experiences with an elevated BMI after ablation for atrial fibrillation

20 February, 12-1pm (online)

Pre-viva talk: Angela Griffiths

Feasibility & acceptability of using a PROM (OxFAB) to help patients with heart failure to recognise and communicate worsening symptoms

13 March, 12-1.30pm (In person, Marston Road 1.15)

Professor Helen Walthall

Entering and adjusting to a different and uncertain world: caring for adults at risk of suicide

19 March, 12-1pm (online)

Pre-viva talk: Karen Lascelles

The impact of clinical context on the practice assessor’s perception of the student nurse’s performance in placement: an exploratory narrative inquiry

3 April, 12-1pm (online)

Dr Charlotte Madison

Creating resilient practitioners for the future workforce

17 April, 12-1pm (online)

Dr Laura Strumidlo

Having research with impact: thinking outside the box

1 May, 12-1pm (online)

Professor Lorraine Dixon

Conducting cancer care research in rural and coastal settings

14 May, 12-1pm (online)

Dr David Nelson and Dr Samuel Cooke

OPTIMISTIC – Optimising the care and support for people with inoperable pancreatic cancer and their family carers

29 May, 12-1pm (online)

Pre-viva talk: Hilary Brown

Bereaved Caregivers' Experiences of End-of-Life Care for people with Advanced Heart Failure: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

26 June, 12-1pm (online)

Pre-viva talk: Melanie Diggle

“There’s three of us in this relationship; the patient, the computer and me!”

10 July, 12-1pm (online)

Pre-via talk: Carol Forde-Johnston

Emma Blakey: How are unplanned readmissions experienced and perceived by older adults and their families in an English NHS context?

20 October 2022, 12pm

Kimmy White: An exploration of the need and implications of designing an intervention that could better support the psychological needs of patients who are admitted into critical care areas: A research proposal.

2 November 2022, 12pm

Lorraine Whatley: What are the experiences of pre-registration student nurses when a digital approach is used for the teaching and learning of procedural skills

Prof. Ruth Endacott: Moving NMAHP research forward: national plans

17 November 2022, 12pm

Prof. Ruth Endacott was appointed inaugural Director of Nursing and Midwifery at the National Institute for Heath and Care Research (NIHR) in May 2021. In this newly created post, Ruth has responsibility for providing professional leadership for nurses and midwives who are supporting, delivering or leading research, promoting nursing and midwifery within the NIHR and beyond, and encouraging more professionals to become involved in research. Ruth is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Melbourne and Trustee/Director at the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC).

Research update day

24 November 2022, 12pm

Guest Lecture

2pm Dr Geoff Wong: A brief introduction to Realist Review and Realist Evaluation

Dr Geoff Wong is Associate Professor of Primary Care in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. He is an internationally and nationally recognised expert in realist review and evaluation. He has extensive expertise in conducting and providing methodological support for both approaches as well in their methodological development. He led the two UK National Institute of Health Research funded projects that developed quality and reporting standards and training materials for realist reviews and realist evaluations (www.ramesesproject.org). He works part time as a GP in the NHS.

Research Group Updates

3.05pm Dr Sarah Bekaert, Senior Lecturer Child Health OBU: School Nursing in the Time of Covid: a mixed methods study

3.30-3.40 BREAK

3.40pm Carol Forde-Johnston, PhD Student OBU: An integrative review exploring the impact of Electronic Health Records (EHR) on the quality of nurse-patient interactions and communication

Carina Okiki, Midwife OUH NHS FT: ‘I just wish we were more Kumbaya’ The experiences of BAME midwifery applicants and students in South East England.

Dr Helen Aveyard: Tips on getting started writing that book

7 December 2022, 12pm

Prof. Debra Bick: Trials and Tribulations in Postnatal Care

11 January 2023, 12pm

Dr Cathy Henshall: Evaluation of the 70@70 programme

26 January 2023, 12pm

Dr Cathy Henshall and the systematic review team: Racism in mental health nursing 

8 February 2023, 12pm

Charlotte Maddison: The impact of clinical context on the practice assessor’s perception of the student nurse’s performance in placement: an exploratory narrative inquiry

8 March 2023, 12pm

Kimberley Fairer (OUH NHS FT): Intermittent claudication: A scoping review

22 March 2023, 12pm

Deborah Moll (OH NHS FT, Anna Robinson, Jemima Littlejohns, Zoe Collett: The CoDAQ Study: Do speech and language therapy services to support communication meet the quality of life needs of people with dementia and their caregivers?

27 April 2023, 12pm

Elaine Strachan-Hall: Robots in Nursing: False Rhetoric or Feared Reality

25 May 2023, 12pm

Karen Lascelles: Experiences and needs of adults who provide informal care to adult family members or friends they consider to be at risk of suicide

7 June 2023, 12pm

Angela Griffiths: Quality of life, symptoms and experiences in patients with a raised body mass index undergoing AF ablation.

20 June 2023, 12 pm

Helen Ayres: Mental health nurses' experiences of being assaulted by patients in secure settings

6 July 2023, 12pm

Invalid Invalids: early COVID-19 patients in the UK's experiences of remote consulting

27 October 2021, 4pm

Invited speaker: Dr Teresa Finlay, Health Services Researcher, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.

Supporting and developing NMAHP novice researchers

10 November 2021, 4pm

Invited speaker: Dr Helen Walthall, Director of Nursing and Midwifery Research and Innovation, OUH NHS FT.

An exploration of skin tone diversity and pressure ulcers in undergraduate nurse education.

17 November 2021, 4pm

Doctoral students' pre-viva talks: Neesha Oozageer Gunowa, PhD Candidate.

Patient and Clinician Experiences of telephone and video consultations

24 November 2021, 4pm

Invited speaker: Emilia Bartram and Nicola Fernandez, NMAHP Clinical Research Fellows, OUH NHS FT.

COV-ed Nurse

8 December 2021, 4pm

Dr Mary Malone, Director of School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Developing patient-centred supportive care interventions

12 January 2022, 4pm

Research Group: Supportive Cancer Care and Long Term Conditions.

Dr Lauren Matheson

Head and Neck Cancer follow-up (the PETNECK2 study).

Dr Asia Slodkowska-Barabasz

Supporting Women with breast cancer with adherence to Endocrine Therapy (the SWEET study).

The REFLECT project: investigating the course of care in patients following discharge from Intensive Care.

26 January 2022, 4pm

Invited speaker: Dr Sarah Vollam, Critical Care Researcher, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

Development of a Patient-reported outcome measure for early recovery after hip and knee replacement.

9 February 2022, 4pm

Invited speaker: Dr Louise Strickland, Clinical Academic Nurse Researcher based at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford.

Water immersion during labour, physiological birth and perineal trauma – what have we learnt from secondary analysis of a large dataset?

23 February 2022, 4pm

Research Group: Midwifery and Childbirth (OxMater)

Dr Jane Carpenter, Senior Lecturer Midwifery, Course Lead (Professional Doctorate in Midwifery), Subject Coordinator (BSc Midwifery), Oxford Brookes University

Research session: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

2 March 2022, 4pm

Professor Dan Remenyi

Exploring the quality of death and dying in the emergency department from the perspective of staff and carers

9 March 2022, 4pm

Doctoral students' pre-viva talks: Katie McCallum, PhD Candidate.

Imposter Syndrome - how to feel better about feeling worse

13 April 2022, 4pm

Alice Walker

The use of guidelines for the publication of literature reviews

20 April 2022, 4pm

Dr Helen Aveyard, Principal Lecturer, Department of Nursing

Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty CBE, Professor of Nursing Policy, King's College London

27 April 2022, 4pm

What are the components of a 'good' ward round in a large critical care unit and how can we make them happen more often? An Appreciative Inquiry Study.

4 May 2022, 4pm

Celebrating success: Dr Clair Merriman, Head of Professional Practice Skills, Department of Nursing

Imagined futures and relational agency in nurses’ writing transitions: A qualitative study across two writing group interventions in a higher education setting

11 May 2022, 4pm

Celebrating success: Dr Marion Waite, Principal Lecturer, DPhil (Oxon)

CNMHSCR Update Day: Integrating research into teaching and practice

18 May 2022, 1.30pm

Nursing faculties' abilities to facilitate students' interest in older people nursing

29 June 2022, 4pm

Celebrating success: William Garbrah, Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Department of Nursing.

‘Doing the Best we Can,’ Registered Nurses’ Experiences and Perceptions of Patient Safety in Intensive Care during COVID-19

6 July 2022, 4pm

Dr Clair Merriman (Head of Professional Practice Skills) and Dr Louise Stayt (Senior Lecturer)

Research Centre Launch

7 October, 4.00pm

Invited speaker: Prof. Danny Kelly, Royal College of Nursing Chair of Nursing Research, University of Cardiff

Strengthening the research culture in the OSNM: looking to the future.

PhD candidates’ talks: Mamdooh Alzyood, PhD candidate

4 November, 4.00pm

The role of patient involvement in the promotion of hand-hygiene compliance among nurses in the hospital setting.

Children and Families Research Group: Dr Suzanne Smith, ICON: Babies cry, you can cope, Founder and Chief Programme Advisor (volunteer), Executive Director of Barring and Safeguarding, Disclosure and Barring Service.

18 November, 1.00pm

ICON: Babies cry, you can cope. Design and delivery of an Abusive Head Trauma prevention programme.

Children and Families Research Group: Dr Jenny Woodman, Lecturer in Child and Family Policy, UCL

9 December, 1.00pm

How has a think family approach been put into practice when responding to vulnerable children: a scoping review and illustrative qualitative study.

Centre’s Strategy Day

13 January 2021, 1.00-3.00pm

OxMater Research Group: Ceri Glenister and Rachel Rowe

10 February, 4.00pm

PhD candidates’ talks: Nadeem Khan, PhD candidate

24 February, 4.00pm

Factors influencing nurses' intentions to leave adult critical care areas: a mixed-method study.

Invited speaker: Prof. Mary Wells, Lead Nurse for Research at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Professor of Practice in Cancer Nursing at Imperial College

31 March, 4.00pm

Breaking ground, contesting assumptions and creating new futures for research in cancer nursing.

OxMater Research Group: Claire Feeley

14 April, 4.00pm

A systematic meta-thematic synthesis to examine the views and experiences of women flowing water immersion during labour and waterbirth.

Research away day

12 May, 12.00-4.00pm

Personal stories: Karen Lascelles, Nurse Consultant, suicide prevention at OH NHS FT, DNurs student

26 May, 4.00pm

Current affairs: Dr Pras Ramluggun, Senior Lecturer, OBU

16 June, 4.00pm

Academic Staff survey on managing students’ mental health concerns on health and social care programmes at OBU.

Current affairs: Hayley Lawson-Wood, Lecturer, OBU

14 July, 4.00pm

Oxford Brookes BePAD - Developing an E-Portfolio and overcoming the challenges of programme changes 2018-2021.