The QUAHRC Impact in Qualitative Research Blog aims to provide a place for the qualitative health research community showcase and reflect on the impacts and outcomes of their work. We hope this blog encourages discussion and engagement with issues of impact in qualitative applied health research.
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Dr Mikkel Kenni Bruun is a social anthropologist working on various aspects of mental healthcare in the UK. Here he unpacks what it can mean to apply medical standards of evidence to interpersonal treatments such as therapy: can it do more harm than good?
Rachel Rowan Olive is a research assistant with the QUAHRC and a survivor researcher using her experience of psychiatric systems to inform her work. In this blog she discusses presenting her applied linguistics research with multilingual voice-hearers to the South London and Maudsley Recovery College’s Research Club.
Dr Gemma McKenzie is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at King’s, where she works on creative methods and violence in the medical treatment of pregnancy and childbirth. This follows her PhD study of freebirthing – deciding to give birth without input from clinicians – in the UK. In this blog post she discusses how she came to be producing an art exhibition titled “Threads of protest” coming up next year.
Bryher reflects on her experience as part of an NIHR Carer’s Steering Group which has recently coproduced a ‘Top Tips’ resource about carer involvement in research.
