Outputs (14)

“I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: A qualitative exploration of lived experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Informal caring is an increasingly common phenomenon. Experiences of mental health caring are not well-researched, and few studies focus on experiences of family carers supporting individuals with a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) d... Read More about “I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: A qualitative exploration of lived experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis.

‘Go with the "wave of music" to dive deep’: Exploring perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the role of music within this practice (2025)
Journal Article

There is increasing interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PT) as a mental health intervention; however, there is a long history of stigma associated with psychedelics, which may be a barrier to implementation. For this reason, it is important to... Read More about ‘Go with the "wave of music" to dive deep’: Exploring perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the role of music within this practice.

Exploring Black women’s experiences in psychotherapeutic training and practice in the UK (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Discussions around racial disparities and injustice have gained increasing prominence in psychotherapy and counselling research. However, research in this area has been criticised for its omission of Black women's experiences, including a... Read More about Exploring Black women’s experiences in psychotherapeutic training and practice in the UK.

‘I’m coming out’: The role of music in LGBTQ+ identities (2025)
Journal Article

Research shows that music holds great importance to the LGBTQ+ community. However, only a handful of studies have explored personal and private music consumption and particularly its role in individual identity formation and the coming out process –... Read More about ‘I’m coming out’: The role of music in LGBTQ+ identities.

Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: A values-based approach (2024)
Journal Article

Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus strengthen, rather than undermine, research quality.... Read More about Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: A values-based approach.

“Being really confidently wrong”: Qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback (2024)
Journal Article

Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process has been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have focused on peer reviewers’ comments on qualitative manu... Read More about “Being really confidently wrong”: Qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback.

Thematic analysis (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the thematic analysis (TA) family of methods, highlights characteristics shared by the various branches of the TA family, as well as important philosophical, conceptual and procedural differences. We discuss various ways of di... Read More about Thematic analysis.

“Difficulty mentioning the M word”: Perceptions of a woman disclosing negative menopause symptoms in the workplace (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose
This qualitative study explores general perceptions of a woman experiencing negative menopausal symptoms in the workplace. It examines the socio-cultural understandings informing the responses of a mixed participant group, including those un... Read More about “Difficulty mentioning the M word”: Perceptions of a woman disclosing negative menopause symptoms in the workplace.

A critical review of the reporting of reflexive thematic analysis in Health Promotion International (2024)
Journal Article

Using the concept of methodological congruence - where the different elements of a study 'fit' together - we explore both problematic and good practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis (TA) as reported in Health Promotion International (HPI). Alignin... Read More about A critical review of the reporting of reflexive thematic analysis in Health Promotion International.

Supporting best practice in reflexive thematic analysis reporting in Palliative Medicine: A review of published research and introduction to the Reflexive Thematic Analysis Reporting Guidelines (RTARG) (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Reflexive thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative research published in Palliative Medicine, and in the broader field of health research. However, this approach is often not used well. Common problems in published reflexive themat... Read More about Supporting best practice in reflexive thematic analysis reporting in Palliative Medicine: A review of published research and introduction to the Reflexive Thematic Analysis Reporting Guidelines (RTARG).