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Representing long-term breastfeeding: What are the issues and why does it matter? (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Dowling, S. (2011, March). Representing long-term breastfeeding: What are the issues and why does it matter?. Paper presented at 'Reframing Birth and Breastfeeding: Moving Forward', The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services and the Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposia Series collaborative conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Interprofessional research: A complex process (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Pollard, K. (2010, November). Interprofessional research: A complex process. Presented at Chair's Event, CAIPE, Kings College, London

Research into interprofessional issues i n health and social care, in the UK and elsewhere, is located within a context in which successful interprofessional collaboration is viewed as a sine qua non of effective service delivery. Over the last two... Read More about Interprofessional research: A complex process.

The ethnography of help - Supporting families with children with intellectual disabilities (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Summers, N. (2010, October). The ethnography of help - Supporting families with children with intellectual disabilities. Poster presented at 3rd IASSID‐Europe Conference Integrating Biomedical and PsychoSocialEducational Perspectives, Rome, Italy

This thesis explored parents’ of children with learning disabilities perceptions of family support workers’ helping strategies. A qualitative approach drawing on the principles of ethnography was used to explore the experiences of six families of the... Read More about The ethnography of help - Supporting families with children with intellectual disabilities.

Journey to greener pastures: Oral histories of migrant Filipino nurses in Canada (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Ronquillo, C. E. (2010, September). Journey to greener pastures: Oral histories of migrant Filipino nurses in Canada. Paper presented at “Health worker migration in Canada: Histories, Geographies, and Ethics” academic-policy workshop, Vancouver, Canada

This invited presentation provided an overview of the findings of this study.

Questioning social justice as a shared nursing value (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Lipscomb, M. (2010, September). Questioning social justice as a shared nursing value. Paper presented at The 14th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference (Vancouver): Philosophizing Social Justice in Nursing, Vancouver, Canada

This presentation questions the assertion, contained in a variety of nursing literatures that nurses should (normatively), or must (as regulation), accept social justice as a shared nursing value. Thus, problematically, many normative social justice... Read More about Questioning social justice as a shared nursing value.

Preconceptions, power and position: researcher reflections on public involvement in research (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Pollard, K., Evans, D., Dalrymple, J., Miers, M., Moule, P., & Thomas, J. (2010, September). Preconceptions, power and position: researcher reflections on public involvement in research. Paper presented at British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, University of Durham, Durham, UK

In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health and many funding bodies require public involvement in health and social care research. However, members of the public are still mostly engaged in research as subjects/participants, or in a limited consu... Read More about Preconceptions, power and position: researcher reflections on public involvement in research.

Events and event identity: Under-theorised concepts in mixed method studies (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Lipscomb, M. (2010, July). Events and event identity: Under-theorised concepts in mixed method studies. Paper presented at Mixed Methods Conference 2010 - Baltimore (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg and University of Leeds), Baltimore

Despite the existence of a diverse and burgeoning specialist literature (see, for example, Casati and Varzi, 2009), theorists and researchers involved or interested in mixed method research have not perhaps attended sufficiently to the problematic na... Read More about Events and event identity: Under-theorised concepts in mixed method studies.

Women's experiences of domestic violence during pregnancy: listening to women's voices (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Baird, K. (2010, July). Women's experiences of domestic violence during pregnancy: listening to women's voices. Paper presented at 3rd Biennial Conference Breathing New Life into Maternity Care, Alice Springs Australia

Currently domestic violence continues to be one of the commonest crimes that occur in the United Kingdom, and past and current self-reporting figures from the British Crime Survey pay testimony to this fact (Coleman, 2007). Health professionals have... Read More about Women's experiences of domestic violence during pregnancy: listening to women's voices.

Retroduction and retrodiction: Abductive inference in realist practice. (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Lipscomb, M. (2010, June). Retroduction and retrodiction: Abductive inference in realist practice. Paper presented at ESRC funded seminar series: Critical Realism in Action Group Applied Methods for Social Mechanisms, University of Leeds: Business School

Although retroductive and retrodictive inference play a significant role in critical realist theory – indeed, they might reasonably be considered necessary or integral to realist ambition – major challenges attend the use of these forms of abductive... Read More about Retroduction and retrodiction: Abductive inference in realist practice..

Filipino nurse migrants in Western Canada: An oral history (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Ronquillo, C. E., & Boschma, G. (2010, June). Filipino nurse migrants in Western Canada: An oral history. Paper presented at Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Conference, Winnipeg, Canada

The Philippines is often identified as the largest producer of nurses for export globally and Filipino nurses are joining the Canadian health care workforce at a steady rate contributing to the growing diversity of nursing practitioners. To date, lit... Read More about Filipino nurse migrants in Western Canada: An oral history.

Immigrant Filipino nurses in Western Canada from 1950-2000: An oral history study (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Ronquillo, C. E. (2010, May). Immigrant Filipino nurses in Western Canada from 1950-2000: An oral history study. Paper presented at Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Conference, Montreal, Canada

The study of the history of immigrant Filipino nurses in Canada is an area that has hardly been explored. Given Canada’s role as a major receiving country of a significantly growing number of Filipino migrants and specifically the steady rate at whic... Read More about Immigrant Filipino nurses in Western Canada from 1950-2000: An oral history study.

What do they do? Student study behaviour (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Snelling, P. C., & Lipscomb, M. (2010, May). What do they do? Student study behaviour. Presented at Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom: 2010 International Nursing Research Conference, Sage Gateshead

Enhancing the student experience is seen as crucial in reducing attrition (Department of Health, 2006) and improving attainment in nurse education and, in order to improve provision, a greater understanding of how students actually go about their stu... Read More about What do they do? Student study behaviour.

Considering the spiritual needs of pregnant women, their unborn babies and partners (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, J. (2010, May). Considering the spiritual needs of pregnant women, their unborn babies and partners. Paper presented at First International conference of the British Association for the study of spirituality, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor

Within the UK currently there is an expectation that health carers will provide women-centred, holistic care to pregnant women and their families (NMC 2009). It could be argued that, as there is limited understanding of spiritual care related to preg... Read More about Considering the spiritual needs of pregnant women, their unborn babies and partners.